Mary Styles Harris
Marry Styles Harris

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Mary Styles Harris was born on June 26, 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee. Later, she moved to Miami, Florida with her family at a young age. She began reading at an early age and developed an interest in science, especially medicine. Her father was a doctor in the neighborhood they resided in. She enjoyed asking her father scientific questions and doing scientific research with him. Unfortunately he died when she was only nine years old.

When she entered high-school in 1963, she was one of the first blacks to enter Jackson High School in Miami. While in high-school she would enter local science fairs. She also volunteered at the first black owned medical laboratory. At the laboratory she learned to use technical equipment. She graduated in 1967 and was twelfth in her class of 350 people. After high-school she entered college at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to enter the university. Although she......

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