The Chicago Broad Ax remembered him as "one of the best educated and most prominent colored men in the United States." [] He was interred in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery, where he joined such luminaries as Cyrus McCormick, Marshall Field and Joseph Medill. In a final irony for a life that often played out in an invisible space between black and white, Richard Greener's official death certificate identified him as "white."Id. at 160.
Monday, February 5, 2018
RICHARD GREENER, 1844 - MAY 2, 1922
Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, Uncompromising Activist: Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017):
