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arnabas Root was probably the first black man to receive a college degree in Illinois, according to Hermann Muelder in "Missionaries and Muckrakers: The First Hundred Years of Knox College" (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
arnabas Root was probably the first black man to receive a college degree in Illinois, according to Hermann Muelder in "Missionaries and Muckrakers: The First Hundred Years of Knox College" (University of Illinois Press, 1984).
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