Marjorie Lee Browne was born on September 9,1914 she was a noted mathematics educator , and she was one of the first African American women to receive a PH.D in mathematics . In the year of 1950 she obtained the degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Browne was born in Tennessee in 1914. At two years old Marjorie’s mother Mary Taylor Lee passed away so she was raised by her stepmother and her father Lawrence Johnson Lee. He worked as a railway postal clerk who was also a math wizard who loved to share his passion for mathematics with his children. Despite the rough racial climate, pushed his children to get the very best education possible. For Browne, that meant attending LeMoyne High School, a private institution that catered to black students. She …show more content…
She then applied to the University of Michigan graduate program in mathematics. Michigan accepted African Americans, which many US educational institutions did not at the time. After working full-time at the historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and attending Michigan only during the summer, Browne’s work paid off and she received a teaching fellowship at Michigan, attending full-time and completing her dissertation in 1949. Her dissertation, "Studies of One Parameter Subgroups of Certain Topological and Matrix Groups," was supervised by George Yuri Rainich. She was one of the first African-American women in the US to earn a doctorate in mathematics, along with Evelyn Boyd Granville, who also earned a Ph.D. in 1949. Euphemia Haynes was the very first African-American woman in the US to earn a doctorate in mathematics, having earned hers in 1943.After receiving her doctorate, Browne was unable to keep a teaching position at a research institution. As a result of this she worked with secondary school mathematics teachers, instructing them in "modern