Evelyn Boyd Granville, born on May 1, 1924 in Washington, D.C., United States, was awarded a honorary doctorate in the field of Mathematics and Education; then took a teaching position neither at Fisk University nor at New York University Institute for Mathematics in 1950.
Evelyn Boyd Granville (born May 1, 1924) was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. (1924-05-01) May 1, 1924 (age 96)
Washington, D.C., United States American honorary doctorate: Smith College
honorary doctorate: Spelman College
Sam A. Lindsey Chair of the University of Texas at Tyler Mathematics and Education in mathematics from an American University; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. Evelyn Boyd was born in Washington, D.C.; her father worked odd jobs due to the Great Depression but separated from her mother when Boyd was young. She majored in mathematics and physics, but also took a keen interest in astronomy. There she studied functional analysis under the supervision of Einar Hille, finishing her doctorate in 1949. Her dissertation was "On Laguerre Series in the Complex Domain". Following graduate school, Boyd went to New York University Institute for Mathematics and performed research and teaching there. After, in 1950, she took a teaching position at Fisk University, a college for black students in Nashville, Tennessee (more prestigious postings being unavailable to black women). 
