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  Hampton Institute - American Indian Stories
Hampton teaches us that we must expect trials and tribulations and so these women having gone through them will come out stronger, for the story of what happy homes they had before whiskey came is always told to the younger ones.
Carlota Gutierrez entered Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in September 1901 and advanced in her studies until graduating in 1909.
After graduating from Hampton in 1908, she held a position as an assistant matron in the Government School at her home in Wisconsin.
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  Hampton University - Hampton Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hampton University has embraced the principles of "Education for life" and "learning by doing," since its founding in 1868 during the days of Reconstruction.
Originally opening its doors as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute to prepare promising young African-American men and women to lead and teach their newly-freed people, the University has continually sought to instill in its students the precepts of efficiency, character and service to society-standards that continue to remain both timeless and relevant.
In 1984, Hampton's Board of Trustees formally adopted a university structure and changed the name to Hampton University, which today represents the unparalleled standard of excellence in American higher education.
www.hamptonu.edu /about/heritage.htm   (330 words)

  
 Journal of American Indian Education-Arizona State University
Hampton school records indicated that the dissolution of the marriage was "the first case of an Indian divorce" under laws newly extended to the Omahas who "had not long before been declared citizens of Nebraska." Mrs.
Mary Miller, who arrived at Hampton with her husband George and two young sons Eddie and John in July 1887, indicated in a letter written at the school that she also had a "girl at home," who was being cared for by her family at the Omaha Agency in Nebraska.
The plan carried out to a small extent at Hampton and elsewhere, of bringing young men and their wives to industrial schools and there furnishing them with small houses so that may be instructed in work and a proper home life, has been successful and should be carried out more largely.
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 ICT [2003/08/19]  Education at Hampton Institute: An experiment in race relations and assimilation
Indians were able to get teacher training at Hampton, and many of Hampton Institute's Indian graduates went on to study for advanced degrees in medicine, law and art at colleges and universities for white students.
Even though the Hampton education enabled the Indian students to develop the ways and means to support themselves once back at the reservations, it also caused friction for them with their families and people once they returned home.
The next group of students to arrive at Hampton Institute in 1878 were "forty boys and nine girls" who were Sioux from the Dakota territory of Fort Berthold, Standing Rock, Crow Creek, Yankton, Cheyenne River and Lower Brule agencies.
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 LCRBMRP-T1811
Hampton idea in the fl belt of Alabama; but the idea and the cause are greater than any one man. Booker Washington's entire training and education as a young man were received in the Hampton Institute.
At Hampton they hold the doctrine that morality and civilization are almost vitally affected by the kind of houses in which people live.
Hampton does not intend to make a white man out of the negro, but its aim rather is to help him be himself, in the very best sense.
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 James Hampton
Hampton built his masterpiece from a very select collection of junk, including old furniture, burned-out light bulbs, jelly jars, carpet cylinders, desk blotters, cardboard, and foil.
It is thought that Hampton hoped to one day become a preacher and open a small, streetside ministry with the Throne as the altar and central teaching device.
Hampton's sense of dedication and faith can only be attributed to someone who has transcended the nagging concerns of a normal human existence.
www.missioncreep.com /tilt/hampton.html   (904 words)

  
 Hampton
General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute, was a pragmatic accommodationist who dedicated his life and considerable energies not to "radical Reconstruction"--the project of changing the minds, hearts, and, most importantly, social structures of the defeated South--but to educating newly freed Negroes to resume their inferior positions within the South's existing social structures.
Keenly aware of the Hampton Roads area's historical role as an original point of contact between the races (that is, for the United States), Armstrong envisioned a reunion of sorts-- as he wrote to his wife, Emma, in 1878: "Indians working beautifully--a milennial dawn--those races at peace..." (Lindsey 18).
Hampton's Indian program died with a whimper in 1923, when Caroline Andrus, the director of the program, resigned because she felt she could no longer prevent "amalgamation" between Indians and fls.
xroads.virginia.edu /~cap/poca/poc_hamp.html   (913 words)

