Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
by
Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US...