Marion Richards Myles

Marion Richards Myles was a professor at Tennessee State University, Fort Valley State University and Alcorn State University. She was also the first African American faculty member at the University of Mississippi Medical School.

Life and Education

Ph.D. Botany, 1945

Dissertation: “Relations of hormones to correlation in maize”

HBCU Contributions

Professor at Tennessee State, Fort Valley State, and Alcorn State

Legacy

First African American faculty member at the University of Mississippi Medical School (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Research - 1965)