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The first Black person to receive a doctorate was Sherwood Healy. He is the younger brother of Patrick Healy, who is the second Black person to receive a doctorate and was the first Black President of Georgetown University. Sherwood is said to have receivd his degree in Canon Law from the North American College in Rome in 1860!!!!
W.E.B. DuBois graduated from Harvard College and received a PhD there in 1896. He was the first black person to receive a PhD from Harvard. But he was not the first black to ever attend college. John Russwurm, editor of the first black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal," was one of the first to receive a degree-- he graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1826.
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The Harvard graduate who played a large role in forming the NAACP was W.E.B. Dubois.
one one that didnt grow up in compton L.A.
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I think it was Martin Luther KingThe first black person to receive the Nobel Peace prize was Ralph J. Bunche, who received it in 1950 for mediating the Arab-Israeli truce. Martin Luther King Junior was the second black to receive the award, which he was given in 1964 for his work in the Civil Rights Movement.
Yes. Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to be nominated for and receive an Academy Award. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" (1939).
who was the first person outside Europe receive the British honour of Kinghthood ? who was the person outside Europe to receive the British honour of Baronetcy ?
The first African American person to receive a Grammy award was Count Basie. The second was singer Ella Fitzgerald. They both won in the same year.
In 1895 he became the first African American to receive a Ph D from Harvard University.
barney clarke was the first person to receive an artificial heart