https://blacknews.com/news/dennis-hubert-imam-plemon-el-amin-black-college-student-lynched-1930-finally-honored-posthumous-degree/ In June 1930, Dennis Hubert, then-18-year-old African American college student, was lynched by a white mob in Atlanta. Nearly a century later, Morehouse College honored him with a posthumous degree, accepted by his nephew in an emotional ceremony.