This ‘hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights

Margaret S. Collins was the first Black American female entomologist to earn a Ph.D.

Entomologist Margaret S. Collins (left) stands next to a nest of Nasutitermes acajutlae termites on Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands in 1989, along with biologist Barbara Thorne.

© B.L. Thorne

On the drive to school, at the first sign of trouble, “she made me get on the floorboard,” says the older son of pioneering Black entomologist Margaret S.

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