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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 20, 1990                   TAG: 9006200338
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
DATELINE: PALO ALTO, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short

SCHOLAR OF BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES DIES

St. Clair Drake, 79, professor emeritus of anthropology at Stanford University and a noted scholar in black American studies, died June 14.

He was co-author of "Black Metropolis," the 1945 classic study of black life in Chicago. He also was a chronicler, in books and scholarly articles, of the turmoil and advances in race relations in the 1960s.

His parents were a Virginia minister and schoolteacher. He was born in Suffolk, Va. 


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