How many colleges and universities are officially included in the collective HBCU?
1. 90
2. 225
3. 106
4. 200
106
Depending on the source, the number of HBCU institutions range from 105 to 107.
Which is the only campus on which five Greek letter organizations were founded?
1. Clark College/Clark Atlanta University
2. Morgan State
3. Claflin College
4. Howard
Howard
Howard University is the site for the founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1908), Omega Psi Phi (1911), Delta Sigma Theta (1913), Phi Beta Sigma (1914), Zeta Phi Beta (1920)
Which was the last Black Greek letter organization to enter into the National Pan-Hellenic Council?
1. Iota Phi Theta
2. Kappa Alpha Psi
3. Delta Sigma Theta
4. Omega Psi Phi
Iota Phi Theta
Of the nine Black Greek letter organizations, Iota Phi Theta, established at Morgan State in 1963, was the last to enter the National Pan-Hellenic Council, also in 1963.
All of the following HBCUs EXCEPT which one now has a white student population of 50% or more?
1. Bluefield State College
2. Lincoln University, Missouri
3. West Virginia State University
4. Prairie View
Prairie View
Over the years, many HBCUs have had to diversify in order to remain open; for example, HBCU Bluefield State College is now 99% white with virtually no Black faculty. The only HBCU on the list that remains predominantly Black is Prairie View in Texas.
The legislature of which state took only six months to create a law school for Black students rather than permit admission of a Black student into the state’s flagship law school?
1. Louisiana
2. Texas
3. Mississippi
4. Georgia
Texas
In 1950 Texas, rather than permit admission of a Black student to the University of Texas School of Law, as decreed by the Supreme Court, created a law school for Black students in Houston within 6 months; however, the decision was upheld because the new law school did not provide the student an equal education as mandated. He was finally admitted to the University of Texas Law School.
The winner of the first Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison, graduated from which HBCU?
1. Howard
2. Spelman
3. Hampton
4. Fisk
Howard
Chloe Wofford, who changed her name from Chole to Toni while at Howard, graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English
Which Black Greek letter organization has the most chapters in the world?
1. Omega Psi Phi
2. Delta Sigma Theta
3. Alpha Kappa Alpha
4. Kappa Alpha Psi
Delta Sigma Theta
With over 900 chapters world-wide, Delta Sigma Theta is considered the largest Black Greek letter organization in the world.
What is the first HBCU to have been established?
1. Alcorn College
2. Morehouse College
3. Florida A & M
4. Cheyney College
Cheyney College A
Cheyney College now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania was established in 1837, twenty-three years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., the coordinating body for African- American sororities and fraternities, was founded on what campus?
1. Morehous
2. Spelman
3. Howard
4. North Carolina A & T
Howard
The National Pan-Hellenic Council formed as a permanent organization on the campus of Howard University in 1930.
Which Greek letter organization was the first to be established on the campus of an HBCU?
1. Phi Beta Sigma
2. Omega Psi Phi
3. Kappa Alpha Psi
4. Alpha Phi Alpha
Omega Psi Phi
Omega Psi Phi was established in 1911on the campus of Howard University.
On February 4th, 1995, the National Pan-Hellenic Council chartered the first international council in what country?
1. Jamaica
2. The Bahamas
3. Cuba
4. British Virgin Island
The Bahamas
The Nassau, Bahamas’ Pan-Hellenic Council was officially chartered by the NPHC, becoming the first international council, outside of the United States of America to be chartered.
In 2016, an AKA chapter was chartered in what Middle Eastern country?
1. Qatar
2. Iran
3. Lebanon
4. Dubai
Dubai
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority chartered its first chapter of 37 women, Omega Theta Omega, in Abu Dhabi, Dubai in January 2016.
Where is the national headquarters for the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. located?
1. Decatur, MI
2. Decatur, TX
3. Decatur, IL
4. Decatur, GA
Decatur, GA
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. is presently located in Decatur, Georgia.
