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!!!!
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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.
The first woman to receive a PhD in computer science in America was Barbara Liskov.
The first African-American man to receive a Ph.D. in the United States was Edward A. Bouchet. The degree was in Physics, from Yale University and awarded in 1876.
G. Stanley Hall was the first person to receive a PhD in psychology from Harvard University in 1878. He is considered a pioneer in the field and went on to have a significant impact on the development of psychology as a discipline in the United States.
He was the first African American to receive a PhD in math.
she was the first black women to earn a phd in chemistry
She was the first black woman in America to earn a PhD in Chemistry.
Evelyn Boyd was among the first African American women to receive a PhD. She received hers on Mathematics in 1949. Born in 1924, she is still alive today.
she became famous for being the first black women to earn a PHD.
Margaret Floy Washburn.
David Suzuki received his PhD in zoology in 1961 from the University of Chicago.