Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare have appointed
Marvin X to assemble their archives for acquisition. When assembled, the Hare archives will be offered to such institutions as the University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library,
Stanford, Yale and the University of Chicago. As we know, Dr.
Nathan Hare was fired from Howard University and later from San Francisco State
University where his firing ignited the longest strike in American academic
history to establish Black Studies. If you are an academic institution interested in the Hare Papers, please contact Marvin X: 510-2004164, jmarvinx@yahoo.com.
Nathan Hare
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nathan Hare (born April 9, 1933) was
the first person hired to coordinate a black studies program
in the United States, at San Francisco
State University in 1968.
Hare was born on a sharecropper’s farm near
the Creek County town of Slick, Oklahoma on
April 9, 1933. He attended the public schools of L’Ouverture (variously spelled
"Louverture") Elementary School and L'Ouverture High School. The two
schools were named after the Haitian Revolutionary and General Toussaint
Louverture and were part of the so-called “Slick Separate
Schools” in the segregated rural milieu of the late 1930s and 1940s.
Early life and education
When Hare was eleven years old, his family
migrated to San Diego, California, where his single mother took a civilian
janitorial job with the Navy air station. As World War II ended
and his mother was laid off, his family returned to Oklahoma. This put on hold
his ambition to become a professional boxer, something he had picked up after
adult neighbors in San Diego assured him that writers all starve to death.
The direction of his life would change again
when his English teacher at L'Ouverture High (later closed after the Brown vs
Board of Education Supreme Court desegregaton decree, through consolidation
into the all-white Slick High School, itself now also closed by consolidation)
administered standardized tests to her ninth grade class in English Composition
in the search for someone to represent the class at the annual statewide
"Interscholastic Meet" of the black students held annually at
Oklahoma’s Langston
University. Hare represented L'Ouverture and won first prize with
more prizes to come in ensuing years; and on that basis the L’Ouverture
principal persuaded him to go to college after getting him a fulltime job
working in the Langston University Dining Hall to pay his way. By his junior
year Hare had moved up in his student employment to Dormitory Proctor of the
University Men and Freshman Tutor in his senior year.
When Hare enrolled at Langston University (now
only "historically black"), Langston was the only college Black
students could attend in the state of Oklahoma. Named for John Mercer
Langston, one of only five African Americans elected to Congress
from the South before the former Confederate states passed constitutions that
essentially eliminated the black vote, the town was a product of the late
nineteenth century black nationalist movement’s attempt to make the Oklahoma
Territory an all-Black state. In fact, Langston, Oklahoma laid
claim to being the first all-black town established in the United States. One
of Hare’s professors, the poet Melvin B. Tolson, was
mayor of the town for four terms, was named poet laureate of Liberia, and
eventually his spectacular style of teaching would be portrayed in "The Great Debaters."
Graduating from Langston with an AB in Sociology, Hare won a Danforth
fellowship to continue his education and obtained an MA (1957) and PhD in
Sociology (1962) from the University of
Chicago. Hare received another PhD in Clinical Psychology from
the California
School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, California
(1975).
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Black Studies
Hare wrote the “Conceptual Proposal for a
Department of Black Studies" and coined the term “ethnic studies” (which
was being called “minority studies”) after he was recruited to San Francisco State in
February 1968 by the Black Student Union leader Jimmy Garrett and the college’s
liberal president, John Summerskill.
Hare had just been dismissed from a six-year stint as a sociology professor
at Howard
University, after he wrote a letter to the campus newspaper, The Hilltop,
in which he mocked Howard president James Nabrit’s plan (announced in the Washington
Post on September 6, 1966) to make Howard “sixty per cent white by
1970.” James Nabrit had
been one of the civil rights attorneys who successfully argued the 1954 “Brown
vs. Board of Education” case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The “Black Power”
cry had been issued just two month’s earlier by one of Hare’s former Howard
students, Stokely
Carmichael (another of Hare’s students at Howard was Claude Brown, author
of Manchild in the Promised Land). Hare had taught sociology at
Howard since 1961, the year before he obtained the Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of Chicago.
On February 22, 1967, Hare stood at press
conference, with a group of students calling themselves “The Black Power
Committee,” and read “The Black University Manifesto,” which Hare had written
with the input of the Black Power Committee. The manifesto expressly called for
“the overthrow of the Negro college with white innards and to raise in its
place a black university, relevant to the black community and its needs."
Hare had previously published a book called The Black Anglo Saxons and
coined the phrase “The Ebony Tower” to characterize Howard University.
