Question
Marjorie Joyner oversaw over 200 beauty schools founded by this woman before developing her own permanent wave machine. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this woman who became the US’s first female self-made millionaire through her cosmetics and hair care line for Black women.
ANSWER: Madam C. J. Walker [or Sarah Breedlove; accept Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company]
[10e] Joyner achieved much of her success in this city, where she helped organize the Bud Billiken Day Parade and other fundraisers around the historically Black Bronzeville neighborhood in its South Side.
ANSWER: Chicago
[10h] Joyner developed the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association with this Florida-based activist, who founded the National Council of Negro Women and led a division of the National Youth Administration in the 1930s.
ANSWER: Mary McLeod Bethune (“muh-CLOUD beh-THOON”) [or Mary Jane McLeod]
<NS, American History>
Summary
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |