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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > key people in anthropology > Robert Ezra Park
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Robert Ezra Park  

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  • Born on February 14, 1864, in Harveyville, Pennsylvania, and raised in Minnesota, Robert Ezra Park graduated from the University of Michigan, where he studied with the philosopher John Dewey. Concerned with social issues of his day, especially racial problems in urban settings, Park became a newspaper reporter, eventually ending up in Chicago. [Source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History; Park, Robert Ezra]

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