November 9th in African American History – Roger Arliner Young

Roger Arliner YoungNovember 9, 1964 Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology, died.

Young was born in 1899 in Clifton Forge, Virginia and raised in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1923 and her master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1926.

In 1924, her article “On the Excretory Apparatus in Paramecium” was published in the journal Science, making her the first African American woman to research and professionally publish in her field. In 1940, she earned her Ph. D. in Zoology from the University of Pennsylvania.

After obtaining her doctorate, Young held teaching positions at several colleges and wrote several books.

One Response to November 9th in African American History – Roger Arliner Young

  1. Ron Tedwater November 12, 2010 at 9:41 pm #

    Really nice post,thank you

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