HBCUs
Vice President Harris attended this HBCU.
What is Howard University?
Beyoncé used to sing with this hit group.
Who is Destiny's Child?
The inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
She is an internationally known American model who broke barriers for the Black and brown trans community, and she was the face of Clairol's Born Beautiful campaign in 1975.
This co-founder of Black Lives Matter recently released a new book called, "12 Steps to Changing the Yourself and the World: An Abolitiont's Handbook."
Who is Patrisse Cullors?
American novelist, poet and activist, famous for writing, The Color Purple, Alice Walker attended this HBCU.
What is Spelman College?
This iconic writer penned these words in her 1978 poem, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
Who is Maya Angelou?
This hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
This community of artisans in Alabama have been handing down the craft of quilting since their enslaved ancestors began the tradition in the early 1800s.
Who are the Quilters of Gee's Bend? or Who are members of the Freedom Quilting Bee?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
This HBCU ditched its expensive football program and turned the football field into an urban farm in Dallas, Texas.
What is Paul Quinn College?
The youngest known inaugural poet who spoke at the 2021 presidential inauguration.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
His elevator design is the reason we aren't still hand cranking elevator shaft doors.
She was the only woman to be listed on the charter of the Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers, the first African-American owned bank in the nation.
This abolitionist, when speaking at a women's suffrage convention, said, "I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Omega Psi Phi was founded on this HBCU campus as the first international fraternal organization founded on the campus of a Black college.
What is Howard University?
This artists is known for paining elite African American leaders in the early 1900s, but her most celebrated work, "Anna Washington Derry," honors the legacy of an elderly working-class woman.
Who is Laura Wheeler Waring?
This chef invented the potato chip in 1853 in Saratoga Springs.
Who is George Crum?
She was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States and one of the first Black female physician authors.
Who is Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
A human rights activist and preacher, she delivered the famous, "Ain't I A Woman?" speech at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
W.E.B DuBois attended this HBCU in 1885 in Nashville.
What is Fisk University?
A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, one of his poems famously asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Who is Langston Hughes?
A businessman and inventor of Cleveland, he invented the gas mask and the 1st traffic signal.
Who is Garrett Morgan ?
Credited with inventing the "high-five," he is also known for being the first openly gay player in Major League Baseball.
Who is Glenn Burke?
This congressman and civil rights leader passed away in 2020, and a piece of proposed legislation that would extend and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is named after him.
Who is John Lewis?