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Howard Washington Odum (May 24, 1884 – November 8, 1954) was a white American sociologist and author who researched African-American life and folklore. [1] Beginning in 1920, he served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, founding the university press, the journal Social Forces, and what is now the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, all in the 1920s.
Monroe Nathan Work (August 15, 1866 – May 2, 1945) [1] was an African-American sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908. His published works include the Negro Year Book and A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America , a bibliography of approximately seventeen thousand references ...
The Department of History and Sociology at the University of Kansas was established in 1891 [59] [60] and the first full-fledged independent university department of sociology was established in 1892 at the University of Chicago by Albion W. Small (1854–1926), who in 1895 founded the American Journal of Sociology. [61]
African-American fraternities and sororities are social organizations that predominantly recruit black college students and provide a network that includes both undergraduate and alumni members. These organizations were typically founded by Black American undergraduate students, faculty, and leaders at various institutions in the United States .
George Edmund Haynes (May 11, 1880 – January 8, 1960) was an American sociology scholar and federal civil servant, a co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League, serving 1911 to 1918.
It was established in 1970 as the Caucus of Black Sociologists (CBS) at that year's ASA meeting in Washington, D.C. [4] The CBS was influenced by both the women's liberation movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. [5] In 1976, the CBS was incorporated as an independent organization, the Association of Black Sociologists.
Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in Howard University’s Miner Hall on January 15, 1908, by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and eight other undergraduate women. There was no such sororal order for Black ...
The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology.Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fifty people, the first president of the association would be Lester Frank Ward. [2]