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Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893) was an American soldier and general during the American Civil War who later became an educator, particularly of non-whites.
Dec 22, 2021 · Samuel Chapman Armstrong was the founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (later Hampton University). Armstrong’s father served as the kingdom of Hawaii’s minister of education and emphasized student labor as a key part of schooling.
Oct 20, 2020 · At Benedict, Maryland, in command of U.S. Colored Troops, on December 17, 1863, Union Army Lt. Col. Samuel Chapman Armstrong wrote, “we are fighting for humanity and freedom, the South for barbarism and slavery.”
Samuel Armstrong may refer to: Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893), Hawaiian-born military officer and educator. Samuel Turell Armstrong (1784–1850), Massachusetts politician. Samuel Armstrong (Canadian politician) (1844–1921), politician in Ontario, Canada.
Samuel Turell Armstrong (April 29, 1784 – March 26, 1850) was a U.S. political figure. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a printer and bookseller in Boston, specializing in religious materials.
Jul 20, 2018 · Sam Armstrong, a former aide to a Tory MP who was cleared of rape after crucial information was released just days before his trial, has added his voice to criticism of the embattled director of public prosecutions in the wake of a scathing parliamentary report.
Feb 26, 2015 · General Samuel Armstrong had founded Hampton Institute in 1868. He believed that training in agriculture and industry would give ex-slaves the skills needed for the economic advancement of the South.
He was a white-American soldier, educator, abolitionist, and administrator. The third son of Christian missionary Richard Armstrong, Samuel Chapman Armstrong was born in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, the sixth of ten children.
Feb 26, 2015 · General Samuel Armstrong Booker T. Washington worked at Hampton Institute as house father for American Indian students until May 1881. Meanwhile, commissioners in Tuskegee, Alabama asked General Armstrong to recommend a white principal for a new Negro school.
General Armstrong, a retired Union Army general turned philanthropist and educator, is Washington ’s mentor and personal idol. Armstrong is the founder of the Hampton Institute, one of the first black institutions for higher learning in the U.S. as well as the college attended by Washington.
