Talk:William Hunter Dammond

A fact from William Hunter Dammond appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Canadianerk (talk) 00:38, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that William Hunter Dammond became the first African American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893 but was not recognised as such until 2000? Source: "He graduated from Pitt in 1893 as one of the few black civil engineers in the nation ... In 2000, the University of Pittsburgh corrected its official history to credit Dammond as its first black graduate." from: Yeomans, Mike. "William Hunter Dammond: a Man of Firsts". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Belinda Archer

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 13:20, 2 December 2021 (UTC).[reply]

article is new enough, long enough, well written and cited. Hook is interesting and well-cited and a QPQ has been conducted. This looks GTG. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:37, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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