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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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