HBCU Facts

Question 1

● First historically black institution
founded in February 1837, in
Pennsylvania.
● This university became apart of a 1980
civil rights lawsuit against the state
government.
● 19 years later, they were awarded $35
million.

Answer 1

Cheyney University

Question 2

● This fraternity was the first to be

created at an HBCU.
● It was founded the fraternity on Nov.
17, 1911, at Howard University.
● It is still a major organization today
with headquarters in Decatur, Georgia.

Answer 2

Omega Psi Phi

Question 3

● This HBCU was created as a response
to not allowing Black people to enter
into the University of Texas.
● The state Legislature took six months
to create this university for Blacks as a
law school in 1947.

Answer 3

Texas Southern University

Question 4

● This university is located in New

Orleans.
● In 2000, it individually produced more successful African American medical
school applicants than Johns Hopkins,
Harvard University and The University
of Maryland combined.

Answer 4

Xavier University

Question 5

These two colleges produce over half of
the nation’s African American women
who go on to earn doctorates in all
science fields.

Answer 5

Spelman & Bennett College

Question 6

This is a private university in Raleigh,
North Carolina that was built after the
Civil War as the first initiative to
immerse freed slaves into academics.
● Estey Hall, on its campus, was the first
hall that was built for African-American
women in college in 1873.

Answer 6

Shaw University

Question 7

This was the first HBCU owned and
operated by African Americans.

● It is located in Ohio and founded in
1856.
● It was named after a white
philanthropist who first led efforts to
abolish slavery.

Answer 7

Wilberforce University

Question 8

James Weldon Johnson attended this

university.
○ He was a civil rights activist
○ Leader of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP)
○ Writer of the song “Lift Every
Voice and Sing”

Answer 8

Clark Atlanta University

Question 9

The rivalry between these two
universities dates back to 1925.
● The battle for state bragging rights
elevated when the football teams of
both schools joined the Mid-Eastern
Athletic Conference.

Answer 9

Bethune Cookman & Florida A&M Unviersity

Question 10

● This college was founded by two
teachers in 1881 and started in the
basement of Atlanta’s Friendship
Baptist Church.
● The college did not get its first black
woman president until 1987. Dr.
Johnetta B. Cole.

Answer 10

Spelman College

Question 11

● This college’s Glee Club was

established in 1911
● Has had only three directors in its 108
year history.
● Martin Luther King, Jr. was a tenor in
the club when he was a student.

Answer 11

Morehouse Glee Club

Question 12

● Robert Charles Bates, who was the first
certified black architect in the United
States is a graduate of this school
● He became an instructor in the 1890’s.
● He taught the first architecture class to
ever be offered at an HBCU and also
designed several of the buildings on this
campus.

Answer 12

Chaflin University

Question 13

● This school is the first black college to
be considered a Registered National
Historic Landmark
● The only to be declared a National
Historic Site.
● Under the leadership of Booker T.
Washington, students helped to

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construct the new buildings as part of
their work-study program.

Answer 13

Tuskegee University

Question 14

Name 4 HBCU Medical schools

Answer 14

Meharry Medical ZCollege, Morehouse School of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Howard University School of Medicine,