Who was the first African American to graduate from college?

Alexander Lucius Twilight was the first African American to graduate from an American college.

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David Beck, a freed slave, was the first African-American to graduate from a US Medical School.

Answer: (that must remain until more data is identified) Alexander Twilight was the first African-American to receive a college degree from an American college, graduating from Middlebury College in 1823. Born in Jamaica, Francis Williams was notable as the first known person of African descent to be educated at Cambridge University.

Edward Alexander Bouchet was the First African-American to earn a Ph.D. and The first African-American to graduate from Yale University.

Henry Stockton Lewis was the first African-American male veterinary graduate in the United States; Alfreda Johnson Webb was the first African-American female veterinary graduate in the United States.

The first AFRICAN AMERICAN to graduate from medical school was a girl named Rebecca Lee Crumpler

James Meredith in 1961

Tanner Trame, from the Pennsylvania University in 1943.

John Adams was the first president to graduate from college (Harvard) in 1755.

Tennessee Tech University is located in Cookeville, Tennessee. Dwight Henry was the first African American graduate of the school.

Rebecca Lee Crumpler had made a lot of history. Rebecca wasn't an ordinary American physician; she was the first African American female to become a physician in the United States. She was also known for being the first African American woman to receive an M.D degree, and also the only African American woman to graduate from the New England Female Medical College. Rebecca Lee Crumpler's accomplishments was becoming the first African American female to got a medical degree in 1864 and she was the first African American author in 1883.

James Meredith was the first black man to go to college. Devon Pearson This answer is not entirely accurate. James Meredith was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi; however, if you are going to answer the question of the first, black man to attend college, the furthest I can find is 1870 - when a former slave by the name of James Webster Smith was admitted into the United States Military Academy at West Point. He did not graduate; however, 3 years later Henry O. Flipper was admitted... in which he graduated in 1877 as West Points first black graduate. Of you have Richard Greener, the first African-American graduate of Harvard also in 1870. E. Meadows

In 1967, Robert Lewis Gilbert became the first African American student to graduate Baylor University.

Patrick healy of georgetown university

Earl Lloyd graduated from West Virginia State in 1950. He was the 107th overall pick in the NBA draft, and was the first African-American to play in the National Basketball Association.

The first African American woman to graduate from college was not Mary Jane Patterson in 1862, as previously acknowledged. The answer may never be definitively answered, as there were probably many Black women "passing" for white who may have attended and graduated from college in the early to mid-19th Century--if not earlier. Of the Black women (who did not pass for white) who attended college in the 19th Century was Portland, ME-born Adeline Eliza Hampton (née Freeman) who matriculated into Oberlin College in 1856. Her younger sister, Mary Christiana Wheeler (née Freeman) also attended Oberlin, graduating in 1873.

she is famous because she was the first African American to have there own college

Rutherford Hayes was the first president whose wife was a college graduate. Her name was Lucy .

Yes, to some. Henry Flipper was the first African-American to graduate from West Point.

The first Buffalo soldier was Henry Flipper. He was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

James Weber Smith admitted into the United States Military Academy in 1870 or Richard Greener, who studied at Phillips Academy in 1865; however, became the first African-American graduate of Harvard - 1870

Alfreda Johnson Webb Veterinarian Class of 1949; first woman graduate of Tuskegee Institute's School of Veterinary Medicine and first African American woman to graduate from a U.S. veterinary school; first African American woman licensed to practice veterinary medicine in US; first African American woman to serve in North Carolina's General Assembly Born:February 21, 1923 in Mobile, AL Died: October 14, 1992

from college when you finished graduate

You have to graduate from college first