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Hampton Negro Conference
1912 advertisement for the Hampton Negro Conference in the Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro
1912 advertisement for the Conference in the Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro
Statusdefunct
Genreconference
Begins1897 (1897)
Ends1912 (1912)
FrequencyAnnually
VenueHampton Institute
Location(s)Hampton, Virginia, United States

The Hampton Negro Conference was a series of conferences held between 1897 and 1912 hosted by the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) in Hampton, Virginia.[1] It brought together Black leaders from across the Southern United States, as well as some white participants, to promote, analyze, and advertise the progress of Black Americans.[1] According to a description in the Institute's catalog, through the conferences "a general summary of the material and intellectual progress of the Negro race [was] obtained."[2]

The first Conference was held from July 21 to July 22, 1897.[3] The conferences ranged over a variety of topics including health, agriculture, women's issues, crime, and education.[4] In preceding years there appear to have been more informal meetings of alumni at the Institute, also referred to as the Hampton Negro Conference, as seen for example in the papers of Booker T. Washington.[5]

The 1907 trustees report of the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen, which had directed $10,000 to the Hampton Institute in that year, stated that the conference was attended by four hundred to five hundred teachers, prominent business and professional men, and farmers.[6]

Writing in 1917, John Manuel Gandy characterized the Conference as "the clearing house of ideas of Negro activities" for its time.[7]

Publications

"Annual reports" and "Proceedings of" links
Year HathiTrust link Internet Archive link Google Books link
1897—1st[†] [1] · [2]
1898—2nd [3] [4] [5]
1899—3rd [6] [7] ·
1900—4th [8] · [9]
1901—5th [10] [11] [12]
1902—6th [13] [14] [15]
1903—7th [16] [17] [18]
1904—8th [19] · ·
1905—9th [20] [21] ·
1906—10th [22] · ·
1907—11th [23] · [24]
1908—12th [25] [26] [27]
1909—13th [28] [29] [30]
1910—14th [31] [32] [33]
1911—15th [34] · [35]
1912—16th [36] [37] [38]
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    † The first annual report was published as an article in The Southern Worker and Hampton School Record volume 26, number 9, September 1897, whereas the annual reports and proceedings of other years were independent publications.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780813939506
    . Whites also occasionally took active roles in African American organizations, such as the Negro Organization Society (NOS). Founded in 1912, the NOS was an outgrowth of the annual interracial Hampton Negro Conference, which met from 1895 to 1912 and brought together African American leaders, particularly throughout the South, for the purpose of promoting and advertising the progress of black Americans. Although the NOS's membership was entirely African American, the group made interracial support one of its primary goals.
  2. hdl:2027/hvd.32044083437780
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  3. OCLC 312624445
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  4. ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1
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  5. OCLC 787838885
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  6. hdl:2027/coo.31924093254153
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  7. OCLC 966722976
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