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Lucile Buchanan

1884–1989

United States

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Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones (1884–1989) was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder. She graduated with a degree in German in 1918. The Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Scholarship was created in her honor in April, 2010.

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