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Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Durham, North Carolina, USA
She was one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D.
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Marjorie Lee Browne grew up and was educated in a society that was prejudicial against any African-Americans, especially women.However, Browne had a love of mathematics and was determined to study the subject to the highest possible standards. She achieved these goals and became one of the first Black women in the United States to obtain a Ph.D.
Browne was born on 9 September 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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She was the daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee, but unfortunately Browne's mother died when she was just two years old. Instead her father, a railway postal clerk, and stepmother, Lottie Lee, a schoolteacher, raised her.
Her father had also completed two years of college, which for a black ma