Rudolph Fisher
Rudolph Fisher was a physician, orator, music arranger, and writer during the Harlem Renaissance. While published in many medical journals, his literary work graced the...
Category : Education
Georgiana R. Simpson
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Georgiana R. Simpson was the second black women to be awarded a Ph.D. in the United States. She received her degree in German from the...
Oberlin College
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Oberlin College which was named Oberlin Collegiate Institute until 1850, is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.  In 1833, Presbyterian ministers John Jay...
John Chavis
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John Chavis, an early 19th Century minister, and teacher was the first African American to graduate from a college or university in the United States....
Theodore Sedgwick Wright
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Theodore Sedgwick Wright, prominent clergyman, antislavery leader, and reformer was thought to have been born in New Jersey in 1797. He attended the New York...
Lucy Stanton Day Sessions
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Educator and abolitionist Lucy Stanton Day Sessions is believed to be the first African American woman to graduate from college, completing a Ladies Literary Course...
David Harold Blackwell
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David Harold Blackwell, mathematician, and statistician was the first African American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1965) and is especially known...
Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr
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Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first African American selected to be an astronaut. He was also a test pilot and senior the United States...
Walter Eugene Massey
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Prominent educator Walter Eugene Massey was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on April 5, 1938. His father, Almar, was a steelworker and his mother, Essie, a...
Spelman College
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Spelman College, a historically black, liberal arts college for women, opened in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1881. The previous year, a fledgling New England organization called...