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John Henry at Hampton

1913 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ107472523 ↗
Source-derived summary

John Henry at Hampton: A Kind of Student Who Makes Good is a 1913 American film made to promote Hampton Institute. It was made after the 1909 film A Trip to Tuskegee about Tuskegee Institute, which was followed up on with the 1913 film A Day at Tuskegee. The films were shown to African American audiences at segregated venues such as theaters and churches. The film depicted the transformative positive influence of a Hampton education.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “John Henry at Hampton” is 1913 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through John, Henry and Hampton, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1909—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913. For this dossier, John, Henry and Hampton is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1913 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107472523. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1913 and 1909.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Henry at Hampton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.