Reid, Ira De Augustine, 1901-1968 (Personal Name)

U.S. National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. Report on the causes of crime, 1931

African American National Biography, accessed March 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reid, Ira De Augustine; sociologist, professor; born 02 July 1901 in Clifton Forge, Virginia, United States; MA from University of Pittsburgh (1925); PhD in sociology from Columbia University (1939); industrial secretary (1925-1928) and director of research (1928-1934) of the New York Urban League; faculty (1937-1944) and chair of sociology department (1944-1946) at Atlanta University; visiting professor (1946-1947) and chair of the sociology department (1948-1966) at Haverford College, Pennsylvania; joined the Society of Friends (1950-1965); assistant editor of the American Sociological Review (1947-1950); vice president (1953-1954) and president (1954-1955) of the Eastern Sociological Society; Danforth Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan (1962-1963); died 15 August 1968 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States)