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 THE PRESS OF THE 
 HAMPTON NORMAL 
 AND AGRICULTURAL 
 INSTITUTE. JUNE 1921 
 
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HAMPTON 
 
 MEN AND WOMEN 
 
 HAMPTON SMITH-HUGHES TEACHER 
 TRAINER WITH HIS CO-WORKERS 
 
A NEGRO BANK IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 
 THE ARCHITECT IS A HAMPTON GRADUATE 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 This little pamphlet summarizes the results of Hampton’s 
 fifty-three years of training Negro and Indian youth to become 
 self-supporting citizens, actively interested in the development of 
 their various communities, living at peace with their neighbors, 
 and doing their best to advance the Kingdom of God among men. 
 
 While the many vocations followed by Hampton men and 
 women are classified in these pages under five main heads — social 
 service, teaching, business, trades, and the professions — there are 
 many other occupations in which their influence is felt. 
 
 Their avocations are quite as important as their vocations. 
 Their homes, their schools, their churches, they themselves, be- 
 come centers of influence for their communities, as they engage 
 in the manifold activities affecting their neighbors — church and 
 Sunday school, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., various clubs, inter- 
 racial and social-welfare committees, and other organizations. 
 
 This brief record is offered as a justification for the existence 
 of Hampton Institute, which, like all vocational schools, is an 
 expensive institution. An investment in the education of Hamp- 
 ton students pays in the human dividends it earns. 
 
CLUB-BOY WINNER OF FIRST PRIZES AT TWO FAIRS 
 THE CLUB IS DIRECTED BY A HAMPTON MAN 
 
 COMMUNITY WORKERS (MEN) 
 
 Prominent among the factors making for better conditions in 
 colored rural communities are the county agents, of whom Hamp- 
 ton men form a large proportion. One of them supervises this 
 work in eight States with 68 agents under him. Hampton men 
 are also in charge of the agents in Virginia, North Carolina, and 
 Mississippi. One in Georgia has charge of ten counties. Besides 
 these, many Hampton men are serving in individual counties, 
 helping tens of thousands of farmers to produce larger crops 
 more economically, to improve their live-stock, and to co-operate 
 in improving educational facilities. 
 
 Hampton men are doing excellent Y. M. C. A., settlement, 
 and other community work in the West and South. One is in charge 
 of the colored Y. M. C. A. work in the State of Virginia. Another 
 is head of the Boys’ Reformatory in Hanover County. Others are 
 officers of the Negro Organization Society, which stands for com- 
 munity improvement. An Indian graduate is Y. M. C. A. secretary 
 in Arizona. . 
 
COLORED COMMUNITY HOUSE, HAMPTON, VIRGINIA 
 A HAMPTON WOMAN IS IN CHARGE 
 
 COMMUNITY WORKERS (WOMEN) 
 
 The great majority of Hampton women engage in some kind 
 of community work in addition to their wage-earning activities. 
 Every home managed by a well-trained woman becomes an object 
 lesson to her neighbors, and thousands of these in the South and 
 West are presided over by former students of Hampton. 
 
 In increasing numbers, however, Hampton women are making 
 social service to the community their life work. The State director 
 for Virginia of the home-demonstration workers, who, like their 
 brothers, the county agents, work for twelve months in the year 
 for the betterment of the community, is a Hampton graduate. 
 
 Some Hampton women have attained high rank and wide 
 recognition in the field of social service as executive and other 
 officers in homes for wayward girls, as headworkers in settlements 
 and community houses, in public-health and playground work, 
 and in church and Y. M. C. A. activities, to say nothing of the com- 
 munity work done as a matter of course by busy housewives and 
 teachers. 
 
HOME ECONOMICS IN A NORFOLK PUBLIC SCHOOL 
 THE TEACHER IS A HAMPTON GRADUATE 
 
 TEACHERS (VOCATIONAL) 
 
 More than 250 Hampton graduates and ex-students are 
 engaged in vocational teaching, many holding positions of great 
 importance as superintendents of industries, heads of agricultural 
 and home-economics departments, supervising industrial teachers, 
 and foremen of shops. 
 
