Occupation – Education – University Professor – Sociology
Timuel Dixon Black, Jr. (1918-2021)
Timuel D. Black Jr. was an African American educator, civil rights activist, historian, and author. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on...
Dorceta E. Taylor (1957- )
Dorceta E. Taylor is an environmental sociologist who specializes in environmental justice and racism in the environmental movement. In 1991...
Prezell Russell Robinson (1920- )
Prezell Russell Robinson, longtime President of St. Augustine’s College (later University) was born in Batesburg, South Carolina, on August 22,...
Orlando Patterson (1940- )
Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica on June 15, 1940, Orlando Patterson is one of the foremost sociologists in the United States....
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell (1919-2019)
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell was an accomplished American Sociologist as well as a pioneering scholar of Africa, African America, international relations,...
St. Clair Drake (1911-1990)
John Gibbs St. Clair Drake was an American anthropologist and sociologist and the founding Director of Stanford University’s African and...
E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962)
Edward Franklin Frazier, the most prominent African American sociologist of the 20th Century, was born on September 24, 1894 in...
