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Hampton University

Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia.[4] First led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong,[5] Hampton University's main campus is located on 314 acres in Hampton, Virginia, on the banks of the Hampton River.

Hampton University
Former names
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (1868–1930)
Hampton Institute (1930–1984)
Motto"The Standard of Excellence, An Education for Life"
TypePrivate historically black research university
EstablishedSeptember 17, 1861; 162 years ago (1861-09-17)
Academic affiliations
Space-grant
Endowment$280.6 million (2020)[1]
ChancellorJoAnn Haysbert
PresidentDarrell K. Williams
ProvostJoAnn Haysbert
Students3,516 (Fall 2021)[2]
Undergraduates3,063 (Fall 2021)[2]
Postgraduates453 (Fall 2021)[2]
Location,
U.S.

37°01′21″N 76°20′05″W / 37.02250°N 76.33472°W / 37.02250; -76.33472
CampusSuburban, 314 acres (127 ha)
NewspaperThe Hampton Script [3]
Colors   Blue & white
NicknamePirates
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I (FCS) – CAA
Websitewww.hamptonu.edu

The university offers 90 programs, including 50 bachelor's degree programs, 25 master's degree programs and nine doctoral programs. The university has a satellite campus in Virginia Beach and also has online offerings. Hampton University is home to 16 research centers, including the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute, the largest free-standing facility of its kind in the world. Hampton University is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity."[6]

History Edit

The campus was founded on the grounds of "Little Scotland", a former plantation in Elizabeth City County that is located on the Hampton River. It overlooked Hampton Roads and was not far from Fortress Monroe and the Grand Contraband Camp, that gathered formerly enslaved men and women who sought refuge with Union forces in the South during the first year of the war. Their facilities represented freedom.

In 1861 the American Missionary Association (AMA) responded to the former slaves' need for education and hired Mary Smith Peake as its first teacher at the camp. She had already secretly been teaching slaves and free blacks in the area despite the state's legal prohibition. She first taught for the AMA on September 17, 1861, and was said to gather her pupils under a large oak. In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation was read here—the first place in the Confederate states. From then on the big tree was called the Emancipation Oak. The tree, now a symbol of both the university and of the city, survives as part of the designated National Historic Landmark District at Hampton University.

The Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, later called the Hampton Institute, was founded in 1868 after the war by the biracial leadership of the American Missionary Association, who were chiefly Congregational and Presbyterian ministers. It was first led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong.[7] Among the school's famous alumni is Dr. Booker T. Washington, an educator who was hired as the first principal at the Tuskegee Institute, which he developed for decades.

Civil War Edit

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), Union-held Fortress Monroe in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of Hampton Roads became a gathering point and safe haven of sorts for fugitive slaves. The commander, General Benjamin F. Butler, determined they were "contraband of war", to protect them from being returned to slaveholders, who clamored to reclaim them. As numerous individuals sought freedom behind Union lines, the Army arranged for the construction of the Grand Contraband Camp nearby, from materials reclaimed from the ruins of Hampton, which had been burned by the retreating Confederate Army. This area was later called "Slabtown."[8][9]

Hampton University traces its roots to Mary S. Peake, who began in 1861 with outdoor classes for freedmen, whom she taught under what is now the landmark Emancipation Oak in the nearby area of Elizabeth City County. In 1863 the newly issued Emancipation Proclamation was read to a gathering under the historic tree there.[8][10]

After the War: teaching teachers Edit

 
The Hampton Institute, 1898
 
An 1899 class in mathematical geography

After the War, a normal school (teacher training school) was formalized in 1868, with former Union brevet Brigadier General Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) as its first principal. The new school was established on the grounds of a former plantation named "Little Scotland", which had a view of Hampton Roads. The original school buildings fronted the Hampton River. Legally chartered in 1870 as a land grant school, it was first known as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.

Typical of historically black colleges, Hampton received much of its financial support in the years following the Civil War from the American Missionary Association (whose black and white leaders represented the Congregational and Presbyterian churches), other church groups, and former officers and soldiers of the Union Army. One of the many Civil War veterans who gave substantial sums to the school was General William Jackson Palmer, a Union cavalry commander from Philadelphia. He later built the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and founded Colorado Springs, Colorado. As the Civil War began in 1861, although his Quaker upbringing made Palmer abhor violence, his passion to see the slaves freed compelled him to enter the war. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in 1894. (The current Palmer Hall on the campus is named in his honor.)

 
Students in an 1899 bricklaying class

Unlike the wealthy Palmer, Sam Armstrong was the son of a missionary to the Sandwich Islands (which later became the U.S. state of Hawaii). He also had dreams for the betterment of the freedmen. He patterned his new school after the model of his father, who had overseen the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic to the Polynesians. He wanted to teach the skills necessary for blacks to be self-supporting in the impoverished South. Under his guidance, a Hampton-style education became well known as an education that combined cultural uplift with moral and manual training. Armstrong said it was an education that encompassed "the head, the heart, and the hands."

At the close of its first decade, the school reported a total admission in those ten years of 927 students, with 277 graduates, all but 17 of whom had become teachers. Many of them had bought land and established themselves in homes; many were farming as well as teaching; some had gone into business. Only a very small proportion failed to do well. By another 10 years, there had been over 600 graduates. In 1888, of the 537 still alive, three-fourths were teaching, and about half as many undergraduates were also teaching. It was estimated that 15,000 children in community schools were being taught by Hampton's students and alumni that year.[11]

After Armstrong's death, Hampton's leaders continued to develop a highly successful external relations program that forged a network of devoted supporters. By 1900, Hampton was the wealthiest school serving African Americans, largely due to its success in development and fundraising.[12]

Hampton also had the only library school in the United States for educating black librarians.[13] The Hampton Institute Library School opened in 1925 and through its Negro Teacher-Librarian Program (NTLTP) trained and issued professional degrees to 183 black librarians.[13] The library school closed in 1939.[13]

Booker T. Washington: spreading the educational work Edit

Among Hampton's earliest students was Booker T. Washington, who arrived from West Virginia in 1872 at the age of 16. He worked his way through Hampton, and then went on to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C. After graduation, he returned to Hampton and became a teacher. Upon Armstrong's recommendation to the founder of a small school in Tuskegee, Alabama, established six years before, in 1881 the 25-year-old Washington went there to strengthen it and develop it to the status of a normal school, one recognized as being able to produce qualified teachers.

This new institution eventually became Tuskegee University. Embracing much of Armstrong's philosophy, Washington built Tuskegee into a substantial school and became nationally famous as an educator, orator, and fund-raiser as well. He collaborated with the philanthropist Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th century to create a model for rural black schools; Rosenwald established a fund that matched monies raised by communities to build more than 5,000 schools for rural black children, mostly in the South. In 1888 Washington recruited his Hampton classmate Charles W. Greene[14] to Tuskegee to lead the Agriculture Department. Together they enticed George Washington Carver to the Tuskegee Agriculture faculty upon his graduation with a master's degree from Iowa State University in 1896.

Carver provided such technical strength in agriculture that, in 1900, Washington assigned Greene to establish a demonstration of black business capability and economic independence off-campus in Tuskegee. This project, entirely black-owned, comprised 4,000 lots of real estate and was formally established and designated Greenwood in 1901, as a demonstration for black-owned business and residential districts in every city in the nation with a significant black population. After Washington visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1905 and addressed a large gathering there, the Oklahomans followed the Tuskegee model and named Tulsa's black-owned and operated district "Greenwood" in 1906.

Native Americans Edit

In 1878, Hampton established a formal education program for Native Americans to accommodate men who had been held as prisoners of war. In 1875 at the end of the American Indian Wars, the United States Army sent seventy-two warriors from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo Nations, to imprisonment and exile in St. Augustine, Florida. Essentially they were used as hostages to persuade their peoples in the West to keep peace. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt supervised them at Fort Marion and began to arrange for their education in the English language and American culture.

