Graduates of Oberlin

1855 graduates of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, from a daguerreotype in the Oberlin College Archives.

Ann M Hazle, daughter of a free African American baker and blacksmith Richard Hazle of New Bern, North Carolina became only the third African American woman to complete Oberlin College's literary course in 1855. After completion of her studies she became a school teacher in Ohio.

Oberlin College is known for two great social reforms. It was the first college in the world to admit women as well as men. It also was the first college that promised to educate African-American men and women.