Flashback Friday (Way, Way Back): Stanford’s First African American Graduate
June 4th, 2010 by Ajuan Mance
(Source: Stanford Magazine)
Ernest Houston Johnson (bottom left), Stanford University’s first African American graduate, photographed with other members of the senior class intercollege football team. Johnson was a graduating member of the class of 1895. When he died of tuberculosis in 1898, he was buried with his Stanford diploma.
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