Tag: Yale Alumni Magazine

  • Before Green and Bouchet, another African American Yale College grad. Maybe. Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-03-07 Mark Alden Branch ’86 Just last Friday, we told you that the first African American to graduate from Yale College was not Edward Bouchet in 1874, but Richard Henry Green in 1857. Since then, though, we’ve been reminded of two…

  • Yale College’s first black grad: it’s not who you think Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-02-28 Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL Mark Alden Branch ’86 In 1874, Edward Bouchet became the first African American to graduate from Yale College. Or so the university’s histories tell us—and we’ve reported it ourselves more than once. Yet that very year, a…

  • Discovery Leads Yale to Revise a Chapter of Its Black History The New York Times 2014-03-28 Ariel Kaminer On the campus of Yale University, Edward Bouchet has long been a venerated name. Hailed as the first African-American to graduate from Yale College, in 1874, he went on to be the first African-American to earn a…