St. Augustine was attracting numerous visitors from the North as it became known as a winter resort. Many became interested in the Native Americans held at Fort Marion and volunteered as teachers. They also provided the men with art supplies. Some of the men created what is now known as ledger art in this period. Some of the resulting works (including by David Pendleton Oakerhater) are held by the Smithsonian Institution.

At the end of the warriors' incarceration, Pratt convinced seventeen of the younger men to enroll at Hampton Institute for additional education.[15] He also recruited additional Native American students: a total of seventy Native Americans, young men and women from various tribes, mostly from the Plains rather than the acculturated tribes of Virginia, joined that first class. Because Virginia's First Families sometimes boasted of their Native American heritage through Pocahontas, some supporters hoped that the Native American students would help locals to accept the institute's black students. The black students were also supposed to help "civilize" the Native American students to current American society, and the Native Americans to "uplift the Negro[es]."[16][17]

In 1923, in the face of growing controversy over racial mingling, after the former Confederate states had disenfranchised blacks and imposed Jim Crow, the Native American program ended. Native Americans stopped sending their boys to the school after some employers fired Native American men because they had been educated with blacks. The program's final director resigned because she could not prevent "amalgamation" between the Native American girls and black boys.[17]

Name changes, expansion, and community Edit

 
Sunset at Hampton University Waterfront
 
Hampton University Monroe Memorial Church

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute became simply Hampton Institute in 1930. In 1931 the George P. Phenix School for all age groups was opened there under principal Ian Ross. A new nurses' training school was attached to the Dixie Hospital, with Nina Gage as director.[18] In 1945 the Austrian-American psychologist, art educator, and author of the influential text book Creative and Mental Growth[19] Viktor Lowenfeld joined the Hampton faculty as an assistant professor of industrial arts and eventually became chair of the Art Department. By 1971 the university offered 42 evening classes in programs including "Educational Psychology", "Introduction to Oral Communication", "Modern Mathematics", and "Playwriting", among others.[20] At the time, the tuition cost for these courses was $30 per semester hour.[20]

In 1951, a 20-year-old student Benjamin Leroy Wigfall of Richmond, VA, became the youngest person ever to have a painting purchased by the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts for $30 (~$338.00 in 2022). The abstract painting was titled "Chimneys."[21]

With the addition of departments and graduate programs, it became Hampton University in 1984.[22] Originally located in Elizabeth City County, it was long-located in the Town of Phoebus, incorporated in 1900. Phoebus and Elizabeth City County were consolidated with the neighboring City of Hampton to form a much larger independent city in 1952. The City of Hampton uses the Emancipation Oak on its official seal. From 1960 to 1970, noted diplomat and educator Jerome H. Holland was president of the Hampton Institute.

The university and its leadership has also been met with criticism. In 2018, Hampton University students launched a protest calling for the administration to address several concerns they believed to be longstanding and urgent, including food quality, living conditions and the handling of sexual assault complaints. The university released a statement indicating that it was "moving forward" to address student concerns and issues.

In July 2020, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $30 million (~$31.2 million in 2021) to Hampton. The donation is the largest single gift in Hampton's history.[23] Hampton's president has sole discretion on how funds will be used but has committed to consulting with other university leaders on the best way to allocate the generous donation.[24][23]

In June 2022, Dr. William R. Harvey retired as the 12th president of Hampton University after 43 years of service. He is the longest serving president in Hampton's history and one of the longest serving college presidents in the nation. He is succeeded by Darrell K. Williams who is a 1983 graduate of Hampton University.[25]

Presidents Edit

Campus Edit

 
An aerial view of Hampton University

The campus contains several buildings that contribute to its National Historic Landmark district: Virginia-Cleveland Hall (freshman female dormitory, as well as former home to the school's two cafeterias), Wigwam building (home to administrative offices), Academy Building (administrative offices), Memorial Chapel (religious services) and the President's Mansion House.[39][40]

The original High School on the campus became Phenix Hall when Hampton City Public Schools opened a new Phenix High School in 1962. Phenix Hall was damaged in a minor fire on June 12, 2008.[41]

The Hampton University Museum was founded in 1868 and is the nation's oldest African-American museum. The museum contains over 9,000 pieces, some of which are highly acclaimed.[42]

Hampton University is home to 16 research centers.[43] The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute is the largest free-standing facility of its kind in the world.[44]

The four libraries on campus are the William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library (main library), William H. Moses Jr. Architecture Library, the Music Library, and the Nursing Library.[45]

The Emancipation Oak was cited by the National Geographic Society as one of the 10 great trees in the world.

The waterfront campus is settled near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

National Historic Landmark District Edit

Hampton Institute
 
 
 
 
LocationNW of jct. of U.S. 60 and the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, Hampton, Virginia
Coordinates37°01′13″N 76°35′40″W / 37.0203°N 76.5945°W / 37.0203; -76.5945
Area314 acres (127 ha)
Built1866 (1866)
ArchitectRichard Morris Hunt; Et al.
NRHP reference No.69000323[46]
VLR No.114-0006
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 12, 1969
Designated NHLDMay 30, 1974[48]
Designated VLRSeptember 9, 1969[47]

A 15-acre (61,000 m2) portion of the campus along the Hampton River, including many of the older buildings, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. Buildings included are:

  • Mansion House, original plantation residence of Little Scotland
  • Virginia Hall, built in 1873
  • Academic Hall
  • Wigwam
  • Marquand Memorial Chapel, a Romanesque Revival red brick chapel with a 150-foot (46 m) tower

In addition, Cleveland Hall, Ogden, and the Administration building are also included in the district.[49]

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.[50][49]

Student demographics Edit

In 2015, nearly two-thirds of the student body was female and the other third male. Approximately 90% of the population identified as Black and about 30% were Virginia residents.[51]

Academics Edit

Hampton University has 10 accredited schools and colleges.[52]

  • School of Engineering and Technology
  • School of Pharmacy
  • James T. George School of Business[53]
  • Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Liberal Arts and Education
  • School of Science
  • University College
  • College of Virginia Beach
  • Graduate College

As of 2020, Hampton offers 50 baccalaureate programs, 26 master's programs, 7 doctoral programs, 2 professional programs, and 10 associate/certificate programs.[54]

The Freddye T. Davy Honors College is a non-degree granting college that offers special learning opportunities and privileges to the most high-achieving undergraduates. To join the honors college, students must formally accept an invitation given by the college or directly apply for admissions into the college.[55]

Hampton University consistently ranks among the top ten HBCUs in the nation and is ranked in Tier 1 (#217) among "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report.[56][57]

Hampton's student to faculty ratio is 10 to 1, which is better than the national university average of 18 to 1.[54][58]

Hampton is the first and only HBCU to have 100% control of a NASA Mission.[59]

The Alumni Factor named Hampton one of the seven best colleges in Virginia.[60]

Hampton University is classified as a selective admissions institution.[61]

Student activities Edit

Athletics Edit

Hampton sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (FCS for football) in the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA). They joined in 2022 upon leaving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and then later the Big South Conference. Hampton is one of three NCAA Division I HBCU institutions (along with Tennessee State University, in the Ohio Valley Conference and CAA rival North Carolina A&T) to not be a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference.

In 2016, Hampton became the first and only HBCU to field a Division I men's lacrosse team. ESPN held a broadcast on campus preceding the inaugural game in Armstrong Stadium.[62][63]

Hampton is the only HBCU with a competitive sailing team.

 
Hampton University athletics logo

In 2001, the Hampton basketball team won its first NCAA tournament game, when they beat Iowa State 58–57, in one of the largest upsets of all time. They were only the fourth fifteen-seed to upset a two-seed in the tournament's history. They returned to the tournament a year later, as well as in 2006, 2011, 2015 and 2016, having won their conference basketball tournament. Their NCAA tournament record is 2–6, including the play-in game.

