Churchwomen & Clubwomen

Question 1

Who wrote “The Status of Woman in America”?

Answer 1

Anna Julia Cooper

Question 2

Who was Anna Julia Cooper?

Answer 2

• Degrees from Oberlin & PhD from the Sorbonne
• Taught at M Street School & Dunbar High School
• Wrote “A Voice From the South”

Question 3

In “The Status of Woman in America”, how is suffering viewed?

Answer 3

Suffering is pedagogical

Question 4

In “The Status of Woman in America”, why should more attention be given to the condition of AA women?

Answer 4

As the most oppressed of the oppressed, they are best represent the existential condition of AA in general

Question 5

In “The Status of Woman in America”, how is suffering pedagogical?

Answer 5

Hardships encountered are evil but gives them a unique insight into the needs of the country and unique role in the uplift of the race

Question 6

Who does Cooper use as an example of the importance of women in “The Status of Woman in America”?

Answer 6

Queen Isabella: enabled Columbus to give civilisation to America

Question 7

According to “The Status of Woman in America”, why are women now needed more than ever before?

Answer 7

Focus on material property and luxury

Question 8

Why does the colored woman occupy a unique position, according to “The Status of Woman in America”?

Answer 8

She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem

Question 9

Why is the input of the colored woman important, according to “The Status of Woman in America”?

Answer 9

She stands calm and aloof as a spectator

Question 10

Who wrote “Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women”?

Answer 10

Fannie Barrier Williams

Question 11

Who was Fannie Barrier Williams?

Answer 11

• Established a training school for nurses and a hospital for both races
• Speeches to the World’s Congress of Representative Women and World’s Parliament of Religions
• Founded League of Colored Women in 1893
• Contributed to the Chicago Record-Herald and New York Age
• Founding member of the National Association of Colored Women

Question 12

According to “Intellectual Progress of Colored Women”, what caused the condition of AA women?

Answer 12

• Not the result of a ‘weak’ nature or other inherent flaw

- Suffered because of discrimination, yet have continually shown themselves to be capable

Question 13

In “Intellectual Progress of Colored Women”, what unique position is the AA woman in?

Answer 13

A unique position to transform society

Question 14

According to “Intellectual Progress of Colored Women”, where are women powerful?

Answer 14

In the churches, like white women

Question 15

According to “Intellectual Progress of Colored Women”, what are the only 2 forms of work open to AA women?

Answer 15

Teaching & menial work

Question 16

What are the “Letters on the Second Exodus”?

Answer 16

Part of migrant material collected by the NAACP in its effort to assist newcomers to Chicago

Question 17

What do the “Letters on the Second Exodus” show about the great migration?

Answer 17

That large numbers are leaving Georgia for Chicago (and other northern cities)

Question 18

What do the “Letters on the Second Exodus” show about church ties?

Answer 18

Importance of maintaining old church ties

Question 19

Who wrote “Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church”?

Answer 19

S. Mattie Fisher

Question 20

Who was the minister at Olivet Baptist Church in 1918?

Answer 20

Lacy KirkWilliams

Question 21

Who was S. Mattie Fisher?

Answer 21

One of the first black social workers in the USA

Question 22

What social work was carried out in “Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church”?

Answer 22

Neighbourhood Survey in 1918 to find out how best to help the migrants

Question 23

According to “Social Work at Olivet Baptist Church”, what is most important?

Answer 23

A trained ministry: people need more teaching than preaching

Question 24

Who gave “Report of the Work of Baptist Women”?

Answer 24

Nannie Burroughs

Question 25

Who was Nannie Burroughs?

Answer 25

- Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Convention of the National Baptist Convention for 48 years - Became president in 1948 - 1900 speech: "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping" - 1909: established National Training School for Women & Girls

Question 26

What was "Report of the Work of Baptist Women"?

Answer 26

A 1920 report to the National Baptist Convention

Question 27

In "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what do they want to replace shouting with?

Answer 27

Service

Question 28

In "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what is raising money secondary to?

Answer 28

Raising the moral standard

Question 29

In "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what needs to change with preaching?

Answer 29

Preach too much heaven and too little practical Christian living

Question 30

According to "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what are 4 causes of the great migration?

Answer 30

1. Lynching 2. Low wages 3. Jim-Crow cars 4. Lack of educational opportunities

Question 31

In "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what are 2 traps recent migrants can fall into?

Answer 31

1. Danger of squandering money | 2. Spend too much time on the streets

Question 32

In what year did women gain the vote in the USA?

Answer 32

1920

Question 33

According to "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what are 4 reasons why Negro women took little part in the fight for the ballot?

Answer 33

1. White women thought it might prejudice their cause 2. Colored men have a bad political record 3. Women now competing with men in most industries/ areas 4. Deemed it unwise to rock the boat

Question 34

According to "Report of the Work of Baptist Women", what are 7 reasons why women will be of value in the affairs of government?

