And, says Robert Garland, a black graduate, "he retained a bit of himself through the process."

Mr. Wilson was the first black graduate of the architecture school, in 1928.

As it is, we could place each one of our black law-school graduates in four different places.

Turner, 37, was a black graduate of Harvard law school who had served two terms in the state legislature.

He was the first black graduate to work at the mines.

This project would involve King traveling with a recent black graduate to different colleges to assess the extent of academic freedom in the south.

Next year, West Point will commission its 1,000th black graduate.

Providing tools that will aid black graduates and professionals in their studies.

As recently as the early 1970's, black graduates numbered no more than nine each year.

A court order five years earlier had opened the institution's doors to black graduate and medical students.