Biography

Carl Victor Granger came from a long line of black Ivy League athletes, including all of his five brothers in the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s. His trajectory into privilege and access to material means were made available through the harrowing story of his father who escaped manual labor to be taken up by religious ministers and eventually train to become a medical physician in the late and early 1900’s up until his death in the 1920’s. Carl’s unusual background allowed him to attend an integrated school in New Jersey, and participate in athletics just like his brothers. As a product of his environment and black man of unusual means in an emerging Jim Crow era, Carl defied the odds and was accepted into Dartmouth College’s incoming freshmen class of 1923.

Athletic Achievements

There is no record of Carl Granger gaining athletic achievements even though he participated on the Dartmouth track team during 1920-21.

Life Post-Dartmouth

Despite graduating from Dartmouth College with a 2.51 grade-point average, Carl Victor Granger continued his education at New York University-Bellevue Medical School, presently known as New York University College of Medicine, in hopes of following his father’s footsteps as a doctor. Following graduate school, Carl would spend time practicing medicine in Brooklyn. Shortly thereafter, Carl would displace to Huntington Station, NY and become a well-respected physician and surgeon for the Huntington Police Department. Granger accumulated substantial wealth (possessing a home worth $130,000 today accounting for inflation) and was very active in the community via the NAACP, the local Urban League, and Suffolk county Medical School. Carl Victor Granger’s successes gained such respect in the black community that he was featured in Who’s Who in Colored America, which at the time was a biographical source of all notable black people living in the U.S. After some thirty years of contributing to his community and profession, Carl V. Granger would die after having been ill for some weeks.

Here is a snapshot of  Carl’s place in the Senior yearbook, note that he is not pictured, but there were no other black students pictured as well during that year. (Aegis 1924,  Pg. 223)

For two years Carl earned a Medical Certificate as a Pre-Med major at Dartmouth through the medical school on campus. (Aegis 1924)