William C. Smith papers [microform], 1924-1927.

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William C. Smith papers [microform], 1924-1927.

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Collection consists of documents assembled by Smith and Robert Ezra Park for a survey of race relations on the Pacific Coast and Hawaii, 1924-1927, and used by Smith in Americans in the making. The documents consist of interviews with, and autobiographies of, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, and other immigrants and first-generation Americans. Most of the autobiographies were written by school children in California and Hawaii.

9 linear ft. (6 containers)

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Smith, William Carlson, 1883-

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William Carlson Smith was born in 1883. He graduated in 1907 from Grand Island College in Nebraska where he majored in arts and letters. Smith did educational work in Assam, India under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society from 1912-1915. Following his return to the United States he continued sociology studies at the University of Southern California and the University of Chicago and eventually held positions in sociology departments of various universities. In the 1920s Smith worked as ...

Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944

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Sociologist. Ph. B., University of Michigan, 1887. Newspaper reporter in Minneapolis, Detroit, Denver, New York, and Chicago, 1887-1898. M.A., Harvard University, 1899. Ph. D., University of Heidelberg, 1904. Assistant in philosophy, Harvard University, 1904-1905. Secretary of the Congo Reform Association. Aide to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute. Professorial lecturer on sociology, University of Chicago, 1915-1923; professor of sociology, 1923-1929. Lecturer, Fisk University, 1936-194...