She's not a tourist visiting a foreign country, but Melona Clark carries her papers with her at all times, to prove she has permission to wear a hijab.
Melona Clark wasn’t allowed to get her picture taken for a Hampton University ID card because of her choice to wear a hijab. She had to get a letter from both the school’s chaplain and her Mosque to get permission to wear the head scarf on campus.
And now that she has permission, Clark is carrying around the proof wherever she goes.
‘I don’t want to have to go through anything like I went through in the first place,’ Clark told WTKR.
It started when Clark got to the front of the ID card line and was told she would not be allowed to have her picture taken.
According to the rules at the institution, ‘caps and hoods for women’ are banned. Because Hampton is a private school, it is free to impose stricter dress codes than a public university would be allowed to.
‘I don’t want to have to go through anything like I went through in the first place,’ Clark told WTKR.
It started when Clark got to the front of the ID card line and was told she would not be allowed to have her picture taken.
According to the rules at the institution, ‘caps and hoods for women’ are banned. Because Hampton is a private school, it is free to impose stricter dress codes than a public university would be allowed to.
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