True or False
Female enrollment at HBCUs has surpassed male enrollment every year since 1976.
True
As of 2021, female students accounted for 64% of HBCU learners.
Samuel L. Jackson received his BA in drama at this university in 1972.
What is Morehouse College?
This university was a trailblazer as the first college in the US to offer a four-year curriculum for a medical school.
What is Shaw University?
There are 76 HBCUs across 15 states.
False
As of December 2022, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System lists 101 HBCUs in 19 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.
This Famous alumni attended Tennesse State and majored in Communications.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
This state leads the nation with the highest number of HBCUs.
What is Alabama?
Ranked #1 in 2023.
What is Spelman College?
All HBCU's were founded by black people for black people.
False
Many famous HBCUs were created by white abolitionists who had wealth and political and military ties.
Both men and women initially attended this university until it was exclusively a women's college in 1926.
What is Bennett College?
Which HBCU is the #1 producer of black aerospace engineers in the United States?
What is Tuskegee?
A total of 5 HBCU's were founded before the Civil War.
False
Only 4 HBCU's were founded before the Civil War: Cheyney University (1837), Colored Girls School (1851), Lincoln University (1854), and Wilberforce University (1856).
The first female Vice President of the US earned a BA in economics and political science at Howard University.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Xavier University of Louisiana is affiliated with this Christian denomination.
What is Catholic?
A marching band tradition of performance between two HBCU bands after a football game.
What is the Fifth Quarter?
Name all four HBCU's school of medicine.
Meharry Medical College(Meharry), Howard University College of Medicine (Howard), Morehouse School of Medicine (Morehouse), and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU).
Delta Sigma Theta, the smallest black sorority, was founded on the campus of Morgan University.
False
The largest Greek letter sorority for black women, Delta Sigma Theta, was founded in 1913 at Howard University.
Lonnie Johnson, an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur best known for inventing the Super Soaker water gun attended this school.
What is Tuskegee University?
In 1863, a tree on this campus, which still stands, was the site of the first Southern reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Hampton University?
This HBCU's band is known as the "The Marching 100"?
What is Florida A&M College (FAMU)?
Name all six HBCU's school of law.
FAMU College of Law, Howard University School of Law, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Southern University Law Center, Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, University of DC School of Law.