Nathan Hare, a sociologist who helped lead a five-month strike by faculty and students at what is now San Francisco State University, resulting in an agreement in 1969 to create the country’s first program in Black studies, with him as its director, died at a hospital in San Francisco on June 10.
His death was confirmed by the poet and playwright Marvin X, a close friend of Dr. Hare’s.
He considered himself a Black nationalist, and in all three roles he clashed with both the establishment administrations and other factions on the political left, particularly Marxists.
Dr. Hare was forced out of his job at Howard in 1967 after a public fight with its president, who wanted to accept more white students.
The next year, he arrived at San Francisco State, which already had courses in “minority studies,” and immediately began pushing for an interdisciplinary program dedicated to studying the Black experience.
Persons:
Nathan Hare, Marvin X, Dr, Hare’s, Hare
Organizations:
San Francisco State University, University of Chicago, Howard University, San Francisco State College, University, Howard, San
Locations:
San Francisco, San Francisco State