The "Lady Pirates" basketball team has made trips to the NCAA tournament in 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010–2014, and 2017. In 1988, as a Division II school, the Lady Pirates won the NCAA Women's Division II Basketball Championship, defeating West Texas State. In 2011, as a number-13 seed, the Lady Pirates nearly upset Kentucky, but fell in overtime, 66–62. In 2015, the Lady Pirates played in the Women's NIT, where they defeated Drexel 45–42 in the opening round. However, in the second round, the team lost to West Virginia 57–39.

The Pirates won their conference title in football in 1997, shared the title 1998 and 2004, and won it again outright in 2005 and 2006. From 2004 to 2006, the team won three MEAC Championships and three SBN-Black College National Championships, and was ranked in the Division I FCS top 25 poll each year. The Pirates also sent five players to the NFL Combine in 2007, the most out of any FCS subdivision school for that year. They have also been dominant in tennis, winning the MEAC from 1996 to 1999, 2001–2003 and 2007 for the men, and 1998 and 2002–2004 for the women.

Major rivals include Norfolk State University, located across Hampton Roads in downtown Norfolk, and Howard University in Washington, D.C.

In 2019, Hampton revived their rivalry with Virginia Union University from Richmond, Virginia.

Student organizations Edit

There are over 55 student organizations on campus in arts, athletics, community service, leadership, religion, and student government.[64]

"The Marching Force" marching band Edit

Pirate athletics are supported by a plethora of groups, including "The Marching Force" Marching Band. The marching band has appeared at several notable events, including a Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration parade in Washington, DC. "The Force" was chosen out of a large pool of applicants to participate in the parade as the representative for the state of Virginia. "The Force" is complemented by the "Ebony Fire" all-women danceline, as well as "Silky", the flag team, and as of 2018, "Shimmering Sapphire Elegance" the majorette team.

Greek life Edit

Hampton University has over 15 Greek letter organizations, including the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations.

Notable alumni Edit

Business Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Robert S. Abbott 1896 Founder of The Chicago Defender and of the annual Bud Billiken Day Parade in Chicago
Frank D. Banks 1876 Led the effort to develop Bay Shore Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, which is considered the first resort for black vacationers in the South [65][66]
Robert Brokenburr 1906 Attorney; counsel and general manager for the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company
Sashi Brown 1998 President of the Baltimore Ravens [67]
Percy Creuzot 1949 Founder of Creole restaurant chain Frenchy's Chicken in Houston, Texas [68]
Henry E. Hall 1896 Co-founder and president of Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company, which became the largest black-owned business in Kentucky and later merged with Atlanta Life [69]
Rashida Jones 2002 President of MSNBC; former Vice President of NBC News and MSNBC [70]
Keith Leaphart 1996 entrepreneur, philanthropist and physician
Charles Phillips 1986 Former Chairman and CEO of Infor; former President of Oracle Corporation
John H. Sengstacke 1934 owner and publisher of the largest chain of black newspapers in the U.S.; founder of the National Newspaper Publishers Association; Presidential Citizens Medal
Charles Shearer 1880 Built the historic Shearer Cottage, the first inn for black vacationers on Martha's Vineyard [71]
Percy Sutton Co-founder of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation; investor in the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater; producer of It's Showtime at the Apollo
Thomas W. Young president and general manager of the Norfolk Journal and Guide; took over the newspaper after the passing of his father, who bought the publication in 1910

Education Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Thomas Fountain Blue 1888 Early trainer of black librarians; first black American to head a public library; Hampton's Library School was a continuation of his training program [72]
St. Clair Drake 1931 sociologist and anthropologist; created the first African and African American studies program at Stanford University
Luther H. Foster Jr. 1934 fourth president of Tuskegee University and president of the United Negro College Fund
Martha Louise Morrow Foxx blind educator; principal of the Mississippi School for the Blind
Charles W. Green 1875 Headed Tuskegee University's Agriculture Department; developed the Greenwood Business District in Tuskegee, which served as a model for the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma [73]
Freeman A. Hrabowski III 1969 President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Heinz Award
William C. Hunter Dean emeritus of the Tippie College of Business at University of Iowa; former senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago [74]
Dr. Wilmer Leon political scientist and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Howard University; talk show host on Urban View on Sirius XM Radio [75]
Robert Russa Moton 1890 President Emeritus of Tuskegee University; namesake of the Tuskegee Airmen training site Moton Field; advisor to five U.S. presidents; Spingarn Medal; Harmon Award
Kimberly Oliver 2006 National Teacher of the Year [76]
Hugh R. Page 1977 professor of theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame [77]
James Solomon Russell Founder, president and chaplain of Saint Paul's College (Virginia); Harmon Award
Booker T. Washington 1875 American educator, author, including his autobiography “Up from Slavery,” orator, first president of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), founder of the National Business League, prominent civil rights and racial “uplift” advocate, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community.
Charles H. Williams 1909 Co-founder of the CIAA; founder of Hampton's Terpsichorean Dance Company; chaired Hampton's Physical Education Department [78]
William T. B. Williams 1888 Field agent for the Jeanes Fund and Slater Fund and U.S. government consultant; reports helped establish hundreds of training schools; Spingarn Medal
Constance Hill Marteena 1933 librarian and president of the North Carolina Negro Library Association
Stephen J. Wright 1934 seventh president of Fisk University and president of the United Negro College Fund

Entertainment, media, and the arts Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Leslie Garland Bolling 1918 early 20th-century wood carver
John T. Biggers Harlem Renaissance muralist and founder of the Art Department at Texas Southern University
Spider Burks 1946 One of the first African-American disc jockeys in St. Louis [79]
J.I.D rapper, signed to Dreamville Records in 2017
Ruth E. Carter 1982 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; Academy Award in costume design for Black Panther [80]
Spencer Christian former weatherman for Good Morning America, 1986–1998
Brian Custer 1993 Sports broadcaster; ESPN SportsCenter anchor and Showtime Championship Boxing host [81]
Rashida Jones 2002 first African-American to lead a major cable news network (MSNBC) [82]
DJ Babey Drew 2003 Grammy Award winning record producer and disc jockey
Doctur Dot 2012 Rapper, Member of EARTHGANG and co-founder of Spillage Village
DJ Envy 1999 Radio Hall of Fame; disc jockey and host of The Breakfast Club
Gizelle Bryant 1992 Model and television personality on The Real Housewives of Potomac
Beverly Gooden 2005 writer and activist
Biff Henderson stage manager and personality on the Late Show with David Letterman
Weldon Irvine 1965 composer, playwright, poet, pianist, organist, and keyboardist. Wrote over 500 songs, including the lyrics for "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"
DJ Tay James 2009 A&R and disc jockey for Justin Bieber [83]
Javicia Leslie 2009 actress; Batwoman, God Friended Me, Always a Bridesmaid, The Family Business; First Black actor to ever wear the Batsuit
Samella Lewis 1945 Painter and art historian; founder of the International Review of African American Art; first black American female to earn a Ph.D. in fine art and art history
Dorothy Maynor 1933 concert singer; first black American to sing at a U.S. presidential inauguration; founder of The Harlem School of the Arts; first black Metropolitan Opera board member
Orpheus McAdoo 1876 minstrel show impresario; toured Britain, South Africa and Australia [84]
Che Pope 1992 Grammy Award winning record producer; co-founder and CEO of WRKSHP [85]
MC Ride musician; best known for being the lead vocalist of Death Grips
Robi Reed 1982 Casting director; first black American to win an Emmy Award for casting; The Tuskegee Airmen, Harlem Nights, In Living Color
Clarissa Sligh 1961 photographer, book artist; lead plaintiff in the Virginia school desegregation case Thompson v County School Board of Arlington County
Brandon Mychal Smith Actor
Nikkolas Smith Author, Illustrator, Film Artist. Known for painting the "King Chad" Mural in Disneyland
Wanda Sykes 1986 Emmy Award winning actress, comedian and writer
Johnny Venus 2012 Rapper, Member of EARTHGANG and co-founder of Spillage Village
Roslyn Walker 1966 Curator of African Art, Dallas Museum of Art; former director of the National Museum of African Art
Emil Wilbekin 1989 Black & gay rights activist; founder of Native Son Now; former Afropunk Festival chief content officer and editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant magazines
A. S. (Doc) Young 1941 First black publicist in Hollywood; executive editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel; sports editor for Jet and Ebony magazines [86]


