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BPW BERKELEY CLUB BULLETIN
Edition No.0022
Business and Professional Women
Founded in 1922 February 2024

BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS

A little test …

(e.g. The first African-American U.S. president. Answer: Barack Obama.)

Freshman Level
1.The first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era.
2.The first African-American boxer to be the world heavyweight champion (1908)
3. She has been called “the mother of the freedom movement”.
Graduate Level

4. The first African-American appointed to the United States Supreme Court .
5. He developed 300 derivative products from peanuts.
6. The first African-American performer to win an Academy Award.
Ph.D. Level

7. The first African-American Woman elected to the House of Representatives.
8. The first African-American astronaut in space. On ’Grief’
9. She is perhaps best known for her stirring “It ain’t I a Woman?” speech
(1851). Tuesday February 20, 2024.

Answers: 5:pm PT

1. Jackie Robinson. 2. Jack Johnson. 3. Rosa Parks. 4. Thurgood Marshall.
5. George Washington Carver. 6. Hattie McDaniel. 7. Shirley Chisholm.
8. Guion Bluford. 9. Sojourner Truth.

Scoring: 18 points - congratulations, doctor: 15-17 points
honors, graduate: 10 to 14 points—You’re plenty smart, but no ‘grind’ ;
4 to 9 points—you really should hit the books harder ;
1 to 3 points enroll in remedial courses immediately ;
0 point who reads the questions to you?
CFBPW
… Should some of you enroll in a remedial course, you will find me there—
Amazingly I could answer 3 questions: 1. 6. and 8.
Winter Board of Directors
1.Jackie Robinson—So admired and respected by the South Koreans ever so &
fond of baseball— I was even enrolled in a fun game during a picnic outing, over 64th Annual
a week end, with a company I was working with! … So many memories! Public Policy Conference
6. Hattie McDaniel—What a woman! … ‘It ain’t right, it just ain’t right’ … I saw February 23 & 24, 2024
‘Gone with the Wind ‘at least 6 times … may be more! in

8. Guion Bluford—(Guy) - Besides being an aerospace engineer, and having Burbank, CA.
made several shuttle missions, he was also a fighter pilot in Vietnam (top gun).
His name was familiar to me from a number of conversations in my household
Our Next
along the years. ‘
Separately, I wish to recommend a number of famous black authors who BPW Berkeley Club
marked History but more contemporaneous with this Black History Monthly Meeting
Month, I invite you to ‘dive’ into the book of Van Jones “Beyond the will be
Messy Truth” - How we came apart * How we come together. His gen- Monday
erous spirit and intellectual clarity are truly forces to be reckoned with. 26 February ‘24
7:00-8:00pm
Monique Lee, Editor