HBCU
Education Icon, Hampton University President Bill Harvey to Retire Having Served 44 Years
The Tennessee Tribune
Hampton University, one of the nation’s first historically black institutions, was a small struggling four-year college on the Virginia banks of the Chesapeake Bay when an ambitious, young, Alabama man, Dr. William Harvey, Jr. from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was chosen to be president of the school, originally known a Hampton Institute.
