From the Atlanta Tribune:

THOMAS ‘HIT MAN’ HEARNS JULY 31 1874—Father Patrick Francis Healy be­comes the first Black president of a major White university when he is inaugurated on this day as president of Georgetown University. Healy was also the first Afri­can American to earn a PhD. However, racial prejudice forced him to earn his degree in Europe not […]

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