St. Clair Drake; Founder of Stanford’s Black Studies Program

St. Clair Drake, 79, former professor of anthropology and sociology at Stanford University and the founding director of the school’s African and Afro-American studies program. Drake founded the programs in 1969 after teaching sociology for several years at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He was the author of “Black Folk Here and There,” published in 1987, and had been working on a second volume of the book for publication this year. Drake was also well known for a 1945 study co-authored with Horace Cayton--”Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.” It detailed the self-contained world of Chicago’s predominantly black South Side. In Palo Alto on June 14 after a stroke.