HBCU Trivia

This HBCU has a student newspaper called the [blank] Herald that was an important voice in the civil rights movement.

• Xavier

• Bethune

• Hampton

• Delaware State

This men's only HBCU in Atlanta boasts such alumni as Martin Luther King, Jr, Samuel Jackson, Spike Lee, and Edwin Moses.

• Hampton

• Morehouse

• Bethune Cookman

• Florida Memorial

This HBCU boasts our own Ms. Kelly as an alumna. It also had its marching band feature in the Netflix document "Marching Wildcats."

• Xavier Univ. of Louisiana

• Carolina A&T

• Bethune Cookman

• Benedict College

This HBCU boasts our own Ms. Ahmend as an alumna. It was founded in 1870. The school made front-page news in the spring of 2018 when it became the first South Carolina college to lower its tuition by 26 percent.

• Claflin University

• Benedict College

• Florida Memorial

• Howard University

This HBCU's colors are orange and blue and their mascot is the lion. It is located in Miami Gardens. It was moved from St. Augustine due to segregation and racial tension.

• Florida Memorial

• Tuskegee University

• Claflin University

• Delaware State

This HBCU awards more degrees to African Americans in North Carolina than any other university.

• North Carolina State

• North Carolina A&T

• Duke

• UNC Greensboro

This HBCU celebrated its 130th anniversary in 2021 in a small northeastern state that is also the home of President Biden.

• Delaware State

• Howard University

• Rutgers

• Hampton

This university, located in Washington DC, has its mascot as the bison. Its school of law has produced many prominent African American lawyers such as Justice Thurgood Marshall and Vice President Harris. Its creative output is also impressive with Toni Morrison, Chadwick Boseman, and Sean Combs.

• Xavier Univ of Louisiana

• Howard Univesity

• Delaware State

• Tuskegee University

This university in Alabama helped produce the film about the airmen who shared the university's name. It fittingly produces the most African-American aeronautics engineers in the United States.

• Tuscaloosa State

• University of Mississippi

• Tuskegee University

• Auburn University

This Virginia HBCU began as a fort along the Chesapeake Bay for escaped slaves. Although forbidden by Virginia law, the fleeing African Americans began their educations under an tree called the "Emancipation Oak." Booker T. Washington graduated from this university.

• Bethune Cookman

• Howard University

• Hampton University

• North Carolina A&T