... So she studied at the University of Texas. It had been desegregated by Federal order. She was rejected by her classmates, who had their off-campus meetings at a coffee shop that did not allow entry to African Americans. Vivienne said, ""My mathematical isolation was complete... It took a faith in scholarship almost beyond measure to endure the stress of earning a Ph.D. degree as a Black, female graduate student...."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Malone-Mayes

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