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Mary Jane Patterson
Mary Jane Patterson was also the first African-American woman to graduate from Oberlin College in 1862. She was born to enslaved parents in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1840. She relocated with her family to Oberlin, Ohio in the mid-1850s where she undertook preparatory coursework at Oberlin College, according to BlackPast.
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