Nathan Hare: African American Sociologist

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African American sociologist Nathan Hare is an African American Sociologist who was born on April 9, 1933 in a town near slick, Oklahoma. He attended the public elementary school L’Ouverture. When we was just a boy he had to move with his single mother to San Diego California, where his mother worked as a janitor for the U.S. navy air station. Unfortunately when World War two ended so did his moms employment, so they moved back to Oklahoma. Ever since Nathan was a boy he has wanted to be a professional boxer but because of his mom losing her job he has to put that dream on hold. While he was in elementary his teacher selected him after taking a standardized test to represent his school in the interscholastic meet. …show more content…

The university he attended was the only university blacks were allowed to attend. Dr. Hare residues with the black think tank and is currently working for a private psychological practice in San Francisco and he has been employed there for 30 years. Dr. Hare received two ph.D degrees, the first on in sociology and university in Chicago and the second Ph. D he received was in clinical psychology and he was awarded from the California school of professional psychology. Dr. Hare became an instructor and an assistant professor in sociology at Howard University in Washington D.C. Dr. Hare wrote a letter to the president of Howard University speaking out against his plans to make the university 60 percent

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