Middlebury is the first American institution of higher education to have granted a bachelor's degree to an African-American, graduating Alexander Twilight in the class of 1823.

Alexander Twilight, class of 1823, was the first black graduate of any college or university in the United States ; he also became the first African American elected to public office, joining the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836.

Alexander Twilight ( 1823 ), first African American college graduate

* First African American college graduate Alexander Twilight ( 1823 )

It also contains the small Alexander Twilight Theater.

* The Alexander Twilight Players-Local Acting Guild

Alexander Lucius Twilight ( September 26, 1795 – June 19, 1857 ), born free in Vermont, was the first black person known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university upon graduating Middlebury College in 1823.

Alexander Lucius Twilight was born September 26, 1795 at Corinth, Vermont.

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As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

At first unsuccessful, Alexander finally defeated Demetrius Soter in 150 BC.

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

This novel is the first of a series of novels primarily about the life and times of Robert the Bruce however it covers Alexander III and the circumstances surrounding his death in some detail.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), first prince of Bulgaria

* Alexander I of Yugoslavia ( 1888 – 1934 ), first king of Yugoslavia

The first of these groups was formed in a wood outside Milan by three noble Milanese, Alexander Grivelli, Antonio Petrasancta, and Albert Besuzzi, who were joined by others, including some priests.

Penicillin, the first natural antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928

* 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

* 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg 1913 / 14 ( the eighth All-Russian Masters ' Tournament ).

As the first Franciscan to hold a chair at the University of Paris, Alexander had many significant disciples.

While it is common for scholars to state that Alexander was the first to write a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, it is not quite accurate.

There were a number of " commentaries " on the Sentences, but Alexander appears to have been the first magisterial commentary.

Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

* February 25 – Alexander du Toit, South African geologist ( b. 1878 )

* Domitius Alexander is acclaimed emperor ( against Maxentius ) in Carthage, the African provinces come under his rule.

* Maxentius, Roman usurper, reconquers the African provinces from Domitius Alexander.

Late in 308, Domitius Alexander was acclaimed emperor in Carthage, and the African provinces seceded from Maxentian rule.

The book is written from the perspectives of several people-Merlin Van Tornhout and Johnny Reeves, both members of the Ku Klux Klan, Sara Chickering, a farmer, Esther Hirsh, a six-year-old Jewish girl, Leonora Sutter, an African American girl, Iris Weaver, a resteraunteur, Harvey and Viola Pettibone, who are shop owners, Reynard Alexander, a newspaper editor, Fitzgerald Flitt, the doctor, and Percelle Johnson, the town constable.

* William Alexander Smith ( boxer ) ( 1904 – 1955 ), South African boxer of the 1920s

* Walter G. Alexander ( 1880 – 1953 ), first African American member of the New Jersey Legislature.

The noted scientist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a doctorate from an American university, served as principal of the city's Lincoln High School from 1908 to 1913.

Nevertheless, Push associates regularly assisted in organising and turning out for street demonstrations, e. g., against South African apartheid and in support of victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre ; against the initial refusal of immigration minister Alexander Downer, Sr. to grant political asylum to three Portuguese merchant seamen who jumped ship in Darwin ; and against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War.

The university was one of the first institutions in America to grant a law degree to a woman ( Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson, 1873 ), to grant a law degree to an African American ( G. Alexander Clark, 1879 ), and to put an African American on a varsity athletic squad ( Frank Holbrook, 1895 ).

His wife is a direct descendant of the Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin and therefore of his African ancestor Ibrahim Hannibal as well as of King George II, making her distantly in line to the British throne.

Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey, National Security Advisor Richard Allen, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, on March 6, met with UNITA leaders in Washington, D. C. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walker met with Savimbi in March in Rabat, Morocco.

Independent of the initiatives of Hodson and the Legislative Assembly, the Central African Council's commission on higher education, led by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders ( after whom another residence is now named ) recommended the establishment of a university college to serve Rhodesia and Nyasaland, with its first preference being to integrate with the Southern Rhodesian initiative.

These included the design work for the Boer War Memorial Fountain in Windsor, Ontario ( 1906 ), the South African War Memorial in Toronto ( 1910 ), The Baldwin-Lafontaine Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa ( 1914 ) and the Bell Memorial commemorating Alexander Graham Bell's invention of telephone in Brantford, Ontario ( 1917 ).

Alexander sent the message, " We are masters of the North African shore.

John Hanks Alexander ( 6 January 1864 – 26 March 1894 ) was the first African American officer in the United States armed forces to hold a regular command position and the second African American graduate of the United States Military Academy.

Alexander H. Darnes ( 1840-February 11, 1894 ) was an African American born into slavery in the same home as Smith in St. Augustine, Florida.

* Alexander John Goodrum ( 1960 – 2002 ), an African American transgender civil rights activist

Matthew Alexander Henson ( August 8, 1866March 9, 1955 ) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he may have been the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole.