Richard Theodore Greener
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Scholar, diplomat, attorney, and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870. Within three years, he had also graduated from law school at the University of South Carolina, only to also be hired as its first Black professor, after briefly serving as associate editor for the New National Era, a newspaper owned and edited by Frederick Douglass.
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