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Tag: Emancipation Oak Tree
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Hampton outraged over threats to historical oak tree

by Defender News Service

Following community backlash over a highway expansion plan that would jeopardize the historic Emancipation Oak tree on the campus of Hampton University, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Aubrey Layne announced Nov. 17 that the Virginia Department of Transportation would not continue with those plans. The Emancipation Oak, is culturally significant to the African American community because […]