FCS School of the Day #42 - Hampton

[dbackjon]

Hampton University Pirates
Private
Founded 1868
Hampton, Virginia
Students: 5,100
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Colors: Blue and White
Armstrong Stadium (17,000)
2008 Record: 5-3, 6-5

The campus overlooking the northern edge of the harbor of Hampton Roads was founded on the grounds of "Little Scotland", a former plantation in Elizabeth City County not far from Fort Monroe and the Grand Contraband Camp, each tangible symbols of freedom for former slaves shortly after the end of the American Civil War.


Notable Alumni:
Wanda Sykes
Booker T. Washington
Rick Mahorn


First led by former Union General Samuel C. Armstrong, among the school's famous alumni is educator Dr. Booker T. Washington. Under what is now called the Emancipation Oak tree, Mary Smith Peake taught the first classes on September 17, 1861, in defiance of a Virginia law against teaching slaves, free blacks and mulattos to read or write, a law which had cut her own education short years earlier. Several years later, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was read to local freedmen under the same historic tree, which is still located on the campus today, and also serves as a symbol for the modern City of Hampton.

[HIU 93]

Wher did you get your information? I ask because some of your information is incorrect. Hampton was founded in 1868, not 1901. The best source of information for Hampton University is www.hamptonu.edu.

[dbackjon]

Wher did you get your information? I ask because some of your information is incorrect. Hampton was founded in 1868, not 1901. The best source of information for Hampton University is http://www.hamptonu.edu.

I will check. I use wikipedia and school sites, so may have crossed a wire.

[OL FU]

50 School of the day posts without an error and then the first time someone actually reads the posts and bam

[dbackjon]

Wher did you get your information? I ask because some of your information is incorrect. Hampton was founded in 1868, not 1901. The best source of information for Hampton University is http://www.hamptonu.edu.

Corrected

[OL FU]

Wher did you get your information? I ask because some of your information is incorrect. Hampton was founded in 1868, not 1901. The best source of information for Hampton University is http://www.hamptonu.edu.

Corrected

Can you do me a favor and correct Furman's removing Amy Grant as one of our notable alumni

[dbackjon]

Corrected

Can you do me a favor and correct Furman's removing Amy Grant as one of our notable alumni

Did she not graduate from there? I know she went there

[OL FU]

Can you do me a favor and correct Furman's removing Amy Grant as one of our notable alumni

Did she not graduate from there? I know she went there

I don't think she graduated from FU ( I could be wrong) My understanding is that she finished at Vanderbuilt, you know close to the Music business.

But here is one you can use to replace her. Richard Riley - Governor of SC and Secretary of Education under Clinton