Pi Lambda Phi facts
What are the Pi Lambda Phi traditional colors?
Purple and Gold are the essence of what makes Pi Lambda Phi look so good.
Before Barack Obama became President (2009-2017) he served as what?
What is the Governor of Illinois from 1997-2004?
This global movement, founded in 2013, advocates for the end of police violence and racial inequality, gaining significant traction after the death of George Floyd.
What is Black Lives Matter?
The university calls you by this when attending the campus
Who are the bobcats?
Kendrick Lamar is playing this event on Feb. 9th
What is the Pi Lambda Phi mission?
The role of Pi Lambda phi is to create a better world by eliminating prejudice and developing courageous leaders.
Washington DC is where this man made his "I have a dream" speech.
This man is generally considered the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement" due to his prominent role as an abolitionist, orator, and activist who fought tirelessly for racial equality in the 19th century, before the modern Civil Rights Movement took shape.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
1898 was the year for this university to be birthed
When was Frostburg State University Founded
Name of Pi Lambda Phi's flower.
What is Woodbine?
What are the Pi Lambda Phi's values?
Pi Lambda Phi strives to develop leadership, character, scholarship, financial responsibility, and equality.
Double jeopardy: By the late 1960s, thanks in part to the civil rights movement and a growing awareness of Black identity, Black history week had evolved into Black history month on many college campuses is due of this man.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
Double Jeopardy: In 1893, New Zealand is the first country to do this.
What is grant women the right to vote?
This man went to Frostburg State University and wrote a play called Thoughts of a Color man.
Who is Keenan Scott II?
Dr. Artie Lee Travis retired last week as FSU's African American Vice President of Student Affairs. He is the a member of which NPHC fraternity.
Who is Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Vice President?
Who are Henry Mark Fisher, Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter Levy?
These three men created Lambda Phi to establish as a protest and living example against the tendency of fraternities to discriminate against students for religious and racial reasons.
In 1965, this event in Selma, Alabama, led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
This case landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is the Brown vs. Board of education?
The Founder of Brownsville was a freed slave. This is her name
Who is Tamar Brown?
This is the name of the African American community FSU's campus occupies today. The community thriving in the 1800s and 1900s.
What is Brownsville?
What is the Pi Lambda Phi Motto?
What is Not Four Years But a Life Time
This young African American woman was the first to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott, before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This legal scholar coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989, exploring how overlapping identities impact people’s experiences of oppression.
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
FSU has had 16 presidents including the incoming interim president. She will be the third woman to sit as FSU's president. Name one of the other two.
Who are Lillian Compton and Catherine Gira?
Double Jeopardy: In 1945, the enrollment of Frostburg State Teachers College was down 62 students. This president was tasked with closing the university when she step into the position. Post WW2 enrollment, alongside tough decision making this president, allowed the university to thrive for several decades to come.
Who is Lillian Compton?