 The Smith-Hughes Act has created a large demand, not only 
 for teachers of agriculture, home economics, and trades, but also 
 for State trainers of such teachers. Hampton is meeting both 
 these needs, providing many Smith-Hughes teachers in county 
 training and State normal schools, and at least three State Direc- 
 tors. One Smith-Hughes teacher of carpentry has 120 students 
 and 5 assistants. 
 
 At Tuskegee Institute are forty Hampton men and women, 
 some serving in important executive positions and others as voca- 
 tional or academic teachers. Many Indians are industrial teachers 
 in Government schools. 
 
CLASS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN A GRADED SCHOOL 
 THE TEACHER IS A HAMPTON WOMAN 
 
 TEACHERS (ACADEMIC) 
 
 Besides the vocational teachers who are spreading Hampton 
 ideas, a large proportion of Hampton men and women are to be 
 found in all the various grades of public and private schools in 
 both city and country, where they teach academic subjects, in- 
 cluding singing, drawing, and physical training. 
 
 As educational opportunities for colored youth increase, 
 better academic positions are open to graduates of normal schools. 
 In the new county training schools which offer from one to four 
 high-school grades, are to be found fifty-one Hampton principals 
 and teachers. An increasing number of women are acting as 
 critic teachers in State normal and private schools, and as teacher 
 trainers in summer schools. 
 
 Hundreds of Hampton graduates are still, by self-denying 
 labor, creating little centers of influence in the rural South, where 
 the masses of the colored people can be most effectively reached. 
 At least twenty-seven graduates are known to have taught in the 
 same place for forty or more years. 
 
ROBERT R. MOTON (HAMPTON 1890) WILLIAM M. COOPER (HAMPTON 1913) 
 
 PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE PRINCIPAL COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL, N. C. 
 
 PRINCIPALS OF SCHOOLS 
 
 The two most distinguished graduates of Hampton have pre- 
 sided over Tuskegee Institute, now the largest colored school in 
 the world, since its foundation — Booker T. Washington, its foun- 
 der, and Robert R. Moton, its present principal. The influence of 
 Tuskegee Institute, now enrolling 1800 students, is world wide. 
 
 Sixty-five other Hampton men and women are serving as 
 principals, twelve of them at the new county training schools 
 which are now offering larger opportunities to country boys and 
 girls. Two State industrial schools, several large private insti- 
 tutions, and many public schools scattered from New Jersey to 
 Alabama and from Oklahoma to Indiana are in charge of Hamp- 
 ton graduates or ex-students, with assistants teaching in grades 
 from the first to the tenth. Twenty-nine of these schools are in 
 Virginia. 
 
 A number of these educational leaders have been working in 
 the same communities for twenty-five or more years, exerting a 
 tremendous influence in the development of their people. 
 
THE JOHN A. ANDREW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE 
 DIRECTOR, JOHN A. KENNEY, M. D. (HAMPTON 1897) 
 
 IN THE PROFESSIONS 
 
 Besides the large number engaged in the profession of teach- 
 ing, more than three hundred Hampton men and women are 
 doctors, lawyers, ministers, architects, editors, druggists, dentists, 
 and nurses. 
 
 Of the more than sixty physicians, several are heads of excel- 
 lent hospitals, one having recently established the only post- 
 graduate course in this country for Negro physicians. Another 
 is senior resident physician at a white sanitorium in Wisconsin, 
 having passed the best examination as an expert in tuberculosis. 
 Many nurses, druggists, and dentists are assisting the doctors in 
 bringing about a large decrease in Negro mortality. Hampton 
 ministers and lawyers devote much time to helping their com- 
 munities. One minister built up a large institutional church; sev- 
 eral have been successful missionaries in Africa. Hampton law- 
 yers include a deputy prosecuting attorney of an Indianapolis 
 court. A Hampton architect has designed houses, banks, and 
 churches in Richmond, Va., one church costing $150,000. 
 
