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Louise Nixon Sutton was an American educator and civil rights activist. She was born in Hertford, North Carolina, and attended the local public schools. She graduated from Elizabeth City State Teachers College in 1947 and earned a master's degree in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951. Sutton was a teacher in the Hertford County Public Schools for more than 30 years. She was also a leader in the civil rights movement in the area, working with the NAACP and other organizations to promote racial equality. She was a founding member of the Hertford County Human Relations Council and served as its president for many years. Sutton was also active in the Democratic Party and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1972. She was a member of the North Carolina State Board of Education from 1973 to 1977. In addition to her work in education and civil rights, Sutton was a member of the Hertford County Board of Commissioners from 1982 to 1990. She was also a member of the Hertford County Board of Education from 1990 to 1994. Sutton died on April 15, 2007, at the age of 81. She was posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Education Hall of Fame in 2008.

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 4 November 1925
Birthday 4 November
Birthplace Hertford, North Carolina
Date of death (2006-05-14) At home, Hertford, North Carolina
Died Place At home, Hertford, North Carolina
Nationality United States

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2006

Sutton died at home in Hertford, North Carolina, on May 14, 2006. She had been an active member of the St. Paul A.M.E. Zion Church, NAACP, George Washington Carver Floral Club, Arabia Court No. 35 of Daughters of Isis, and the North Carolina State Retired Employees Association.

1977

Sutton was a member of the North Carolina A&T State University Alumni Association, Delta Sigma Theta sorority, National Association of University Women, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. She was Chairperson of the National Association of University Women from 1977 to 1978, and a member of Alpha Kappa Mu, and Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Society.

1962

In 1962 she became Professor and Chair of the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Department at Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

1946

Sutton was born in Hertford, North Carolina. Her parents were Annie McNair Nixon and John Calhoun Nixon, and she had three brothers: John Stuart Nixon, Norris Lee Nixon, and Thomas Rufus Nixon. She gained a B.S. from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1946, and an MA from New York University in 1951. She was awarded the first PhD in mathematics education to an African American at New York University in 1962, for a dissertation titled Concept learning in trigonometry and analytic geometry at the college level: a comparative study of two methods of teaching trigonometry and analytic geometry at the college level.

After gaining her degrees, Sutton taught mathematics at James B. Dudley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 1946 to 1947. She was very interested in math at school. From 1947 to 1954 she was assistant professor at North Carolina A&T State University, before moving to hold the same position at Delaware State College from 1957 to 1962.

1925

Louise Nixon Sutton (November 4, 1925 – May 14, 2006) was a mathematician. She was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics education by New York University, and the first chair of the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics at Elizabeth City State University.