Lillian Katie Bradley (October 15, 1921[1] – February 11, 1995[2]) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator who in 1960 became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas at Austin.
[1][3][4][5] She accomplished this ten years after African-Americans were first admitted to the school, despite the discriminatory views of R. L. Moore an influential professor in the mathematics department at University of Texas at Austin.
She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1938 from Texas College, and a master's degree in mathematics education in 1946 from the University of Michigan.
[3] She completed her doctorate at the University of Texas in July 1960.
[7] In 1962 she moved from Prairie View to Texas Southern University, as an associate professor.