HBCU Locations
Howard University is located in this "federal" city.
What is Washington DC?
This Howard alumna became the first woman to be elected VPOTUS.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This Pennsylvania school opened in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth making it America's oldest HBCU.
What is Cheyney (University)?
Southern and Grambling meet in New Orleans every Thanksgiving holiday weekend to play in this football classic.
What is the Bayou Classic?
This Texas Southern alum won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2021.
Who is Megan thee Stallion?
Fisk University is located in this state capital.
What is Nashville?
This major leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and Morehouse grad, urged us to reach "The Mountaintop."
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This Raleigh, NC school was the first HBCU founded in the South; in 1865.
What is Shaw (University)?
His first head coaching job, Deion Sanders led this HBCU in Mississippi's capital.
This pilot attended Langston University in Oklahoma before going to France to get her international license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
Louisiana's Southern University and A&M College overlooks this mighty river.
What is the Mississippi River?
This Spelman graduate was the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States.
Who is Stacey Abrams?
To qualify as an HBCU, a school had to be established before this year.
What is 1964?
49er Hall of Famer Jerry Rice played WR for this Itta Bena school.
What is Mississippi Valley State University?
This author, the first A-A woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature, is an alumna of Howard University.
Who is Toni Morrison?
Wilberforce University and Central State call this "Buckeye" state home.
What is Ohio?
This Alabama State graduate became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after the assassination of MLK.
Who was Ralph Abernathy?
Several HBCUs were created in response to this 1890 agricultural and military schools congressional act.
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act?
C. Vivian Stringer led three different schools to a Women's Basketball Final Four, including this Pennsylvania HBCU.
What is Cheyney?
Myles Frost, a 2022 Tony Winner for MJ the Musical attended this HBCU between DC and Baltimore.
With fourteen universities and colleges, this state has the most HBCUs.
What is Alabama?
This investigative journalist and Rust College grad documented stories of lynching across the United States.
Who was Ida B. Wells (Barnett)?
Granted in 2013, this Nashville institution is the latest school to be designated a HBCU.
What is American Baptist College?
With two championships in the 70s, this school is the only HBCU to win a D1 national championship in soccer.
What is Howard University?
This Atlanta-based beauty product conglomerate, one of the largest black-owned companies in the world, was founded by a Morehouse alum.
What is Bronner Bros.?