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1823

1823

Alexander Twilight graduates from Middlebury College, the first African American citizen to earn a baccalaureate degree at a college in the United States.

Feature Image

A circa 1974 photograph of a mid-19th century daguerreotype showing Alexander Twilight.

Old Stone House Museum and Historic Village, possibly Gregor Hileman, and Middlebury News Service via Middlebury College Special Collections

Curated Resources

Gregor Hileman, “The Iron-willed Black Schoolmaster and his Granite Academy,” Middlebury College News Letter, Spring 1974

Timothy Light, “Who was Alexander Twilight? And who is Alexander Twilight?,” Middlebury College Magazine, Autumn 1991

“Alexander Lucius Twilight,” Old Stone Museum and Historic Village

“Alexander Twilight,” Middlebury History Online

Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College, page 113, 1917

The Iron-willed Black Schoolmaster and His Granite Academy, circa 1974

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