HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Feb. 28 marks Alice Ball Day and the end of Black History Month, which commemorates the achievements of the first African American woman to graduate from UH Manoa and ...
In 1915, Alice Augusta Ball became the first woman to graduate from College of Hawaii with a master's degree in chemistry. She then became the first African American researcher in the college ...
Alice Augusta Ball, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1892, became the first woman and first African American to earn a master’s degree in science from the College of Hawaii in 1915, after ...