The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

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Frazier was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He helped draft the UNESCO statement The Race Question in 1950. Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie the 1957 translation of a work first publiE. Franklin Frazierd in French in 1955 was a critical examination of the adoption by middle-class African Americans of a subservient conservatism.

This book was among the first sociological works on blacks researched and written by a black person. He helped draft the UNESCO statement The Race Question in 1950. D.