Thaxton, Hubert Mack
H. Mack Thaxton papers, 1961-1963.
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.
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.
Thaxton, Hubert Mack
Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Minorities -- Employment -- United States.
Race discrimination
Minorities in science.
Resumes. aat
African American physicists. lcsh
Physicists.
AIP-ICOS
New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. 515 E. Malcolm X Ave., New York, NY 10037, USA.