Timeline: 1884
Minnie B. Moss, daughter of Civil War veteran and local barber John Moss, became the first African American student to graduate from East Side High School in Champaign, IL. The Champaign County Gazette stated on April 18, 1888, that, “she was the first and only colored pupil to graduate from any of the schools in the city.”
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