How many of the Divine Nine organizations were established on white college campuses?
1. 5
2. 2
3. 1
4. 3
3
Three of the Divine Nine were established on white college campuses. These are: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Cornell University, 1906; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, 1911; Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Butler University, 1922.
In 1972 which sorority purchased the family home of the late MLK Jr. and donated it to Mrs. Coretta Scott King?
1. Sigma Gamma Rho
2. Delta Sigma Theta
3. Alpha Kappa Alpha
4. Zeta Phi Beta
Alpha Kappa Alpha
In 1972, Alpha Kappa Alpha purchased Dr. MLK Jr.’s boyhood home for $20,000.00 for Mrs. King and the MLK Center for Social Change.
What was the first professional Black Greek letter organization started by two doctors and a dentist in 1904?
1. Phi Nu P
2. Kappa Tau Alpha
3. Omega Psi Chi
4. Sigma Pi Phi
Sigma Pi Phi
Sigma Pi Phi, established in 1904, was actually the first Black Greek letter organization established, but because it was exclusively for Black professionals who had already graduated, it was not considered one of the Divine Nine.
Which was the only HBCU that received a federal land grant under the first Morrill Act?
1. Lincoln University, PA
2. Central State
3. Cheyney
4. Alcorn
Alcorn
Under the first Morrill Act of 1862, Black people in the South were not permitted to attend institutions in the South because of segregation. The law provided for separate but equal facilities, but only Mississippi and Kentucky established the first Morrill Act and only Alcorn University was a designated “land grant.”
Which was the only school in the Atlanta University Center to have been founded by Black people?
1. Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University)
2. Morehouse
3. Spelman
4. Morris Brown
Morris Brown
Morris Brown College was founded in 1881 by African-Americans affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was the first educational institution in Georgia to be owned and operated independently by African-Americans.
HBCU institutions are defined as those institutions that subscribe to which of the following?
1. Whose first senior class voted to be an HBCU
2. That were founded before the Civil Rights Act of 1964
3. That was founded before the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision
4. That were founded during Reconstruction
That were founded before the Civil Rights Act of 1964
HBCUs are institutions designed primarily for African-Americans that were formed before the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Martin Luther King Jr., Jr. was a member of how many Greek letter organizations?
1. 2
2. 0
3. 3
4. 1
2
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jr. was a member of two Greek letter organizations; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Sigma Pi Phi Professional Fraternity.
How many Black sororities and fraternities are in the National Pan-Hellenic Council?
1. 11
2. 9
3. 7
4. 5
9
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., also known as the Divine Nine, is comprised of the nine historically African-American sororities and fraternities. These are, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity (Founded 1906, Cornell University); Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (Founded 1908, Howard University); Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity (Founded 1911, Indiana University); Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (Founded 1911, Howard University); Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (Founded 1913, Howard University); Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity (Founded 1914, Howard University); Zeta Phi Beta Sorority (Founded 1920, Howard University); Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority (Founded 1922, Butler University); Iota Phi Theta Fraternity (Founded 1963, Morgan State University)
James Weldon Johnson, writer of "Lift Every Voice and Sing", graduated from what HBCU?
1. Atlanta University
2. Clark College
3. Hampton College
4. Fisk University
Atlanta University
James Weldon Johnson graduated from Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) in 1894.
Which was the first Divine Nine organization to be established?
1. Kappa Alpha Psi
2. Iota Phi Theta
3. Delta Sigma Theta
4. Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha, founded in 1906 at Cornell University, was the first of the nine Black Greek letter organizations, called the Divine Nine, to be established.
Which HBCU has seen the establishment of most of the Divine Nine organizations?
1. Howard
2. FAMU
3. Cheyney
4. Clark Atlanta University
Howard
Howard University has welcomed the founding of five of the Divine Nine organizations
In what year was the last Black Greek letter organization established?
1. 1955
2. 2012
3. 1970
4. 1963
1963
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity was founded in 1963, Morgan State University.
