Celebrating Black History Month | The first black graduates of Harvard Law School

In this video, Harvard Law School professors Annette Gordon-Reed ’84, Kenneth Mack ’91 and David Wilkins ’80 discuss four trailblazing African Americans who, in the years immediately following the Emancipation Proclamation, became the first black graduates of Harvard Law School: George Lewis Ruffin 1869, Archibald Grimke 1874, Clement Morgan 1893 and William Henry Lewis 1895, all four of whom went on to accomplished careers as lawyers, activists, writers and agents of social change.

[GordonRamseyIsMyLifestyle]

First Black graduates that Harvard allowed into their school actually. Big difference

[say-cred]

when are they going to celebrate the first asian graduates of Harvard? Oh yeah, never. because they'll always be considered second class citizens by their admissions office.

[edwardkennedy]

Well it’s colored history month. Actually it was all of last summer