Clue#1 The First Woman of DistinctionWe have to start by acknowledging the first known woman to be from Africa and we need to recognize her today. This Australopithecus can be found in the David H. Koch hall of Human Origins at the Natural History Museum. Find her skeleton near the Time Tunnel. What is her name?
A) Willamena
B) Lucy
C) Marsha
Get a picture of both of you signing the correct answer with her skeleton in the photo.
Clue #2 Queen of SodaBusiness is important in Africa and Women hold an important role as entrepreneurs in Ghana. Head to the African Voices section of the Natural History Museum and find out what Adama Salifu sells to make herself a powerful business woman. In fact she is known as a Queen!
What does Adama Salifu sell which is a major ingredient in some sodas today?
D) Kola
E) Sugar
F) Coca
Get a photo of you and your partner signing the answer in front of Adama Salifu.
Clue #3 Sports and Leisure Head to the Smithsonian Castle for this next clue and you will find African American Women who made breakthroughs in Sports and the Arts.
You will have to use your deductive skills to figure this one out. Which statement below is true?
G) Anna Julia Cooper was the First African American woman to play Professional Lacrosse and Elizabeth Keckley was the first to African American to have her sculptures in the Louvre.
H) Althea Gibbs was the first African American to play Wimbledon and Alma Thomas was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art.
I) Althea Gibbs was the first African American Woman to run the mile in the Olympics and Anna Julia Cooper was the African American woman to have her fashion on the runways of Paris.
Get a photo of one of you signing the correct answer in front of each of the two women in your answer.
Clue #4 If the spirit moves youHead to the International Gallery in the S. Dillon Ripley Center to find:
Elizabeth Clarisse Lange
She started “Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first order of black Catholic Sisters in America” and she was devoted to helping refuges from a recent revolution in what country?
J) Jamaica
K) Brazil
L) Haiti
Get a picture of both of you in front of Elizabeth signing the correct answer.
Clue #5 Some Strings Attached Head to the National Museum of American History to find a piece of American Music History.
You will have to walk the halls and look at the Artifact Walls to find the object that connects to this great African American Woman. Here is your riddle:
Since I was 12, I’ve felt like the world is upside down and I’ve been going non-stop like a “Freight Train.”
Who held this artifact?
M) Ella Fitzgerald
N) Nanny Burroughs
O) Elizabeth Cotton
Get a photo of both of you signing the right answer in front of this artifact. (No flash please)
Clue #6 A Mighty Education Head to the Science in American Life section of the National Museum of American History and you will find a display that deals with “Science on the Farm.” This shows the study of Dairy sciences but this university is important because Mrs. Mary Peake taught some of the first classes of this university under the Emancipation Tree. This started the education of many African American women at time when other universities would not teach them. What university is it?
P) Tuskegee
Q) Fisk
R) Hampton
Get a picture of both of you signing the correct answer next to a photo of the Milk Bottle or Laboratory.
Clue #7 En Route to FreedomHead to the “America on the Move” Section of the National Museum of American History and find Charlotte Hawkins Brown who was instrumental in developing a one-room schoolhouse into a junior college and the first African American to sit on the board of the YWCA. Take a seat with her as she waits for her train.
Listen to 2 of her stories:
1) My Philosophy
2) The Pullman Incident
Now one of you must shoot a short video in which you act like Oprah Winfrey and you have just had Charlotte Hawkins Brown on your show.
Explain in your video these things:
1) Summarize what Dr. Brown said.
2) Give your reaction and opinion about her stories.
3) Tell your audience what lessons we should learn from Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown’s life stories.
Clue #8 A True War Hero Head to the “Communities in Changing Nation” in the National Museum of American History to find Suzie King Taylor. What is significant about her life’s accomplishments?
S) She was a Revolutionary War nurse who was the first African American Woman to fight in a battle.
T) She was a controversial preacher who was not welcome in any churches but she preached on the streets of Charleston and started an orphanage.
U) She was a Civil War Nurse who taught freed slave children to read and was the only African American woman to publish a memoir about the war.
Sign the correct answer while you take a photo in front of her portrait.
Clue #9 was closed in the museum so we were not able to complete it.
Clue #10 Yet Another First You’ll find the answer to this clue in the National Museum of American History.
Solve this riddle and get a photo of both of you with her portrait:
She has a degree from Princeton, two daughters, a nice garden outside her house, and a dog whose name rhymes with an archer’s weapon.
Where would you go to find her portrait?
