Historically Black Colleges and Universities Quiz

In what state is Tuskegee Institute located?

• Alabama

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Louisiana

Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational education for black people?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• Marcus Garvey

Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was Founded in what year?

• 1837

• 1905

• 1866

• 1785

Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as a liberal arts institution in what year?

• 1865

• 1870

• 1881

• 1892

Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African Americans in higher education in the United States.

• Morehouse College and Spelman College

• Harvard University and Yale University

• Howard University and Hampton University

• Princeton University and Columbia University

Who was the first Black American woman president of Spelman College?

• Audre Lorde

• Alice Walker

• Johnnetta B. Cole

• Toni Morrison

In what year was the first all-Black medical school Meharry Medical College established?

• 1866

• 1876

• 1886

• 1896

Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. Under what name does it operate today?

• Morgan State University

• Howard University

• Hampton University

• Morehouse College

To this, the first and only black college consortium, was founded in 1929. Name it.

• The Ivy League

• The Big Ten

• The Atlanta University system

• The Seven Sisters

What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?

• Harvard University

• Tuskegee Institute

• Howard University

• Morehouse College