Portrait of physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852 – 1918), Yale College class of 1874, the first African-American to graduate from Yale College, the first to earn a Ph.D. in Science and the first to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
ca. 1875 - 1880
The Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database. Retouched by Marmaduke Percy.
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These are the images and accounts of how people worked, raised families, built communities, worshiped, maintained relationships, expressed themselves and coped with changes and challenges in the past. Most of the subjects are Americans of African descent.
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." — James Baldwin
