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With thanks to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for funding support to process the collections of African-Americans in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), the Amistad Research Center is pleased to present the Black Data Processing Associates collection. The Black Data Processing Association (BDPA) was formed in 1975 by Earl A. Pace Jr. and David Wimberly as a local organization to help educate and train minorities working within the infor

The Amistad Research Center is pleased to announce the opening of the papers of Dr. James E. Blackwell, sociologist and educator who specialized in the study of the sociology and economics of the Black community and the desegregation of higher education institutions in the United States. Long-time professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (1970-1989), Dr. Blackwell focused his research on the structure of inequality within ma

A native of Waycross, Georgia, Dr. Pierce graduated from Atlanta University with his undergraduate degree and earned his doctorate degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He worked as a math professor and in other administrative positions at several universities including, Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University), Wiley University, Texas College, and then Texas Southern University where he spent the majority of his career. He eventually became the univ

With thanks to the funding assistance of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for archival processing of the collections of African American’s in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), the Amistad Research Center is pleased to introduce the Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid Collection. Dr. Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid, (November 13, 1927 – February 26, 1958) was a distinguished mathematician who specialized in probability theory. In 1

The Amistad Research Center is pleased to open the papers of mathematics educator, dean, specialist in teacher training programs, and public school administrator Raymond J. Pitts for research. With the assistance of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Raymond Pitts papers are one of fifteen archival collections to be processed as part of a two-year project highlighting the accomplishments of African Americans in Science, Technology, Engineeri