Who was the First African-American President of a Major University?

Patrick Francis Healy, who became President of Georgetown in 1874.
The Library of Congress says he was the first president of a predominantly white university, though Georgetown says he was the first president of a major university, but I suspect that in 1874 the two were the same thing. Howard’s first African-American president, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, began his service in 1926.

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