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Sep 20, 1915 Died on 28 Feb 2014 (aged 98)
American mathematician
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About Lee Lorch
- Lee Alexander Lorch (September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014) was a 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 nationwide but also resulted in Lorch losing his own job.
- He and his family then moved to the US South where he and his wife, Grace Lorch, became involved in the civil rights struggle there while also teaching at several Black colleges encouraging black students to pursue studies in mathematics and mentoring several of the first black men and women who were later to go on to earn PhDs in mathematics in the United States, before moving to Canada.
- He ended his career as Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
