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Grant Venerable
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Biography
Grant D. Venerable was the first African-American graduate of the California Institute of Technology, earning a BS in engineering in 1932. He entered Caltech in 1929, as a transfer student from UCLA. An undergraduate residence hall at Caltech was named after him in 2021.
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