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  1. Kelly Miller. in 1887, the first Black. mathematics graduate student. Born: July 18, 1863 in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Died December 29, 1939. Kelly Miller was the sixth of ten children born to Kelly Miller, a free Negro who served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and Elizabeth (Roberts) Miller, a slave.

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    Birth Year: 1863
    Birth date: July 18, 1863
    Birth State: South Carolina
    Birth City: Winnsboro
    Article Title: Kelly Miller Biography
    Author: Biography.com Editors
    Website Name: The Biography.com website
    Url: https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/kelly-miller
    The diplomas which you hold in your hands confer upon you all the rewards, rights, privileges, honours and distinctions which are accustomed to be conferred upon the choicest youth of the human rac...
    Do not go through the world with a self-deprecatory demeanour, as if you owed the rest of mankind an apology for existing. ...Do not think of yourselves as despicable and mean in comparison with th...
    The instruction which you have received here, and upon which your diplomas set a seal, will be of value to you only in so far as you digest and assimilate it, and wisely adapt it to the tasks which...
    Do not waste time complaining against the existing order of society. Enter a manly protest against all forms of wrong and injustice, but do not pass your days in wailful lachrymations against the r...
  2. Jan 19, 2007 · Kelly Miller, mathematician, intellectual, and political activist, was born on July 18, 1863 in Winnsboro, South Carolina to Kelly and Elizabeth Miller. Like many African Americans who took advantage of increased educational opportunities after the civil war, Miller attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. He … Read MoreKelly Miller (1863-1939)

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  4. He was then employed as a mathematics teacher at the M Street High School in Washington, D.C., also known as Perry School, during 1889-90. In 1890, Miller was appointed as a professor of mathematics at Howard University. In 1894 he married Annie May Butler who was a teacher at the Baltimore Normal School; they had five children, Newton, Paul ...

  5. Kelly Miller: mathematician, intellectual, and political activist. Miller was born on July 18, 1863, in Winnsboro, South Carolina to Kelly and Elizabeth Miller. Like many African Americans who took advantage of increased educational opportunities after the civil war, Miller attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned his ...

  6. Jan 16, 2001 · In 1887, Kelly Miller, Son of a Slave, Became a JHU First. A young man named Kelly Miller arrived at The Johns Hopkins University in 1887 to begin graduate studies in mathematics. Just 11 years after its founding, Hopkins had already acquired an excellent academic reputation, and Miller had been attracted to Hopkins by the eminent mathematician ...

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