Land Without Chimneys:: or, The Byways of Mexico

Alfred Oscar Coffin (1861-1933), born in Mississippi, was a college professor best known for being the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in biology, earned in 1889 from Illinois Wesleyan University, where his thesis was titled ‘The Origin of the Mound Builders,’ which connected the origins of the mound builders of the Mississippi Valley to an area in Southeastern Mexico.He taught first at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in Mississippi for two years, then from 1889 to 1895 ...