Dollard, John, 1900-

John Dollard was born on August 29, 1900, in Menasha, Wisconsin. He studied commerce and English at the University of Wisconsin, receiving a B.A. in 1922. In 1931, he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. He was a professor of psychology at Yale University from 1952 to 1969. His best known work, Caste and Class in a Southern Town (1937) describes the social system in place in the South that kept African-Americans in a lower caste and economic class. Dollard's other published works include Frustration and Aggression in 1939 and Fear and Battle in 1943. John Dollard died on October 8, 1980, in New Haven, Connecticut.

From the guide to the John Dollard papers, 1927-1992, (Manuscripts and Archives)

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