| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | STATESMEN & WOMEN $2000: In one of his final posts before his death in 1895, this African American served as U.S. minister to Haiti Frederick Douglass |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | 1992 IN BOOKS: 30 YEARS AGO $1200: This Terry McMillan bestseller centers on 4 African-American women living in Phoenix & their challenges with men & life Waiting to Exhale |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | WOMEN IN THE ARTS $800: In 2015 this African-American prima ballerina made her Broadway debut in "On the Town" Misty Copeland |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | AFRICAN-AMERICANA $400: The tradition of Black women wearing beautiful, decorated these to church is partly rooted in 1 Corinthians 11:5 a hat |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | MAGAZINES $1000: "Lifestyle, fashion & beauty" is the nature of this "magazine for African-American women" Essence |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | ENTERTAINMENT & THE NMAAHC $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Nichelle Nichols, who shared one of TV's first interracial kisses with William Shatner, & who would later help NASA recruit more women & minorities for the space program, wore this uniform as Lieutenant Uhura on this series Star Trek |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1600: A troubled lifelong friendship between 2 women is at the heart of this Nobel Prize winner's novel "Sula" Morrison |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: In 2019 former MVP Maya Moore stepped away from playing in this league to work on criminal justice reform the WNBA |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: "Torchy Brown" creator Jackie Ormes was the first African-American woman to have one of these published in a major newspaper a comic strip |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: Hazel Scott briefly hosted her own TV show before this group, HUAC, set its sights on her the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech trying to integrate the Miss. delegation at this 1964 gathering made LBJ scramble to get her off the air Democratic National Convention |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Before she made history in Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to this state's Senate Texas |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000: The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005 Marian Anderson |
| #8151, aired 2020-02-03 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ATHLETES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dominating women's tennis, Althea Gibson broke the color barrier & became the first African-American to win the French & U.S. Open Singles as well as, in 1957 & 1958, this oldest Grand Slam event Wimbledon |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Rewards totaling over $10,000 were reportedly offered for the capture of this woman called the "Moses of Her People" Harriet Tubman |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job Loretta Lynch |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: This singer entertained us from the 1930s into the '90s; enjoy some of her genius now Ella Fitzgerald |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP Myrlie Evers |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Last name of N.Y. congresswoman Shirley, the first African American to mount a serious run for president from a major party Chisholm |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | RECENT HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY $600: This story of the African-American women who helped launch the U.S. space program became a 2016 film Hidden Figures |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: 3 African-American women were in the first class of 1973: Mary Bethune, Harriet Tubman & this opera singer Marian Anderson |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In "The Women of" this location, Gloria Naylor wove together the stories of 7 African-American women The Women of Brewster Place |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: In 2015 she became the first African-American woman to win for Lead Actress in a Drama Series Viola Davis |
| #7428, aired 2016-12-21 | WORKING WOMEN $200: The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns became its CEO in 2009; copy that! Xerox |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | WOMEN IN CHARGE $400 (Daily Double): As CEO of Sam's Club, Rosalind Brewer became the first woman & the first African American to head a unit of this corp. the Walmart corporation |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: When asked to describe herself, she says first & foremost, she is Malia & Sasha's mom Michelle Obama |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Bessie Coleman, the first black woman licensed as a pilot, landed a street named in her honor at this Chicago airport O'Hare |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: Rita Dove titled a collection of poems "On the Bus with" this woman Rosa Parks |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, "My mother was" this film "& so was her mother" The Help |
| #6358, aired 2012-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: Sophia Packard & Harriet Giles co-founded what became this Atlanta college for African-American women Spelman College |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $2000: Appointed by President Carter to 2 different posts, she was the first African-American woman in the Cabinet Patricia Harris |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950 Poetry |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: After her husband's death in 1968, she founded a center in Atlanta, Georgia for nonviolent social change Coretta Scott King |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Her on-air 50th birthday bash included guests Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner &, of course, Stedman Oprah |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: While Shirley Chisholm represented N.Y. in Congress, Barbara Jordan represented this state Texas |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Before becoming an advisor to President Bush, she served 6 years as provost of Stanford Univ. Condoleezza Rice |
| #4563, aired 2004-06-09 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1,400 (Daily Double): Arturo Toscanini once praised this contralto, saying she had a voice that comes "once in a hundred years" Marian Anderson |
| #4247, aired 2003-02-04 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: As head of Harpo Entertainment, she's the first African-American woman to own her own studios Oprah Winfrey |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $200: They're the two sisters seen here, celebrating a win Venus & Serena Williams |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $400: Deborah Roberts of "20/20" always knows when to carry an umbrella; she's married to this NBC weatherman Al Roker |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $600: An auto accident in 1937 cut short the life of this legendary blues singer Bessie Smith |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $800: Writer Zora Neale Hurston was the first black graduate of this college that's affiliated with Columbua Barnard |
| #4034, aired 2002-02-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN $1000: This author of "A Poem by Phillis" counted George Washington among her admirers Phillis Wheatley |
| #3707, aired 2000-10-17 | WOMEN'S RITES $500: Held in 1997 in Philadelphia by African-American women, it was the counterpart of a 1995 event in Washington the Million Woman March |
| #3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Linden Hills" was Gloria Naylor's second novel; her first was "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster Place |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS $800: This African-American author set her first novel, "The Bluest Eye", in Lorain, Ohio, her birthplace Toni Morrison |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: African-born Phillis Wheatley's 1st poems were published in 1770, though she was this an American slave |
