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Also Known As Jessie Shirley Ravitch
Born June 8, 1903 • Minneapolis • Minnesota
Died October 6, 1996 (aged 93) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Subjects Of Study African Americans • family • marriage • role
Ernest Watson Burgess
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William Julius Wilson
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Robert E. Park.
Robert E. Park
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E. Franklin Frazier.
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Charles Spurgeon Johnson
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
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Otis Dudley Duncan
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Howard W. Odum
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Gunnar Myrdal in 1974
Gunnar Myrdal
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Frédéric Le Play
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Edward Westermarck
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Fred Anderson
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Percy Sledge
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Mildred Loving
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Frederick O’Neal
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Ken Norton
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Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
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Jim Marshall
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June Pointer
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Meadowlark Lemon
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Art Shell
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