June 1877
First African American to Graduate
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Inman Page graduated from the College with the Class of 1877. He and classmate George Washington Milford were the first African American students to do so. Although there were only a small number of black students enrolled in the years that followed, between 1877 and 1912, Brown graduated five black men who became presidents of black colleges.