A Photographic History of African Americans at Harvard University

An interesting photo gallery highlighting the history of African Americans at Harvard University has been posted online. The 40 photographs include images of Richard T. Greener, the first African American to earn a bachelor's degree at Harvard and Booker T. Washington, who in 1896 was the first black man to be awarded an honorary degree at Harvard. There are also two images of W.E.B Du Bois as a student at Harvard and a 1990 photograph of Barack Obama on the day after he was elected editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Pictured here from the collection is Alberta Virginia Scott, who in 1898 was the first African American to earn a degree at Radcliffe College.

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