1914–1965
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John Sykes Fayette
?–1876
United States
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Rev. John Frederick Augustus Sykes Fayette (c. 1810 – February 27, 1876) was an American and Canadian college-educated Presbyterian minister. Fayette attended Western Reserve College, present day Case Western Reserve University, beginning in 1832 and graduated in 1836, notably as Ohio's first African American college student.
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