E. Franklin Frazier
E. Franklin Frazier
Edward Franklin Frazier, was an American sociologist and author, publishing as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States; it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for the most significant work in the field of race relations. It was among the first sociological works on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth24 September 1894
CountryUnited States of America
E. Franklin Frazier quotes about
The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.