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Miller, Kelly
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 1340 Includes: Bibliography(b. 18 July 1863; d. 29 December 1939), mathematician, sociologist, academic, essayist, and columnist. Miller was born a slave in Winnsboro, South Carolina, to Elizabeth Roberts, a slave, and Kelly Miller Sr., a free black who fought in the Confederate army. He grew up poor during Reconstruction, working with his sharecropper parents and eight siblings. In 1878 Miller enrolled at the Fairfield Institute in South Carolina, where he studied until 1880. An exceptional student, Miller went on to Howard University in 1882. He financed his undergraduate studies by working at the U.S. Pension Office in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1886.In 1886Miller enrolled in the PhD program in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, becoming the first African American to do so. Financial hardship prevented him from staying at Johns Hopkins, ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 8181863–1939
African American educator and scholar who sought to achieve a middle ground between the conservatism of Booker T. Washington and the radicalism of W. E. B. Du Bois. Kelly Miller was the sixth of ten children of a slave woman and a freedman who served the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was educated at missionary schools and in his mid-teens was admitted to the Fairfield Institute, a preparatory school in Winnsboro, South Carolina. Earning a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C., Miller finished his preparatory education there and entered Howard's bachelor's program while working as a clerk for the federal government. He graduated in 1886and continued to work as a clerk. In addition, Miller studied privately with a mathematician at the U.S. Naval Observatory. ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 1807 Includes: Further Reading | Obituary:(18 July 1863–29 Dec. 1939), educator and essayist, was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, the son of Kelly Miller, a free black who served in the Confederate army, and Elizabeth Roberts, a slave. The sixth of ten children, Miller received his early education in one of the local primary schools established during Reconstruction and later attended the Fairfield Institute in Winnsboro from 1878 to 1880. Awarded a scholarship to Howard University, he completed the preparatory department's three-year curriculum in Latin, Greek, and mathematics in two years (1880–1882), then attended the college department at Howard University from 1882 to 1886.After his graduation from Howard, Miller studied advanced mathematics (1886–1887) with Captain Edgar Frisby, an English mathematician at the U.S. Naval Observatory. ...
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Source: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Word Count: 684(1863–1939), educator, essayist, and sociologist. The son of Kelly Miller, a free African American cotton farmer, and Elizabeth (Roberts), a slave, Kelly Miller was reared on a backcountry farm near Winnsboro, South Carolina, and attended Howard University and Johns Hopkins, where he studied physics and mathematics. He held jobs in the United States Pension Office and in the Washington, D. C., public schools before joining Howard's faculty in 1890.While there he completed his AM (1901) and LLD (1903) degrees. He remained at his alma mater for forty-four years in a range of teaching and administrative positions, including professor of mathematics, chair of sociology, dean of the junior college, and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. So closely identified with Howard that it was often known during his tenure as ...
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