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doctoral degrees  

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  • Advanced university degrees awarded after a number of years of study and completion of original research in a chosen field. The first African American to receive a doctoral degree from an American university was Edward Alexander Bouchet of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale in 1876 with a Ph.D. in physics. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; Doctoral Degrees]

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