List of African-American mathematicians

Historical landmarks

Doctoral degrees in mathematics

First men and women

Doctoral degrees 1925 to 1975

Doctoral degrees in mathematics education to 1975

Books about African-American mathematicians

Individuals

• Benjamin Banneker:
• * Bedini, Silvio A. The life of Benjamin Banneker: the first African-American man of science. Maryland Historical Society.
• * Hinman, Bonnie. Benjamin Banneker: American Mathematician and Astronomer .
• David Blackwell:
• * Blackwell, David; Wilmot, Nadine. An oral history with David Blackwell. Bancroft Library.
• Joseph James Dennis:
• * Williams, Sherese LaTrelle. To Humbly Serve: Joseph James Dennis and His Contributions to Clark College. Clark Atlanta University.
• Marjorie Kimbrough
• * Kimbrouogh, Marjorie. Accept no limitations: a black woman encounters corporate America. Abingdon Press.
• Shirley Mathis McBay:
• * Verheyden-Hilliard, Mary Ellen. Mathematician and Administrator, Shirley Mathis McBay. Equity Institute.

  Anthologies and studies

• Borum, Viveka; Hilton, Adriel Adon; Walker, Erica. The Role of Black Colleges in the Development of Mathematicians. Journal of Research Initiatives.
• Carlson, Cob; Parks, Yolanda; et al.. Breakthrough: profiles of scientists of color. Working with Numbers. Blackside.
• Dean, Nathaniel . African Americans in mathematics: DIMACS workshop, June 26–28, 1996. American Mathematical Society.
• Farmer, Vernon L; Shepherd-Wynn, Evelyn. Voices of historical and contemporary Black American pioneers.
• Harmon, Marylen; Guertler, Sherry. Visions of a dream: history makers: contributions of Africans and African Americans in science and mathematics. M.E. Harmon.
• Houston, Johnny L. The History of the National Association of Mathematicians : The First Thirty Years, 1969-1999. NAM.
• Kenschaft, Patricia Clark. Change is possible: Stories of women and minorities in mathematics.
• Lang, Mozell P. Contributions of African American scientists and mathematicians. Harcourt School Publishers.
• Newell, Victoria; Gipson, Joella; Rich, Waldo L.; Stubblefield, B. Black mathematicians and their works.
• Paul, Richard; Moss, Steven. We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program. University of Texas Press.
• Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures: The American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race.
• Walker, Erica N. Beyond Banneker: Black mathematicians and the path to excellence.
• Williams, Lisa D. The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of black faculty in the math and science pipeline: a life history approach. University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

  For young people

• Becker, Helaine; Phumiruk, Dow. Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13. Henry Holt and co.
• Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Dear Benjamin Banneker.
• Schwartz, Heather E. NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson. Lerner Publications.
• Shetterly, Margot Lee; Conkling, Winifred; Freeman, Laura. Harper.

  List of Wikipedia articles

Before 1900

• Thomas Fuller.
• Benjamin Banneker.
• Charles Reason.
• Kelly Miller degrees from Howard University, including law degree.

  1900s

• Dudley Weldon Woodard, degrees from Wilberforce University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania.

  1910s

• Elbert Frank Cox, degrees from Indiana University, Cornell University.
• Euphemia Haynes, Smith College, Catholic University of America.

  1920s

• Joseph J. Dennis, degrees from Clark College, Northwestern University.
• Angie Turner King, degrees from West Virginia State College, including chemistry, University of Pittsburgh.
• Georgia Caldwell Smith, degrees from University of Kansas, University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh.
• Dorothy Vaughan, degree from Wilberforce University.

  1930s

• David Blackwell, degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
• Marjorie Lee Browne, degrees from Howard University, University of Michigan.
• Katherine Johnson , degree from West Virginia State College.
• Clarence F. Stephens, degrees from Johnson C. Smith University, University of Michigan.

  1940s

• Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, degree from Iowa State University.
• Gloria Ford Gilmer, degrees from Morgan State University, University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University.
• Evelyn Boyd Granville, Smith College, Yale University.
• Mary Winston Jackson, degree from Hampton Institute.
• Eleanor Green Dawley Jones, degrees from Howard University, Syracuse University.
• Abdulalim A. Shabazz, degrees from Lincoln University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University.
• Louise Nixon Sutton, degrees from North Carolina A&T State University, New York University.
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., degrees from University of Chicago, New York University.

