Q 01/05

What does the acronym HBCU stand for?

A) Historically Black colleges and universities

B) Higher Black colleges and universities

C) Heritage Black colleges and unions

D) Historic Black community universities

Answer · why

A) Historically Black colleges and universities

They were founded to serve African American students before the landmark 1964 legislation.

Q 02/05

An HBCU must have been founded before which landmark 1964 law?

A) The Voting Rights Act

B) The Higher Education Act

C) The Civil Rights Act

D) The National Defense Education Act

Answer · why

C) The Civil Rights Act

Most were founded during Reconstruction, after the Civil War.

Q 03/05

Which is the oldest HBCU in the United States?

A) Howard University

B) Lincoln University

C) Wilberforce University

D) Cheyney University

Answer · why

D) Cheyney University

Founded as the Institute for Colored Youth in 1837 by Quaker Richard Humphreys.

Q 04/05

In what year was Cheyney, the oldest HBCU, founded?

A) 1854

B) 1837

C) 1865

D) 1881

Answer · why

B) 1837

Its founder, Richard Humphreys, was a Quaker who left $10,000 to educate free people of colour.

Q 05/05

Which 1890 law required segregated Southern states to fund a Black land-grant college?

A) The Freedmen's Bureau Act

B) The Civil Rights Act of 1875

C) The Hatch Act

D) The Second Morrill Act

Answer · why

D) The Second Morrill Act

Many public HBCUs were founded to satisfy it.