List of African-American pioneers in desegregation of higher education

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

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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
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19th century

1840s

1847

1849

1860s

1862

1864

1870s

1872

1873

1876

1879

  • First African American to graduate from a formal nursing school: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Boston, Massachusetts [8]

1880s

1883

1890s

1890

1895

20th century

1910s

1917

1920s

1921

1923

1930s

1931

1932

1940s

1940

1943

1947

1948

1949

1950s

1952

1956

1957

  • First Black American to receive an undergraduate degree from a formerly segregated Southern college or university: Gwendolyn Lila Toppin, Texas Western College of the University of Texas (now University of Texas at El Paso). [33]

1960s

1960

1961

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, graduating 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.'" [38]

1963

1969

1970s

1978

  • First person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology (Dr. Joycelyn Elders). [41]

1980s

1980

  • First African-American woman to graduate from (and to attend) the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, graduated in 1980 [42] [43] [44]

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Notes

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