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Mary Henrietta Graham (1857 or 1858 – January 2, 1890) was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the University of Michigan, as well as the first biracial person to graduate from it.
It is wrong to call Mary Graham the first African American woman to attend U-M because she was, in fact, Canadian. She was born in 1857 in Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit River from Detroit, where the Graham family lived in the 1850s and ’60s.
Learn about Mary Henrietta Graham, who graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in philosophy in 1880. She is believed to be the first black woman to attend and graduate from the university.
Learn about Mary Graham, the first Black woman graduate from the University of Michigan in 1880. She was a teacher, journalist, and activist who lived in Windsor, Flint, and Chicago.
Mary Henrietta Graham was the first African American woman admitted to the University of Michigan in 1876. She was one of the first African Americans to receive a medical degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1877.
Mary Henrietta Graham’s accomplishments went far beyond being the first Black woman to enroll at Michigan. After obtaining her bachelor's of philosophy degree, she became a teacher, then worked at The Conservator, Chicago’s first African American newspaper.
Mary Henrietta Graham was the first African American woman admitted to the University of Michigan in 1876. Learn more about her and other students of color who broke barriers and made history at U-M.
