PBA Galleries

• Armstrong, Mrs. M.F. and Helen Ludlow. Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. 256pp.Illustrated. Original green gilt-lettered cloth. First Edition. Putnam's, 1874.
• Frissell, H.B, Principal. The Hampton Normal And Agricultural Institute And Its Work For Negro And Indian Youth. 15pp. Shorter editions were published in 1892 and 1894.  Original printed and decorated wrappers with maps on verso. Illustrated with photographs. Hampton, Virginia [1896].

Founded by Christian missionaries after the Civil War in 1868 to provide education to newly-freed ex-slaves, the Hampton Institute in Virginia became one of the first “historically-Black” universities, young Booker T. Washington being one of its first students and teachers before he went on to head Tuskegee. Raising funds through concert tours by its popular "Jubilee Singers", then adding a formal education program for Native Americans, Hampton – which is still in existence – has numbered among its graduates prominent African-American businessmen, educators, government officials, entertainers and athletes.