By C. T. Smith Patrick Francis Healy is the first African-American to earn a PhD. Healy earned his doctorate degree from Louvain University in Belgium in 1865. One of nine children of his enslaved father and mother, he was reared in Jones and Macon, Georgia. Upon the death of the family patriarch, he bequeathed his […]
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