List of African-American mathematicians

This is a list of articles on African-American mathematicians.

• Idris Assani
• Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806)
• Augustin Banyaga (b. 1947 in Rwanda)
• David Blackwell (1919–2010)
• Lillian K. Bradley (b. 1921), first African American woman to receive any type of doctorate from the University of Texas in 1960. This was important because of the history of racist attitudes in the University of Texas Mathematics Department.
• Marjorie Lee Browne (1914–1979), third African American woman to earn Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1950.^[1] She then taught at North Carolina Central University
• William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania ^[2][3]
• Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first black person in the world to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, Cornell University
• Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
• Annie Easley (1933-2011)
• Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)
• Gloria Ford Gilmer first African American woman to publish a non-Ph.D. thesis mathematics research paper in 1956
• Evelyn Boyd Granville (b. 1924), second African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1949
• Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Catholic University in 1943^[1]
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt (b. 1935), fourth African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of Washington in 1962^[1]
• Clifford Victor Johnson (b. 1968) awarded B.S. from Imperial College in 1989
• Katherine Johnson (b. 1918)
• Kelly Miller (1863–1939)
• Charles Reason (1818–1893)
• Georgia Cladwell Smith (1909-1961) passed her Ph.D. defense in 1960, but died before the Ph.D. was conferred posthumously in 1961.^[1]
• Clarence F. Stephens (b. 1917)
• Lee Stiff (b. 1941) ^[4]
• Walter R. Talbot (1909–1979), fourth African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
• John Urschel (b. 1991)
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (1923–2011)
• Grace Alele Williams, first Nigerian woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1963.^[5]
• Scott W. Williams (b. 1943)
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965), second African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania

References

1. "History of Black Women in the Mathematical Sciences". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
2. "William Claytor, a mathematical genius". African American Registry. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
3. "Williams W. Schieffelin Claytor". Mathematicians of the African Diaspora. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
4. Listed by the NCSU College of Education, in a citation for their Distinguished Alumni Award, as being the recipient of the 1993 NCSU Provost’s African-American Professional Development Award.
5. "Grace Alele Williams - Black Women in Mathematics". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-01.