ABSTRACT
As I now turn from the history of race philanthropy as the most signifi cant funding patron sector of pre-World War II scientifi c sociological study of Blacks to the intellectual contents of this race social science, allow me to say fi rst that commentators on the history of the sociology of race relations have claimed that prior to World War I American sociologists paid little attention to the empirical conditions of Blacks.1 Their contentions are based largely on the examination of the major works of Albion Small, George Vincent, William Sumner, Franklin Giddings, William I. Thomas, Charles Cooley and other prominent sociologists active in the earliest years of American sociology.
