Test your Tennessee Women’s History I. Q.

 

 

  1. What famous children’s author, best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden, spent part of her hildhood in New Market, Tennessee?

 

  1. Which social reformer, who began Nashville’s first daycare facility, was a  Confederate spy during the Civil War?

 

  1. The movie, So This Is Love, was based on the life of this famous soprano, who died in an airplane crash in 1947 following a concert for American troops in Europe.

 

  1. She wrote a popular column, “Song and Story” for the Nashville Banner for 31 years, and was named Poet Laureate by the Poetry Society of the South in 1930.

 

  1. This Civil Rights activist helped lead voter registration drives in Fayette County.  Who is she?

 

  1. Daughter of the Air by Rob Simbeck relates the story of this woman who was the second woman to enlist in the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron  during World War II.  Who is she?

 

  1. What wife of a United States president has a state office building in Nashville named for her?

 

  1. This blues guitarist was once judged the better musician in a 1933 contest with Big Bill Broonzy.  Who is she?

 

  1. Which West Tennessee native was one of the most famous American botanists of the 19th century?

 

  1. Who coached the U. S. women’s basketball team to a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles?

 

  1. This newspaper journalist courageously launched the crusade against lynching in the South during the 1890s.  Who is she?

 

  1. This Academy Award winning actress from Tennessee dedicated a rehabilitation center for stroke, spinal cord, and head trauma victims in Knoxville in 1977.  Who is she?

 

 

Produced by the Charles C. Sherrod Library

Exhibits Committee, ETSU

Answers

 

 

  1. After the failure of her father’s business, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s (1849-1924) widowed mother moved the family to New Market in 1865.

 

  1. Mary Frances “Fannie” Battle (1842-1924) joined a group of Confederate scouts and spies with her sister-in-law.  After the war, she was instrumental in forming several relief societies including the Addison Avenue Day Home, the first day care center in Nashville.

 

  1. Grace Moore (1901-1947), a popular soprano in opera, musical comedy, and film, was born in Cocke County. 

 

  1. The literary output of Will Allen Dromgoole (1860-1934) depicted the hill people of East and Middle Tennessee as well as the various groups of residents of Nashville.

 

  1. Viola McFerren (1931-    ), along with her husband, organized Fayette County’s Freedom Village for tenant farmers who were evicted after they registered to vote.

 

  1. The Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron delivered aircraft to anywhere in the U.S. where they were needed.  Cornelia Fort (1919-1943) , who was killed in a mid-air crash over west Texas, was the first woman from this group to be killed in the line of duty.

 

  1. Rachel Donelson Jackson (1767-1828), the wife of Andrew Jackson.
  2. Lizzie (Memphis Minnie) Douglas (189?-1973) won the contest, but Big Bill Broonzy stole the prize, a bottle of booze.
  3.  Mary Katharine Layne Brandegee (1844-1920), who was the curator of the California Academy of Sciences, studied the medicinal properties of plants after receiving a medical degree from the University of California in 1874.  Two species of plants are named in her honor.
  4. The University of Tennessee’s women’s basketball coach, Pat Summitt (1952-   ), coached the 1984 gold medal team.  She was among the inaugural group to be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
  5. As the editor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1930), began to crusade against lynching.  Eventually, she spoke out against this practice to national and international audiences.
  6.  Patricia Neal  (1926-    ), won an Academy Award for her role in Hud (1963).  She suffered several strokes in 1965 and has taken an active interest in the Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center.