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I want to tell you the story of Vivienne Malone-Mayes, Texas-born mathemetician and professor, but I don't think you can understand her journey without talking about the #AcademicRacism in which she existed.
Vivienne attended segregated schools in her home-town of Waco. She finished her BS in medicine at 19, a masters at 21, switched to mathematics after studying under Evelyn Boyd Granville (shown), who helped program the calculations for Mercury and later Apollo missions.
In 1962, she was refused admission to Baylor University (in Waco), which would be whites-only until '64. Instead, she enrolled at the University of Texas (in Austin) in a PhD program for mathematics. She was the only woman & the only Black person in her class.
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