• Published Male Author: Jupiter Hammon of Lloyd Harbor, NY -- 1760
  • Published Female Author: Phillis Wheatley of Boston, MA via Senegambia -- 1773
  • Bachelor's Degree Recipient from U.S. College: Alexander Twilight of Corinth, VT -- Middlebury College, 1823
  • President of Any Nation: Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Norfolk, VA -- Liberia, 1847
  • College Professor at Predominantly White Institution: Charles L. Reason of New York, NY -- New York Central College, 1849
  • Published Novelist: William Wells Brown of Lexington, KY -- 1853
  • Female College Instructor: Sarah Jane Early of Chillicothe, OH -- Wilberforce University, 1858
  • Woman to Earn a B.A.: Mary Jane Patterson of Raleigh, NC -- Oberlin College, 1862
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