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The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilization: Robert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-02877-6. Lal, Barbara Ballis (1987). "Black and Blue in Chicago: Robert E. Park's Perspective on Race Relations in Urban America, 1914–44". The British Journal of Sociology. 38 (4): 546– 566. doi:10.2307/590916.
Race relations is a sociological concept that emerged in Chicago in connection with the work of sociologist Robert E. Park and the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1] Race relations designates a paradigm or field in sociology [ 2 ] and a legal concept in the United Kingdom .
It was renamed to the "Rollins College Race Relations Committee" in 1945. [1] It was renamed to the "Rollins Inter-Faith and Race Relations Committee" between the years 1949 and 1950. [ 2 ] Notably, Fred Rogers , later famous for his role on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , served as president during the 1950-1951 school year. [ 3 ]
The Chicago Commission on Race Relations was a non-partisan, interracial investigative committee, appointed by Illinois governor Frank Lowden. The commission was set up after the Chicago riots of July and August 1919 in "which thirty-eight lives were lost, twenty-three Negros and fifteen whites, and 537 persons were injured". [ 1 ]
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Their inaugural sit-in on July 11, 1959, at the Varsity Village Restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus, attended by both black and white members, set a precedent for peaceful protest. Despite their nonviolent approach, resistance from store managers often resulted in violence.
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Robert E. Park (1864–1944), American urban sociologist; Robert H. Park (1902–1994), American electrical engineer and inventor; Robert L. Park (1931–2020), American physicist; Robert Park (activist) (born 1981), Korean-American missionary and activist; Robert Park (American football) (1880–1961), American football coach at Geneva College