On January 24, 1885, Martin Delany, a pioneering African American abolitionist, physician, and military officer, died in Xenia, Ohio. Delany was one of the first African Americans admitted to Harvard Medical School and the first Black field officer in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. He was also a leading advocate of Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
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