Talk:Euphemia Haynes

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Wikipedia article contribution

Structure

My first observation of Euphemia Haynes’ article was the lack of structure and salient information that was missing. For example, all the information that is present in the article is listed under the “Life” category, the only one. It seems like little to no importance was given to carefully structuring a good article for Haynes. I searched for other mathematicians and I see the different sections in those articles, such as dividing the information in the beginning, and creating an “Education,” “Career,” “Awards,” and “Contributions.” A subcategory could also be added to the “Life” for “Family” to include information about her family’s social prominence, including her father’s role as a well-known African American “DC dentist and investor in Black businesses in the area, and Lavinia Day Lofton, who was active in the Catholic Church.”

Importance of her racial/ethnic background

The biggest gap in information for this article is perhaps the importance of her being African American and how that influenced many of her works; it is also important in order to better understand who Haynes was. For instance, the same year that she received a master’s degree in education from the University of Chicago in 1930, “she founded the mathematics department at Miner Teachers College,” which would later be called the University of the District of Columbia. That college was an institution in DC that was dedicated to training African American teachers, a very importance piece of information which is completely missing in the Wikipedia Article on Haynes. Much of her contribution to her community was to fight against the lack of equality poor students faced, mostly African Americans. None of that was even referenced in this article so that it why I added it. In addition, no information about her career in elementary and high schools is mentioned. Haynes taught at many school, one of those being the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School which was “the premier high school for African Americans” and where she also served as chair in the mathematics department. She also served as chair of the division of mathematics and business education at the District of Columbia Teachers College. Information about how she worked as an instructor at various schools that served African American students is missing. Most of the work that she did was to try and help out with the gaps that existed in education for African American students in her community, especially during the time of segregation in the US. A section about “Career as an Instructor” could be added to include the list of schools where she worked and her accomplishments at each one such as being a voice for unfairly targeted poor students and working for better schools.

Add another section: Contributions

Another section that could be added is “Contributions” because she participated as a member and held important positions in various committees, boards and associations, most of which aimed to help underrepresented groups such as women (American Association of University Women) and African Americans (NAACP).

Awards

An additional section that could be added is “Awards” because, although the information of her earning medals is included in the article, it is mixed up with the other text unlike other Articles on Wikipedia which have a better structure. She also became a member of the District of Columbia Board of Education and went on to become “its president in 1966, continuing to fight racial segregation.”

Importance of her being the first African American woman to earn a PhD

Lastly, not enough attention and information is given concerning her role as the first African American woman to earn a PhD. Only briefly is her dissertation mentioned and not explained.

Add a picture of Haynes and a quick biobox like other scientists

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PIX/euphemia1914y.jpg

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Born	(1890-09-11)11 September 1890 Washington, D.C.
Died	25 July 1980(1980-07-25) (aged 89) Washington, D.C., United States

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Gjimen02 (talk) 09:18, 5 November 2014 (UTC)Geovanni Ximénez-García Gjimen02 (talk) 07:48, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

References

The entire last paragraph of the life section has no references. Could more sources be added to add references to that section?Sarahstevs (talk) 17:21, 29 October 2020 (UTC)