Awards & Winners

E. Franklin Frazier

Date of Birth 24-September-1894
Place of Birth Baltimore
(Maryland, Baltimore County, United States of America, Area code 410, Area code 443, Area code 667, Area codes 410, 443, and 667)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Edward Franklin Frazier, Edward Frazier
Profession Sociologist
Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation The Negro Family in Chicago, later released as a book The Negro Family in the United States in 1939, analyzed the historical force that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. This book was among the first sociological works on blacks researched and written by a black person. He helped draft the UNESCO statement The Race Question in 1950.

Awards by E. Franklin Frazier

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1940


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Negro family in the United States