Reminiscences of Arthur Franklin Raper : oral history, 1971.

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Reminiscences of Arthur Franklin Raper : oral history, 1971.

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Boyhood; education, University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt; Commission on Interracial Cooperation, research and field secretary, 1926-42; Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Carnegie Corporation study of the American Negro, 1939-40; Department of State and Agency for International Development, 1952-62; agricultural development work in Japan,the Middle East, and Taiwan; East Pakistan; impressions of Will Alexander, Frank P. Graham, Gunnar Myrdal, and others.

Transcript: 161 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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