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Events During 1930s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Lee_Browne
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal
- The First Hundred Day
- Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo
- Germany invades Poland.
Teaching Career
- In 1951, she was named Chair of the Mathematics Department.
- Browne taught both graduate and undergraduate course at North Carolina Central University
- In the early 1950s she was awarded a Ford Foundation grant that allowed her to attend Cambridge University.
Awards and Achivements
- First women to get a doctorate degree in Mathematics.
- First W.W Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education
- Marjorie Browne severed as a member in Many different organizations, including Women's Research Society; the American Mathematical Society; and the Mathematical Association of America.
- Also, Browne was one of the first African-American women to serve as a member of the advisory council to the National Science Foundation
Family Life
Education
Bio
Attended
- LeMeyone High School
- University of Michigan
- Cambridge University
- Howard University
- The daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and her husband Lawrence Johnson Lee.
- Her real mom died when she was 2.
- Her father, a transportation postal clerk with an astute appreciation for numbers.
Her being the first black women to get a doctorate in mathematics inspire more women to expand their learning in mathematics
- Marjorie Lee Brown
- Born on September 9, 1914 in Tennessee.
- Died on October 19, 1979 in North Carolina.
Browne left North Carolina Central University in 1979. Sadly, however, her retirement didn´t last that long. On October 19 of that year she died of a heart attack at her home in Durham, North Carolina.
Marjorie Lee Browne