Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection 1935-1948

Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999

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Chairman, anthropology department, Rutgers University. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122526480 Ashley Montagu (1905-1999) was a British anthropologist and social biologist, perhaps best known for his critical analysis of the question of race. Montague Francis Ashley Montagu was born Israel Ehrenberg in London, England on June 28, 1905. He studied at th...

Sterner, Richard, 1901-1978

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Brenman-Gibson, Margaret

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Margaret Brenman-Gibson was a Harvard professor in the department of Psychiatry. In 1982, she became the first woman to be appointed as a full professor. Brenman-Gibson was the first non-physician from any discipline to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America. She is considered the first psychologist. Brenman-Gibson also had a deep interest in nuclear weapons and the use of nuclear power. She picketed and protested in numerous places, includ...

Stouffer, Samuel A., 1900-1960

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Stouffer (1900-1960) graduated from Harvard in 1923, taught sociology, and was Director of the Laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Samuel Andrew Stouffer, 1930-1960 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973312 ...

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-

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Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963

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Pioneer anthropologist and Africanist; Professor of Sociology (1927-38) and of Anthropology (1938-61), Northwestern University. From 1961 through 1963, held Northwestern's Chair of African Studies, the first such position in the United States. From the description of Melville Herskovits Papers, 1906-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80577063 Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. ...

Kiser, Louise K.

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Palmer, Edward Nelson

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Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956

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Sociologist, race relations expert, author, lecturer, teacher, and college administration; first African American president of Fisk University (1946-1956). From the description of Charles Spurgeon Johnson records, 1858-1956. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970119 First black president of Fisk University, elected Oct. 1946, inaugurated Nov. 1947; served until 1956; Head of Dept. of Social Science, Fisk University, 1928-1947; sociologist, race relations expert, author...

Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-1989

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American scholar and poet. From the description of Poems, [1929?]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145406115 ...

Florant, Lyonel C. (Lyonel Charles), -1945

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Lyonel C. Florant, an African-American economist, earned his Master's degree from Columbia University and was employed by the Carnegie Corporation's "Study of the Negro in America" project. The project, led by social scientist Gunnar Myrdal, was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to prepare an evaluation on the social, economic, and political aspects of life in the African-American community. Florant authored several documents for the project, and he, Samuel A. Stouffer and others complete...

Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul), 1875-1943

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Frederick Keppel was Carl Zigrosser's dean at Columbia University. Keppel took a personal interest in Zigrosser, and their letters cover Zigrosser's employment at Keppel & Co., Zigrosser's stand on conscientious objection during World War I (Keppel was with the War Department at the time), print purchases made by Keppel while he was with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Zigrosser's books. Included is a 1924 etching by Kerr Eby for Keppel & Co. From the description of...

Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989

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Historian; interviewee married Guy B. Johnson. From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376707 From the description of Reminiscences of Guion Griffis Johnson : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122620334 Guion Griffis Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., was a professor, author, scholar, journalist, women's a...

Wirth, Louis, 1897-1952

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Sociologist. Born, Germany, 1897. Ph. B., University of Chicago, 1919; M.A., 1925; Ph. D., 1926. Instructor, sociology, University of Chicago, 1925-28. Assistant professor, sociology, Tulane University, 1928-29. Assistant professor, sociology, University of Chicago, 1931-1932; associate professor, 1932-39; professor, 1940-1952. Associate dean of Social Sciences Division, 1940-1946. From the description of Papers, 1918-1952 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record...

Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970

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African American author and sociologist. From the description of Horace Cayton collection, 1965. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965364 Afro-American author. From the description of Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86118280 Horace R. Cayton, Jr. was born in Seattle, WA. on April 12, 1903 to Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (newspaper owner, editor, publisher), and Susie Cayton (j...

Reid, Ira de Augustine, 1901-1968

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Ira De Augustine Reid was a noted sociologist and author. Born in Clifton Forge, Virginia, he spent his boyhood in Pennsylvania, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College in 1922 and was awarded the Master of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1925. In 1939 Reid received his Ph.D. degree in sociology from Columbia University. He served as industrial secretary for the New York Urban League (1924-1928), and from 1928 to 1934 he w...

Shils, Edward, 1910-1995

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Historian Edward Potts Cheyney taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From the guide to the Drafts of chapters for "Freedom of inquiry and expression, " 1936-1938, 1936-1938, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979

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Arthur Franklin Raper was a distinguished sociologist whose early work focused on rural social issues and racial discrimination in the South. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, he worked for several government agencies on problems of rural development in Bangladesh as well as other countries in Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. After his work as senior advisor to the Pakistan Academy for Rural Development, he returned to the United States and worked as a visiting professor ...

Malzberg, Benjamin, 1893-

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Director of the bureau of statistics at the New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene. From the description of Correspondence to Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1955. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243692849 ...

Hill, Arnold

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Fleming, George James, 1904-

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McCormick, T. C. (Thomas Carson), 1892-

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Klineberg, Otto, 1899-1992

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Psychologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Otto Klineberg : oral history, 1984. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743413 ...

Davis, Allison, 1902-1983

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Psychologist and social anthropologist. A.B., Williams College, 1924. A.M., Harvard University, 1925; graduate study in anthropology, 1932. Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1942. Instructor in English, Hampton Institute, 1925-1931. Professor of social anthropology, Dillard University, 1935-1939. Research associate, Institute of Human Relations, Yale University, 1939. Staff member, Division of Child Development and Teacher Personnel, American Council on Education, 1940-1943. Assistant professor, De...

Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991

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Dorn, Harold F. (Harold Fred), 1906-1963

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A medical statistician for the U.S. Public Health Service, Harold Fred Dorn was born near Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906. After earning an M.S. in Sociology from Cornell, Dorn developed an interest in statistics. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and in 1934 studied the application of statistical methods to social data at the Galton Laboratory at the University College, London. Dorn's best-known work is his development of a "statistical methodology for large-scale epidemiological ...

Kirk, Dudley

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Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...

Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962

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African American sociologist, educator, author, and head of the Dept. of Sociology at Howard University. From the description of Papers, 1908-1962. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941134 ...

Isbell, Elanor C

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Norgren, Paul Herbert

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Drake, St. Clair.

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Born in 1911, St. Clair Drake was an educator and social anthropologist who taught sociology at Roosevelt and Stanford Universities and at the Universities of Liberia and Ghana. His study of social life in the Caribbean and West Africa and in the black communities of Chicago and Great Britain spanned the 1930s to the 1980. His major study of Blacks in Chicago, Black Metropolis, written in collaboration with Horace Cayton, was published in 1945. A prolific lecturer and author, his many articles a...

Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513568 Educator; sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147654 Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Sc...

Woofter, Thomas Jackson 1893-

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Thomas, D. (Deborah), 1959-

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Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970

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African American author and sociologist. From the description of Horace Cayton collection, 1965. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965364 Afro-American author. From the description of Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86118280 Horace R. Cayton, Jr. was born in Seattle, WA. on April 12, 1903 to Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (newspaper owner, editor, publisher), and Susie Cayton (j...

Wilkerson, Doxey Alphonso, 1905-1993

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An African-American educator, Doxey A. Wilkerson, made significant contributions to early childhood education and teacher education for secondary school, especially with regard to minority and disadvantaged students. Wilkerson was a professor of education at Howard University from 1935-1943 and served as a research associate for the Carnegie Corporation study of the Negro in America, 1939-1940. He served as national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (...

Burks, Barbara Stoddard, 1902-1943

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