E. Franklin Frazier

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E. Franklin Frazier

• Introduction

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E. Franklin Frazier

• Born 1894
• Baltimore, Maryland
• Died in 1962

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Education

• 1916 graduated from Howard university with
  honors.
• 1921 earned an MA in sociology at Clark
  university.
• 1931 Ph.D. In sociology from the university of
  Chicago.

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Held Positions at

• Atlanta University
• 1929-1934 Fisk University
• 1934-1959 Howard University (Chair of the
  Department of Sociology)

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Selected Publications

• 1932 The Negro Family in Chicago
• 1939 The Negro Family in the United States
• 1957 The Black Bourgeoisie

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First African American to be elected president
of the

• American Sociological Association