Advancing the Cause of Education: 7 Black Women Who Kicked in the Schoolhouse Door
- By
Terri Williams
Dr. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
In 1943, when Dr. Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes graduated from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., she became the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics. She then established a mathematics department at Miner Teachers College – which later became the District of Columbia Teachers College – and served as Chair of the Division of Mathematics and Education. In 1966, Haynes became the first woman to chair the District of Columbia School Board, where she was instrumental in integrating the DC public school system.
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