Hampton University was founded on April 1, 1868, in Hampton, Virginia, as Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, a school dedicated to the education of newly freed Black Americans after the Civil War. It became a leading institution for Black higher education. Renamed Hampton University in August 1984, it remains a prominent private, coeducational HBCU. Its undergraduate division still honors its legacy as the “Hampton Institute.”
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