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Israel Everett Glover

lived from 1913 to 1975

Israel Everett Glover was the first African American to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics by Oklahoma State University. He was appointed as Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Florida where he presided at the General Session of the five hundred and ninety-fourth meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Glover/