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1. Herman Herskovits, Melville’s father. Courtesy Northwestern University Archives. 2. Franz Boas, who trained most of the influential American cultural anthropologists of the early twentieth century, had an enormous intellectual influence on Herskovits. American Philosophical Society , Philadelphia. 3. Melville and Frances Herskovits on a field trip in Suriname. Courtesy Northwestern University Archives. [3.236.240.48] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:55 GMT) 4. Herskovits holding an artifact from Suriname, ca. 1935. Courtesy Northwestern University Archives. 5. Carter G. Woodson, who presided over the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and published the Journal of Negro History, thought Herskovits was another white paternalist intent on controlling black studies. Prints & Photographs/Moorland -Spingarn Research Center , Howard University, Washington dc. 6. Board of Advisors of the Encyclopedia of the Negro project, 1936, including W. E. B. Du Bois, front row, second from right; Alain Locke, second row, second from right (holding hat in right hand); Arthur Schomburg , second row, second from left. Special Collections and Archives, W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 7. Ralph Bunche, Howard University political scientist. Prints & Photographs/Moorland -Spingarn Research Center , Howard University, Washington dc. Image Not Available [3.236.240.48] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:55 GMT) 8. Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist who headed the Carnegie Corporation Study of the Negro. National Archives, College Park, Maryland. 9. E. Franklin Frazier, Howard University sociologist and leading expert on the black family who rejected the African influence on African American culture. Prints & Photographs/ Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington dc. 10. Herskovits sitting at his desk at Northwestern University . Courtesy Northwestern University Archives. [3.236.240.48] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:55 GMT) 11. President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia; J. Roscoe Miller, president of Northwestern University; and Melville Herskovits during the Liberian president’s 1954 visit to Northwestern. Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits Photograph Collection , Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. 12. Frances Herskovits. She coauthored five books and several articles with her husband , who described her as ‘‘a damn good anthropologist.’’ By Harvey J. Ste√ens, courtesy Northwestern University Archives. ...