Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979

Authoritative Name:

Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979

Biography:

"Sociologist Arthur Franklin Raper exposed Georgia's racial and economic inequities at a time when it could be professionally risky to oppose southern practices and customs. He was one of the first scholars to criticize the damaging institutions of lynching, sharecropping, and tenancy. Raper's work provoked criticism from southerners, but it also forced them to discuss issues that would have been taboo only a few years earlier." - "Arthur F. Raper." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 3, 2008)

Associated Subjects:

Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979

Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

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Oral history interview with Arthur Raper, January 30, 1974

Creator:

Raper, Arthur Franklin, 1899-1979

Date of Original:

1974-01-30

Collection:

Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement

Contributing Institution:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)