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Malone-Mayes, Vivienne Lucille

1932-1995 · Contribution: 1966-1994

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Fifth African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics; became Baylor University's first Black faculty member in 1966, five years after the university rejected her own application to study there because of her race

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Born
1932-1995
Active since
1966-1994
Category
Mathematics

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Malone-Mayes became the first Black professor at the very university that had barred her as a student, turning a personal injustice into a barrier broken for others.

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