Banneker Blast From The Past

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Banneker's life is inspirational. Despite the popular prejudices of his times, the man was quite unwilling to let his race or his age hinder in any way his thirst for intellectual development.

Kelly Miller

in 1887, the first Black mathematics graduate student

Elbert F. Cox

first Black Mathematics

Ph.D. (1925) Cornell University

Ph.D. (Mathematics) Catholic University, 1943

first African American woman mathematician

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Other Great Mathematicians

Percy Pierre

Doctor of Science in Electrical

Engineering from Johns

Hopkins University (1967)

Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr.

1st African-American to

Walk in Space , NASA