A Book of Days: 150 Years of Student Life at Michigan
"Miss Mary H. Graham, of this city, the only colored lady who ever graduated at the university, and who took the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy at the recent commencement, is to go to Missouri next September as an instructor in Lincoln University, at Jefferson City. She has proven herself to be a person of unusual intellect, and is entitled to much credit for her perseverance in pushing her way through the university. She is only 22 years of age."
-Local Notes column. Ann Arbor Courier, 16 July 1880, p. 3. (26)
Photo Source: Mary Graham, ca. 1880; Mary Henrietta Graham collection