HU Students Reenact Civil Rights Movement

Hampton, VA - - Hampton University students will reenact major events that occurred during the Civil Rights movement in honor of Black History month. On Wednesday Feb. 16 from noon to 12:30 p.m. students will reenact the Woolworth Diner sit-in. On Thursday Feb. 24 from noon to 12:30 p.m. the students will reenact events from the Black Panther Party. Both events will take place in the Student Center atrium. Hampton University will be celebrating African-American historical pioneers with various events during Black History Month.

Black History Month Events

• "Diversity of Vision: Contemporary Works by Seven Southeast Artists":
  Hampton University, Armstrong Slater Art Gallery. Exhibit will last through the end of March
• Culture Reloaded: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Neo-Soul Movement:
  Students will examine the movements through stage performances including art, history, music, dance and literature. This event is sponsored by the Gamma Theta chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on Tuesday Feb. 15 and Wednesday Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the HU Student Center ballroom.
• African American Males Depression and Suicide Seminar:
  Tuesday Feb. 22, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the HU Student Center ballroom.
• "William Moses, Architect: The Man Who Led Hampton into Modernism":
  On Wednesday Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. Dr. Alfred Willis, an award-winning architectural historian will give a lecture in the William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library atrium meeting room. The lecture will be about William Moses, an architect and founding chair of the HU Department of Architecture from 1940-1971. Moses was among the very first architects in southeastern Virginia to embrace Modernism, and seems to have been the very first architect to construct Modern buildings in Hampton.
• Farrah Gray Black History Month Dynamic Speaker:
  A role model and entrepreneurial author comes to Hampton University. Listen to this 20-year-old millionaire share his success story on Wednesday Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in the HU Student Center ballroom.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Office of Student Activities at (757) 727-5691.