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Richard Theodore Greener
Meet Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard’s first Black graduate who was accepted into the school as an “experiment”
Richard Theodore Greener, the first Black graduate from Harvard University, made history in 1870. An African-American scholar, diplomat, professor, and lawyer, Greener broke numerous barriers throughout his life, including becoming the first Black member of the American Philological Association and the first Black diplomat to serve in a white country. Greener was born in Philadelphia,…
