biography
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Drake, (John Gibbs) St Clair
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| lived:
| (1911–90)
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| biography:
| Sociologist and cultural anthropologist, born in Suffolk, Virginia, USA. The son of a West Indian immigrant who became a Baptist preacher, he graduated from Hampton Institute (1931) and participated in Quaker peace and racial justice campaigns as a young man. With Horace Cayton, he co-wrote Black Metropolis (1946), a landmark study of Chicago's south-side ghetto. He taught at Dillard, Roosevelt, and Stanford universities, advised leaders of newly independent African nations, and helped develop training programmes for Africa-bound Peace Corps volunteers. |
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