Politics and government Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Orison Rudolph Aggrey 1946 Former U.S. Ambassador to The Gambia, Senegal and Romania
Ebenezer Ako-Adjei 1942 One of the Big Six leaders in the Gold Coast’s struggle for independence from Britain; served as Ghana’s first Minister for Trade and Labor, first Minister for Justice and first Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini 1996 Prime minister of Eswatini; CEO of Nedbank Eswatini and CEO of MTN Eswatini
Allyson Kay Duncan 1972 4th Circuit US Circuit Court Judge [87]
George Washington Fields 1878 First black graduate of Cornell Law School; member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Frankie Muse Freeman 1936 Civil rights attorney; first woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Spingarn Medal
Vanessa D. Gilmore 1977 Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas [88]
Tishaura Jones 1994 First Black Female Mayor of St. Louis [89]
Theodore Theopolis Jones II 1965 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, New York [90]
Mbiyu Koinange 1931 Kenya Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education; cabinet of Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta
Gloria Gary Lawlah 1960 Secretary of Aging for the State of Maryland [91]
Patrick A. Lewis 1966 Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States [92]
Spencer Overton 1990 President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; election scholar, George Washington University Law School [93]
Douglas Palmer 1973 Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey
Henry E. Parker 1965 Connecticut State Treasurer (1975–1986)
Robin R. Sanders 1977 Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and Nigeria
Gregory M. Sleet US District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Sylvia Trent-Adams 1987 First African-American nurse to serve as Surgeon General of the United States [94]
Charles Wesley Turnbull 1958 former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands
W. Carlton Weddington member of Ohio House of Representatives
Ivory Lee Young Jr. 1986 City Council member with the Atlanta City Council District 3, Atlanta, Georgia 2002–2018 [95]
Stephanie Young 2006 Director of African American Outreach, Associate Director of Communications, The White House [96]

Science, health care, technology, engineering and mathematics Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
William Warrick Cardozo 1923 early sickle cell anemia researcher
William Claytor 1900 pioneering African-American mathematician; chaired the Mathematics Department at Howard University [97]
Moogega Cooper 2006 Engineer; Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Christine Darden 1962 NASA mathematician and aeronautical engineer; supersonic flight and sonic boom researcher featured in the book Hidden Figures; Congressional Gold Medal
Mary Jackson 1942 NASA human computer and its first black female engineer; namesake of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington; Congressional Gold Medal [98]
Ayana Jordan 2001 addiction psychiatrist, physician, and immunopathologist; professor at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, and NYU Langone Health; elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association [99]
Flemmie Pansy Kittrell 1928 pioneer in nutrition and child development; first woman of color to earn a Ph.D. in nutrition; instrumental in creating the Head Start program; namesake of Hampton's Flemmie Kittrell Hall
Tiara Moore 2013 Environmental ecologist and founder of Black in Marine Science [100]
Susan La Flesche Picotte 1886 first Native American physician
Devin G. Walker 1998 Dark matter researcher; theoretical particle physicist at Dartmouth College; first black American to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University
James West Did not graduate Inventor, primarily of microphones [101]

Sociology and humanities Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Clara Byrd Baker Educator, civic leader, and suffragette [102]
Septima Poinsette Clark 1946 "Queen mother" of the Civil Rights Movement; developed citizenship classes that enabled black Southerners to register and vote; SCLC board; American Book Award
Augustus M. Hodges 1874 newspaper editor, journalist, poet, novelist, and political organizer [103][104]
Alberta Williams King 1924 mother of Martin Luther King Jr.
Elisabeth Omilami Chief Executive Officer of Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless
William Henry Sheppard 1883 Missionary, ethnographer and explorer; first Westerner to enter the Kingdom of Kuba; reported on the Belgian atrocities in the Congo; pioneering African art collector; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in England
Mychal Denzel Smith 2008 writer at The Nation, television commentator and author; Kirkus Prize
Thomas Calhoun Walker 1883 attorney and land ownership advocate; purchased land and sold it back to local farmers; Gloucester County, Virginia led the nation in per capita black farm ownership in 1930
Will West Long 1904 Cherokee mask maker, a translator, and a Cherokee cultural historian [105]

Sports Edit

Name Class year Notability Reference(s)
Chris Baker 2008 Former NFL defensive tackle [106]
Darian Barnes former NFL running back
Johnnie Barnes former NFL wide receiver
Jamal Brooks 1999 former NFL linebacker [107]
James Carter award-winning track athlete
Mo'ne Davis 2023 Participant in the 2014 Little League World Series and 2014 AP Women's Athlete of the Year; began playing for Hampton softball in the 2020 season [108][109]
Marcus Dixon current CFL defensive tackle; also played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets [110]
Reggie Doss former NFL defensive end
Justin Durant 2007 current NFL linebacker, Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions
Kenrick Ellis current NFL defensive tackle, New York Jets [111]
Devin Green 2005 former NBA player [112]
Isaac Hilton former NFL defensive end [113]
Rick Mahorn 1980 former NBA player, Washington Bullets, Detroit Pistons, New Jersey Nets; WNBA Detroit Shock Head Coach [114]
Jerome Mathis former NFL wide receiver [115]
Nevin McCaskill former NFL offensive lineman [116]
Francena McCorory 2010 track and field, 2 Time Olympic Gold Medalist, NCAA 400m three-time champion [117]
Marquay McDaniel 2007 CFL football player, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Chidi Okezie 2015 Track and Field Olympian representing Nigeria during the 2020 Olympics [118]
Dick Price 1957 former head football coach at Norfolk State University, 1974–1983; former head coach of track team and athletic director at Norfolk State [119]
Zuriel Smith 2002 former NFL wide receiver and return specialist [120]
Cordell Taylor former NFL defensive back [121]
Terrence Warren former NFL wide receiver [122]
Kellie Wells track and field Olympic athlete; 100m hurdle bronze medalist, 2012

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Further reading Edit

  • Welch, John S. "Reassessing the Vocational Origins of Hampton University and Celebrating a Singular History of Arts Engagement." Public Historian 40.3 (2018): 107-141.

External links Edit

  • Official website
  • Official athletics website
  • Official student newspaper – The Hampton Script
  • Hampton Institute: Its Program of Education for Life at the American Film Institute Catalog

