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First black person to graduate from harvard and became a u.s.
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Richard Theodore Greener
American lawyer
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era.
He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870.[1] Within three years, he had also graduated from law school at the University of South Carolina, only to also be hired as its first Black professor, after briefly serving as associate editor for the New National Era, a newspaper owned and edited by Frederick Douglass.[1][2][3]
In 1875, Greener became the first African American elected to the American Philological Association, the primary academic society for classical studies in North America.
In 1876, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of South Carolina, and the following year he was also admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia.[3] He went on to serve as dean of the Howard University Scho