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Lee Lorch was born on 20 September, 1915 in United States, is an American mathematician. Discover Lee Lorch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 98 years old?

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1915

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 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.

He was born in New York City to Adolph Lorch and Florence Mayer Lorch.

1935

He graduated from Cornell University in 1935 and obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1941.

1941

The Committee's questioning immediately went in a political direction: though Lorch "pointedly denied" engaging in any Communist activity during his tenure at Fisk, he refused to answer questions about his party membership prior to 1941, citing the right to do so under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, and never made use of the Fifth Amendment.

His refusal to testify before HUAC resulted in his being indicted, tried and acquitted for contempt of Congress –nevertheless, during the House of Un-American Activities Committee hearing Fisk University's president, Charles S. Johnson, issued a statement that Lorch's position before the HUAC was "for all practical purposes tantamount to admission of membership in the Communist Party."

Despite the appeals on Lorch's behalf from 48 out of 70 staff members, 22 student body leaders, and 150 alumni, Fisk ended his contract.

1943

He did mathematics-related work for the war effort in a "draft exempt" job but quit in 1943 to enlist in the United States Army.

1946

He saw service in India and the Pacific Theater of World War II before being demobilized in 1946.

Lorch obtained a teaching position at the City College of New York following the war but was soon fired because of his civil rights work on behalf of African-Americans.

1950

Lorch obtained a new position at Pennsylvania State University, but rather than give up his apartment he asked a black friend and his family to move into his dwelling as "guests", a move which circumvented the policy against accepting housing applications from blacks, but which also resulted in his being fired from Penn State, as reported in The New York Times on April 10, 1950.

An editorial in the Times the following day (April 11) called on Penn State to reconsider, recalling the suspicious nature of his dismissal from City College the previous year, to no avail.

"It's hard to imagine now, but there was no civil rights legislation back then. You could be fired without explanation. But how could you do anything else, in all good conscience?"

After being fired by Penn State, Lorch obtained a teaching position at Fisk University, a black college located in Tennessee, in 1950.

1951

In 1951 there was a south-eastern sectional meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Nashville.

1955

In 1955, Lorch was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee after he and his wife, Grace, attempted to enroll their daughter, Alice, in an all-black elementary school after the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that school segregation was unconstitutional.

1957

In 1957, Lorch was working as chair of the Mathematics Department at Philander Smith College, a small black college in Little Rock, Arkansas.

That year, he and his wife, Grace, helped escort the Little Rock Nine, nine high school students attempting to be the first black students to enroll at Little Rock Central High School against white segregationist opposition that was so ferocious his wife helped protect a 15-year-old black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, from a mob.

Faced with threats and sticks of dynamite left in their garage and with the school's funding at risk, Lorch resigned and was again forced to look for new employment.

1959

In 1959, facing a blacklist by most US universities, Lorch accepted a position with the University of Alberta and moved his family to Canada.

1968

He moved to York University in Toronto in 1968 and taught there until his retirement in 1985.

1990

He was also honored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1990 and by Spelman College in 1999.

2003

In 2003, the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation presented him with an honorary life membership for distinguished mathematical contributions and for his struggles for the disadvantaged and world peace.

2007

"I had become very aware of racism through the war; not just anti-Semitism, but the way the American army treated black soldiers. On the troop transport overseas, it was always the black company on board that had to clean the ship and do the dirty work, and I felt very uncomfortable with that," Lorch told an interviewer in 2007.

Some time after taking up his job at City College, he moved into Stuyvesant Town, a development owned by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company built with financial and legal support from New York City for war veterans.

Outraged at the development's "No Negroes" policy, Lorch became a vice-chair of a tenants' committee formed to eliminate this discrimination.

This had two-thirds support from the other tenants.

City College, though conceding the excellence of his work, dismissed Lorch, refusing to give any reason.

said Lorch in 2007.

The citation delivered at the 2007 MAA awards presentation, where Lorch received a standing ovation, recorded that:

He maintained an office at York and, in 2007, was collaborating with Martin Muldoon on a paper about Bessel functions.

Lorch remained a political activist in Canada and was a member of the Communist Party of Canada, the United Jewish Peoples Order and honorary president of the Canadian Cuban Friendship Association.

Lorch's dissertation, under Otto Szász, focused on the behavior of certain classes of Fourier series and his subsequent research also focused on analysis.

He has been recognized for his academic work with a fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, election to the councils of the Canadian Mathematical Society, the American Mathematical Society and the Royal Society of Canada.

Two of the colleges that fired him, Fisk and City University, have awarded Lorch with honorary degrees.

In 2007, Lorch was awarded with the Mathematical Association of America's most prestigious award, the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, and in 2007 he was the first Canadian, and one of only 17 non-Cubans, to be elected to the Cuban Academy of Sciences.

2012

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.