Richard Theodore Greener : a story of a busy man, [1882].

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Richard Theodore Greener : a story of a busy man, [1882].

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Biographical sketch of this African-American educator and attorney, who was the first black graduate of Harvard University. Article summarizes Greener's student days at Oberlin and Harvard, and his work as a librarian and election to the chair of Metaphysics and Logic at the University of South Carolina. Sketch also discusses speeches, publications, and a list of library books at the University of South Carolina being cataloged by Greener at the time of his dismissal from the faculty in 1876. This unsigned manuscript is attributed to Frances R. Marchant writing for the Gloucester Bulletin [Gloucester, Mass.?].

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844-1922

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Richard Theodore Greener (January 30, 1844 – May 2, 1922) was the first African American graduate of Harvard College and went on to become the dean of the Howard University School of Law. Richard Greener was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844 and moved with his mother to Boston when he was approximately nine years old. He quit school in his mid-teens to earn money for his family, but one of his employers, Franklin B. Sanborn, helped him to enroll in preparatory school (Oberlin Academ...

Marchant, Frances, fl. 1882.

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South Carolina College

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