On April 9, Dr. Nathan Hare, The Father of Black Studies in America, will celebrate his 80th year on the planet. The Bay Area will celebrate with the esteemed sociologist and clinical psychologist on Saturday, April 13, 3-5pm. Tentative location is Geoffery's Club, 14th and Franklin, downtown
Oakland. For more information, please call 510-200-4164. Dr. Hare and the audience will be treated with a piano concert by his wife of 57 years, Dr. Julia Hare. Marvin X, a longtime associate of Dr. Hare, will read from his writings. Tarika Lewis, Destiny Muhammad and Tacuma King are invited to perform with Marvin X.
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The Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare Archives
Oakland. For more information, please call 510-200-4164. Dr. Hare and the audience will be treated with a piano concert by his wife of 57 years, Dr. Julia Hare. Marvin X, a longtime associate of Dr. Hare, will read from his writings. Tarika Lewis, Destiny Muhammad and Tacuma King are invited to perform with Marvin X.
Dr. Nathan Hare, sociologist, clinical psychologist, father of Black Studies in America
This event is sponsored by the Post Newspaper Group, Community Archives Project, Black Bird Press, Black Think Tank and the Berkeley Black Repertory Group Theatre. If you would like to listed as a sponsor, please call 510-200-4164.
This event is sponsored by the Post Newspaper Group, Community Archives Project, Black Bird Press, Black Think Tank and the Berkeley Black Repertory Group Theatre. If you would like to listed as a sponsor, please call 510-200-4164.
The Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare Archives
At the moment, the Hare archives consist of nearly one hundred boxes of materials, including correspondence, notes, note books, news clippings with notes, manuscripts, drafts, articles, speeches,
emails, published articles in magazines such as Ebony, Jet, Negro Digest/Black World, Black Scholar (Dr. Hare, founder), lecture notes, proposals for the first Black Studies program in America at San Francisco State College, now University, 1968. Included are financial records, floppy disks, video and audio tapes, from speaking events, photos, leaflets, posters, promotional materials. A draft of Dr. Nathan Hare's autobiography is included.
Materials include his time at the University of Chicago, Howard University, San Francisco State University and his private practice as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Julia Hare's archives include correspondence, speech notes, manuscript drafts, published articles and books such as How to Find and Keep a BMW (Black Man Working) and the Political and Sexual Anorexia of the Black Woman. Dr. Nathan Hare's classic is the Black Anglo-Saxons. His Black Scholar magazine publications are complete, including his letter of resignation.
His online writings fill volumes and the video record of Dr. Julia Hare is on youtube. Her speech at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Nation has over a million hits.
In the field of Black Studies, no one has the stature of Dr. Nathan Hare. As a speaker, Dr. Julia Hare is known as the female Malcolm X.
The Hare collection is thus fundamental and essential for understanding the evolution of the Black Student movement, Black Studies and Black Consciousness in America over the past sixty years.
--Marvin X
project director,
Community Archives Project
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In assembling the Dr. Nathan Hare and Dr. Julia Hare papers, we found Nathan's boxing robe. In background Archive Project's associate Rahim Ali. photo Marvin X