hampton, university, private, historically, black, research, university, hampton, virginia, founded, 1868, hampton, agricultural, industrial, school, established, black, white, leaders, american, missionary, association, after, american, civil, provide, educat. Hampton University is a private historically black research university in Hampton Virginia Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen The campus houses the Hampton University Museum which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia 4 First led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong 5 Hampton University s main campus is located on 314 acres in Hampton Virginia on the banks of the Hampton River Hampton UniversityFormer namesHampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 1868 1930 Hampton Institute 1930 1984 Motto The Standard of Excellence An Education for Life TypePrivate historically black research universityEstablishedSeptember 17 1861 162 years ago 1861 09 17 Academic affiliationsSpace grantEndowment 280 6 million 2020 1 ChancellorJoAnn HaysbertPresidentDarrell K WilliamsProvostJoAnn HaysbertStudents3 516 Fall 2021 2 Undergraduates3 063 Fall 2021 2 Postgraduates453 Fall 2021 2 LocationHampton Virginia U S 37 01 21 N 76 20 05 W 37 02250 N 76 33472 W 37 02250 76 33472CampusSuburban 314 acres 127 ha NewspaperThe Hampton Script 3 Colors Blue amp whiteNicknamePiratesSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FCS CAAWebsitewww wbr hamptonu wbr eduThe university offers 90 programs including 50 bachelor s degree programs 25 master s degree programs and nine doctoral programs The university has a satellite campus in Virginia Beach and also has online offerings Hampton University is home to 16 research centers including the Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute the largest free standing facility of its kind in the world Hampton University is classified among R2 Doctoral Universities High research activity 6 Contents 1 History 1 1 Civil War 1 2 After the War teaching teachers 1 3 Booker T Washington spreading the educational work 1 4 Native Americans 1 5 Name changes expansion and community 2 Presidents 3 Campus 3 1 National Historic Landmark District 3 2 Student demographics 4 Academics 5 Student activities 5 1 Athletics 5 2 Student organizations 5 2 1 The Marching Force marching band 5 2 2 Greek life 6 Notable alumni 6 1 Business 6 2 Education 6 3 Entertainment media and the arts 6 4 Politics and government 6 5 Science health care technology engineering and mathematics 6 6 Sociology and humanities 6 7 Sports 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksHistory EditThe campus was founded on the grounds of Little Scotland a former plantation in Elizabeth City County that is located on the Hampton River It overlooked Hampton Roads and was not far from Fortress Monroe and the Grand Contraband Camp that gathered formerly enslaved men and women who sought refuge with Union forces in the South during the first year of the war Their facilities represented freedom In 1861 the American Missionary Association AMA responded to the former slaves need for education and hired Mary Smith Peake as its first teacher at the camp She had already secretly been teaching slaves and free blacks in the area despite the state s legal prohibition She first taught for the AMA on September 17 1861 and was said to gather her pupils under a large oak In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation was read here the first place in the Confederate states From then on the big tree was called the Emancipation Oak The tree now a symbol of both the university and of the city survives as part of the designated National Historic Landmark District at Hampton University The Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School later called the Hampton Institute was founded in 1868 after the war by the biracial leadership of the American Missionary Association who were chiefly Congregational and Presbyterian ministers It was first led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong 7 Among the school s famous alumni is Dr Booker T Washington an educator who was hired as the first principal at the Tuskegee Institute which he developed for decades Civil War Edit During the American Civil War 1861 1865 Union held Fortress Monroe in southeastern Virginia at the mouth of Hampton Roads became a gathering point and safe haven of sorts for fugitive slaves The commander General Benjamin F Butler determined they were contraband of war to protect them from being returned to slaveholders who clamored to reclaim them As numerous individuals sought freedom behind Union lines the Army arranged for the construction of the Grand Contraband Camp nearby from materials reclaimed from the ruins of Hampton which had been burned by the retreating Confederate Army This area was later called Slabtown 8 9 Hampton University traces its roots to Mary S Peake who began in 1861 with outdoor classes for freedmen whom she taught under what is now the landmark Emancipation Oak in the nearby area of Elizabeth City County In 1863 the newly issued Emancipation Proclamation was read to a gathering under the historic tree there 8 10 After the War teaching teachers Edit nbsp The Hampton Institute 1898 nbsp An 1899 class in mathematical geographyAfter the War a normal school teacher training school was formalized in 1868 with former Union brevet Brigadier General Samuel C Armstrong 1839 1893 as its first principal The new school was established on the grounds of a former plantation named Little Scotland which had a view of Hampton Roads The original school buildings fronted the Hampton River Legally chartered in 1870 as a land grant school it was first known as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Typical of historically black colleges Hampton received much of its financial support in the years following the Civil War from the American Missionary Association whose black and white leaders represented the Congregational and Presbyterian churches other church groups and former officers and soldiers of the Union Army One of the many Civil War veterans who gave substantial sums to the school was General William Jackson Palmer a Union cavalry commander from Philadelphia He later built the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and founded Colorado Springs Colorado As the Civil War began in 1861 although his Quaker upbringing made Palmer abhor violence his passion to see the slaves freed compelled him to enter the war He was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in 1894 The current Palmer Hall on the campus is named in his honor nbsp Students in an 1899 bricklaying classUnlike the wealthy Palmer Sam Armstrong was the son of a missionary to the Sandwich Islands which later became the U S state of Hawaii He also had dreams for the betterment of the freedmen He patterned his new school after the model of his father who had overseen the teaching of reading writing and arithmetic to the Polynesians He wanted to teach the skills necessary for blacks to be self supporting in the impoverished South Under his guidance a Hampton style education became well known as an education that combined cultural uplift with moral and manual training Armstrong said it was an education that encompassed the head the heart and the hands At the close of its first decade the school reported a total admission in those ten years of 927 students with 277 graduates all but 17 of whom had become teachers Many of them had bought land and established themselves in homes many were farming as well as teaching some had gone into business Only a very small proportion failed to do well By another 10 years there had been over 600 graduates In 1888 of the 537 still alive three fourths were teaching and about half as many undergraduates were also teaching It was estimated that 15 000 children in community schools were being taught by Hampton s students and alumni that year 11 After Armstrong s death Hampton s leaders continued to develop a highly successful external relations program that forged a network of devoted supporters By 1900 Hampton was the wealthiest school serving African Americans largely due to its success in development and fundraising 12 Hampton also had the only library school in the United States for educating black librarians 13 The Hampton Institute Library School opened in 1925 and through its Negro Teacher Librarian Program NTLTP trained and issued professional degrees to 183 black librarians 13 The library school closed in 1939 13 Booker T Washington spreading the educational work Edit Further information Booker T WashingtonAmong Hampton s earliest students was Booker T Washington who arrived from West Virginia in 1872 at the age of 16 He worked his way through Hampton and then went on to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington D C After graduation he returned to Hampton and became a teacher Upon Armstrong s recommendation to the founder of a small school in Tuskegee Alabama established six years before in 1881 the 25 year old Washington went there to strengthen it and develop it to the status of a normal school one recognized as being able to produce qualified teachers This new institution eventually became Tuskegee University Embracing much of Armstrong s philosophy Washington built Tuskegee into a substantial school and became nationally famous as an educator orator and fund raiser as well He collaborated with the philanthropist Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th century to create a model for rural black schools Rosenwald established a fund that matched monies raised by communities to build more than 5 000 schools for rural black children mostly in the South In 1888 Washington recruited his Hampton classmate Charles W Greene 14 to Tuskegee to lead the Agriculture Department Together they enticed George Washington Carver to the Tuskegee Agriculture faculty upon his graduation with a master s degree from Iowa State University in 1896 Carver provided such technical strength in agriculture that in 1900 Washington assigned Greene to