Nathan Hare
American sociologist
Died when: 91 years 62 days (1094 months)Star Sign: Aries
Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) was an American sociologist, activist, academic, and psychologist.In 1968 he was the first person hired to coordinate a Black studies program in the United States.
He established the program at San Francisco State.A graduate of Langston University and the University of Chicago, he had become involved in the Black Power movement while teaching at Howard University.
After being fired as chair of the Black Studies program at San Francisco State, in November 1969 Hare and Robert Chrisman co-founded the journal, The Black Scholar: A Journal of Black Studies and Research), of which Nathan Hare was founding publisher from 1969-75.
After earning his Ph.D., in clinical psychology, Hare set up a private practice in Oakland and San Francisco.Together with his wife, Julia Hare, he founded the Black Think Tank and for several years published a periodical, Black Male/Female Relationships.
He and his wife have written and published several books together on black families and history.
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