Otelia Cromwell. First Black grad of Smith College. Then she conquered Columbia U and finally earned her Ph.D in English from Yale.
Wow. And she didn't have filthy rich 'rents to bribe her way in. She used her brain. Can you imagine that? One of her nieces (Adelaide Cromwell Hill) became an instructor in sociology at Smith College years later.
Smith College honors her in November each year..
https://www.smith.edu/about-smith/college-events/otelia-cromwell-day
Read more about Otelia at the links above.
her niece, sociologist Adelaide M. Cromwell Hill
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