Letter from the Massachusetts Colonization Society to the Medical Faculty of Harvard College

Letter from the Massachusetts Colonization Society to the Medical Faculty of Harvard College

Correspondence

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Massachusetts Colonization Society (author)

Laing, Daniel, Jr.

Snowden, Isaac H.

This letter from Holmes’ tenure as dean of Harvard Medical School relates to the education of two African-American students, Daniel Laing, Jr., and Isaac H. Snowden. The Massachusetts Colonization Society promoted the education of Laing and Snowden, planning to send them out to practice in the Republic of Liberia.

Laing, Snowden and a third student, Martin Robison Delany, enrolled during the winter term in 1850 but were forced to withdraw following a protest by some of the Medical School students. Both Laing and Snowden went on to pursue medical studies at Dartmouth.

Letter from the Massachusetts Colonization Society requesting the admission of African-American students Daniel Laing, Jr. and Isaac H. Snowden

Massachusetts Colonization Society

1850 November 01

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Harvard Medical School. Office of the Dean. Records, 1828-1904 (inclusive), 1869-1874 (bulk). RG M-DE01 Series 00266 (AA1), box 4, f. 9

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