Showing posts with label Euphemia Lofton Haynes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euphemia Lofton Haynes. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Black History Month -- celebrate Haynes and Hughes
Living on the border of Washington DC I am exposed to items of local history for our nation's capital. One such item involves the "discovery" of Langston Hughes (1902-1967) by poet Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931) at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, a leading conference hotel in the city. A second story is a mathematical one. Martha Euphnemia Lofton Haynes (1890-1980), a fourth-generation Washingtonian, was the first black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics -- conferred in 1943 by Catholic University.
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