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HBCU FAQs
Black Power
100
Before he was #42, he was a 4 sport student-athlete at UCLA.
Jackie Robinson
100
MLK Jr. graduated from which HBCU?
Morehouse College
100
She become one of the first self-made millionaires in America by building a hair-care business for black women.
Madame C.J. Walker
100
This teacher from Florida became a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt and founded this HBCU in Florida.
Mary McLeod Bethune / Bethune-Cookman University
100
Not the 44th President, but Newark's 40th Mayor.
Ras Baraka, son of poet Amiri Baraka. 
200
He started Negro History Week in 1926, which later became known as Black History Month.
Carter G. Woodson
200
He majored in this study of how people behave in groups and how power, money, race, and opportunity shape outcomes.
Sociology
200
This media mogul, an HBCU grad from Tenn. State University, built wealth through TV, film, and publishing.
Oprah Winfrey
200
Kenya Barris, creator of TV show "Black-ish" graduated from this HBCU in Atlanta.
Clark Atlanta University
200
She was a pilot, advocate, and pioneer who flew to great heights as the first Black woman pilot and first Black person to earn an international pilot’s license.
Bessie Coleman
300
Jack & Jill of America, Inc. was founded in what city and in what year?
1938 / Philadelphia
300
Morehouse College was founded two years after the Civil War during this period of rebirth and rebuilding when formerly enslaved were becoming teachers, lawyers, doctors, ministers, and business leaders.
Reconstruction
300
This Black-owned media company shaped Black culture for decades through magazines like Ebony and Jet.
Johnson Publishing Company
300
This music group toured the world beginning in 1871 to raise funds for their school. Through their voices, these young singers shared the stories of endurance, faith, and cultural pride, introducing the world to the powerful sounds of African American spirituals.
300
He founded the Rainbow PUSH organization and empowered millions of Americans proclaiming "I am _____________!"
400
This artist used quilts as her canvas.
Faith Ringold / Sojourner Truth
400
True / False: MLKjr started the free breakfast program for school children.
False. The Black Panther Party started the program in 1969 in Oakland and 36 other cities.
400
Robert F. Smith, one of the wealthiest black men in the country, built his fortune in this type of investment firm buying software companies and later made a historic gift to this HBCU.
Private Equity / Morehouse Class of 2019 school loans
400
Another all-female HBCU (not Spelman)
Bennett College in Greensboro, NC
400
This lawyer and his team won this 1954 landmark case which overturned "separate but equal" in education.
Thurgood Marshall / Brown v. Board of Education