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Meet Henry Greene, Yale’s first black graduate who later became a surgeon in the American Civil War

Meet Henry Greene, Yale’s first black graduate who later became a surgeon in the American Civil War

Richard Henry Greene made history as Yale University’s first Black graduate and later served as a physician during the American Civil War. Born in 1833 in New Haven, Connecticut, Greene was the son of Richard Green, a bookmaker living four blocks off the Yale campus, and his academic achievements and contributions to medicine during the…

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