Southern Workman

The press was founded in 1871[citation needed] and the Southern Workman began publication in 1872.

[1] For a time it was known as the Southern Workman and Hampton School Record.

[2] According to the Dictionary of Virginia the magazine "published news and information about Hampton, its faculty, and its graduates, as well as lectures, articles, book reviews, and essays on topics in African American and American Indian history and education.

[5][6][7] Contributors included columnist Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne, William Anthony Avery, Natalie Curtis, Anna Evans Murray, Jane E. Davis,[3] Julian Bagley, Charles Holston Williams, and Della Irving Hayden.

[3] Hampton Institute Press published Samuel Chapman Armstrong's 1913 founder's day address.