Carolyn Beatrice Parker

Another interesting fact…Carolyn Parker’s pedigree influenced her career path…Her father was Julius A. Parker, a physician who according to the family, was a student of John Kenneth Galbraith, and the second African-American to receive a PhD in business from Harvard. Her mother was Della Ella Murrell Parker. Della Parker was a sister of Joan Murrell Owens, a marine biologist who was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in geology. (Courtesy AfricanAmericanReports.com)

To learn more about this inspirational woman, go to MIT’s web page on Black History:

https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/carolyn-beatrice-parker-ca-1949