Myrtle Craig Mowbray

Biography

Myrtle Craig Mowbray (March 16, 1883 – November 8, 1974), formerly Myrtle Craig, was the first African-American woman to graduate from the Michigan Agricultural College (later Michigan State University) in 1907. She was later a schoolteacher and a professor at two historically black colleges and universities in Kansas and Missouri. The Mowbray Scholars Program at the Michigan State University Honors College is named in her honor.

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