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Clara Christian, First Black Student of Edinburgh Uni, Whose Husband Changed Name Over Racism

Clara Christian, First Black Student of Edinburgh Uni, Whose Husband Changed Name Over Racism

Dominican-born Clara Maguerite Christian is the first black student to have gained admission to the University of Edinburgh in 1915. Though she couldn’t graduate, her story is captured in the annals of the University of Edinburgh history as the first black woman who showed resilience in the face of racial discrimination and gender biases in…

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