Abdulalim A. Shabazz is an African American Professor of Mathematics. He received the National Association of Mathematicians Distinguished Service Award for his years of mentoring and teaching excellence.

When he was 22, David Blackwell earned a Ph.D. (University of Illinois, 1941) within 5 years of high school. Although his work caught the eye of great mathematicians of the time, it took another 13 years and 20 papers before Blackwell was hired permanently at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1965 he became the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences (he is still the only Black mathematician to be so honored).

Dr. Gilmer is the first African American Woman to publish a non-Ph.D Thesis Mathematics research paper. She was well on her way to being the third African American Woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics but she stopped grad school temporarily for marriage. She returned to school some time later and earned a Doctorate in Curriculum Instruction from Marquette University. She has taught in public schools, colleges and universities.

is an American, Harvard-trained educator who was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project.

Dr. Mickens published over 200 papers and 5 books. Recently, Mickens was honored with an election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society, a rare position limited to .5% of the membership of the society. With all of this Mickens has worked directly at the effort to bring African Americans into Physics and to improve Physics in Africa.

At the age of 13, Wilkins entered the University of Chicago. He received his B.S. in Mathematics 3 1/2 years and at the age of 19 he earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago (1942) for a thesis in the area of Calculus of Variations. J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. was described in national papers as the "Negro Genius". He was interested in applications of mathematics and after his Ph.D., he went back to school by earning degrees in Mechanical Engineering from New York University.

In 1949 at the age of 19, Albert Turner Reid earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Iowa. By the time he was 23, he produced mathematics for eight published papers, but did not produce a Ph.D. thesis (he said, in 1953, it was a waste of his time) at his graduate school - the University of Chicago. Bharucha-Reid published six books and nearly 80 papers in algebra, analysis, mathematical biology, statistics and topology.

Clarence F. Stephens (born July 24, 1917) was the ninth African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He is credited with inspiring students and faculty at SUNY Potsdam to form the most successful United States undergraduate mathematics degree programs in the past century.