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Hampton University Accomplishments

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There are over one hundred black colleges and universities in the United States and Hampton University ranks number three (Clayton). The achievements of Hampton University mirror the successes and misfortunes of the African American experience. Since the nineteenth Century Hampton University has fought to build a system of higher learning that would provide a concrete education for African Americans. Since the mid-eighteenth century Hampton University has transitioned from an era of industrial education which was the standard for African Americans during the Reconstruction Era (Davis). Today Hampton University offers various programs and opportunities that enabled African Americans to grow, develop and contribute to our society. Southern blacks …show more content…

In June of 1867 the AMA responded with an approval and the land was purchased and organized under a charter granted by Elizabeth City County (Davis 10). On April 1, 1868 with 15 students and 2 teachers, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute opened (Davis, 13). General Samuel Chapman Armstrong’s educational viewpoint, known as the “Hampton Statement”, focused on the refinement of practical skills, character, and work ethic (Myers ). Hampton’s curriculum was designed to ensure that the newly emancipated slaves would be successful in the industrial nation (Davis, 69). Student enrolled in a four-year course that consisted of three and a half year doing academics and industrial work, and one and half year teaching or working in some practical trade (Davis, 2012). By 1872, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute blossomed and attracted students from all over the country. A student by the name of Booker T. Washington, became Hampton's most distinguished graduate and later helped found the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881 (“History”). Throughout the next twenty years Hampton Normal School received an influx of enrollments and educational offerings, resulting in the expansion of the campus buildings and the opening of the new trade school. The trade school offered training in farming, carpentry, harness making, printing, …show more content…

Du Bois for its solely industrial curriculum. W.E.B Du Bois stated that African Americans need higher level of education to excel beyond manual labor positions (Myers ). Improving Hampton's curriculum to meet college level accreditation was the emphasis during the 1920s. On July 1, 1930, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute officially became Hampton Institute (“History”). During the Great Depression Hampton Institute was succumb with financial challenges. Enrollment was down, budget and staff cuts were routine. The school began cutting programs to save funding. In addition, to Hampton's financial strife, many felt that the school's motto was due for makeover. Students wanted voice and a change in policy. In 1949, Dr. Alonzo G. Moron became the first African American president of Hampton

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Edmund Drago’s book provides a look into one of the first black educational institutions, The Avery Normal Institute in Charleston Virginia. This book discusses how this school was made too elitist, due in large part to the high-class nature of Charleston, Virginia, which segregated the students from the white people of the town as well as the black people of the town. They were separated from the white people because, while they were more elite than the common black citizen, and getting an education, they were also black, so many southern people did not want to socialize with them. Black citizens who did not attend the Avery Normal Institute were not fond of the students there because they struck them as too elitist. Drago’s argument is that the elite nature of this school allowed for the development of black leaders, who were crucial to the later transformation of the town and the destruction of racial barriers so many years later.

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