In the spring of 1967, he invited Muhammad Ali to speak
at Howard and introduced him when the controversial heavyweight champion gave
his popular “Black Is Best” speech to an impromptu crowd of 4,000 gathered at a
moment’s notice outside the university’s Frederick Douglass Hall after the
administration padlocked the Crampton Auditorium in the days leading up to
Ali’s refusal of his military draft. Following Hare’s dismissal that June, he
briefly resumed his own aborted professional boxing efforts, winning his last
fight by a knockout in the first round in the Washington Coliseum on December
5, 1967.
At San Francisco State, where the Black Student
Union demanded an “autonomous Department of Black Studies,” Hare was soon
involved in a five-month strike for black studies led by The Black Student
Union, backed by the Third World Liberation Front and the local chapter of the
American Federation of Teachers. Black, white, and Third World students and
professors participated in the strike, which also included community leaders
and the Black Faculty Union, headed by Hare. The late actor, Mel Stewart was a
member of the Black Faculty Unon, but Hare was the only faculty member invited
to become a "quasi-member" of the Central Committee of the Black
Student Union, which included a student named Danny Glover, who would go
on to become a successful Hollywood actor. One of the speakers almost daily at
the noonday rallies of the strike was Ronald Dellums, who was
later elected to the U.S. Congress and later Mayor of Oakland, California.
After one San Francisco State College president
(the late John Summerskill) was fired and another (Robert Smith) resigned,
Smith was replaced by the general semanticist S.I. Hayakawa (who would later
become a U.S. Senator). Hayakawa used a hard-line strategy to put down the
five-month strike, declaring “martial law” and arresting a crowd of five
hundred and fifty-seven rallying professors and students (the overwhelming
majority of them white). Weeks later, on February 28, 1969, Hayakawa dismissed
Dr. Nathan Hare as chairman of the newly formed black studies department, the
first in the United States,“to become effective June 1, 1969.” Hare stayed on until
June at the request of the Black Student Union and remained for many more
months in an unofficial capacity of “Chairman in Exile.”
Hare then teamed with Robert Chrisman and the
late Allen Ross (a white printer and small businessman in Sausalito who had
immigrated from Russia)
to become the founding publisher of “The Black Scholar: A
Journal of Black Studies and Research" in November 1969. The New York
Times would soon call The Black Scholar “the
most important journal devoted to black issues since ‘The Crisis.'” Ten years
earlier, in 1959, Hare had briefly been a clerical assistant to the editor of
the Journal of Asian
Studies then being edited by Andrew Hacker, a white history
professor at Northwestern
University, where Hare developed a dream of someday editing a
“Journal of Negro Studies” ("Negro" was the word still in fashion for
blacks in 1959). In 1968, during a break in a television panel including Nathan Glazer, co-author
of The Lonely Crowd, Glazer wrote a note to Hare on a white index
card saying "Needed: a Black Scholar journal." Before starting The
Black Scholar, Hare had written and published articles in magazines and
periodicals that included: Ebony, Negro
Digest,Black World, Phylon Review, Social Forces, Social
Education, Newsweek,
and The Times.
After leaving The Black Scholar in
1975, in a dispute over the changing direction of the journal, and obtaining a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional
Psychology, San Francisco, Nathan Hare began the private practice of psychotherapy,
with offices in San Francisco and Oakland. He also focused on forming a
movement for “A Better Black Family” (the title of a popular speaking out
editorial he wrote for the February 1976 issue of Ebony magazine)
shortly after completing a dissertation on “Black Male/Female Relations” at the
California School of Professional Psychology.
By 1979, in collaboration with his wife (Dr.
Julia Hare, author of How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working),
Hare formed The Black Think Tank, which published the journal of “Black
Male/Female Relationships” for several years. After the journal folded, Hare
went into the full-time practice of psychology and the development of the Black
Think Tank. In 1985, a small book written by him and his wife ("Bringing the
Black Boy to Manhood") was disseminated by The Black Think Tank, issuing
the call and becoming the catalyst for the contemporary rites of passage
movement for African-American boys that emerged as the Hares lectured and
spread the idea of the rites of passage for black boys throughout the United
States.
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Publications
In addition to dozens of articles in a number
of scholarly journals and popular magazines, from The Black
Scholar and Ebony to Newsweek, Saturday Review and The Times, Nathan Hare is
the author of several books:
• The
Black Anglo Saxons. New York: Marzani and Munsell, 1965; New
York: Collier-Macmillan, 1970; Chicago: Third World Press edition, Chicago,
1990)0-88378-130-1.
Books in collaboration with his wife, Julia
Hare (the former radio talk show host and television guest, who also is a
graduate of Langston University) have been published and widely distributed by
The Black Think Tank, headquartered in San Francisco. They include:
• Bringing
the Black Boy to Manhood: the Passage, San Francisco: The
Black Think Tank, 1985, ISBN
0-9613086-1-3.
