Elbert Frank Cox was born on December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana. He grew up with his parents, maternal grandmother and two brothers in a racially mixed neighborhood. He was the oldest of three boys born to Johnson D. Cox and his wife, Eugenia D. Cox. In 1900, Elbert lived in a neighborhood where there were three black and five white families. Elbert went to a segregated school with limited resources. Cox demonstrated unusual ability in high school mathematics and physics, he was directed toward Indiana University. While he was at Indiana, he joined the Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity. At school he showed talents in mathematics, physics, and playing the violin. Cox was offered a scholarship for the Prague Conservatory of Music in Bohemia at that time part of Austria-Hungary, but he chose to pursue a major in mathematics at Indiana University. After graduation in 1917, In August 1918, Cox signed up to fight in World War I near the war's end. He served from August 22, 1918 until July 25, 1919. In 1920 when Cox was …show more content…
Despite his credentials, he was outranked by other professors such as William Bauduit and Charles Syphax. Both had published multiple papers. Cox remained at Howard until his retirement in 1965 and served as chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1957-1961. In 1975, the Howard University Mathematics Department, at the time of the inauguration of the Ph.D. program, established the Elbert F. Cox Scholarship Fund for undergraduate mathematics majors to encourage young Black students to study mathematics at the graduate level. Cox had to quit because he had reached the age of 65. He continued teaching until his retirement in 1966 three years before he died at age 73 in Washington. Although he did not live to see the first Ph.D. student graduate at Howard, many believe it was mainly due to his contributions that this became possible. Cox' portrait hangs in Howard University's common
Earl Lloyd was born on April 3, 1928. Earl grew up with his father Theodore Lloyd and his mother Daisy Lloyd and his two older brothers Earnest and Theodore Lloyd. Earl grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. “Well, it was not a lot of fun” said Lloyd, “I could never understand as a young kid why people were allowed to trea...
Charles attended Amherst College in Massaschusetts on a scholarship. He was named an all-American halfback and won the Thomas W. Ashley Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player on Amherst's football team. He graduated in 1926 and received the Howard Hill Mossman trophy for his outstanding contributions to Amherst sports. Drew was always interested in science and wanted to pursue a medical career. He attended medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He participated in sports while in medical school and won many championships. He was captain of the track team and won the all-time top score at McGill in intercollegiate track competition.
He was born on March 7, 1900 to Mable E. (1881–1971) of Illinois, and John W. Winrod (1873–1945) of Missouri.[2]
Thus being born half-white, his views and ideas were sometimes not in the best interest of his people. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois had a poor but relatively happy New England childhood. While still in high school he began his long writing career by serving as a correspondent for newspapers in New York and in Springfield, Massachusetts. After his high school graduation he enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 19, 1938, Ted Turner, born Robert Edward Turner III. The oldest child of Robert Edward(Ed)
Emmett Louis Till was an African American male who was born in Chicago, IL on July 25, 1941. Till’s parents were Mamie and Louis Till. When he got into grammar school, Emmett attended McCosh Grammar School. When he was 5 , he was diagnosed with Polio on July 25, 1946, but still took responsibility at a very young age when he got better.
	Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872 in Dayton, OH. His mother Matilda, was a former slave and his father Joshua had escaped slavery and served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Calvary Regiment during the Civil war (online). Joshua and Matilda separated in 1874.
He was born in Palestine, Texas to the parentage of Clyde Burette Woodard and Marye Regina (McClung) Woodard at 9:45 AM at the Palestine Sanatarium. His parents lived in Elkhart, Texas where his father was the owner and operator of Woodard Cleaners and his mother, Bubbie, as he called her, was the owner and operator of a beauty shop.
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 to Susan and George Coleman who had a large family in Texas. At the time of Bessie’s birth, her parents had already been married for seventeen years and already had nine children, Bessie was the tenth, and she would later have twelve brothers and sisters. Even when she was small, Bessie had to deal with issues about race. Her father was of African American and Cherokee Indian decent, and her mother was black which made it difficult from the start for her to be accepted. Her parents were sharecroppers and her life was filled with renter farms and continuous labor. Then, when Bessie was two, her father decided to move himself and his family to Waxahacie, Texas. He thought that it would offer more opportunities for work, if he were to live in a cotton town.
Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1848. He was the son of George and Rebecca Latimer, escaped slaves from Virginia. When Lewis Latimer was a boy his father George was arrested and tried as a slave fugitive. The judge ordered his return to Virginia and slavery, but the local community to pay for George Latimer’s freedom raised money. George Latimer later went underground fearing his re-enslavement, a great hardship for Lewis' family.
Throughout the American South, of many Negro’s childhood, the system of segregation determined the patterns of life. Blacks attended separate schools from whites, were barred from pools and parks where whites swam and played, from cafes and hotels where whites ate and slept. On sidewalks, they were expected to step aside for whites. It took a brave person to challenge this system, when those that did suffered a white storm of rancour. Affronting this hatred, with assistance from the Federal Government, were nine courageous school children, permitted into the 1957/8 school year at Little Rock Central High. The unofficial leader of this band of students was Ernest Green.
Edward Albee was born in Washington, DC on March 12, 1928. When he was two weeks old, Albee was adopted by millionaire couple Reed and Frances Albee. The Albees named their son after his paternal grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, a powerful producer who had made the family fortune as a partner in the Keith-Albee Theater Circuit.
In the early 20th century. Dr. Edmond Locard, who is a forensic science. Formulate a theory based upon on “Every contact leaves a trace”. Locard method continuously known today society for all forensic science. Edmond not only paved the way to state his theory but successfully his results from an exchange of physical material .Showing his belief was no matter what criminals activity he or she may have committed by coming close to an object a criminal will always leave all sorts of evidence including DNA, fingerprint, foots prints fibers, hair, skin cells or even blood the list goes on and on.
died in 1950. He attended Eton from 1917 to 1921, and served with the Indian