Monroe Work
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Monroe Nathan Work (1866-1945), was a sociologist who worked primarily within the anti-lynching campaigns and the Negro Health Week movement. His chief works include a bibliography on African Americans, and the Negro Year Book.
Work was born to ex-slaves and as a person whom was able to hear about the many injustices his people suffered he strove towards finding ways to make himself useful in the continued struggle for equality. At the age of 23 Work decided to pursue a higher education and entered a biracial high school in Arkansas City. He managed to graduate third in his class, and after a stint as a preacher he decided to become a sociologist. Transferring to Chicago, Work found himself in the midst of the very problems he had decided to fight. At the time Chicago was a place of segregation and hatred of African Americans, resulting in a number of lynchings. His time in Chicago was spent compiling notes that he would use to compile a paper on these crimes. This paper would be the first article published within the American Journal of Sociology by an African American. By the time he was done with school in Chicago he had a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, and a Master of Arts degree in sociology and psychology.
After graduating he moved to the far south and became a professor at Georgia State Industrial College. While here he would begin the Negro Year Book, a yearly publication which described the current state of black affairs. This led to his eventual publication of lynching reports throughout his later extensive affiliation with Tuskegee University.
Monroe Work received the Harmon Award in Education in 1928 for his research and involvement in the Negro Year book and his work on A Bibliography of the Negro.
[edit] Major Works
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1912, Sunday School Union Print, Nashville, TN, 1912 [1]
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1913, Negro Year Book Co., Tuskegee Institute, AL, 1913
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1914-1915, Negro Year Book Publishing Company, Tuskegee lnstitute, AL, 1914
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1916-1917, Negro Year Book Publishing Company, Tuskegee lnstitute, AL, 1916
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1918-1919, The Negro Year Book Publishing Co., Tuskegee Institute, AL, 1919
- Work, Monroe N., editor, The Negro Yearbook, an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1921-1922. The Negro Year Book Publishing Company: Tuskegee Institute, 1922. [2]
- Work, Monroe N., editor, Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1925-1926, Negro Year Book Publishing Co., Tuskegee Institute, AL, 1925
- Work, Monroe N., editor Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1931-1932 Negro Year Book Publishing Co., Tuskegee Institute, AL, 1931
- Work, Monroe N., editor, Negro Year Book; An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1937-1938 Negro Year Book Publishing Co., Tuskegee Institute, AL, 1937
[edit] References
- Alkalimat, Abdul (2004). The African American Experience in Cyberspace. Pluto Press. ISBN 0745322220.
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| NAME | Work, Monroe Nathan |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 |
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| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |
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