Nathan Hare

Came up on a sharecropper's farm in the Jim Crow South. Graduated from Langston University, then an all-black college in an all-black town, then master's and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. Wrote The Black Anglo Saxons in the early 1960s and got involved in the black power movement. Fired at Howard, then became the first coordinator of a black studies program and wrote "A Conceptual Proposal for a Department of Balck Studies in February of 1968, before being fired in the spring of 1969 by soon-to-be-Senator S.I. Hayakawa, who had been made president after the firing of the white-liberal John Summerskill. Hayakawa adopted a hardline approach to student/faculty/community protestors, who consisted of multi-racial hordes of white, black, Hispanic and Asian participants led by the Black Student Union in a five-months strike for black studies. Immediately after San Francisco State, Nathan Hare collaborated with a black English professor and a Russian immigrant businessman/printer to become the founding publisher of The Black Scholar from 1969-1975. Later he returned to school and acquired a second Ph.D. in clincal psychology, seeking to combine the fields, then published many articles and a few books before the rise of conservatives to power in the 1970s and the turn against the publication of "black-minded books" by the liberal-moderate publishing industry. After that he started The Black Think Tank, with his wife, Dr. Julia Hare.