Educator Mary Jane Patterson is considered to be the first African American woman to receive a B.A. when she graduated from Oberlin College in 1862. A fellow Oberlin alumnus, Lucy Stanton Day Sessions, graduated twelve years earlier but was not in a program that awarded official […] … Read MoreMary Jane Patterson (1840-1894)
[…] students and two years later it opened its doors to all women, becoming the first coeducational college in the country. In 1862, Mary Jane Patterson earned a B.A. degree in education from Oberlin, becoming the first African American woman to earn a degree from an American […] … Read MoreOberlin College (1833- )
[…] award graduates with a bachelor’s degree. In 1862 Oberlin College formally awarded the first bachelor’s degree to an African American woman when Mary Jane Patterson graduated with a B.A. Lucy Stanton was born as a freed inhabitant of Cleveland, Ohio on October 16, 1831. Her father, […] … Read MoreLucy Stanton Day Sessions (1831-1910)
[…] added African American faculty, most of whom were former students at the school. Among the first several principals of the school were Mary Jane Patterson, the second African American female college graduate, Anna J. Cooper, the fourth African American woman to earn a Ph.D., and Richard […] … Read MorePaul Laurence Dunbar High School (1870- )
[…] Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States (1980) Vincent Harding, There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America, (1981) Mary F. Berry and John W. Blassingame, Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982) Ira Berlin, et. al. eds., Freedom: A […] … Read MoreAfrican American History: Bibliography
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[…] at Stanford University. M.D., Cornell University School of Medicine. David P. Johnson…….Professor of Digital Media and Web Technology at the University of Maryland. B.A. in Afro-American Studies and M.S. in computer systems management, University of Maryland. Ph.D. in occupational studies, University of Georgia. Brad […] … Read MoreWhat Can I Do with A Black Studies Major? Five Hundred Answers Provided by Robert Fikes, Jr.
