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Richard Theodore Greener.
Scholar, diplomat, attorney, and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover (1844–1922)
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About Richard Theodore Greener
Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. In 1870, he became the first black undergraduate at Harvard University to receive a bachelor's degree.
Everything about Richard Theodore Greener →- Occupation
- librarian, diplomat, lawyer, classical scholar
- Position held
- professor, dean
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 30, 1844
- Died
- May 15, 1922