Freda Porter-Locklear
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- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Education
- Subcategories: Teaching, Teachers, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History, Women's history
Article abstract: One of a handful of American Indian women who holds a doctorate in her field, Freda Porter-Locklear has used her mathematical training to perform mathematical studies of groundwater purification and to apply this knowledge.
Freda Porter-Locklear grew up in Pembroke, North Carolina, and attended Pembroke State University, where many of North Carolina's Lumbee Indians have studied. After earning her undergraduate degree she went on to North Carolina State University, then Duke University, receiving her doctorate in mathematics in 1991 with a...
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