  
 Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Hampton Institute was founded in 1868 by Northern philanthropists in Hampton, Virginia.
The photographs of Hampton for the Exhibit of the American Negroes are particularly noteworthy.
Taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the leading social and documentary photographers of her period, the pictures of Hampton were widely used to publicize the work of the school and its idea of intregal education, which emphasized the progressive notion of learning by doing.
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 Hampton, Virginia Colleges
Jefferson Davis, a Hampton native, served as the president of the Confederate states during the Civil War.
Hampton is also unique because it is home to the Emancipation Tree under which Mary Smith Peake began teaching recently freed slaves in 1861.
Equally impressive are the students who flock to Hampton education programs in Virginia to partake in disciplines such as English literature, Romance languages, and other areas of the humanities.
www.e-referencedesk.com /education/schools-by-city/virginia-hampton-colleges   (839 words)

  
 ICT [2003/09/09]  Hampton Institute: Indian education sees an end and a revival
Hampton Institute faculty members traveled to the reservations during the Indian Department's 45-year history where they visited with former students and collected Indian crafts for a museum at the school.
HAMPTON, Va. - With the 1893 death of Brig.
One of these was requiring Indians to apply for admission first - just as fl students, according to Donal F. Lindsey in his book, "Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923." Part of the success of attracting Indians had resulted from their recruitment and work with the Indian agencies.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1063165734   (966 words)

  
 Hampton University: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
The institution was established in part as a response to the educational and spiritual needs of former slaves in Virginia, and has had strong religious ties since its foundation.
The Memorial Church at Hampton Institute (known from 1886 to 1960 as the Church of Christ at Hampton Institute) is the focus of religious life at the University and also serves the wider Hampton community.
The Archives has a wax cylinder recording of spirituals sung at Hampton in the 1880s, believed to be the oldest music recording in the country.
www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/ham.html   (886 words)

  
 White Dove's Native American Indian Site Hampton Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Founded at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton Institute is located near Hampton, Virginia.
Indian students first attended Hampton in 1878 when a group of Kiowa men who had been held its prisoners of war at St. Petersburg, Florida, were brought north as an experiment in Indian education.
By the turn of the century nearly a thousand students were attending Hampton, of whom 135 were Native American.
users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/hampton-institute.html   (240 words)

  
 Black Facts Online: Hampton Institute
Hampton University was established in 1868 as a school for fls.
Hampton University was known prior to August 1984 as Hampton Institute.
The university is a private coeducational institution in Hampton, Virginia.
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 1874 began the history of Virginia Hall-freshman womans dormitory at Hampton Institute
Hampton Roads history and penny postcard tour requires a Java enabled browser.
: "Virginia Hall, freshmen Women's Dormitory on the Hampton Institute Campus, was originally constructed in 1874.
Part of the funds for the building were 'sung up' by the famed Hampton Singers, who toured the nation.
www.historichamptonroads.com /hampton_university_07.htm   (81 words)

  
 New Page 0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Fred Inge, chairman of the Biology Dept. at Hampton Institute.
The meetings were held at the Beau Brummell Club, Les Hommes, Hampton Institute and at the homes of chapter members.
It is no wonder, through the legacy of the chapter, that the community, in their time of need, has always been lead toward the men of Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity, Inc. Men of like attainments and similar ideas, committed to a cause.
www.zo.omegapsiphi.net /history.htm   (1331 words)

  
 Natalie Curtis Burlin, Hampton Institute, African-American music, and George Foster Peabody
Curtis enjoyed a long association with Hampton, where George Foster Peabody, who financed much of her work, was a trustee and benefactor.
Hampton had been established after the Civil War as a training school for fls; the school later served Indians also.
It was through her work at Hampton that Curtis produced her two major works after The Indians' Book.
www.nataliecurtis.org /hampton.html   (688 words)

  
 Booker T. Washington: Washington Goes to the Hampton Institute
The Hampton Institute was more than 300 miles from Malden, West Virginia, where he lived.
Quickly she decided he was not the kind of student Hampton wanted.
He taught at Hampton until 1881, when Hampton's founder recommended him as the head of a new school beginning in Alabama -- the Tuskegee Institute.
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 Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For thirteen years a record of these Indian students has been carefully kept at Hampton, and after students have returned to their homes correspondence has been conducted.
Jones entered the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1864 and served in the defense of Richmond until its evacuation.
The Hampton Training School for Nurses " Is an institution founded in 1891 for the instruction of colored women in the profession of nursing.
www.goodbooks.com /education.htm   (982 words)

