Hampton University
Hampton University, an institution of higher learning at Hampton, Virginia. The enrollment is predominantly black. The school offers courses in arts and sciences, business and management, architecture, computer science, teacher education, nursing, and other subjects. It has a summer session and an extension division. Hampton has a notable collection of books by and about blacks. The school is under private control.
Samuel Chapman Armstrong, with the aid of the American Missionary Association, founded the school in 1868 as the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. In 1930 it became the Hampton Institute, and in 1984 Hampton University. Booker T. Washington was a graduate of Hampton.