Black Facts = 1873 – Richard T. Greener, first Black graduate of Harvard University, named professor of metaphysics at the University of South Carolina.After graduation, Greener forged a career in academia and government service, joining the ranks of intellectuals that W.E.B. DuBois later termed the “talented tenth,” the black “aristocracy of character and talent” whose mission, as DuBois saw it, was to help empower black Americans in the wake of the Civil War. In 1873, Greener became the first African-American faculty member at the University of South Carolina, where he also studied law and was among the law school’s first African-American graduates. In 1879 he was appointed dean at the Howard University School of Law, leaving in 1881 to open a practice in Washington, DC.#theraydiotwins
