


Hampton University was originally established as the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute with a simple declared purpose, "to train selected Negro youth who should go out and teach and lead their people first by example". In 1930, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute became "Hampton Institute," and eventually Hampton University in 1984.
Notable alumni include, Booker T. Washington, founded Tuskegee University; Robert S. Abbott, founder of Chicago Defender; Wanda Sykes, comedian, Sylvia Trent-Adams, First African-American nurse to serve as Surgeon General of the United States; and many more.