Nathan Hare, 91, Forceful Founder of First Black Studies Program, Dies.

Dr. Nathan Hare is often called “the Father of Black Studies.”

Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) is an American sociologist, activist, academic, and psychologist. In 1968 he was the first person hired to coordinate a Black studies program in the United States. He established the program at San Francisco State. A graduate of Langston University and the University of Chicago, he had become involved in the Black Power movement while teaching at Howard University…From Biography.

See: A CONCEPTUAL PROPOSAL FOR A DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES, Nathan Hare. April 29, 1968

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Dr. Julia Hare On Being Black First & Integration (Video Edu.) and The Black Woman’s Role In The Community Of Slaves, By Angela Davis (The Black Scholar December, 1971).pdf

SUPPLEMENTAL STUDY: TBS, November 1969

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