- Creator
- Thaxton, H. Mack (Hubert Mack), 1912-1974
- Call number
- Sc MG 178
- Physical description
- 25 items (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- H. Mack Thaxton Papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Physicist and pioneer in theoretical physics. Thaxton earned a mathematical and theoretical physics Ph.D. from Wisconsin University in 1939. His doctoral thesis concerning the splitting of protons with protons was a largely unexplored phenomenon at the time. Thaxton was a professor of physics and Head of the Physics Department, North Carolina A & T College; Lecturer, Project Engineer at the College of the City of New York (CUNY). During his career, Dr. Thaxton worked with five Nobel Prize winners and published over 200 articles. Collection of documents relating to Dr. H. Mack Thaxton's attempts to obtain employment in private industry. Included are resumes, job advertisements, letters of rejection and a form letter from Dr. Thaxton charging racial bias.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchase, Thaxton, Dr. H. Mack, 10/25/77Key terms
Names
Subjects
- African American college graduates -- Employment
- African American scientists
- African Americans -- Employment
- Discrimination in employment -- United States
- Minorities -- Employment -- United States
- Physicists -- United States
- Race discrimination -- United States
- Scientists -- United States
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Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor