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Lee Lorch

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Lee Alexander Lorch (September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014) was a mathematician, early civil rights activist, and communist. [1]

52 relations: African Americans, American Mathematical Society, Arkansas, Bessel function, Blacklisting, Brown v. Board of Education, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Canadian Jewish News, Canadian Mathematical Society, City College of New York, Civil and political rights, Communism, Communist Party of Canada, Cornell University, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fisk University, Fourier series, Grace Lorch, Historically black colleges and universities, House Un-American Activities Committee, L'Humanité, Little Rock Central High School, Little Rock Nine, Little Rock, Arkansas, Manning Marable, Mathematical Association of America, Mathematician, Mathematics Genealogy Project, MetLife, Nashville, Tennessee, National Academy of Sciences, New York City, Otto Szász, Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pennsylvania State University, Philander Smith College, Royal Society of Canada, Spelman College, Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, Supreme Court of the United States, Tennessee, The New York Times, Toronto, Toronto Star, United Jewish People's Order, United States Army, University of Alberta, University of Cincinnati, ..., World War II, York University. Expand index (2 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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American Mathematical Society

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.

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Bessel function

Bessel functions, first defined by the mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and then generalized by Friedrich Bessel, are the canonical solutions of Bessel's differential equation for an arbitrary complex number, the order of the Bessel function.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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Canadian Association of University Teachers

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing approximately 68,000 teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals and general staff at 120 universities and colleges across Canada.

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Canadian Jewish News

The Canadian Jewish News (CJN) is a non-profit, national, English-language tabloid-sized newspaper serving Canada's Jewish community.

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Canadian Mathematical Society

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, and scholarship and education in Canada.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Communism

In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.

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Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada (Parti communiste du Canada, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cuban Academy of Sciences

The Cuban Academy of Sciences (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba) is Cuba's Academy of Sciences, with headquarters in the National Capitol building in Havana.

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Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, among other things, protects individuals from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves in criminal cases.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Fisk University

Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Fourier series

In mathematics, a Fourier series is a way to represent a function as the sum of simple sine waves.

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Grace Lorch

Grace Lonergan Lorch (c. 1903-1974) was a teacher and civil rights activist best known for her work as a white escort for the Little Rock Nine.

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Historically black colleges and universities

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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L'Humanité

L'Humanité ("Humanity"), is a French daily newspaper.

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Little Rock Central High School

Little Rock Central High School (LRCHS) is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.

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Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Manning Marable

William Manning Marable (May 13, 1950 – April 1, 2011) was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University.

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Mathematical Association of America

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics Genealogy Project

The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians.

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MetLife

MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Otto Szász

Otto Szász (11 December 1884, Hungary – 19 December 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked on real analysis, in particular on Fourier series.

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Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Philander Smith College

Philander Smith College is a private historically black college, four-year undergraduate liberal arts institution, located in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists.

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Spelman College

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village

Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village is a large, post-World War II private residential development, on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Star

The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.

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United Jewish People's Order

The United Jewish People's Order is a secular socialist Jewish cultural, political and educational fraternal organization in Canada.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (commonly referred to as UC or Cincinnati) is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, in the U.S. state of Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Lorch

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