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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 ...
Samuel C. Armstrong. Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893) was an American soldier and general during the American Civil War who later became an educator, particularly of non-whites. The son of missionaries in Hawaii, he rose through the Union Army during the American Civil War to become a general, leading units of Black ...
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute became Hampton Institute in 1930. It gained university status in 1984, becoming Hampton University. It is one of Virginia's major institutions of higher education. In the 21st century, the Emancipation Oak still provides shelter and inspiration to the school's students and staff.
David Eugene Crawford was born on December 26, 1869 in Lynchburg, Virginia. [2] [3] He attended Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) from 1884 to 1887; followed by study at Northeastern College (now Northeastern University) from 1900 to 1904. [2] He married Almira G. Lewis on December 23, 1894; together they had four children. [2] [3]
The Hampton Negro Conference was a series of conferences held between 1897 and 1912 hosted by the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia. [1] It brought together Black leaders from across the Southern United States, as well as some white participants, to promote, analyze, and advertise the progress of Black Americans. [1]
Langley Research Center. The Langley Research Center (LaRC or NASA Langley), located in Hampton, Virginia, near the Chesapeake Bay front of Langley Air Force Base, is the oldest of NASA 's field centers. [1] LaRC has focused primarily on aeronautical research but has also tested space hardware such as the Apollo Lunar Module.
1718 – Head of dead pirate Blackbeard displayed on a pole at place later known as " Blackbeard's Point." [2] 1727 – St John’s church was re-built. [1] 1755 – "1,000 Acadian" travellers stay temporarily in Hampton. [2] 1788 – Hampton becomes part of the new U.S. state of Virginia.
LC2851.H313A764 [1] Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited is a 1999 biography of American General Samuel Chapman Armstrong and his associated normal school for freedmen, Hampton Institute, written by Robert Francis Engs and published by the University of Tennessee Press. The first full biography of its kind, the book portrays Armstrong ...