Dr. Scott W. Williams, a Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, maintains this webpage, which provides a Modern History of Blacks in Mathematics. In addition to a timeline highlighting key figures in mathematics, the author also considers the greatest Black Mathematicians, The First African American Women in Mathematics, The First Africans, and Other Important Events in the past 300 years. Another section, which covers Mathematics in Ancient Africa, addresses earlier periods in history, while an article from Kenneth Manning asks, Can History Predict the Future?