1915 - 2014
Lee Lorch American Mathematician
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| First Name |
Lee
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| Last Name |
Lorch
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| Birthday |
20th September, 1915
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| Birthplace |
New York City
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| Died |
28th February, 2014
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Mathematician
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Lee Alexander Lorch (September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014) was an American mathematician, early civil rights activist, and communist. His leadership in the campaign to desegregate Stuyvesant Town, a large housing development on the East Side of Manhattan, helped eventually to make housing discrimination illegal in the United States but also resulted in Lorch losing his own job twice. He and his family then moved to the Southern United States where he and his wife, Grace Lorch, became involved in the American civil rights movement there while also teaching at several Black colleges. He encouraged black students to pursue studies in mathematics and mentored several of the first black men and women to earn PhDs in mathematics in the United States. After moving to Canada as a result of McCarthyism, he ended his career as professor emeritus of mathematics at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
