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Brady attended public schools
for elementary, middle, and high.
During college in 1904, he attended
Fisk University in Nashville, where he
majored in chemistry, and would later
receive his Bachelor's of Science degree
in 1908. After he graduated, he accepted
a faculty position at what we now know to
be Tuskegee University. In 1913, he left the
university to attend a graduate program in
St. Elmo Brady set
chemistry at the University of Illinois. A
On December 22nd, 1884, St. Elmo
year into the program, he received his
many great milestones for the
Master's degree and a fellowship that
St. Elmo Brady was the first
would enable him to pursue a
African American community of
Brady was born in the city of Louisville,
doctorate degree.
African American to receive a
doctorate degree in the US. As a
his time, as well as becoming
University of Illinois graduate, his
an asset for aspiring, and later
Kentucky. He lived to be 82, passing away on
research was mainly focused on
characterization of organic acids. After
successful, chemists.
St.Elmo Brady was the eldest
having completed his doctorate, he
December 25th, 1996 in Washington
established a collaborative faculty
child of Thomas and Celesta Brady.
training program with the University of
He also had 2 sisters, Fedora and
Illinois that focused on a technique
D.C.
called infrared spectroscopy.
Buszeder. He was married to his wife, Myrtle
cheese pizza
Travers and had two sons, Robert
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and St. Elmo Brady, Jr.
Booker T. Washington and George
Washington Carver.
who later came to work on the
Manhattan Project, and was also the
African American to join the US Naval
Academy.
he helped a college in Mississippi,
Tougaloo College, develop a
chemistry department.