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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 ...
James Gayle (American football coach) Bert Gholston. Vanessa Gilmore. Gizelle Annette Bryant. Lula Owl Gloyne. Thavolia Glymph. Navarro Gray. Charles W. Green. Constance Belton Green.
Alonzo Graseano Morón ( née Alonzo Graseano Brown; 1909–1971), was a Danish Virgin Islands -born American educator, university president, sociologist, and civil servant. [1] [2] [3] He was the first Black president of the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) a HBU in Virginia, from 1949 to 1959; a former Commissioner of Education and ...
Ford teams up with HBCUGO in ‘Accelerating Brilliance’ to share stories of leadership, love, and culture via HBCUs. Hampton University […] The post Watch: Hampton University alumni, the ...
William Robert Harvey (born January 29, 1941, Brewton, Alabama) [1] is an American educator, academic administrator, and businessman who served as president of Hampton University from 1978 to 2022. [2] He is the longest serving president in the school's history. Harvey became the first African-American owner in the soft drink bottling industry ...
In 2022, former Hampton Pirate defensive back, Destin Route, more well known as JID on-stage, was nominated for a Grammy for his rap album, The Forever Story. Also in 2022, Pirates player Byron Perkins came out as gay, making him the first openly gay football player at any historically black college or university .
Professor at Temple University; author; activist; TV political commentator and host of Our World with Black Enterprise. [5] Joseph B. Johnson. Gamma Psi. Ph.D; former president of Grambling State University (1977 - 1991); former president of Talladega College (1991 - 1998). [6] Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Omicron.
Location. Hampton University, Virginia. Coordinates. 37°01′22″N 76°20′07″W / 37.022640°N 76.335270°W / 37.022640; -76.335270. Director. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, Ph.D. Website. museum.hamptonu.edu. Founded in 1868 on the campus of Hampton University, the Hampton University Museum is the oldest African-American museum in the ...