who was the first african american to receive a doctor from harvard
Du Boisâ 1895 doctoral dissertation, âThe Suppression of the African Slave Trade,â which was the first book in the Harvard Historical Series, published in 1896. Du Bois earned three degrees from Harvard â A.B. 1890, A.M. 1891, and Ph.D. 1895 â and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D.