St. Clair Drake
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Death | 34 years ago |
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Date of birth | January 2,1911 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Suffolk |
Virginia | |
United States | |
Date of died | June 15,1990 |
Died | Palo Alto |
California | |
United States | |
Influenced | Franklin Rosemont |
Education | The University of Chicago |
Hampton University | |
Awards | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction |
Notabl work | Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City |
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ID | 705979 |
St. Clair Drake Life story
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake was an African-American sociologist and anthropologist whose scholarship and activism led him to document much of the social turmoil of the 1960s, establish some of the first Black Studies programs in American universities, and contribute to the independence movement in Ghana.