{"id":17588,"date":"2023-02-14T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:37:33","slug":"datcher-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/datcher-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the First Black Woman to Graduate from Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A lifelong educator, Nellie Datcher 1890 was a leading scholar on the Hill\u2014and one of several Big Red alums in her family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This story was condensed from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2023\/02\/cornells-first-black-woman-graduate-impacted-generations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>a feature<\/em><\/a><em> in the<\/em> Cornell Chronicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Caitlin Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A close look at a photograph of Cornell\u2019s graduating class of 1890 reveals a milestone: In the front row, center, stands Jane Eleanor \u201cNellie\u201d Datcher, the first known Black woman to earn an undergraduate degree from Cornell and the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a degree in botany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datcher\u2014who earned her spot in the photo on the Morrill Hall steps by excelling academically\u2014went on to impact generations of Black students as a high school chemistry teacher. She also participated in the founding of regional and national networks for Black women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornell\u2019s 1865 charter, radical in its day, meant that anyone who passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/entrance-exams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entrance exams<\/a> could come to Cornell, regardless of race, sex, or religion\u2014making it one of the only universities at the time that would accept Black women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A group photo of Cornelll's Class of 1890\" class=\"wp-image-17591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/RMC2005_0874-B1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Datcher (front row, just left of center) in a Class of 1890 group photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMost of the important universities or named universities in the country only took men,\u201d says Carol Kammen, Tompkins County historian, retired senior lecturer in history, and author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2009\/10\/part-and-apart-blacks-cornell-1856-1945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part &amp; Apart<\/a>: The Black Experience at Cornell: 1865\u20131945<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCornell was the most significant school accepting women and African Americans, and Datcher\u2019s uncle wanted his son and niece to get the best education available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the University did not systematically keep records of race, Datcher may have been among the first cohort of Black students to graduate from Cornell, along with Charles Chauveau Cook 1890 (her cousin) and George Washington Fields, LLB 1890. All three are pictured in the photograph, along with several international students, from Latin America, Europe, and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Cornell was the most significant school accepting women and African Americans.<\/p>\n<cite>Historian <strong>Carol Kammen<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Datcher was born in 1868 in Washington, DC, where she attended both private and public schools. Her maternal grandfather was born into slavery; after gaining freedom, he became deeply involved in efforts to provide academic and religious education to the Black community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At age 19, Datcher came to Cornell in 1886 with Cook (then 15); both were from a prominent Black family in the Washington, DC, area. Many of Datcher\u2019s family members followed in her footsteps, with records of at least six relatives attending Cornell, including cousins and Cook\u2019s son and daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datcher excelled on the Hill, graduating with honors and even completing a thesis (not required by undergraduates), a handwritten \u201cbiological sketch\u201d of two species of native wildflowers in the buttercup family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-style-offset\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>None of Datcher\u2019s letters or papers have survived or surfaced, but records indicate that she boarded with a local widow for her first year in Ithaca and then moved into the Sage College for Women (now Sage Hall).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datcher would have lived and taken many of her classes in Sage, built in 1875, which housed the botany department in an addition, including a botanical conservatory built in 1882. The building also boasted a pool, gym, and indoor plumbing. Photos of a classroom show a line of microscopes on a table set against large windows used for natural light\u2014as the University was just beginning to install electricity.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Eleanor Datcher\" class=\"wp-image-17594 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B.jpg 720w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-632x790.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-316x395.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-140x175.jpg 140w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-70x87.jpg 70w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-200x250.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/Jane-Eleanor-Datcher-copy-B-100x125.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>A portrait of Datcher.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would have been a wonderful environment,\u201d says Ed Cobb \u201973, retired research support specialist in the School of Integrative Plant Science, who researched and wrote a blog about Datcher. \u201cBy the time Jane came here, Sage had a nice dormitory, its own gymnasium and cafeteria, a gorgeous conservatory. I think it was a kind of golden era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kammen suspects that Datcher had camaraderie with her female classmates. \u201cIn the [Class of 1890] photo, Datcher is standing with the other women, in the front, as an equal,\u201d she says, \u201cand there\u2019s physical contact, which is unusual for that day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Datcher remained committed to education. After studying at Howard Medical School from 1893\u201394, she taught chemistry at DC\u2019s renowned Dunbar High School\u2014the first public high school in the U.S. for Black youth\u2014until her death in 1934.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: A close-up of Datcher in the Class of 1890 photo. 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