HBCU
THEY CALL IT ‘THE BAYOU CLASSIC’ WHEN THESE TWO LOUISIANA HBCUS CLASH ANNUALLY IN NEW ORLEANS
Southern University vs. Grambling State University
THIS BLACK WOMAN REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A SEGREGATED BUS MONTHS BEFORE ROSA PARKS.
Claudette Colvin
THIS BLACK SCIENTIST DEVELOPED A PROCESS FOR TRANSFORMING PEANUTS INTO A VARIETY OF USEFUL PRODUCTS, INCLUDING PLASTIC, GASOLINE, AND PAINT.
THIS BLACK HEAD COACH MADE HISTORY BY LEADING THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS TO A SUPER BOWL VICTORY IN 2007.
Tony Dungy
THIS GROUP OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS RODE BUSES THROUGH THE SEGREGATED AMERICAN SOUTH IN 1961 TO CHALLENGE THE LACK OF ENFORCEMENT OF SUPREME COURT RULINGS THAT MADE SEGREGATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
FREEDOM RIDERS
THIS HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE, FOUNDED IN 1837, WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
THIS JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST LED AN ANTI-LYNCHING CAMPAIGN IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES.
Ida B. Wells
THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN SURGEON IS CREDITED WITH DEVELOPING THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL OPEN-HEART SURGERY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Daniel Hale Williams
THIS TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO WIN THREE GOLD MEDALS IN A SINGLE OLYMPICS, AT THE 1960 ROME GAMES.
Wilma Rudolph
LINDA BROWN WAS DENIED ENROLLMENT AT SUMNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN TOPEKA, KANSAS IN 1954 BECAUSE OF HER RACE, LEADING TO A SUPREME COURT CASE THAT OUTLAWED SEGREGATION IN U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Brown v. Board of Education
What year was Langston University founded?
The year of 1897.
HIS WOMAN MADE HISTORY IN 1968 AS THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE ELECTED TO THE U.S. CONGRESS.
Shirley Anita Chisolm
THIS AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTOR IS BEST KNOWN FOR DEVELOPING THE FIRST TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND THE GAS MASK.
Garrett Morgan
THIS BLACK QUARTERBACK MADE HISTORY BY BECOMING THE FIRST TO WIN A SUPER BOWL, LEADING THE WASHINGTON TEAM TO VICTORY IN 1988.
Doug Williams
THIS BOYCOTT, WHICH TOOK PLACE FROM 1955 TO 1956, WAS MONUMENTAL IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
THIS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION IS THE ONLY ONE AFFILIATED WITH XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, THE ONLY HBCU OF ITS KIND.
Catholic
THIS BLACK WOMAN MADE HISTORY IN 1993 AS THE FIRST TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.
Toni Morrison
THIS BLACK SCIENTIST WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN DEVELOPING THE BLOOD BANK SYSTEM AND ADVANCING BLOOD PLASMA RESEARCH.
Charles R. Drew
THIS TENNIS LEGEND HOLDS 23 GRAND SLAM SINGLES TITLES, THE MOST IN THE OPEN ERA AND THE SECOND MOST OF ALL TIME.
Serena Williams
THIS ACT, INTRODUCED IN 2019, WAS A POLICY CHANGE AIMED AT ENDING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NATURAL BLACK HAIRSTYLES AFTER YEARS OF ACTIVISM.
The Crown Act
WHAT IS THE ONLY HBCU THAT IS ALSO A MILITARY COLLEGE?
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
THIS FAMOUS SPEECH WAS DELIVERED BY SOJOURNER TRUTH AT THE 1851 WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.
"Aint I a Woman?"
THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO RECEIVE A MEDICAL DEGREE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
IN 1988, FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER SET THIS WOMEN'S WORLD RECORD FOR THE 100-METER DASH, A RECORD THAT STILL STANDS TODAY." IN THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS, TIANNA MADISON, ALLYSON FELIX, BIANCA KNIGHT, AND CARMELITA JETER SET THIS WORLD RECORD TIME 2 IN TRACK AND FIELD.
10.49 seconds
A 1954 SUPREME COURT CASE THAT BANNED RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS INVOLVED THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THIS CITY
TOPEKA, KS