St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton

John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911–1990) was an African-American sociologist and anthropologist born in Suffolk, Virginia. He co-authored the landmark Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City with Horace R. Cayton in 1945, a seminal work on urban Black life in Chicago. Career highlights include teaching at Roosevelt University where he helped establish one of the first Black Studies programs, heading sociology at the University of Ghana, advising Pan-African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah, and founding Stanford's African and African American Studies program.