A sculpture of Martin Henry Freeman, the first Black college president in the United States, is on display on the sculpture trail in downtown Rutland, Vt., where he was born in 1826. Mr. Freeman, an 1849 graduate of Middlebury College, became president in 1856 of Allegheny Institute, which later became Avery College, in Pittsburgh.
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Sculpture honors 1st Black president of U.S. college
The first Black president of an American college is being honored with a sculpture installed in the Vermont city where he was born in 1826.
