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Richard Theodore Greener

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Scholar, diplomat, attorney, and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover (1844-1922)

United StatesWritersLived 1844 to 1922 · aged 78
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Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. In 1870, he became the first black undergraduate at Harvard University to receive a bachelor's degree.

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Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. In 1870, he became the first black undergraduate at Harvard University to receive a bachelor's degree. The previous year, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine awarded degrees to their first black graduates in 1869.

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Lived 1844 to 1922 · aged 78
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