Alexander Lucius Twilight graduated from Middlebury College in 1823 and has been noted as being the first African-American to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American university. Twilight was born in 1795 in Corinth, Vermont. His parents were free and of mixed race, African and English descent. His father Ichabod Twilight was a Revolutionary […]

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