OCTOBER HBCU QUIZ

TRUE OR FALSE: Six of the top ten colleges that graduate most of the African American students who go on to earn Ph.D.s are from HBCUs.

TRUE

FALSE

In 2000, what HBCU produced more sucessful African American medical school applicants than John Hopkins?

Howard University

Clark Atlanta University

Xavier University

Dillard University

What Sorority has a program that strives to Reach "1 Million in a Day" to help promote HBCUs?

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc

Sigma Mu Sigma Sorority, Inc

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc

How did K. Michelle acquire her scholarship to Florida A&M University?

A piano audition

Yodeling

An original song performance

Dancing

What Tennessee State University Alum Celeb became the youngest and first black female news anchor at WLAC-TV in Nashville?

Robin Roberts

Jane Kennedy

Opera Winfrey

Hoda Kotb

What organization was in place at the abolishment of slavery after the Civil War to help slaves adjust to freedom?

Freedmen's Bureau

Black Panthers

Lincoln Bureau

Freed Peoples Campaign

TRUE OR FALSE: Wilberforce University was a coeducational institution for blacks who escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad.

TRUE

FALSE

Which was the first black fraternity to be founded at an HBCU?

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

A graduate of Wilberforce University, she was the first Black Woman to be in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during WWII, eventually becoming Commanding Officer of an all black female battalion. What's her name?

Emma Lou Higgins

Lucille Bates

Charity Adams Earley

Mary Daley Hamilton

When was the United Negro College Fund started?

1945

1956

1899

1944

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