Portrait of Anita Florence Hemmings, 1897.
Hemmings was the first student with African ancestry to attend Vassar, though she passed as white until scandal broke out shortly before her graduation. Vassar did not knowingly admit an African-American student until 1940.
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Vassar got tricked? womp, womp.
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I am pretty sure...the fact the Hemmings was also not allowed
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