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Who was the first african american to earn a doctorate from harvard

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a man named du bois from harvard in 1889
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Du Bois

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Du Bois was a doctoral student at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, was the first African American to receive a Ph. D. from Harvard University (in 1895), and was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Humboldt-Universität in 1958.

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