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A fact from Elbert Frank Cox appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 October 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Elbert Frank Cox was the first black person in the world to get a Ph.D in mathematics? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/October.

This man took classes in "German, English, Latin, history" and... "hygiene"? Can anyone verify that this was actually a university-level class 100 years ago, alongside chemistry and philosophy? Peruvianllama 07:08, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It says so on page 6 (page 109) of the article in the American Mathematical Monthly. The second sentence of the paragraph continuing from the previous page is:

He also studied number theory, German, English, history, hygiene, Latin and physics

The other ones are listed elsewhere in the same article. Gerrit ^CUTEDH 07:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

How wonderfully perculiar - Face Washing 101? I think this fact alone merits interest in this article, although the fascinating story helps too. Thanks, Gerrit. Peruvianllama 17:04, 6 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps. But shouldn't statements like this be supported by something, if they are to appear in an encyclopedia? It's possible his thesis just wasn't good enough for the universities that rejected it. Is there a quote on record of someone in authority saying, in so many words, "This thesis is of sufficient quality, but we refuse it because its author is black."? If not, I suggest this statement be deleted from the article. Kerry (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Elbert and Beulah Cox had four children: James born 1928, Eugene Kaufman born 1930, Elbert Lucien born 1933, and Kenneth, born 1935 but died at the age of 17 months.[8] Eugene Kaufman Cox became an architect, while Elbert Lucien Cox followed his father and served as Associative Vice President at Howard University 69.255.149.208 (talk) 20:40, 11 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]