establish a demonstration of black business capability and economic independence off campus in Tuskegee This project entirely black owned comprised 4 000 lots of real estate and was formally established and designated Greenwood in 1901 as a demonstration for black owned business and residential districts in every city in the nation with a significant black population After Washington visited Tulsa Oklahoma in 1905 and addressed a large gathering there the Oklahomans followed the Tuskegee model and named Tulsa s black owned and operated district Greenwood in 1906 Native Americans Edit In 1878 Hampton established a formal education program for Native Americans to accommodate men who had been held as prisoners of war In 1875 at the end of the American Indian Wars the United States Army sent seventy two warriors from the Cheyenne Kiowa Comanche and Caddo Nations to imprisonment and exile in St Augustine Florida Essentially they were used as hostages to persuade their peoples in the West to keep peace Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt supervised them at Fort Marion and began to arrange for their education in the English language and American culture St Augustine was attracting numerous visitors from the North as it became known as a winter resort Many became interested in the Native Americans held at Fort Marion and volunteered as teachers They also provided the men with art supplies Some of the men created what is now known as ledger art in this period Some of the resulting works including by David Pendleton Oakerhater are held by the Smithsonian Institution At the end of the warriors incarceration Pratt convinced seventeen of the younger men to enroll at Hampton Institute for additional education 15 He also recruited additional Native American students a total of seventy Native Americans young men and women from various tribes mostly from the Plains rather than the acculturated tribes of Virginia joined that first class Because Virginia s First Families sometimes boasted of their Native American heritage through Pocahontas some supporters hoped that the Native American students would help locals to accept the institute s black students The black students were also supposed to help civilize the Native American students to current American society and the Native Americans to uplift the Negro es 16 17 In 1923 in the face of growing controversy over racial mingling after the former Confederate states had disenfranchised blacks and imposed Jim Crow the Native American program ended Native Americans stopped sending their boys to the school after some employers fired Native American men because they had been educated with blacks The program s final director resigned because she could not prevent amalgamation between the Native American girls and black boys 17 Name changes expansion and community Edit nbsp Sunset at Hampton University Waterfront nbsp Hampton University Monroe Memorial ChurchHampton Normal and Agricultural Institute became simply Hampton Institute in 1930 In 1931 the George P Phenix School for all age groups was opened there under principal Ian Ross A new nurses training school was attached to the Dixie Hospital with Nina Gage as director 18 In 1945 the Austrian American psychologist art educator and author of the influential text book Creative and Mental Growth 19 Viktor Lowenfeld joined the Hampton faculty as an assistant professor of industrial arts and eventually became chair of the Art Department By 1971 the university offered 42 evening classes in programs including Educational Psychology Introduction to Oral Communication Modern Mathematics and Playwriting among others 20 At the time the tuition cost for these courses was 30 per semester hour 20 In 1951 a 20 year old student Benjamin Leroy Wigfall of Richmond VA became the youngest person ever to have a painting purchased by the Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts for 30 338 00 in 2022 The abstract painting was titled Chimneys 21 With the addition of departments and graduate programs it became Hampton University in 1984 22 Originally located in Elizabeth City County it was long located in the Town of Phoebus incorporated in 1900 Phoebus and Elizabeth City County were consolidated with the neighboring City of Hampton to form a much larger independent city in 1952 The City of Hampton uses the Emancipation Oak on its official seal From 1960 to 1970 noted diplomat and educator Jerome H Holland was president of the Hampton Institute The university and its leadership has also been met with criticism In 2018 Hampton University students launched a protest calling for the administration to address several concerns they believed to be longstanding and urgent including food quality living conditions and the handling of sexual assault complaints The university released a statement indicating that it was moving forward to address student concerns and issues In July 2020 philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated 30 million 31 2 million in 2021 to Hampton The donation is the largest single gift in Hampton s history 23 Hampton s president has sole discretion on how funds will be used but has committed to consulting with other university leaders on the best way to allocate the generous donation 24 23 In June 2022 Dr William R Harvey retired as the 12th president of Hampton University after 43 years of service He is the longest serving president in Hampton s history and one of the longest serving college presidents in the nation He is succeeded by Darrell K Williams who is a 1983 graduate of Hampton University 25 Presidents EditSamuel Chapman Armstrong 1868 to 1893 26 Hollis B Frissell 1893 to 1917 27 James Edgar Gregg 1918 to 1929 28 George Perley Phenix 1930 29 Arthur Howe 1930 to 1940 30 31 Malcolm Shaw MacLean 1940 to 1943 31 Ralph P Bridgeman 1944 to 1948 32 33 Alonzo G Moron 1949 to 1959 30 Jerome H Holland 1960 to 1970 34 Roy Davage Hudson 1970 to 1976 35 Carl McClellan Hill 1977 to 1978 36 William R Harvey 1978 to 2022 37 Darrell K Williams 2022 to present 38 Campus Edit nbsp An aerial view of Hampton UniversityThe campus contains several buildings that contribute to its National Historic Landmark district Virginia Cleveland Hall freshman female dormitory as well as former home to the school s two cafeterias Wigwam building home to administrative offices Academy Building administrative offices Memorial Chapel religious services and the President s Mansion House 39 40 The original High School on the campus became Phenix Hall when Hampton City Public Schools opened a new Phenix High School in 1962 Phenix Hall was damaged in a minor fire on June 12 2008 41 The Hampton University Museum was founded in 1868 and is the nation s oldest African American museum The museum contains over 9 000 pieces some of which are highly acclaimed 42 Hampton University is home to 16 research centers 43 The Hampton University Proton Therapy Institute is the largest free standing facility of its kind in the world 44 The four libraries on campus are the William R and Norma B Harvey Library main library William H Moses Jr Architecture Library the Music Library and the Nursing Library 45 The Emancipation Oak was cited by the National Geographic Society as one of the 10 great trees in the world The waterfront campus is settled near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay National Historic Landmark District Edit Hampton InstituteU S National Register of Historic PlacesU S National Historic Landmark DistrictVirginia Landmarks Register nbsp nbsp Show map of Virginia nbsp nbsp Show map of the United StatesLocationNW of jct of U S 60 and the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Hampton VirginiaCoordinates37 01 13 N 76 35 40 W 37 0203 N 76 5945 W 37 0203 76 5945Area314 acres 127 ha Built1866 1866 ArchitectRichard Morris Hunt Et al NRHP reference No 69000323 46 VLR No 114 0006Significant datesAdded to NRHPNovember 12 1969Designated NHLDMay 30 1974 48 Designated VLRSeptember 9 1969 47 A 15 acre 61 000 m2 portion of the campus along the Hampton River including many of the older buildings is a U S National Historic Landmark District Buildings included are Mansion House original plantation residence of Little Scotland Virginia Hall built in 1873 Academic Hall Wigwam Marquand Memorial Chapel a Romanesque Revival red brick chapel with a 150 foot 46 m towerIn addition Cleveland Hall Ogden and the Administration building are also included in the district 49 The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 50 49 Student demographics Edit In 2015 nearly two thirds of the student body was female and the other third male Approximately 90 of the population identified as Black and about 30 were Virginia residents 51 Academics EditHampton University has 10 accredited schools and colleges 52 School of Engineering and Technology School of Pharmacy James T George School of Business 53 Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication School of Nursing School of Liberal Arts and Education School of Science University College College of Virginia Beach Graduate College As of 2020 update Hampton offers 50 baccalaureate programs 26 master s programs 7 doctoral programs 2 professional programs and 10 associate certificate programs 54 The Freddye T Davy Honors College is a non degree granting college that offers special learning opportunities and privileges to the most high achieving undergraduates To join the honors college students must formally accept an invitation given by the college or directly apply for admissions into the college 55 Hampton University consistently ranks among the top ten HBCUs in the nation and is ranked in Tier 1 217 among National Universities by U S News amp World Report 56 57 Hampton s student to faculty ratio is 10 to 1 which is better than the national university average of 18 to 1 54 58 Hampton is the first and only HBCU to have 100 control of a NASA Mission 59 The Alumni Factor named Hampton one of the seven best colleges in Virginia 60 Hampton University is classified as a selective admissions institution 61 Student activities EditAthletics