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Park, Robert E

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Personal name headingPark, Robert E.
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LocatedChicago (Ill.)
Birth date1864-02-14
Death date1944-02-07
Place of birthHarveyville (Pa.)
Place of deathNashville (Tenn.)
AffiliationUniversität Heidelberg Congo Reform Association (U.S.) Université de Strasbourg Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin
University of Chicago
Profession or occupationSociologists College teachers Journalists Lecturers
Found inHis Treasure hunting on a budget, 2004: t.p. (Robert E. Park) cover (Robert Park)
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Park, Robert Ezra; sociologist, educator, lecturer, print journalist; born 14 February 1864 in Harveyville, Pennsylvania, United States; graduated from the University of Michigan (1887); pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Friederich-Wilhelm University and the University of Strassburg; received PhD in philosophy from the University of Heidelberg (1903); was a city reporter / editor for the Minneapolis Journal, Denver Times, New York Journal, Detroit Tribune, and Chicago Journal; publicist and editorial secretary of the Congo Reform Association; journalist for the Tuskegee Machine; ghostwrote for Booker T. Washington's, was vice president of the Congo Reform Association (1905-1912); completed book-length projects for Washington: The Story of the Negro, My Larger Education, and, The Man Farthest Down, a collaborative effort (1909, 1911, 1912); was professor of sociology at the University of Chicago (1913-1933); died 07 February 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States)