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Discovery Leads Yale to Revise a Chapter of Its Black History

Source: The New York Times

Recently found letters and documents have uncovered that Richard Henry Green, an African-American man, graduated from Yale in 1857, nearly 20 years earlier than the man who was believed to be the first African-American graduate from Yale.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom and tagged Historic Figures, History on March 1, 2020 by Hilary Woods.

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