Edit Main article Hampton Pirates and Lady Pirates Hampton sports teams participate in NCAA Division I FCS for football in the Coastal Athletic Association CAA They joined in 2022 upon leaving the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference and then later the Big South Conference Hampton is one of three NCAA Division I HBCU institutions along with Tennessee State University in the Ohio Valley Conference and CAA rival North Carolina A amp T to not be a member of the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference In 2016 Hampton became the first and only HBCU to field a Division I men s lacrosse team ESPN held a broadcast on campus preceding the inaugural game in Armstrong Stadium 62 63 Hampton is the only HBCU with a competitive sailing team nbsp Hampton University athletics logoIn 2001 the Hampton basketball team won its first NCAA tournament game when they beat Iowa State 58 57 in one of the largest upsets of all time They were only the fourth fifteen seed to upset a two seed in the tournament s history They returned to the tournament a year later as well as in 2006 2011 2015 and 2016 having won their conference basketball tournament Their NCAA tournament record is 2 6 including the play in game The Lady Pirates basketball team has made trips to the NCAA tournament in 2000 2003 2004 2010 2014 and 2017 In 1988 as a Division II school the Lady Pirates won the NCAA Women s Division II Basketball Championship defeating West Texas State In 2011 as a number 13 seed the Lady Pirates nearly upset Kentucky but fell in overtime 66 62 In 2015 the Lady Pirates played in the Women s NIT where they defeated Drexel 45 42 in the opening round However in the second round the team lost to West Virginia 57 39 The Pirates won their conference title in football in 1997 shared the title 1998 and 2004 and won it again outright in 2005 and 2006 From 2004 to 2006 the team won three MEAC Championships and three SBN Black College National Championships and was ranked in the Division I FCS top 25 poll each year The Pirates also sent five players to the NFL Combine in 2007 the most out of any FCS subdivision school for that year They have also been dominant in tennis winning the MEAC from 1996 to 1999 2001 2003 and 2007 for the men and 1998 and 2002 2004 for the women Major rivals include Norfolk State University located across Hampton Roads in downtown Norfolk and Howard University in Washington D C In 2019 Hampton revived their rivalry with Virginia Union University from Richmond Virginia Student organizations Edit There are over 55 student organizations on campus in arts athletics community service leadership religion and student government 64 The Marching Force marching band Edit Pirate athletics are supported by a plethora of groups including The Marching Force Marching Band The marching band has appeared at several notable events including a Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration parade in Washington DC The Force was chosen out of a large pool of applicants to participate in the parade as the representative for the state of Virginia The Force is complemented by the Ebony Fire all women danceline as well as Silky the flag team and as of 2018 Shimmering Sapphire Elegance the majorette team Greek life Edit Hampton University has over 15 Greek letter organizations including the National Pan Hellenic Council organizations Notable alumni EditThis article s list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia s verifiability policy Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations August 2023 Business Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Robert S Abbott 1896 Founder of The Chicago Defender and of the annual Bud Billiken Day Parade in ChicagoFrank D Banks 1876 Led the effort to develop Bay Shore Beach on the Chesapeake Bay which is considered the first resort for black vacationers in the South 65 66 Robert Brokenburr 1906 Attorney counsel and general manager for the Madame C J Walker Manufacturing CompanySashi Brown 1998 President of the Baltimore Ravens 67 Percy Creuzot 1949 Founder of Creole restaurant chain Frenchy s Chicken in Houston Texas 68 Henry E Hall 1896 Co founder and president of Mammoth Life and Accident Insurance Company which became the largest black owned business in Kentucky and later merged with Atlanta Life 69 Rashida Jones 2002 President of MSNBC former Vice President of NBC News and MSNBC 70 Keith Leaphart 1996 entrepreneur philanthropist and physicianCharles Phillips 1986 Former Chairman and CEO of Infor former President of Oracle CorporationJohn H Sengstacke 1934 owner and publisher of the largest chain of black newspapers in the U S founder of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Presidential Citizens MedalCharles Shearer 1880 Built the historic Shearer Cottage the first inn for black vacationers on Martha s Vineyard 71 Percy Sutton Co founder of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation investor in the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater producer of It s Showtime at the ApolloThomas W Young president and general manager of the Norfolk Journal and Guide took over the newspaper after the passing of his father who bought the publication in 1910Education Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Thomas Fountain Blue 1888 Early trainer of black librarians first black American to head a public library Hampton s Library School was a continuation of his training program 72 St Clair Drake 1931 sociologist and anthropologist created the first African and African American studies program at Stanford UniversityLuther H Foster Jr 1934 fourth president of Tuskegee University and president of the United Negro College FundMartha Louise Morrow Foxx blind educator principal of the Mississippi School for the BlindCharles W Green 1875 Headed Tuskegee University s Agriculture Department developed the Greenwood Business District in Tuskegee which served as a model for the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma 73 Freeman A Hrabowski III 1969 President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County American Academy of Arts and Sciences Heinz AwardWilliam C Hunter Dean emeritus of the Tippie College of Business at University of Iowa former senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 74 Dr Wilmer Leon political scientist and associate professor in the Political Science Department at Howard University talk show host on Urban View on Sirius XM Radio 75 Robert Russa Moton 1890 President Emeritus of Tuskegee University namesake of the Tuskegee Airmen training site Moton Field advisor to five U S presidents Spingarn Medal Harmon AwardKimberly Oliver 2006 National Teacher of the Year 76 Hugh R Page 1977 professor of theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame 77 James Solomon Russell Founder president and chaplain of Saint Paul s College Virginia Harmon AwardBooker T Washington 1875 American educator author including his autobiography Up from Slavery orator first president of Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University founder of the National Business League prominent civil rights and racial uplift advocate and adviser to several presidents of the United States Between 1890 and 1915 Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community Charles H Williams 1909 Co founder of the CIAA founder of Hampton s Terpsichorean Dance Company chaired Hampton s Physical Education Department 78 William T B Williams 1888 Field agent for the Jeanes Fund and Slater Fund and U S government consultant reports helped establish hundreds of training schools Spingarn MedalConstance Hill Marteena 1933 librarian and president of the North Carolina Negro Library AssociationStephen J Wright 1934 seventh president of Fisk University and president of the United Negro College FundEntertainment media and the arts Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Leslie Garland Bolling 1918 early 20th century wood carverJohn T Biggers Harlem Renaissance muralist and founder of the Art Department at Texas Southern UniversitySpider Burks 1946 One of the first African American disc jockeys in St Louis 79 J I D rapper signed to Dreamville Records in 2017Ruth E Carter 1982 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award in costume design for Black Panther 80 Spencer Christian former weatherman for Good Morning America 1986 1998Brian Custer 1993 Sports broadcaster ESPN SportsCenter anchor and Showtime Championship Boxing host 81 Rashida Jones 2002 first African American to lead a major cable news network MSNBC 82 DJ Babey Drew 2003 Grammy Award winning record producer and disc jockeyDoctur Dot 2012 Rapper Member of EARTHGANG and co founder of Spillage VillageDJ Envy 1999 Radio Hall of Fame disc jockey and host of The Breakfast ClubGizelle Bryant 1992 Model and television personality on The Real Housewives of PotomacBeverly Gooden 2005 writer and activistBiff Henderson stage manager and personality on the Late Show with David LettermanWeldon Irvine 1965 composer playwright poet pianist organist and keyboardist Wrote over 500 songs including the lyrics for To Be Young Gifted and Black DJ Tay James 2009 A amp R and disc jockey for Justin Bieber 83 Javicia Leslie 2009 actress Batwoman God Friended Me Always a Bridesmaid The Family Business First Black actor to ever wear the BatsuitSamella Lewis 1945 Painter and art historian founder of the International Review of African American Art first black American female to earn a Ph D in fine art and art historyDorothy Maynor 1933 concert singer first black American to sing at a U S presidential inauguration founder of The Harlem School of the Arts first black Metropolitan Opera board memberOrpheus McAdoo 1876 minstrel show impresario toured Britain South Africa and Australia 84 Che Pope 1992 Grammy Award winning record producer co founder and CEO of WRKSHP 85 MC Ride musician best known for being the lead vocalist of Death GripsRobi Reed 1982 Casting director first black American to win an Emmy Award for casting The Tuskegee Airmen Harlem Nights In Living ColorClarissa