  
 DOUGLASS : Chauncey Depew, Address to the Indian and Negro Students at the Hampton Institute, 7 April 1891   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Nobody was ever graduated from an institution that was quite so good as Hampton." It is the same spirit you see above all in a Boston man. A Boston man went to a little village once and spoke at a Sunday-school picnic.
This is the spirit — and I want you to remember it who are educated in Hampton school — that all young men of Yale or Harvard or Princeton have an enormous pride in all the days of their lives.
Now, I tell you there is more to be proud of in Hampton Institute for a Hampton boy or girl than there is for a Yale or Harvard or Princeton student in Yale or Harvard or Princeton.
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 Hampton on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One of the oldest continuous English settlements in the country, Hampton was founded on the site of the Native American village Kecoughtan.
It is the seat of Hampton Univ. Of interest are St. John's Episcopal Church (1728; original church est.
Education at Hampton Institute: An experiment in race relations and assimilation; PART ONE
www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HamptonU1S1.asp   (1003 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Hampton University
Hampton University won in 2000 and 2001, while Richmond took the title in 2002 and VCU in 2003.
HAMPTON, VA.--A prestigious journalism organization canceled a $55,000 grant to Hampton University after the school's administration confiscated the student newspaper for not running an item on the front page where the administration wanted it.
HAMPTON ' The presses of Hampton University's student newspaper won't be stopped again by administrators, based on a series of new guidelines accepted by the acting president this week.
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 Computer Training in Hampton Roads - Tidewater Institute of Technology - Newport News VA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tidewater Institute of Technology is the educator of choice for both the novice and the corporate employee seeking to enter or upgrade their skills in the exciting field of Information Technology.
Tidewater Institute of Technology has completed a rigorous evaluation process to become certified by the Department of Education and by Microsoft as a Microsoft Certified Partner.
Tidewater Institute of Technology has one of the deepest pools of qualified certified instructors in Virginia with significant experience delivering public and private dedicated training.
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 The Region
Hampton Roads is home to one of the largest group of government and military installations in the world, including:
Nationally recognized symphony, theatre, and opera companies call Hampton Roads home, and most major popular music artists include stops at one of the region's arenas or amphitheatres in their concert tour schedules.
The Hampton Roads Region has the highest concentration of colleges and universities in the entire state of Virginia.
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 April 1: Armstrong and Hampton Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In Hampton's highly structured program, the morning was devoted to religious exercises and academic classes, the afternoon to vocational trades and work.
Educating the Disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893.
Heritage of African-American Religion From Boston's African Meeting House (1804), to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s, this is the dramatic story of the African-American church in America.
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 Hampton Institute and Booker T. Washington - The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia - Virginia Historical Society
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in 1868 by General Samuel Armstrong.
After graduating, Washington was given administrative responsibilities at the school, and in 1881 Armstrong recommended Washington to head Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Both Hampton Institute and Tuskegee Institute trained "an army of fl educators," and those teachers emphasized self-improvement and job training to enable fl students to become gainfully employed and self-supporting as craftsmen or industrial workers.
www.vahistorical.org /civilrights/btw.htm   (316 words)

  
 Hampton University, students, campus, hampton institute, party, college life
Hampton University, students, campus, hampton institute, party, college life
I knew that it was time to change my surroundings, and I had a taste of Hampton from visiting my sister, who went there from 1969-'73.
You can physically go back, we visit as alumni, but you can never re-capture the spirit of the times, as they were when you lived them.
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 Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923 by Donal F. Lindsey, ISBN 0252021061 And The Union, the Confederacy, and the ...
Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923 by Donal F. Lindsey, ISBN 0252021061 And The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim by Robert E. May, ISBN 1557530610
In Indians at Hampton Institute, Donal F. Lindsey examines the complex and changing interactions among Indians, fls, and whites at the nation's premier industrial school for racial minorities.
He traces the rise and decline of the Indian program in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, analyzing its impact in the U.S. campaign for Indian education.
www.chilcot.com /hampton.htm   (200 words)

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