Learn about Dr. Saint Elmo Brady, who in 1916 became the first African American person in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

Sources:

• Twenty Whites and One ‘Other’, documentary

• ACS.org, the American Chemical Society website,

• The Scale Influence of Substituents in Paraffine Monobasic Acids, the Divalent Oxygen Atom: Thesis by Dr. Brady

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