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He received his doctorate at the University of Illinois in Elmo Brady was born on December 22, , in Louisville, Kentucky. Greatly influenced by Thomas W. Brady also had a close relationship with and was mentored by Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. In , after his time at Tuskegee University, he was offered a scholarship to the University of Illinois to engage in graduate studies.

Brady published three scholarly abstracts in Science in —15 on his work with Professor Clarence Derick.

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Brady completed a M. Many years later, he told his students that when he went to graduate school, "they began with 20 whites and one other, and ended in with six whites and one other. Brady was the first African American to receive a Ph. During his time at Illinois, Brady became the first African American admitted to the university's chemical honor society, Phi Lambda Upsilon, , and he was one of the first African Americans to be inducted into Sigma Xi, the science honorary society After completing his graduate studies, Brady taught at Tuskegee University from to Brady accepted a teaching position at Howard University in Washington, D.

In he moved to Fisk University to chair the school's Chemistry department. He remained at Fisk for 25 years until his retirement in While serving as the chair for the Chemistry department at Fisk University, Brady founded the first ever graduate studies program at a black college or university. The research Brady carried out at Fisk resulted in several publications, including a paper in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Society on the phytochemicals in the seed of the magnolia, and a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on the reactions of ricinoleic acid.