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Jane Eleanor Datcher, Cornell's first Black woman graduate, stands front and center in the class photo of 1890.

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After graduating with a degree in botany in 1890, Jane Eleanor Datcher taught chemistry at the first – and best – public high school in the U.S. for Black youth and helped organize regional and national networks for Black women.

  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture