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RICHARD T. GREENER
 

SIZE: Lifesize+

MEDIUM: Bronze

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

EDUCATION is the theme of this sculpture.

The fIrst African American to graduate from Harvard and the first African-American professor at the University of South Carolina, serving during the Reconstruction Era, from 1873 through 1877.

He was credited with saving the university's library from a major fire. Hence I show him holding a large book He went on to serve in President Grant's administration.

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