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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are a United States literary award dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith...
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Harold Gosnell
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Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887–14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis. He...
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E. Franklin Frazier
Edward Franklin Frazier (September 24, 1894 - May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation The Negro Family in Chicago, later released as a book The Negro Family in the United States in 1939, analyzed the cultural and...
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Louis Adamic
Louis Adamic (Slovene: Alojz Adamič) (23 March, 1899 – 4 September, 1951) was a Slovenian American author and translator.
Adamic was born at the Praproče castle in Blato near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia (then part of the Austro-Hungarian...
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Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld (August 20, 1898, Kraków – January 15, 1968, Warsaw) was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938-1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of...
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James Leyburn
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her...
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Ronald Takaki
Ronald Takaki (April 12, 1939 - May 26, 2009) was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept.
Ronald Takaki was raised in a low-income...
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Maurice Samuel
Maurice Samuel (February 8, 1895 - May 4, 1972) was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer.
A Jewish and Zionist intellectual, he is best known for his work You Gentiles, published in 1924. Most of his work concerns...
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Carleton Mabee
Carleton Mabee is a Pulitzer-prize winning writer.
Roi Ottley
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John Hersey
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with...
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Gwethalyn Graham
Gwethalyn Graham (January 18, 1913 - November 25, 1965) was a Canadian writer, whose 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. Graham won the Governor General's Award...
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Kenneth Clark
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St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake (January 2, 1911 – 1990) was an American sociologist.
Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia. Upon graduation from the Hampton institute, he became involved with The Society of Friends in the south. Drake got involved in an...
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Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch born Szulim Asz (Yiddish: שלום אש), also written Shalom Asch (1 November, 1880, Kutno - July 10, 1957, London) was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.
Asch was one of ten children of...
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Pauline R. Kibbe
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Kenneth R Philp
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Worth Tuttle Hedden
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Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and liberal political activist.
Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province (now KwaZulu-Natal), the son of a minor civil servant. After attending Maritzburg...
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J.C. Furnas
J.C. (Joseph Chamberlain) Furnas (1906-2001) was an American freelance writer. He is best known for his article, commissioned for the Reader's Digest, "---And Sudden Death!" This article brought national attention to the problem of automobile safety...
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Shirley Graham
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S. Andhil Fineberg
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Henry Gibbs
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Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) (December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996) was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles,...
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Brewton Berry
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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won...
Han Suyin
Han Suyin (simplified Chinese: 韩素音; traditional Chinese: 韓素音; pinyin: Hán Sùyīn) (born September 12, 1917), is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow (Chinese: 周光湖; pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú). She is a Chinese-born Eurasian...
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for...
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Vernon Bartlett
Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire - 18 January 1983) was an English journalist and politician.
After education at Blundell's School Bartlett was invalided out of the Army in World War I. As a journalist he...
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Lyle Saunders
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Oden
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George W Shepherd
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John P. Dean
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Alex Rosen
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Trevor Huddleston
Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston KCMG (15 June 1913 – 20 April 1998), was an Anglican priest, one-time Archbishop of Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, and most famous for his anti-Apartheid activism.
Born in Bedford, England, he was educated at Lancing...
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Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, cultural anthropologist, historian, journalist and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (variously translated,...
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South African Institute of Race Relations
Established in 1929 the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) is a leading research and policy organisation in South Africa. The Institute is "one of the oldest liberal institutions in the country," and is independent of government and...
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Jessie B. Sams
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J. Milton Yinger
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George Simpson
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Basil Davidson
Basil Davidson (born 9 November 1914 in Bristol, England) is an acclaimed British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution .
He has written several books...
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John Haynes Holmes
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E. R. Braithwaite
Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1920 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.
Braithwaite had a privileged...
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Louis Lomax
Louis E. Lomax (August 16, 1922 – July 30, 1970) was an African-American journalist and author. He was also the first African-American television journalist.
Lomax was born in Valdosta, Georgia. He attended Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, where...
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John Howard Griffin
John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 - September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author much of whose writing was about racial equality. A white man, he is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi,...
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Dwight L. Dumond
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Gina Allen
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, also known as T. G. Dobzhansky, and sometimes Anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky (Ukrainian — Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; January 24, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist,...
Nathan Glazer
Nathan Glazer (born 1924) is an American sociologist, who taught at UC Berkeley and Harvard University. He is a domestic policy neoconservative, editor of the defunct policy journal The Public Interest, and formerly a frequent contributor to The New...
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Harold Robert Isaacs
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Bernard E. Olson
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Abram L. Sachar
Abram Leon Sachar (February 15, 1899 - July 24, 1993) was an American historian and university president. Born in New York City, his immigrant family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1906 where his grandfather served as a Chief Rabbi. After being...
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Milton Gordon
Milton Gordon (born 1918) is an American sociologist. He is most noted for having devised a theory on the Seven Stages of Assimilation.
America as a multicultural society
Assimilation in American life: the role of race, religion, and national...
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James W. Silver
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Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiography of Malcolm X (written in collaboration with Malcolm X).
Haley...
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Claude Brown
Claude Brown (February 23, 1937 - February 2, 2002) is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem.
Autobiographical in nature,...
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H. Baldry
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