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Richard Henry Greene
1833–1877
United States
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Richard Henry Greene (1833–1877) was the first African American to graduate from Yale University. After a brief stint as a schoolteacher, he worked mainly as a medical doctor in Hoosick, New York. During the American Civil War, he received an MD from Dartmouth and served as an acting assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.
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