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Richard Humphreys

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American philanthropist and silversmith

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Humphreys was a silversmith who founded a school for African Americans in Philadelphia. Originally called it was renamed the Institute for Colored Youth and eventually became Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest historically black university in the United States.

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