List of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education

This is a list of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education.

Contents
18th century 19th century: 1800s • 1810s • 1820s • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s • 1860s • 1870s • 1880s • 1890s 20th century: 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s 21st century: 2000s • 2010s See also References

19th century

1840s

1847

• First African American to graduate from a U.S. medical school: Dr. David J. Peck^[1] (Rush Medical College)

1849

• First African-American college professor at a predominantly white institution: Charles L. Reason, New York Central College^[2]

1860s

1862

• First African-American woman to earn a B.A.: Mary Jane Patterson, Oberlin College^[3]

1864

• First African-American woman to become a physician in the United States: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, New England Female Medical College

1870s

1876

• First African American to earn a doctorate degree from an American university: Edward Alexander Bouchet (Yale College Ph.D., physics; also first African American to graduate from Yale, 1874)^[4]

1879

• First African American to graduate from a formal nursing school: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Boston, Massachusetts.^[5]

1880s

1883

• First known African-American woman to graduate from one of the Seven Sisters colleges: Hortense Parker (Mount Holyoke College)^{[6][Note 1]}

1890s

1895

• First African American to earn a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from Harvard University: W.E.B. Du Bois^[7]

20th century

1910s

1917

• First African-American to enter the University of Oregon: Mabel Byrd^[8]

1920s

1921

• First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in the U.S.: Sadie Tanner Mossell, Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania^[9]

1930s

1931

• First African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School: Jane Matilda Bolin

1940s

1947

• First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming (University of Chicago Law School)^[2]

1948

• First African-American male to graduate from Oregon State College: William Tebeau^[10]

1960s

1961

• Dr. Donald Randolph Brown, Sr. DDS (died July 2009) was the first African American to attend, and graduate, dental school at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1965. He became the first African American to attend the school in 1961.^[11][11][12]

1962

• Dr. Tom Jones, D.D.S., an African-American student who had won a scholarship from Phillips Petroleum Company entered University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry. He became the second African American to attend, and graduate, dental school in 1965. Some of the school's patients would refuse to let the two African-American students treat them. Speaking in 2007, Jones said, "Dean Hamilton Robinson and Assistant Dean Jack Wells refused to negotiate. “They would say, ‘Either they work on you or nobody works on you.’”^[13]

1963

• First African American to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Academy: Charles V. Bush.

1969

• First African-American graduate of Harvard Business School: Lillian Lincoln

References

1. Ward, Thomas J. (2003). Black physicians in the Jim Crow South. University of Arkansas Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-61075-072-1. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
2. Jackson, Sandra; Johnson, Richard Greggory (2011). The black professoriat: negotiating a habitable space in the academy. Peter Lang. pp. 2–4. ISBN 978-1-4331-1027-6. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
3. Logan, Rayford W. (1969). Howard University: The First Hundred Years, 1867 - 1967. New York University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-8147-0263-5. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
4. Mickens, Ronald E. (2002). Edward Bouchet: The First African-American Doctorate. World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. ISBN 9789810249090.
5. Darraj, Susan Muaddi (2009-01-01). Mary Eliza Mahoney. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 1438107609.
6. Hine, Darlene Clark (2005). Black women in America. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 385. ISBN 978-0-19-515677-5. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
7. Moore, Jacqueline M. (2003). Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. The African American history series. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8420-2994-0. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
8. "Untold Stories: Black History at the University of Oregon | UO Special Collections and University Archives Blog". blogs.uoregon.edu. UO Special Collections and University Archives. 2016-02-04. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
9. Malveaux, Julianne (1997). "Missed Opportunity: Sadie Teller Mossell Alexander and the Economics Profession". In Thomas D. Boston. A Different Vision: Africa American Economic Thought. 1. Routledge Chapman & Hall. pp. 123–. ISBN 978-0-415-12715-8. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
10. Group, Sinclair Broadcast. "Oregon State to name new residence hall after pioneering student". KVAL. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
11. "Honoring the Legacy of the School's First African-American Graduate" (PDF). Explorer: UMKC School of Dentistry Alumni News. 72 (2): 6. Winter 2012.
12. "Brown-Ewing Family Reunion 2012". Family Reunion Websites powered by MyEvent.com.
13. "Jones named alumni award winner". News : University of Missouri - Kansas City. 2007-03-29. Retrieved 2015-02-26.

Notes

1. Parker graduated from Mount Holyoke when it was still a seminary.