From Servitude to Service;

by Kelly Miller, Robert C (Robert Curtis) 1836-1 Ogden (Creator), William G (William Goodell) 185 Frost (Creator)

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252 pages, Paperback

Published August 26, 2016

About the author

Mathematician Kelly Miller advanced the intellectual life of African Americans, earning several advanced degrees. He was the first Black man to attend Johns Hopkins University.


Kelly Miller was born in 1863, in South Carolina. A minister noticed his aptitude for mathematics, so he was sent to the Fairfield Institute to study, earning a scholarship to Howard University. He attended Johns Hopkins University for post-graduate work, the first Black man to do so. He spent his teaching career at Howard University, and eventually died at his home on the campus, in Washington, D.C., on December 29, 1939.