Myrtle Craig Mowbray (March 16, 1883 - November 8, 1974), formerly Myrtle Craig, was the first African American woman to graduate from the Michigan Agricultural College (later Michigan State University) in 1907. She was later a schoolteacher and a professor at two historically black colleges and universities in Kansas and Missouri. The Mowbray Scholars Program at the Michigan State University Honors College is named in her honor.Mowbray was born in Adrian, Michigan. Her father was a messenger for the secretary of state in Lansing, the state capital. Prior to her arrival in East Lansing, she graduated from George R. Smith College in Sedalia, Missouri, and for a year was an elementary schoolteacher in Missouri. Wikipedia
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