First African American to Graduate

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.

Read Page’s Senior Class Oration from 1877.

See "Blacks at Brown" timeline.