Sligh 1961 photographer book artist lead plaintiff in the Virginia school desegregation case Thompson v County School Board of Arlington CountyBrandon Mychal Smith ActorNikkolas Smith Author Illustrator Film Artist Known for painting the King Chad Mural in DisneylandWanda Sykes 1986 Emmy Award winning actress comedian and writerJohnny Venus 2012 Rapper Member of EARTHGANG and co founder of Spillage VillageRoslyn Walker 1966 Curator of African Art Dallas Museum of Art former director of the National Museum of African ArtEmil Wilbekin 1989 Black amp gay rights activist founder of Native Son Now former Afropunk Festival chief content officer and editor in chief of Vibe andGiant magazinesA S Doc Young 1941 First black publicist in Hollywood executive editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel sports editor for Jet and Ebony magazines 86 Politics and government Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Orison Rudolph Aggrey 1946 Former U S Ambassador to The Gambia Senegal and RomaniaEbenezer Ako Adjei 1942 One of the Big Six leaders in the Gold Coast s struggle for independence from Britain served as Ghana s first Minister for Trade and Labor first Minister for Justice and first Minister for Foreign AffairsAmbrose Mandvulo Dlamini 1996 Prime minister of Eswatini CEO of Nedbank Eswatini and CEO of MTN EswatiniAllyson Kay Duncan 1972 4th Circuit US Circuit Court Judge 87 George Washington Fields 1878 First black graduate of Cornell Law School member of the Virginia House of DelegatesFrankie Muse Freeman 1936 Civil rights attorney first woman appointed to the U S Commission on Civil Rights Spingarn MedalVanessa D Gilmore 1977 Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas 88 Tishaura Jones 1994 First Black Female Mayor of St Louis 89 Theodore Theopolis Jones II 1965 Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals New York 90 Mbiyu Koinange 1931 Kenya Minister of State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education cabinet of Kenya s first president Jomo KenyattaGloria Gary Lawlah 1960 Secretary of Aging for the State of Maryland 91 Patrick A Lewis 1966 Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States 92 Spencer Overton 1990 President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies election scholar George Washington University Law School 93 Douglas Palmer 1973 Mayor of Trenton New JerseyHenry E Parker 1965 Connecticut State Treasurer 1975 1986 Robin R Sanders 1977 Former U S Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and NigeriaGregory M Sleet US District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the District of DelawareSylvia Trent Adams 1987 First African American nurse to serve as Surgeon General of the United States 94 Charles Wesley Turnbull 1958 former governor of the U S Virgin IslandsW Carlton Weddington member of Ohio House of RepresentativesIvory Lee Young Jr 1986 City Council member with the Atlanta City Council District 3 Atlanta Georgia 2002 2018 95 Stephanie Young 2006 Director of African American Outreach Associate Director of Communications The White House 96 Science health care technology engineering and mathematics Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s William Warrick Cardozo 1923 early sickle cell anemia researcherWilliam Claytor 1900 pioneering African American mathematician chaired the Mathematics Department at Howard University 97 Moogega Cooper 2006 Engineer Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission at NASA s Jet Propulsion LaboratoryChristine Darden 1962 NASA mathematician and aeronautical engineer supersonic flight and sonic boom researcher featured in the book Hidden Figures Congressional Gold MedalMary Jackson 1942 NASA human computer and its first black female engineer namesake of the Mary W Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington Congressional Gold Medal 98 Ayana Jordan 2001 addiction psychiatrist physician and immunopathologist professor at Yale School of Medicine Yale University and NYU Langone Health elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association 99 Flemmie Pansy Kittrell 1928 pioneer in nutrition and child development first woman of color to earn a Ph D in nutrition instrumental in creating the Head Start program namesake of Hampton s Flemmie Kittrell HallTiara Moore 2013 Environmental ecologist and founder of Black in Marine Science 100 Susan La Flesche Picotte 1886 first Native American physicianDevin G Walker 1998 Dark matter researcher theoretical particle physicist at Dartmouth College first black American to earn a Ph D in physics from Harvard UniversityJames West Did not graduate Inventor primarily of microphones 101 Sociology and humanities Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Clara Byrd Baker Educator civic leader and suffragette 102 Septima Poinsette Clark 1946 Queen mother of the Civil Rights Movement developed citizenship classes that enabled black Southerners to register and vote SCLC board American Book AwardAugustus M Hodges 1874 newspaper editor journalist poet novelist and political organizer 103 104 Alberta Williams King 1924 mother of Martin Luther King Jr Elisabeth Omilami Chief Executive Officer of Hosea Feed the Hungry and HomelessWilliam Henry Sheppard 1883 Missionary ethnographer and explorer first Westerner to enter the Kingdom of Kuba reported on the Belgian atrocities in the Congo pioneering African art collector Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in EnglandMychal Denzel Smith 2008 writer at The Nation television commentator and author Kirkus PrizeThomas Calhoun Walker 1883 attorney and land ownership advocate purchased land and sold it back to local farmers Gloucester County Virginia led the nation in per capita black farm ownership in 1930Will West Long 1904 Cherokee mask maker a translator and a Cherokee cultural historian 105 Sports Edit Name Class year Notability Reference s Chris Baker 2008 Former NFL defensive tackle 106 Darian Barnes former NFL running backJohnnie Barnes former NFL wide receiverJamal Brooks 1999 former NFL linebacker 107 James Carter award winning track athleteMo ne Davis 2023 Participant in the 2014 Little League World Series and 2014 AP Women s Athlete of the Year began playing for Hampton softball in the 2020 season 108 109 Marcus Dixon current CFL defensive tackle also played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets 110 Reggie Doss former NFL defensive endJustin Durant 2007 current NFL linebacker Jacksonville Jaguars Detroit LionsKenrick Ellis current NFL defensive tackle New York Jets 111 Devin Green 2005 former NBA player 112 Isaac Hilton former NFL defensive end 113 Rick Mahorn 1980 former NBA player Washington Bullets Detroit Pistons New Jersey Nets WNBA Detroit Shock Head Coach 114 Jerome Mathis former NFL wide receiver 115 Nevin McCaskill former NFL offensive lineman 116 Francena McCorory 2010 track and field 2 Time Olympic Gold Medalist NCAA 400m three time champion 117 Marquay McDaniel 2007 CFL football player Hamilton Tiger CatsChidi Okezie 2015 Track and Field Olympian representing Nigeria during the 2020 Olympics 118 Dick Price 1957 former head football coach at Norfolk State University 1974 1983 former head coach of track team and athletic director at Norfolk State 119 Zuriel Smith 2002 former NFL wide receiver and return specialist 120 Cordell Taylor former NFL defensive back 121 Terrence Warren former NFL wide receiver 122 Kellie Wells track and field Olympic athlete 100m hurdle bronze medalist 2012See also EditCivil rights movement 1865 1896 Emancipation Oak an historic tree on the campus WHOV 88 1 FMReferences Edit As of June 30 2020 U S and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 Report National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA February 19 2021 Retrieved February 20 2021 a b c Facts amp Figures Hampton University About The Hampton Script The Hampton Script Arts amp Museums Hampton VA Official Website hampton gov Retrieved August 17 2018 Ellinghaus Katherine 2000 Assimilation by Marriage White Women and Native American Men at Hampton Institute 1878 1923 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Virginia Historical Society 108 3 279 303 JSTOR 4249851 Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup carnegieclassifications iu edu Center for Postsecondary Education Retrieved September 12 2020 Ellinghaus Katherine 2000 Assimilation by Marriage White Women and Native American Men at Hampton Institute 1878 1923 The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Virginia Historical Society 108 3 279 303 JSTOR 4249851 a b 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Archived from the original on March 7 2008 Retrieved April 5 2008 Further reading EditAnderson James D The Education of Blacks in the South 1860 1935 1988 pp 33 78 online Armstrong Mary F and Ludlow Helen W Hampton and Its Students New York G P Putnam s Sons 1874 Engs Robert Francis 1999 Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute 1839 1893 University of Tennessee Press Molin Paulette Fairbanks Fall 1988 Training the Hand the Head and the Heart Indian Education at Hampton Institute Minnesota History Minnesota Historical Society Press 51 3 82 98 JSTOR 20179107 Maddox Lucy June 2002 Politics Performance and Indian Identity American Studies International Mid America American Studies Association 40 2 7 36 JSTOR 4127989 Schall Keith L ed 1977 Stony the Road Chapters in the History of Hampton Institute The University Press of Virginia Welch John S Reassessing the Vocational Origins of Hampton University and Celebrating a Singular History of Arts Engagement Public Historian 40 3 2018 107 141 External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hampton University Official website Official athletics website Official student newspaper The Hampton Script Hampton Institute Its Program of Education for Life at the American Film Institute Catalog Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hampton University amp oldid 1179254058, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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