African American trailblazer recognized by Elizabethtown College research team

African American trailblazer recognized by Elizabethtown College research team

William Miller Barbour, originally from Middletown Dauphin County, was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County in 1932

He would later attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania before becoming an activist.

Due to poor record keeping and his death at an early age, much of…

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