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Article: Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923. By DONAL F. LINDSEY. Blacks in the New World Series. AUGUST MEIER and JOHN H. BRACEY, Series Editors. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. xviii, 305 pp. $39.95.
PERHAPS the one Virginia institution linking blacks, whites, and Indians in a socially significant way over an extended period was Hampton Institute. Founded in 1868 as a normal school primarily for the industrial education of blacks, Hampton developed a smaller program for Indians in 1877. During the next fifty years, 1,388 Indians attended Hampton, although only 160 graduated. Still, Hampton's influence on Indian policy, Indian education, and Indian race relations with ...