Greener
Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering scholar, lawyer and diplomat. He was the first black student to attend Harvard, graduating in 1870. His attendance and success paved the way for other students behind him. He was the first Black professor at the University of South Carolina, where he also oversaw the reorganization of the university library after the damage done during the Civil War. He served as Dean of the Howard University School of Law, and was sent to Bombay, India and Vladivostok, Russia as part of the US Diplomatic Corp. He separated from his first wife when she listed her and their six children as white on a census, undermining his work as a civil rights activist. He died in Chicago at age 78. His Harvard diploma and other documents were discovered by a demolition crew in an abandoned house on the South Side of Chicago.
Mr. Greener is approximately 12” tall. He is constructed and dressed in recycled wool sweaters and suiting. He is stuffed with recycled denim.
Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering scholar, lawyer and diplomat. He was the first black student to attend Harvard, graduating in 1870. His attendance and success paved the way for other students behind him. He was the first Black professor at the University of South Carolina, where he also oversaw the reorganization of the university library after the damage done during the Civil War. He served as Dean of the Howard University School of Law, and was sent to Bombay, India and Vladivostok, Russia as part of the US Diplomatic Corp. He separated from his first wife when she listed her and their six children as white on a census, undermining his work as a civil rights activist. He died in Chicago at age 78. His Harvard diploma and other documents were discovered by a demolition crew in an abandoned house on the South Side of Chicago.
Mr. Greener is approximately 12” tall. He is constructed and dressed in recycled wool sweaters and suiting. He is stuffed with recycled denim.
Richard Theodore Greener was a pioneering scholar, lawyer and diplomat. He was the first black student to attend Harvard, graduating in 1870. His attendance and success paved the way for other students behind him. He was the first Black professor at the University of South Carolina, where he also oversaw the reorganization of the university library after the damage done during the Civil War. He served as Dean of the Howard University School of Law, and was sent to Bombay, India and Vladivostok, Russia as part of the US Diplomatic Corp. He separated from his first wife when she listed her and their six children as white on a census, undermining his work as a civil rights activist. He died in Chicago at age 78. His Harvard diploma and other documents were discovered by a demolition crew in an abandoned house on the South Side of Chicago.
Mr. Greener is approximately 12” tall. He is constructed and dressed in recycled wool sweaters and suiting. He is stuffed with recycled denim.