Isaac Humphrey Snowden (1826–1869) was one of the first three African-American students admitted to

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, in 1850, along with

Martin Delany Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812January 24, 1885) was an abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." ...

and Daniel Laing, Jr. Snowden and Laing were sponsored by the

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in doing so and had previously been connected with the Young Men's Literary Society in Boston. After being at Harvard for a time white students protested the admission of black students, and Snowden and the two other black students were removed from the school. Snowden then studied with a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and unsuccessfully tried to re-enter Harvard in 1853. In 1854, after completing his medical education, Snowden sailed for Liberia on the ship ''Sophia Walke'' to serve in Sinou County. He died in Liberia in 1869.

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''A Study of Black Intellectual and Literary Societies in Antebellum Boston''
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