William Henry Crogman (May 5, 1841 – October 16, 1931) was an African American pioneering educator and classicist at Clark University of Atlanta in the United States.

[4] He attended schools in Massachusetts and had the chance to travel the world, visiting ports in Asia, Europe, Australia, and South America.

After the American Civil War he entered Pierce Academy in Middleborough, Massachusetts, led by John Whipple Potter Jenks.

In 1883, he gave two speeches from Henry Ward Beecher's pulpit at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, which were printed in pamphlet form.

[3] In 1892, the General Conference selected him to be a member of a University Senate chosen by the bishops to determine the minimum requirements for the baccalaureate degree from associated schools.

[5] He was highly respected and beloved at Clark University, and worked for equality in education and civil rights.

He was also a trustee at the Gammon Theological Seminary[5] He was a participant in the March 5, 1897, meeting to celebrate the memory of Frederick Douglass which founded the American Negro Academy led by Alexander Crummell.