LC control no. | no2011086619 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Park, Robert E. |
Located | Chicago (Ill.) |
Birth date | 1864-02-14 |
Death date | 1944-02-07 |
Place of birth | Harveyville (Pa.) |
Place of death | Nashville (Tenn.) |
Affiliation | Universität Heidelberg Congo Reform Association (U.S.) Université de Strasbourg Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin University of Chicago |
Profession or occupation | Sociologists College teachers Journalists Lecturers |
Found in | His 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) |