Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American sociologist. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his research on lynching, sharecropping, and rural development.
Raper grew up in Davidson County, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] He received an M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] In 1925, he started his PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard W. Odum, and completed it in 1931. [1] [4]
In 1926, he worked for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation with Will W. Alexander in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] He later taught at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. [1] In 1927 he produced a report on the conditions of African Americans in Tampa, Florida with Benjamin Elijah Mays. [5]
In 1939, he resigned after a furor over taking his students to visit the Tuskegee Institute. [1] He studied and wrote about sharecropping in Macon County and Greene County. [1] [6] He exposed sharecropping as exploitative. [1] [2] His papers are in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library; four of his books were reviewed by The New York Times.
A collection of Raper's materials are housed at the Special Collections Research Center at Fenwick Library at George Mason University. [7]
Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American sociologist. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his research on lynching, sharecropping, and rural development.
Raper grew up in Davidson County, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [1] He received an M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] In 1925, he started his PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard W. Odum, and completed it in 1931. [1] [4]
In 1926, he worked for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation with Will W. Alexander in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] He later taught at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. [1] In 1927 he produced a report on the conditions of African Americans in Tampa, Florida with Benjamin Elijah Mays. [5]
In 1939, he resigned after a furor over taking his students to visit the Tuskegee Institute. [1] He studied and wrote about sharecropping in Macon County and Greene County. [1] [6] He exposed sharecropping as exploitative. [1] [2] His papers are in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library; four of his books were reviewed by The New York Times.
A collection of Raper's materials are housed at the Special Collections Research Center at Fenwick Library at George Mason University. [7]