Here is a look at some of the first Black women to graduate from Ivy League institutions and the circumstances surrounding their attendance.

(The Daily Princetonian)–Valerie Smith, an English and African American studies professor, will succeed Nancy Malkiel as the next dean of the college, the University announced Tuesday. Her appointment, effective July 1, 2011, will make her the highest-ranking African-American administrator in University history. Smith served as the founding director of the University’s Center for African American […]