Donald Pierson

CTL-E-0446 · Person · unspecified

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University of Chicago PhD student whose 1935–37 Salvador fieldwork produced the landmark English-language study Negroes in Brazil (1942).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-130; source research type(s): Person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

S_valladares; S_berose

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Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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