Notable Alumnai
Graduates had an important role in bringing education and medical care to African-Americans during the early part of the 20th Century. Physician James W. Ames, for example, founded the first hospital for blacks in Detroit in 1910. Dunbar Hospital was created for physicians and patients of color, unable to practise or be admitted to Detroit hospitals operated by whites. Straight's graduates participated in local and national Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction era civil rights struggles. For example, 1876 Straight University Law School graduate, Louis André Martinet, published The Crusader--a civil rights daily, co-founded the Comité des Citoyens (Citizens' Committee), and played a significant role in the Plessy v. Ferguson landmark Supreme Court case. Among other notable alumni are P.B.S. Pinchback (first African American governor of a U.S. state) and Alice Dunbar Nelson, foremother of the Harlem Renaissance.
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