Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

KATHARINE DU PRE LUMPKIN (1897-1988) was a sociologist and activist who studied, taught, and did research at a number of schools, including Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Mills College, and Wells College. Although she is best known for The Making of a Southerner , Lumpkin published a number of other books: The Family: A Study of Member Roles ; Shutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community ; Child Workers in America (with Dorothy W....See more

KATHARINE DU PRE LUMPKIN (1897-1988) was a sociologist and activist who studied, taught, and did research at a number of schools, including Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Mills College, and Wells College. Although she is best known for The Making of a Southerner , Lumpkin published a number of other books: The Family: A Study of Member Roles ; Shutdowns in the Connecticut Valley: A Study of Worker Displacement in the Small Industrial Community ; Child Workers in America (with Dorothy W. Douglas); The South in Progress ; and The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke . She is an inductee to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. See less