Civil Rights Movement
Stokely Carmichael - As a freshman at what university was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and jailed for 49 days after entering a “whites only” bus stop.
What is Howard University
This HBCU established The Center for Racial Justice to collaboratively educate and connect the community, community leaders, and law enforcement relations in New Orleans, LA.
What is Dillard University
In 1965 The Temptations hit the top of the charts with this song that references the month of May
What is My Girl
This HBCU was the first of its kind in 1837
What is Cheyney University
This event in 1955 cost the city of Montgomery $1 million dollars
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Three students from this HBCU were killed in 1968 for trying to desegregate bowling alleys in Orangeburg.
What is South Carolina State University
This movement sparked a 2,400% increase in searches for black-owned businesses in 2020 on Yelp
What is the Buying Black Movement
In 1965 this Chevy sold over 1 million cars of the model
What is the Impala
This HBCU was the first to grant degrees
What is Lincoln University
This city realized that in 1960 that blacks spent $50 million a year in white-owned businesses. This was important because white consumers had moved to the suburbs.
What is Nashville
In February of 1960 four students from which HBCU sat at Woolworth's lunch counter and asked politely to be served
What is North Carolina A&T University
This Howard grad paved a formidable legacy for LGBTQ+ student-activists at Howard University, as the co-founder of the first openly LGBTQ+ student organization at any HBCU in 1979
Who is Annette “Chi” Hughes
In 1960 this box office horror hit grossed over $50 million dollars following the story of a chance interaction between Marion Crane and Norman Bates
What is Psycho
This HBCU in 2020 was the first to have a polo team
What is Morehouse College
Just before the Easter of 1960 Fisk University's professor Vivian Henderson and Reverend Kelly Miller Smith organized a boycott in Nashville with this slogan, which lasted over seven weeks and cost downtown businesses to lose over 20% of their customers.
What was "No Fashions for Easter"
In April of 1960 this committee was founded at Shaw University
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
This founding member of the Black Lives Matter Movement attended Howard University for undergrad and now a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles
Who is Dr. Melina Abdullah
This was the #1 snack of 1960 was originally called "Froffles" (a portmanteau of "frozen" and "waffle")
What are Eggo Waffles
In 1892 this HBCU formally organized the first black football team
What is Livingston College
This countries' pacifist movement (that inspired Dr. MLK) was successful because it was massive, coordinated, and affected the financial books of the companies.
What is India
From 1960 through 1963, Patricia Stephens Due led a group of students from which university in a series of protests designed to stimulate support for integrating lunch counters, movie theaters, and other public accommodations in Tallahassee.
What is Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
This HBCU became not only the first HBCU to join in on the Vegetarian Movement and has a vegetarian focused dining program but one of the few colleges nation-wide that have a vegetarian focused dining program
What is Oakwood University
In 1965 this artist released "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) which record sales exceeded 900,000 copies
Who is Marvin Gaye
In 1890 this HBCU created the first black marching band
What is Tuskegee Normal School
In September this federal organization reported that the typical income for white households in 2020 was 61% higher than for black households—a gap that has barely changed since 1967 when the data series began.
What is the Census Bureau