Student-led newspapers are a time-honored tradition at colleges and universities around the country. Learn more about Hampton University, Booker T. Washington’s alma mater, by transcribing the April 1921 edition of The Hampton Student. This edition of the student and alumni newspaper looks into Hampton’s athletic programs.
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) was founded in 1868 in Hampton, Virginia, by General Samuel Chapman Armstrong with the support of the American Missionary Association. In its early days, Hampton trained African American educators and also emphasized self-improvement and job training to enable students to become gainfully employed and self-supporting as craftsmen and industrial workers. Among the school’s famous alumni is Booker T. Washington, an educator, who later founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.