Answer 34

1. God has educated woman's hearts 2. Rare quality of patient courage 3. More God-fearing men in public service because there will be more public-spirited women to watch them 4. No man ever did a good job unless some woman had a part in it 5. Sufferings and sacrifices have trained women for a high civilisation 6. She is the world's uncrowned hero 7. For her sufferings, she deserves suffrage

Question 35

Who wrote "A Letter from the "Foreign Field""?

Answer 35

Lula Cooper

Question 36

What is "A Letter from the "Foreign Field"?

Answer 36

Contribution to the "Letters from the Foreign Field" section of the Mission Herald, with a report to J.E. East, Secretary of the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board

Question 37

From where was the "Letter from the "Foreign Field"" sent?

Answer 37

Suehn Industrial Mission, Liberia

Question 38

Who wrote "Crusade for Justice"?

Answer 38

Ida B. Wells

Question 39

What was "Crusade for Justice"?

Answer 39

An autobiography

Question 40

In "Crusade for Justice", why did IBW refuse to give a tour?

Answer 40

She couldn't talk about lynching

Question 41

In "Crusade for Justice", what famous feminist did IBW connect with?

Answer 41

Susan B. Anthony

Question 42

In "Crusade for Justice", what did Susan B. Anthony stop colored women for doing?

Answer 42

Forming their own branch of the Women's Equal Suffrage Association

Question 43

According to "Crusade for Justice", what was IBW accused of doing in Kansas City?

Answer 43

The way in which she brought up lynch law was apparently doing more harm to her race

Question 44

Who wrote "A Sunday Morning in the South"?

Answer 44

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Question 45

What was "A Sunday Morning in the South"?

Answer 45

A play written in 1925, on the topic of lynching

Question 46

What was special about "A Sunday Morning in the South"?

Answer 46

First play to deal truthfully with the issue of alleged interracial rape of white women and and dramatise white women's complicity in the lynching ritual

Question 47

What is the plot of "A Sunday Morning in the South"?

Answer 47

Tom Griggs is lynched for the alleged rape of a white woman

Question 48

Who wrote "Black Souls"?

Answer 48

Annie Nathan Meyer

Question 49

What themes does "Black Souls" engage with?

Answer 49

- White women's desire for black men - Sexual exploitation of black women by white men - Contrasting ideas among black Americans on the most effective ways to work against the forces of repression and for self-affirmation - Hypocrisy of a nation which sends black soldiers overseas to fight for freedom, yet permits lynchings

Question 50

What was the criticism of "Black Souls"?

Answer 50

One of the earliest known lynching dramas by a white woman: unconvincing and inauthentic black characters (David Lewis)

Question 51

What is the plot of "Black Souls"?

Answer 51

- Andrew Morgan trying to get money for his school (BTW model) - Ulysses and Corinne thinking of starting their own school - David accuses Andrew of succumbing to white supremacy - David had previously had an affair with Luella - Verne says Andrew cannot afford to stop the lynching - Verne rapes Phyllis - David lynched

Question 52

What is "Black Souls"?

Answer 52

A lynching play

Question 53

Who wrote "Lawd, Does You Undabstan?"?

Answer 53

Ann Seymour Link

Question 54

What is "Lawd, Does You Undabstan?"?

Answer 54

A lynching play published in 1936

Question 55

What is the plot of "Lawd, Does You Undabstan?"?

Answer 55

- Doady poisons Jim to save him from the pain of being lynched - Man declares that they have found the real killer - Jim already dead

Question 56

Who wrote "A Colored Woman in a White World"?

Answer 56

Mary Church Terrell

Question 57

What boards was Mary Church Terrell on?

Answer 57

1895: First black woman to be appointed to the DC Board of education 1896: First president of the National Association of Colored Women 1909: Charter member of the NAACP 1949: first black member of the Washington chapter of the American Association of University Women

Question 58

What are MCT's most famous speeches?

Answer 58

1898: "The Progress of Colored Women" before the National American Women's Suffrage Association 1904: Spoke at the Berlin International Congress of Women 1919: Addressed the delegates of the International League for Peace and Freedom 1937: Represented Black American women at the World Fellowship of Faiths in London

Question 59

According to "A Colored Woman in a White World", what is the difference between black and white women?

Answer 59

White woman only has to overcome the handicap of her sex

Question 60

What lynching inspired MCT?

Answer 60

1892 lynching of Tom Moss

Question 61

According to "A Colored Woman in a White World, what did lynchings cause MCT to marvel at?

Answer 61

The colored man's continued loyalty to the Christian religion

Question 62

In "A Colored Woman in a White World", what are the points of her lectures?

Answer 62

Show how well African Americans had done and disproving stereotypes

Question 63

In "A Colored Woman in a White World", what is MCT's relationship with BTW?

Answer 63

Agreed that a well-trained labouring class was needed, but felt he emphasised industrial training at the exclusion of everything else (Tuskegee later converted her)

Question 64

In "A Colored Woman in a White World", what did MCT call on women to do?

Answer 64

Use the franchise

Question 65

In "A Colored Woman in a White World", what is MCT worried about?

Answer 65

That the youth will lose their faith in religion, unless the church becomes more active