Obituary: Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer who transcended barriers of race and gender (1924-2023)
Credit: Marketing and Communications Records/University Archives and Special Collections, University of Texas at Tyler
Granville wrote of her childhood, “We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.” Early in her career, she was forbidden from attending a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America. As a Black woman, she was also barred from applying for faculty positions at most US higher-education institutions until after federal civil-rights legislation had been passed in the 1960s.
After briefly teaching at New York University, Granville took up an associate professorship at Fisk University in 1950, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee. However, frustrated by the limits imposed on academic institutions by segregation, in 1952 she returned to Washington DC, where she worked on mathematical analyses of missile designs at the National Bureau of Standards.
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