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Wordless Wednesday: Franklin A. Denison, Northwestern Law School’s First Black Valedictorian

May 13th, 2009 by Ajuan Mance

Major Franklin Augustus Denison, valedictorian, Union College of Law Class of 1890 (Union College of Law is now Northwestern University Law School).

(Source: New York Public Library Digital Gallery)

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One Response

  1. charles l. cain

    “NOW THIS IS AN IDEAL BLACK MAN”
    “ENOUGH SAID” I SHOULD SAY.