Who Was The First Black Student At Harvard?
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) 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. Who was first Black man to graduate from Harvard? Richard T. GreenerHarvard’s first Black graduate, Richard T. Greener, went on to become the first …