E. Franklin Frazier

CTL-E-5941 · Person · educator · 1894–1962

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E. Franklin Frazier (Edward Franklin Frazier, born September 24, 1894, Baltimore; died May 17, 1962, Washington, D.C.) was the sociologist who defined the scholarly study of the Black family in America. He earned his bachelor's at Howard University in 1916, a master's at Clark in 1920, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1931; the dissertation became The Negro Family in Chicago (1932), and its expansion, The Negro Family in the United States (1939), won the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1940. He directed the Atlanta School of Social Work from 1922 to 1927, chaired Howard's sociology department, became the first Black president of the American Sociological Association in 1948, and helped draft UNESCO's 1950 statement The Race Question. His Black Bourgeoisie (French edition 1955; English 1957) remains a landmark critique, and his debate with Melville J. Herskovits over African cultural retentions structured a generation of scholarship. Howard's E. Franklin Frazier Research Center was inaugurated on May 24, 2000.

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• Also known as: Edward Franklin Frazier

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no E. Franklin Frazier entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5941 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 1 packet ordered reserve, position 16 of 20 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #612). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — foundational Black sociologist, Howard chair, and author of the Chicago family study the graph's Great Migration records cite; core scope. Vital status: DECEASED — died May 17, 1962 (BlackPast; African American Registry). Tribute treatment in the Curator's Judgment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Degrees: Howard BA 1916, Clark MA 1920, University of Chicago PhD 1931 (BlackPast). The Negro Family in the United States (1939) won the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1940. CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: the chronology of his Fisk and Howard years differs between the sources read — BlackPast's account has him teaching at Fisk until 1943 before chairing Howard's department, while the standard scholarly chronology places him at Howard from 1934; the record states the Howard chair without asserting a single contested start year. MEDIA: photo HELD (E. Franklin Frazier portrait (Howard University) named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5941-e-franklin-frazier.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

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• Howard University — affiliated with
  Frazier chaired Howard University's sociology department and took his bachelor's there in 1916.

Sources

• BlackPast, "Frazier, E. Franklin (1894–1962)" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Baltimore birth September 24, 1894, the Howard/Clark/Chicago degrees, the Atlanta directorship, the ASA presidency, and the May 17, 1962 death — https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/frazier-e-franklin-1894-1962/ (primary source · build store)
• African American Registry, "E. Franklin Frazier, prominent and controversial sociologist" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the career summary including the 1939 family study, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the UNESCO work — https://aaregistry.org/story/e-franklin-frazier-prominent-and-controversial-sociologist/ (build store)

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