Question: Who's ideas besides the American sociologist and Pan-Africanist author were debated in 1881-1882?

Context articles: Henry Pratt Fairchild
Paul Lazarsfeld
Bethel Literary and Historical Society
Gregg Lee Carter
Frederick German Detweiler
Rory M. McVeigh
Erving Goffman
W. E. B. Du Bois
Eugene M. Kulischer
Herbert Blumer

Henry Pratt Fairchild (August 18, 1880 – October 2, 1956) was a distinguished American sociologist.
 He was a sociologist who was actively involved in many of the controversial issues of his time.
 He wrote about race relations, abortion and contraception, and immigration.
 He was involved with the founding of Planned Parenthood and served as President to the American Eugenics Society.
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901 – August 30, 1976) was an American sociologist.
 The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social research.
 "It is not so much that he was an American sociologist," one colleague said of him after his death, "as it was that he determined what American sociology would be."
 Lazarsfeld said that his goal was “to produce Paul Lazarsfelds."
 The two main accomplishments he is associated with can be analyzed within two lenses of analysis: research institutes, methodology, as well as his research content itself.
The Bethel Literary and Historical Society was an organization founded in 1881 by African Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop Daniel Payne and continued at least until 1915.
 It represented a highly significant development in African American society in Washington DC.
 Most of its early members were members of the Metropolitan AME Church where its meetings were held, while maintaining an open invitation for black Washingtonians from across the city.
 It immediately developed into the preeminent debating society and forum for racial issues in Washington, D.C.
 The prospect of a separation of schools for black children was heatedly debated in 1881-2 as were the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois in 1903.
 It was one of the stops of `Abdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West.
Gregg Lee Carter (born 1951) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
 His research focuses on gun violence, human ecology, and gender roles, among other subjects.
 He was educated at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (B.A. in history and psychology) and Columbia University (M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology).
 He has written or edited 24 books, including the three-volume series "Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law".
 He has been the president of the New England Sociological Association, and has received their "Sociologist of the Year Award", as well as the "Outstanding Contributions to Instruction Award" from the American Sociological Association's Sociology and Computers Section.
Frederick German Detweiler (1881-1960) was an American sociologist and expert on race relations, best known for his 1922 book "The Negro Press in the United States", published by University of Chicago Press.
 At the time of his death he was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Denison University and a Fellow Emeritus of the American Sociological Association.
Rory M. McVeigh is an American sociologist, professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and the chair of the department of sociology at the University of Notre Dame.
 He is also the current editor of the American Sociological Review, the flagship journal of the American Sociological Association.
 He is widely cited in the field of social movements, particularly right-wing movements.
 He is also the current editor of the academic journal "Mobilizations" and the co-editor of the academic blog Mobilizing Ideas.
Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
 In 2007 he was listed by "The Times Higher Education Guide" as the sixth most-cited author in the humanities and social sciences, behind Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault, and ahead of Jürgen Habermas.
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
 Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community.
 After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
 Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Eugene M. Kulischer (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Кулишер , 1881–1956) was a Russian American sociologist, an authority on demography, migration, and manpower, and an expert on Russia.
 Kulischer coined the phrase “displaced persons” and was among the first to seek to document the number of persons lost in the Holocaust as well as the subsequent relocation of millions of Europeans after World War II.
Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research.
 Believing that individuals create social reality through collective and individual action, he was an avid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead’s social psychology, which he labelled 'symbolic interactionism'.
 Blumer elaborated and developed this line of thought in a series of articles, many of which were brought together in the book "Symbolic Interactionism".
 An ongoing theme throughout his work, he argued that the creation of social reality is a continuous process.
 Blumer was also a vociferous critic of positivistic methodological ideas in sociology.