Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1948-02-07
Dr.. {. Franklin Frazier Takes Office OF
President OF American Sociological
Society
First Negro To
Hold Office


Sociology at Howard University,
has assumed the office of Presi-
dent of the American Sociologi-
cal Society for 1913, according
to an announcement today by DR..
James M. Nabrit, Jr., Secretary Of
the University.
He was elected president OF the
organization at it's annual meet
ing held at the Commodore Hotel,
in New York City, December 81
80, and is the first Negro to be
elected to that position.
DR.. Frazier, well known for his
many books and articles based
upon sociological studies, has
held several responsible positions
in that organization in the past.
He served as first vice-president
of the society last year, and has
been a member of the society's
executive committee, and a for
mer president of the District Of
Columbia chapter.
He has also served as presi-
dent of the Easter Sociological
Society; a research assistant in
the Department of Sociology at
the University of Chicago, 1927
%; director of a research project
on a grant from the Social Sci
ence Research Council, 1929-31,
and director of the Economic and
Social Survey of Harlem for May
or LaGuardia's Commission on
Conditions in Harlem, 1856.
DR.. Frazier has experienced a
most colorful and varied teachig
career during the past thirty-one
years. He has been professor and
Head of the Department of Socio-
logy at Howard University since
1884, and within recent years has
taught, while on leave, at the New
York School of Social Work, Col
umbia University; New York I'm
iversity, and Sarah Lawrence Col
lege in, Bronxville, N. Y.
Prior to 1884, he taught at Tus-
kegee Institute, Tuskegee Ala
bama; Fort Valley High and In
dustrial School, Fort Valley, Ga;
st. Paul's Normal and Industrial
School, Lawrenceville, Va; Ba1ti-
more High School, Baltimore, Md.
Livingstone College, Salisbury, s..
c.; Morehouse College, Atlanta,
Ga; and Fisk University Nash
vile, Tenn.
Other positions held by the Sc
holar includes:
Fellow of John Simon Guggen-
helm Foundation, 1904, to study
the Negro Family in Brazil and
the West Indies; Resident Fellow,
Lobrary of Congress. 1942-43; Fell
low of the Library of Congress
from 1913 to the present time and
Fellow, InterAmerican Society of
Anthropology and Geography.
Noted Author
DR.. Frazier is the author of
numerous books and publications,
among them "The Negro Family
In The United States" (The Un-
iversity of Chicago Press, 1880;
"The Negro Family In Chicago"
(The University of Chicago Press,
1922; NEGRO Youth At The
Crossweys," american Council on
Education, 194O), and The Free
Negro Family" (Fish University
Press 1892.
Articles by DR.. Frazier appear
in E. B. Reuters Race and Gull
ture Contacts; Alain Locke's
New Negro; "V. F. Calverton's
Anthology of American Negro
Literature; Francis J. Brown
and Joseph S. Roucek's One A.
merica," and he had made numer.
Gus contributions to such publ
cations as:
The American Journal OF Soci.
ology, American Sociological Re-
view, Social Forces, The Nation
The Forum, Current History, ant
other. magazines.
Native of Baltimore
DR.. Frazier, native of Balti
more, Nd, was born Septembe
"a, 1894, and graduated Cum La
ude from Howard University II
1916. He received his A. M. de
gree in Sociology at Clark I'm
iversity ip 1920, served as Re
search Fellow at the New Yorl
School of Social Work from 1890
81; was a Fellow of the Ameri
can-Scandinavian Foundation t
Denmark, 1922, and receive,
his Phi. ID. degree at the Univer
sity of Chicago in 1881.