Marjorie Lee Browne was born on September 9, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee. Browne received her Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Michigan in 1949 becoming the third African American female to earn a Ph.D. in her field.The daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and her husband Lawrence Johnson Lee Marjorie mother passed away when she was 2 years old. Her father was a postal clerk a also a well known math wizard. He got married again right after his first wife's death. He and his second wife Lottie was a school teacher and she pushed Marjorie to take her education seriously. Going through hard racial times,Lawrence made his kids get a precious education. Browne attended LeMoyne High School a private school that was for black students. Browne next came up with a way to attend Howard University located in Washington, D.C. Browne graduated Cum Laude in 1935. After college she moved to New Orleans, where she got a teaching job at Gilbert Academy. Browne left her job after only 1 year and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she earned a master's degree and eventually her doctorate from the University of Michigan. …show more content…
In 1951 Browne was named chair of the Mathematics Department. She used her position to help her school get some the computers. In 1960, Browne got a $60,000 grant from IBM to set up an electronic digital computer center at North Carolina College. During her time at North Carolina Central University Browne instructed both undergraduate and graduate courses. As an educator she published sets of lecture notes for other teachers to
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
Lawrence was a very well educated man, but he did not have the best education until he was in college. He started college at Virginia Union University, an all-black school, where in 1951 he received a degree in chemistry and in science. After graduating he started working as a toxicologist in the medical examiner's office. In 1952, he was drafted into the army and served in the Korean War where he earned the Bronze Star for heroism in combat for ...
At 22, after two-thirds of a year at Berea College in West Virginia, he returned to the coalmines and studied Latin and Greek between trips to the mineshafts. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he received bachelors and master's degrees, and Harvard University, where he became the second black to receive a doctorate in history.
After his high school graduation he enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. There he "discovered his Blackness" and made a lifelong commitment to his people. He taught in rural Black schools in Tennessee during summer vacations, thus expanding his awareness of his Black culture.
In 1900 Carter returned to Douglas High School to become a teacher and eventually became a principal. Carter served as the principal up until 1903. During his time while working as a principal, Carter was taking classes at the University of Chicago where in 1907 he received a Bachelors Degree and his Masters Degree in 1908. Carter was a very busy man dedicated to the educating and the advancement of people of color. From 1903-1909, Carter traveled the world. He supervised schools in the Philippines, studied in Asia, Europe, and even at the University of Paris. In 1909, Carter returned to the United States, where he taught History, English, Spanish and French at Dunbar High School in Washington D.C. Carter was the second African American to receive a PH.D from Harvard in 1912.
Bassett went to Yale University and got her B.A. degree in African-American studies in 1980. In 1983, she earned a
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
She graduated from Dunbar Junior High School, then went to Horace Mann High School, which at that time, was an all black school.
She attended The Walden School, which was established in 1914 and is still today a functioning school. In fact a well known celebrity Matthew Broderick also attended and graduated from there. Barbara graduated in 1930 when she was 18. She then went on to attend college at and received her BA at Radcliffe College. She didn't actually receive any academic education as a historian but had always been interested in history. The honor thesis that she wrote at Radcliffe was actually titled "The Moral Justification for the British Empire"
His master sent him to Neosho, Missouri for an early education and graduated from Minneapolis High School in Kansas. He eventually mailed an application to Highland University in Kansas and was not only accepted but also offered a scholarship. Happily, George traveled to the school to accept the scholarship but upon meeting George, the University president asked, "why didn't you tell me you were a Negro?
No black school was available locally so he was forced to move. He said "Good-bye" to his adopted parents, Susan and Moses, and headed to Newton County in southwest Missouri. Here is where the path of his education began. He studied in a one-room schoolhouse and worked on a farm to pay for it. He ended up, shortly after, moving with another family to Fort Scott in Kansas. In Kansas, he worked as a baker in a kitchen while he attended the High School. He paid for his schooling with the money he earned from winning bake-off contests. From there he moved all over bouncing from school to school. "College entrance was a struggle again because of racial barriers."2 At the age of thirty he gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
From a young age Rose was all about education. She graduated high school in 1965 from Chamberlian Vocational High School in Washington D.C. She went on to feather her education and received her master degree in computer science from Southeastern University. She was so much into education that she became a teacher at the University and in the private school system.
She attended Syracuse University, which she earned a scholarship to, and won the college short story contest. She graduated as valedictorian in 1960 with a degree in English. Oates then started teaching at the University of Detroit in 1961, and then after a couple of
• She was one out of only six black students at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965.
He went to segregated middle schools in Georgia and then went on to high school. He was excelling exceedingly well, so they let him skip his ninth and twelfth grade school years. Astonishingly, he graduated at the age of fifteen. He went on to a prestigious African-American college called Morehouse College, which his father and grandfather attended and graduated from (Nobel Foundation). King graduated with a B.A. in Sociology. A few years later he decided to enroll in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Further education took place and in 1955 King received his Ph. D. from Boston University (Wikipedia). While in Boston, King met, and later married, Coretta Scott. She was unusually intelligent and had many different artistic accomplishments. Later, they would have two sons and two daughters (Nobel Foundation).