Davis, Allison. Papers 1932-1984

Hughes, Everett C. (Everett Cherrington), 1897-1983

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Everett C. Hughes was born in 1897 in Beaver, Ohio. He received his A.B. at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918 and continued with his education at the University of Chicago, earning a doctorate in both sociology and anthropology in 1928. He married Helen Gregory MacGill in 1927, and they had two daughters, Helen Cherrington Brock and Elizabeth Gregory Schneewind. From 1927-1938, Hughes was a professor at McGill University in Canada. He wrote extensively on Canada, particularly French Canadian s...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1780 and is the second oldest learned society in the U.S. Among its incorporators were James Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. From the description of Records of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775-1800 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413111 ...

Gardner, Mary R.

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Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-

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Davis, Elizabeth Stubbs

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American council on education

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Founded in 1918, the American Council on Education is a coordinating body for American institutions of higher education. From the guide to the American Council on Education Latin American Slide Collection N/A., 1945, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin) Founded in 1918, the American Council on Education (ACE) is the nation's unifying voice for higher education. ACE serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influ...

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...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Dollard, John, 1900-

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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 publishe...

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Havighurst, Robert J. (Robert James), 1900-1991

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Warner, W. Lloyd (William Lloyd), 1898-1970

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W. Lloyd Warner was born on October 26, 1898 in Redlands, California. He attended the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkley, where he received his B.A. in anthropology in 1926. Warner also attended graduate school at Berkeley and spent three years researching in northeastern Australia. Warner became assistant professor of Anthropology at Harvard University in 1929. In 1935, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago where h...

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...

University of Chicago. Department of education

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Robert J. Havighurst was born in DePere, Wisconsin on June 5, 1900. He grew up in Ohio and Illinois where his father, a former Professor of History at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, served as a Methodist minister. He received his A.B. from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1921 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Ohio State University in 1924. After a post-doctoral fellowship in physics at Harvard University (1924-1926) and a brief assistant professorship in chemistry at Miami Un...

Tyler, Ralph W. (Ralph Winfred), 1902-1994

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Educator and university administrator. A.B., Doane College, 1921. A.M., University of Nebraska, 1923. Ph. D. University of Chicago, 1927. Professor of education, University of Chicago, 1938-1953. Chairman, Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1938-1948. University Examiner, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Dean, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1948-1953. Director, Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1967. From the description of ...

Gardner, Burleigh B. (Burleigh Bradford), 1902-

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