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9 unusual facts about Hampton University


Hampton College

Hampton University (historically called "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute" and "Hampton Institute") in Hampton, Virginia

Lori A. Williams

Lori Williams attended Hampton University (HU) and received a BA in Mass Media Communications in 1988.

Negro Colleges in War Time

Hampton University in Virginia is "practically on a 24-hour basis training more war workers."

Noel DaCosta

He studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence, Italy under a Fulbright Fellowship, and shortly thereafter took positions teaching at Hampton University and the City University of New York.

Phil Hubbard

Hubbard's daughter, Whitney, is a graduate of Hampton University and played high school volleyball also for Westfield High School.

Scripps Howard Foundation

Additionally, they established the The Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University in Virginia.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

Because of an injury to his throwing shoulder, the former high school Quarterback ended up a starting wide receiver for Hampton University.

Theodore T. Jones

Jones graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in 1965, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science.


Charles Wilbert White

White's best known work is The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy, a mural at Hampton University depicting a number of notable blacks including Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Peter Salem, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Marian Anderson.

H. Rodgin Cohen

Cohen is a trustee of Deerfield Academy, New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Hackley School, Hampton University and The Economic Club of New York, and is a member of the advisory boards of Wall Street Rising, United Way of Westchester-Putnam and the University of Charleston.


see also

Pellom McDaniels

Publications include: My Own Harlem (1998); So, You Want to be Pro (2000), "We're American Too: The Negro Leagues and the Philosophy of Resistance" in Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box (2004); reviews in Hampton University's International Review of African American Art related to the work of artists Kadir Nelson and Hale Woodruff.