The Testimony of William Hunter Dammond: The First African American Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh
by
Roland Barksdale-Hall
Bryant & Stratton College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
William Hunter Dammond
Read about William Hunter Dammond, the first African American to graduate in Civil Engineering from the Western University of Pennsylvania in June 1893.
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