• Fire
on Mount Zion: An Autobiography of the Tulsa Race Riot,
as told by Mabel B. Little. Langston: The Melvin B. Tolson Black Heritage
Center, Langston University, 1990, ISBN
0-9613086-1-4
• The
Miseducation of the Black Child: The Hare Plan to Educate Every Black Man,
Woman and Child, San Francisco: The Black Think Tank,
1991, ISBN
0-9613086-4-8.
While publisher of The Black Scholar from
1969–75, Nathan Hare co-edied two books with Robert Chrisman:
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References
• William
M. Banks, Black Intellectuals (Foreword by John Hope Franklin), New
York: W. W. Norton
& Co., 1996, pp. 163, 174, 184, 216, 171. ISBN
0-393-03989-7; ISBN 0-393-31674-pbk.
• Richard
Barksdale and Keneth Kinnamon (eds), Black Writers of America: A
Comprehensive Anthology, New York: Macmillan,
1972, pp. 836–841 .ISBN
0-02-306080-8.
• W.
Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift, eds,Encyclopedia of Black America, New
York: Plenum, McGraw Hill, 1981, pp. 747, 803. ISBN
0-306-80221-X.
• Sharon
Malinowski, (ed), Black Writers, Detroit, Washington, D.C., London:
Gale Research Inc., 1994, pp. 280–281. ISBN
0-8103-7788-8.
• Maulana Karenga, Introduction
to Black Studies. Los Angeles: The University of Sankore Press, 1993,passim. ISBN
0-943412-16-1.
• Fabio
Rojas, From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement
Became an Academic Discipline, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007, pp. 1, 30, 71-72, 85. ISBN
13:978-0-8018-8619-5; 10:0-8018-8619-8.
• Nathaniel
Norment, Jr, (ed),The African American Studies Reader, Durham: Carolina
Academic Press, 2001. pp. vii-xlii; 13-21. ISBN
0-89089-640-2.
• James
E. Blackwell and Morris Janowitz, (eds), Black Sociologists: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives. Chicago and London: The University of
Chicago Press, 1974, pp. xvi, 202 218, 253-267, 280, 322, 355. ISBN 0-226-05565-5.
• Ishmael Reed, MultiAmerica:
Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997,
pp. 328–336.ISBN
0-670-86753-5.
Talmadge Anderson, Introduction to
African American Studies, Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1993, pp. 16, 17, 37,
38, 39, 41-44, 45, 120, 126, 133. ISBN
0-7872-3268-8.
Dr. Julia Hare
Dr. Julia Hare
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Julia Hare is widely regarded as one of the most dynamic motivational speakers on the major podiums today.
At the Congressional Black Caucus's 27th Annual Legislative Conference chaired by Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Dr. Hare was one of three speakers invited to address the Caucus's kickoff National Town Hall Meeting on Leadership Dimensions for the New Millennium. Her collaborators included distinguished historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Chair of President Clinton's Advisory Board on Race, and Dr. Cornel West, Harvard professor and author of the critically acclaimed Race Matters.
Dr. Hare has appeared on "Geraldo", "Sally Jesse Raphael", "Inside Edition", CNN and Company, "Talk Back Live", "News Talk", Black Entertainment Television (BET), "The Tavis Smiley Show", ABC's "Politically Incorrect", CSPAN, and major radio and television affiliated throughout Australia and America. Her commentaries, lectures and topics include: politics, education, religion, war, foreign and domestic affairs, sexual politics and contemporary events.
A prime innovator on issues affecting the black family and society as a whole, Dr. Hare is mentioned or quoted in national newspapers, including "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "Sun Reporter", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Miami Herald", "Louisville Courier Journal" and "The Oklahoma Eagle" among others. She has appeared in "Ebony", "Jet", "Dollars and Sense", "Heart and Soul", "USA Today", "Today's Black Woman", "Essence" and other periodicals. She is co-author with her husband, Dr. Nathan Hare, of "The Endangered Black Family"; "Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood"; "The Passage"; "The Miseducation of the Black Child" and "Crisis in Black Sexual Politics". Her most recent best-selling book is "How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working)".
Her work has brought her many accolades and honors, including Educator of the Year for Washington, D.C. by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the World Book Encyclopedia in coordination with American University; the Abe Lincoln Award for Outstanding Broadcasting, the Carter G. Woodson Education Award; the Marcus and Amy Garvey Award; the Association of Black Social Workers Harambee Award, Third World Publishers' Twentieth Anniversary Builders Award; Professional of the Year from "Dollars and Sense" magazine; Scholar of the Year from the Association of African Historians; Lifetime Achievement Award from the international Black Writers and Artists Union; as well as a presidential citation from the national Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Dr. Hare has also been inducted into the Booker T. Washington Hall of Fame.
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