This Week In Black History July 31- August 6, 2024

THOMAS ‘HIT MAN’ HEARNS
JULY 311874—Father Patrick Francis Healy be­comes the first Black president of a major White university when he is inaugurated on this day as president of Georgetown University. Healy was also the first Afri­can American to earn a PhD. However, racial prejudice forced him to earn his degree in Europe not the United States. Healy was born in Macon, Ga., in 1834 to a Black slave woman and a White planta­tion owner who decided to acknowledge his