A university created to educate free blacks after the end of slavery. Like Atlanta and Howard Universities, the Hampton Institute focused on practical training for industrial careers. Booker T. Washington was its most famous graduate, and it is now known as Hampton University.
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Hampton Institute Term Timeline in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Chapter 11
...sometimes that he has “been a coward, a deserter.” Years ago, he went to a Hampton Institute meeting at Carnegie Hall. The students’ songs “awoke memories that left me sad.” The audience...
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