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Article: Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2008
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Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron. By Hoda M. Zaki. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 187. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03110-6.)
Hampton Institute in Virginia is well known for its Caucasian founder and first principal, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, and his famous pupil Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute. During the height of Jim Crow, Hampton promoted a service-based curriculum through which black students earned degrees in industrial arts and agriculture. A former faculty member at Hampton, political scientist Hoda M. Zaki chronicles the dynamic evolution of the school ...