Monroe Work | |
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| Born | Monroe Nathan Work August 15, 1866 |
| Died | May 2, 1945 (aged 78) Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (B.A. and M.A.) |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Known for | Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute |
| Notable work | Negro Year Book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America |
| Spouse | Florence E. Hendrickson |
| Awards | Harmon Award in Education (1928) |
Monroe Nathan Work (August 15, 1866 – May 2, 1945)[1] was an African-American sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908. His published works include the Negro Year Book and A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, a bibliography of approximately seventeen thousand references to African Americans.
He helped expand Tuskegee Institute's national reputation. worked to advance anti-lynching campaigns, and promoted the National Negro Health Week movement.[2] His Negro Year Books and A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America—a bibliography of 17,000 references on African Americans, were the largest of their kind in an era when scholarship by and about black Americans was highly inaccessible, and overlooked or ignored by most academics in the US.[3] Jim Crow laws were increasing and there was periodic violence against African Americans at the time.
- ^ Kreiger, Caroline (June 30, 2008), "Work, Monroe Nathan (1866–1945)", Blackpast.org.
- ^ Alkalimat, Abdul (2004). The African American experience in cyberspace : a resource guide to the best Websites on black culture and history. London: Pluto. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0745322220. OCLC 244352535.
- ^ McMurry, Linda O. (2004). Recorder of the Black Experience: A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work.