Franklin LaVeale Anderson was the University of Colorado Law School’s first known Black student in 1896, and you can see him in the class photo, but his name is absent from degree records.
A librarian’s archival dive is helping restore these erased histories of Black law students
https://theconversation.com/how-a-colorado-law-school-dug-into-its-history-to-celebrate-its-unsung-black-graduates-268629