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March 27, 2017 | College University Education

By Veronica Alease Davis

Hampton college is located on an arm of Hampton Roads, miles from castle Monroe. based lower than the management of Brig. Gen. Samuel Armstrong in 1868 and integrated in 1870 as Hampton common & Agricultural Institute, it was once the 1st everlasting college for freedmen within the South. commercial and common schooling via self-help was once the basic precept of the varsity; trades and industries have been taught and practiced. one of the university�s noteworthy alumni are Dr. Booker T. Washington, well known orator and Tuskegee Institute founder; Alberta Williams King, mom of Martin Luther King Jr.; Marcus Dixon, NFL participant for the Kansas urban Chiefs; and Wanda Sykes, comic and actress. this day, the college is famous for the Hampton collage Proton remedy Institute, the world�s greatest melanoma proton remedy middle, and its neighborhood dedication to the economic revitalization of downtown Hampton, Virginia. by utilizing classic images, Hampton college indicates how the collage neighborhood maintains to uphold Armstrong�s legacy by means of �keeping their eye to the future.�

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