Evelyn Boyd Granville was born on May 1,1924, in Washington D.C.She attended a segregated school, Dunbar High. She graduated as valedictorian and maintained high academic standards. With the help of a Smith College fellowship, Evelyn began graduate studies at Yale University, for which she recieved financial asistance. She earned an M.A. in mathematics and physics in one year, and began working toward a doctorate. Evelyn Boyd Granville was one of the first Afican American women to recieve her PH.D in mathematics. In 1950,she was offered the position of associate professor of mathematics at Fisk University. Evelyn happily accepted, and noted black college in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk,she taught two students, Vivienne Malone Mayes and Etta Zuber Falconer, who would be, respectively, the seventh and eleventh, African American women to receive Ph.D.'s in Mathematics.
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