TYPICAL COTTAGE FOR COLORED PEOPLE 
 ON SELLING LIST OF REAL-ESTATE AGENT, A HAMPTON MAN 
 
 IN BUSINESS 
 
 Hampton men and women to the number of 500 are engaged 
 in the banking, insurance, real estate, building and loan, and 
 moving-picture business, as well as in numerous smaller business 
 enterprises. Many, both Indian and Negro, are in the Government 
 service as clerks, stenographers, mail carriers, matrons, farmers, 
 and teachers. A colored woman graduate holds a responsible 
 place in the New York Post Office. Some are executive officers 
 and directors of banks, or of building and loan associations, and 
 several hold the important position of treasurer, auditor, or chief 
 accountant at Tuskegee and in other large schools. At least 
 eleven very successful corporations owe their existence to the 
 business sagacity of Hampton’s sons. 
 
 A graduate, who is editor and publisher of a weekly news- 
 paper with a circulation of 175,000, has recently moved his busi- 
 ness into a $200,000 plant. Another is district superintendent of 
 the Southern Aid Society of Virginia. 
 
KENNEDY HALL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, UNDER CONSTRUCTION 
 DAVID H. TERRY (HAMPTON 1904 ), FOREMAN AND INSTRUCTOR 
 
 CONTRACTORS AND FOREMEN 
 
 In the various trades over 200 Hampton men, including In- 
 dians, are contractors, owners of shops, foremen, or journeymen, 
 which is a fair percentage of those completing trades in the Arm- 
 strong-Slater Memorial Trade School since 1900. Tradesmen 
 have little trouble in obtaining work in the South where skilled 
 colored workers are employed in large numbers by many white 
 corporations, notably by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry 
 Dock Company. They find employment also in increasing numbers 
 with the many Negro development companies recently organized. 
 
 A number of Hampton men are foremen and instructors in 
 the leading industrial schools of the South. Many others have 
 shops of their own, often employing a number of assistants. Many 
 Hampton tradesmen have built attractive houses for themselves 
 or their parents. Several are successful contractors. One, a 
 bricklayer, who is his own architect, has recently contracted for 
 buildings aggregating in cost $211,000. 
 
SOME FUTURE HAMPTON MEN AND WOMEN 
 THE CLASS OF 1921 
 
Hampton Institute is an undenominational school, controlled by a 
 board of seventeen trustees. The school property includes about 1100 
 acres of land and 140 buildings, many of which have been built by the 
 students. 
 
 The number of students is 1848, of whom 473 are colored children in 
 the Whittier Training School, and 540, teachers in the Summer School. 
 The 835 boarding pupils provide their own board and clothing, partly in 
 cash and partly in labor at the school. But the great majority of students 
 cannot pay their tuition, which is one hundred dollars per pupil. 
 
 Many Sunday schools, associations, and friends of the two races are 
 interested to give (these scholarships, and larger and smaller sums year by 
 year, according to their ability, and thus assist Hampton in raising the 
 amount needed for current expenses in addition to its regular income. 
 A full scholarship may be endowed for $2500. 
 
 To take its proper place in the work of racial re-adjustment, Hamp- 
 ton must raise this year from private subscriptions : — 
 
 Toward Retirement Fund 
 
 15 
 
 gifts 
 
 of $1000 
 
 $15,000 
 
 For extension work in Va. 
 
 30 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 500 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers' salaries 
 
 60 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 250 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 150 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 100 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 200 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 75 
 
 15,000 
 
 For teachers’ salaries 
 
 300 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 50 
 
 15,000 
 
 For upkeep of buildings 
 
 600 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 25 
 
 15,000 
 
 For general expenses 
 
 1500 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 10 
 
 15,000 
 
 For general expenses 
 
 3000 
 
 gifts 
 
 of 
 
 5 
 
 15,000 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 $135,000 
 
 Any amount you may care to contribute will be gratefully received by 
 James E. Gregg, Principal, or F. K. Rogers, Treasurer, Hampton, Va.