Reminiscences of Arthur F. Raper : oral history, 1971.

Biographical Note

Sociologist; interviewee d. 1979

Scope and Contents

Boyhood; education, University of North Carolina and Vanderbilt; Commission on Interracial Cooperation, research and field secretary, 1926-42; Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Carnegie Corporation study of the American Negro, 1939-40; Department of State and Agency for International Development, 1952-62; agricultural development work in Japan,the Middle East, and Taiwan; East Pakistan; impressions of Will Alexander, Frank P. Graham, Gunnar Myrdal, and others

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Agriculture--International cooperation.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979--Interviews.
• Singal, Daniel Joseph, 1944- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Sociologists--Interviews.
• Southern Regional Council.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States--Race relations.
• United States. Agency for International Development.