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You appreciate those things in life that you earn. People cannot take those things from you.

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In 1949, Marjorie Lee Browne became the third African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in her field (after Evelyn Boyd Granville, 1949, and Euphemia Lofton Haynes, 1943).
Marjorie Lee Browne set up an electronic digital computer center at North Carolina College—one of the first of its kind at a minority college—in 1960.
In 1975, Marjorie Lee Browne was recognized with the first W.W. Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education (from the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics).
Marjorie Lee Browne was one of the first African-American women to serve as a member of the advisory council to the National Science Foundation.

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Marjorie Lee Browne was born on September 9, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, as the daughter of Lawrence Johnson Lee, a railway postal clerk, and Mary Taylor Lee.
Her father encouraged her to take mathematics seriously, due to his personal liking for the subject and numbers, as he had also attended two years at college, something rare for a black man in those days.
After her mother’s sudden death in 1916, her father married Lottie Lee, a school teacher, who looked after her upbringing.
She completed her schooling from LeMoyne High School, a private Methodist school for African-Americans, becoming a math enthusiast and a popular tennis player.
She, later, enrolled at Howard University, Washington D.C., by combining loans and scholarships, and completed her graduation with distinction in 1935, majoring in mathematics.

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The North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCCTM) honored the first W.W. Rankin Memorial Award to Browne in 1974, for her contribution in the field of mathematics.
She served as a member of various educational boards, such as Women’s Research Society, American Mathematical Society, International Congress of Mathematicians, and Mathematical Association of America.

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She attended LeMoyne High School, a private Methodist school started after the Civil War to offer education for African Americans. She won the Memphis city women’s tennis singles championship while she was in high school.
She attended Howard University, majoring in mathematics and graduating cum laude in 1935. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, she taught high school and college for a short term, including at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans.
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.

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After graduation, she immediately took up a teaching job at a private secondary school, Gilbert Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana, exclusively for black students, which she left after a year.
Being more inclined towards earning higher education, she enrolled at the University of Michigan which accepted African-Americans unlike other institutions which did not, and obtained her Masters degree in mathematics in 1939.
She started teaching at the black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, in 1942 while working on her doctorate project at the University of Michigan during summers.
In 1947, she became a teaching fellow, thus giving full-time to her dissertation and receiving her doctorate degree in mathematics in 1949. She was among the first African-American women to make such an achievement.
She wrote her doctorate theses on the topic ‘Studies of One Parameter Subgroups of Certain Topological and Matrix Groups’ under the supervision of renowned mathematical physicist, George Yuri Rainich.
She was more interested into spreading the importance of modern math and encouraging minorities and women to study mathematics rather than taking up a plain teaching job at a research institution.
In 1951, she joined the North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University), Durham, as a faculty member and soon, became the Chair of the Mathematics Department, a position she retained from 1951 to 1970.
It was her constant desire for learning that enabled her to pursue further education through grants and scholarships. She studied combinatorial topology at Cambridge University through a Ford Foundation fellowship during 1952-53.
She studied computing and numerical analysis at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship.
She received grants to study differential topology at Columbia University during 1965-66.
Besides being the department Chair, she held various esteemed positions at the college – Principal Investigator, Coordinator of the mathematics section, and Lecturer at the Summer Institute for secondary school science and mathematics teachers.
Interestingly, there was no other staff member, except Browne, in her department to have a doctorate degree during her first 25 years.
During her 30 year tenure at the college, she took up classes for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, teaching for about 15 hours a week, oversaw ten Masters thesis and continued her research in mathematics.

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Born in

Memphis, Tennessee

Nationality

American

Father

Lawrence Johnson Lee

Mother

Mary Taylor Lee

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