  1950s

• Geraldine Claudette Darden, degrees from Hampton Institute, University of Illinois, Syracuse University.
• M. Lovenia DeConge-Watson, degrees from Seton Hill College, Louisiana State University, St. Louis University.
• Annie Easley, degrees from Xavier University, mathematics at Cleveland State University.
• Etta Zuber Falconer, degrees from Fisk University, University of Wisconsin, Emory University.
• William Thomas Fletcher, degrees from North Carolina Central University, University of Idaho.
• Gloria Conyers Hewitt, degrees from Fisk University, University of Washington.
• Vivienne Malone-Mayes, degrees from Fisk University, University of Texas.
• Melba Roy Mouton, degrees from Howard University.
• Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes, degrees from Southern University, University of Illinois.
• Thyrsa Frazier Svager, degrees from Antioch College, Ohio State University.
• Argelia Velez-Rodriguez, degrees from Marianao Institute, University of Havana.
• Grace Alele Williams, degrees from University of Ibadan, University of Chicago.

  1960s

• Sylvia D. Trimble Bozeman, degrees from Alabama A&M University, Vanderbilt University, Emory University.
• Christine Darden, degrees from Hampton Institute, Virginia State University, George Washington University.
• Fern Y. Hunt, degrees from Bryn Mawr College, New York University.
• Jeanette Scissum, degrees from Alabama A&M University, computer science PhD.
• Raymond L. Johnson, degrees from University of Texas at Austin, Rice University.
• Ronald Elbert Mickens, degrees from Fisk University, Vanderbilt University.
• Scott W. Williams, degrees from Morgan State University, Lehigh University.
• Lloyd Demetrius, degrees from University of Cambridge, University of Chicago.

  1970s

• Augustin Banyaga, degrees from University of Geneva.
• Emery N. Brown, degree from Harvard College and Harvard University.
• Freeman Alphonsa Hrabowski III, degrees from Hampton Institute, University of Illinois
• Iris Marie Mack, degrees from Vassar College, University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University.
• Carolyn Ray Boone Mahoney, degrees from Siena College, Ohio University.
• William Alfred Massey, degrees from Princeton University, Stanford University.
• Lee Stiff, degrees from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, North Carolina State University.

  1980s

• Idris Assani, degrees from Paris Dauphine University, Pierre and Marie Curie University.
• Emery Neal Brown, degrees from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School.
• Melvin Currie, degrees from Yale University and University of Pittsburgh.
• Philip Emeagwali, degrees from Oregon State University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland.
• Clifford Victor Johnson, degrees from Imperial College London and University of Southampton.
• Bob Moses, degrees from Hamilton College, New York and Harvard University. Founder of Algebra Project.
• Arlie Oswald Petters, degrees from City University of New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Suzanne L. Weekes, degrees from Indiana University and University of Michigan.

  1990s

• Ron Buckmire, degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Edray Goins, degrees from California Institute of Technology and Stanford University.
• Rudy Horne, degrees from University of Oklahoma and University of Colorado Boulder. Mathematical consultant for the movie Hidden Figures.
• Trachette Jackson, degrees from Arizona State University and University of Washington.
• Chawne Kimber, degrees from University of North Carolina and University of Florida.
• Marilyn Strutchens, degrees from the University of Georgia.
• Talitha Washington, degrees from Spelman College and University of Connecticut.

  2000s

• Carla Cotwright-Williams, degrees from California State University, Long Beach, Southern University, and University of Mississippi.
• Christina Eubanks-Turner, degrees from Xavier University of Louisiana and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Omayra Ortega, degrees from Pomona College and University of Iowa.
• Candice Price, degrees from California State University, Chico, San Francisco State University, and University of Iowa.
• Dionne Price, degrees from Norfolk State University, University of North Carolina, and Emory University.
• Chelsea Walton, degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
• Talithia Williams, degrees from Spelman College, Howard University, Rice University.
• Ulrica Wilson, degrees from Spelman College and Emory University.

  2010s

• John Urschel, degrees from Pennsylvania State University.

  Other notable American mathematicians from the African diaspora

• Gregory Battle, degrees from Morehouse College, Washington University in St. Louis.
• Anthony E. Clement, degrees from Brooklyn College, Graduate Center, CUNY
• Wilfred Graves, Jr, degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Fuller Theological Seminary.
• , first Ethiopian to disprove Ramanujans infinite series, University Of Maryland.