E. Franklin Frazier

E. Franklin Frazier was an American sociologist and author. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation, published as The Negro Family in the United States (1939), analyzed historical forces shaping African-American families and won the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In 1948, Frazier became the first black president of the American Sociological Association. He published extensively on African-American culture and race relations and helped draft UNESCO's 1950 statement, The Race Question.