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Back row: Dr. Hyla S. Waters, Class of 1915; Benjamin F. Wright, President of the College 1949-59. Front Row: Otelia Cromwell, Class of 1900; Mary Josephine Rogers, Class of 1905 (Mother Mary Joseph); Eatharine Asher (Engle), Class of 1920.

Otelia Cromwell was the first African-American student to matriculate at Smith College. She arrived at Smith in 1898 and graduated in 1900.

Photograph of Otelia Cromwell in 1950, the year she received an honorary degree from Smith College.

Mabel Milham Roys, front, and Otelia Cromwell, second, in Ivy Day procession at Smith College, 1900.

Cover and interior of brochure for the first Otelia Cromwell Symposium on Racism.

Photograph of Otelia Cromwell from the Class of 1900 yearbook. Cromwell was the first African American to matriculate at Smith College.