Eva Beatrice Dykes, the first African-American woman to complete a doctorate degree, at Radcliffe in 1921.
After earning her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1914, Dykes went on to complete a second bachelor’s, a master’s degree, and eventually a doctorate at Radcliffe. Her dissertation, Pope and His Influence in America from 1715 to 1815, examined Alexander Pope’s opinions regarding slavery as well as his influence on American writers.
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Ms. Dykes’s dissertation is...part of the permanent Widener depository collection,
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Well, there seems to be some dispute as to her designation as “the first”. There were two other African American women...
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