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History 27 Double Jeopardy Round
Civil Rights
Question: What official political position did Rosa Parks hold at the time of her arrest on December 1st, 1955?
Answer: At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
Question: How many women were present in the meeting between President Kennedy and Civil Rights leaders following The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which took place on August 28, 1963?
Answer: None. No woman was allowed to speak at the rally or with the President after.
Question: In August 1955, after her son's brutal murder this woman insisted on a very publicised open casket funeral for him.
Answer: Mamie Till
Question: This term, coined by lawyer Paulie Murray, refers to the pervasive discrimination of black women in the South.
Answer: Jane Crow
Question: Casey Hayden and Mary King wrote a discussion letter in 1965 outlining the sexism they had experienced in the Civil Rights Movement. What Civil Rights group were they specifically writing to?
Answer: SNCC - the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
1960s
Question: This book written by Rachel Carson in 1962 is credited with popularising the environmental movement.
Answer: Silent Spring
Question: Although women went to work in greater and greater numbers in the 1960s, they were paid substantially less than men. What was the justfication for this at the time?
Answer: That women were not the bread winners for their families or that they were only temporary employees until they got married.
Question: What political formation in 1961 turned the government towards discussing women's issues?
Answer: The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
Question: Formed in 1966, the National Organisation for Women remains one of the most powerful institutions of feminism. Who was its first president?
Answer: Betty Friedan
Question: What did the 1964 Civil Rights Act do to help women?
Answer: Title VII of the act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, SEX and national origin.
Second Wave Feminism
Question: The year abortion was determined to be protected by the constitution.
Answer: 1973
Question: This group protested the 1968 Miss America pageant by parading a sheep around in a sash and crown and by throwing undergarments and high heels into a 'freedom trashcan'
Answer: New York Radical Women
Question: This piece of legislation led to the creation of women's sports teams at college campuses across the U.S and also eliminated gender based quotas and other gender discrimination from college campuses.
Answer: Title IX of the education amendments of 1972
Question: These two players were pitted against each other for a tennis match called 'the Battle of the Sexes'
Answer: Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King, 1973
Question: This was the name of the grass roots anti-feminist campaign headed by Phyllis Schlafley.
Answer: Stop Taking Our Privileges
'STOP ERA'
Biography
Question: ONe of the most outstanding female pilots of her day, she was critical in the formation of the W.A.S.P.s and the W.A.A.Cs
Answer: Jackie Cochran
Question: I wrote a scathing expose on Playboy bunnies in 1963 and my break out article was 'After Black Power, Women's Liberation' in 1969.
Answer: Gloria Steinem
Question: First black woman elected to the United States Congress.
Answer: Shirley Chisholm
Question: A former beauty queen, she was the impetus behind desegregating the lunch counters in Nashville, had a leadership role in the Freedom Rides and insisted on continuing them even after violence broke out and SNCC wanted them to stop.
Answer: Diane Nash
Question: First lady of the law, assistant U.S Attorney General, and enforcer of the Volstead Act.
Answer: Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Misc
Question: What actions did pro-life activists engage in, in the film 'If These Walls Could Talk'
Answer: prayer circle/intervention in front of the clinic and the murder of the abortion doctor in the final scene.
Question: In the film Miss Representation What are the problems that women face in the media as articulated by the film?
Answer: Scrutinized based on their looks and their clothes much more than what they are doing that made them famous in the first place.
Question: Night Flying Woman is a biography told through memory and oral tradition over three generations, and the story begins with Oona’s birth. What do we learn about the Ojibway traditions that the people practiced when a child was born?
Answer: named 3 weeks after birth
named by a storytelling woman - an honor
a name, a song, and animal
a small pouch given to the baby
cradelboard and the role of watching
Question: In Night Flying Woman what was the 'rainy country' and why did Oona's family go there?
Answer: Their new home. They went to avoid the strangers who were growing in number and getting closer to their old home.
Question: The name of the birthplace of the Gay Rights/LGBT movement on June 28th 1969.
Answer: Stonewall Inn, NY