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First Native American Students Admitted

1850 May 13

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Nine Native American pupils were admitted, three women and six men, including Caroline, Nicholson, and Newton Parker, all of Pembroke; Lucia Green and Mary Jemison of Cattaurugus; Levi Williams of Collins; Thomas Webster of Lenox; and Honues Neddy of Onondaga. Between 1850 and 1853 a total of 25...

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Sarah Lattimore Registers For Classes

1850 November 11

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Sarah Lattimore of Moreau, in Saratoga County registered for classes. There is no extant documentation of her attendance, graduation, or race. It is possible that Sarah was the daughter of Benjamin Lattimore, Jr., a leader in Albany's Black community. In September 1857, Susan B. Anthony made a...

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Charlotte V. Usher Attends The Normal School

1858-1859

Charlotte V. Usher, one of the first African-American students to attend the Normal School registers for classes. There is no record of her graduation and no indication in Normal School records that Usher was African-American. Information about her race is from Carlton Maybee, Black Education in...

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Harriet E. Twoguns Graduates

1865 July 13

Harriet E. Twoguns of the Cattaraugus Reservation graduates, the first Native American student to do so. Twoguns taught African-American children in the south for twenty years after graduation. Harriet Twoguns’ descendent, Lee Leroy, received a Distinguished Alumni Award in her honor in 1971.

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Kate Stoneman Graduates

1866

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Kate Stoneman graduated from the State Normal College. A prominent suffragist, she would later become the first woman lawyer in New York State in 1886. In 1880, she successfully lobbied the New York State legislature to allow women to elect local school boards. She taught penmanship at the State...

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Sensaburo Kudzo Graduates

1877 June 28

Sensaburo Kudzo, the first international student, graduates. Kudzo played a prominent role in establishing the normal school movement in Japan. He was an expert on western music. No other international students are known to have attended the school until 1908.

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Evelena Williams Graduates

1884 January 25

Evelena Williams was the first identifiable African-American graduate of the State Normal School. Williams taught and was principal for nine years in a one room school house for African Americans in Jamaica, N.Y. She lost her job when the Jamaica schools were integrated in 1893 or 1894. Nothing...

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Kate Stoneman Becomes First Woman Lawyer In New York State.

1886

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Kate Stoneman, faculty member, passes the NYS bar exam, but is denied admission to the NYS Bar by the NYS Court of Appeals. Stoneman & her allies successfully petition the NYS Legislature & Governor to pass a law admitting women to the NYS Bar. Stoneman becomes NYS first woman lawyer, continues...

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Javier S. Adrianzen, First Latin American Student, Graduates

1907 June 21

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Javier S. Adrianzen, A.B., a student from Chiclayo, Peru, attends State Normal School funded by the Peruvian Government. He earns a Bachelor of Pedagogy in 1910. Adrianzen is the first known Latin American student. He designed the State Normal College Echo cover in 1907.

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First Chinese Student, Hinting Wong, Enters New York State College For Teachers

1916 Fall

First Chinese student, Hinting Wong, enters New York State College for Teachers. Wong, who was also a student at Albany Law School, received his B.A. on June 18, 1917.

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