21 Facts About Hampton Institute

Hampton Institute had already secretly been teaching slaves and free blacks in the area despite the state's legal prohibition.

Hampton Institute first taught for the AMA on September 17,1861, and was said to gather her pupils under a large oak.

Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, later called the Hampton Institute, was founded in 1868 after the war by the biracial leadership of the American Missionary Association, who were chiefly Congregational and Presbyterian ministers.

Typical of historically black colleges, Hampton Institute received much of its financial support in the years following the Civil War from the American Missionary Association, other church groups, and former officers and soldiers of the Union Army.

Hampton Institute later built the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, and founded Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Hampton Institute was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery in 1894.

Hampton Institute patterned his new school after the model of his father, who had overseen the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic to the Polynesians.

Hampton Institute wanted to teach the skills necessary for blacks to be self-supporting in the impoverished South.

Hampton Institute had the only library school in the United States for educating black librarians.

Hampton Institute worked his way through Hampton, and then went on to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington DC After graduation, he returned to Hampton and became a teacher.

Hampton Institute collaborated with the philanthropist Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th century to create a model for rural black schools – Rosenwald established a fund that matched monies raised by communities to build more than 5,000 schools for rural black children, mostly in the South.

In 1878, Hampton Institute established a formal education program for Native Americans to accommodate men who had been held as prisoners of war.

Hampton Institute recruited additional Native American students: a total of seventy Native Americans, young men and women from various tribes, mostly from the Plains rather than the acculturated tribes of Virginia, joined that first class.

Hampton Institute's president has sole discretion on how funds will be used but has committed to consulting with other university leaders on the best way to allocate the generous donation.

Hampton Institute is the longest serving president in Hampton's history and one of the longest serving college presidents in the nation.

Hampton Institute is succeeded by Darrell K Williams who is a 1983 graduate of Hampton University.

Also, Hampton Institute has the second highest graduation rate among HBCUs.

Hampton Institute's colors are reflex blue and white, and their sports_nickname is "The Pirates".

Hampton Institute is one of two NCAA Division 1 HBCU institutions to not be a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference.

In 2016, Hampton Institute became the first and only HBCU to field a Division I men's lacrosse team.

In 2019, Hampton Institute revived their rivalry with Virginia Union University from Richmond, Virginia.