Vocabulary
What the acronym of "HBCU" stands for.
What is Historically Black Colleges & Universities?
The original purpose of HBCUs.
What is to educate African-Americans during segregation?
The #1 ranked HBCU in the U.S.
What is Spelman College?
The HBCU that Kamala Harris attended.
What is Howard University?
What the acronym of "PWI" stand for.
What is Predominately White Institution?
The first HBCU.
What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?
The amount of accredited HBCUs in Maryland.
What is four?
This hollywood actor starred in Black Panther and attended Howard Univeristy.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
The nickname for the central gathering place on HBCU campuses (Similar to a Quad at PWIs).
What is The Yard?
One of the women's only HBCUs.
What is Spelman College or Bennett College?
The state with the most HBCUs.
What is Alabama?
The HBCU that Martin Luther King Jr. attended.
A group choreography performed as a special event by predominately Black fraternities and sororities.
What is a step show?
The name of nine famous African-American fraternities / sororities.
What is the Divine Nine?
What is Florida A&M University?
This former supreme court justice attended Lincoln University and Howard Law School.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The marching band technique commonly used by HBCUs.
What is high stepping?
The landmark supreme court case challenging Separate but Equal when a black man applied to the University of Texas Law School. (This is before Brown V. Board of Education)
What is Sweatt V. Painter?
The college application that serves multiple HBCUs.
What is the Common Black College App?
W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Nikki Giovanni all attended this HBCU.
What is Fisk University?