Who is Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes ? Martha was born on September 11,1890 in
Washington D.C. Daughter of Dr. William S. Lofton who was a well known black dentist and
her mother Lavinia Day Lofton who was a kindergarten teacher, also an active member of the
church. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was know for being the first African American
Woman to receive a Ph. D. in Mathematics.
Martha graduated high school from Washington's Miner Normal School in 1909. In 1914,
, she received a B.A. in Mathematics and her minor in Psychology.Married Harold Appo
Haynes in 1917, who later became a principal and deputy superintendent in charge of
Washington's "colored schools".
In 1930, Martha received a masters degree in education
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She taught in the public schools of Washington, DC for forty-seven years and
was the first woman to chair the DC School Board. She was a teacher of first grade at Garrison
and Garfield Schools , a teacher of mathematics at Armstrong High School, an English teacher
at Miner Normal School. Martha taught mathematics and served as chair of the Mathematics
Department at Dunbar High School. Martha was also professor of mathematics at Miner
Teachers College and at the District of Columbia Teachers College for which she also served as
chair of the Division of Mathematics and Business Education. When she retired from the public
school system in 1959 she was head of the city's Board of Education, and was central to the
integration of the DC public schools.
Dr. Haynes established the mathematics department at Miners Teacher's College she was a
professor of mathematics. She taught at the District of Columbia Teachers College for which she
also served as chair of the Division of Mathematics and Business Education. She occasionally
taught part-time at Howard University.
In her spare time she was active in many community activities. She served as first
Bethune started a school for African American girls in Daytona, Florida and later merged the school with a private institute for African American boys and the school was named Bethune-Cookman School. She became president of the school and was one of the few women in the world to serve as a college president at that time.
She was a newly Longwood graduate and was involved in the community. She was also in charge of providing feedback to us leasing agents weekly and more if we didn’t meet our weekly quota.
She was then appointed by John F. Kennedy to co-chair the National Women's Committee for Civil Rights. In 1965 she was appointed ambassador to Luxembourg by Lyndon B. Johnson. She held that position for two years then returned to teaching at Howard. In 1969
Elma began her career, just after graduation, schooling Maryland high school students on the intricacies
Marian Wright Edelman was born on June 6, 1939. Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children. Edelman’s mother and father who was a Baptist minister taught her and her siblings that serving in their community was life’s duty. Edelman’s parents also taught her and her siblings that poverty nor racism should ever get in their way of trying to achieve something. The way Edelman was raised was an inspiration to her and she knew she wanted to make a change for the better in this country. In 1973 Edelman founded the Children’s Defense Fund. The purpose of the organization is to “to ensure every child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start, and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.” (Wikipedia)
In the 1990’s at George Mason University, Rivlin became the First Professor of Public Policy and served as deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). She continued to move up until she became OMB’s Director and remained in that position until she continued on to the Board of Governors in 1996. Once she left the Board, she returned to
Addams, whose father was an Illinois state senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln, graduated in 1881 from Rockford College (then called Rockford Women’s Seminary). She returned the following year to receive one of the school’s first bachelor’s degrees. With limited career
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In her twenties Clara decided to expand her education further by attending the Clinton Liberal institute for higher learning. There she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and religion (Pryor 1987). With her highly atypical education for a woman of that time, Clara continued the close pupil-teacher relationships she had enjoyed in her earlier schooling.
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has taught at Princeton and worked in the U.S. State Department. She continues work on public
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was raised on a smallholding. She studied a BFA at Wolverhampton Polytechnic from 1975 to 1978
was a mathematician and computer scientist. Johnson wanted to begin school at an early age. She
Johnson was one of the first to enroll in the mathematics program, received her B.S degree in French and mathematics.After college, Johnson began teaching in elementary schools and high schools in Virginia and West Virginia. Joined Langley Research Center (LaRC) as a research mathematician for the National Advisory committee for aeronautics(NACA)