Lee Rainwater

Lee Rainwater
Born 7 January 1928 (1928-01-07)[1]
Oxford, Mississippi
Died 4 July 2015 (2015-07-05) (aged 87)[2]
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Occupation Sociologist

Lee Rainwater (7 January 1928 – 4 July 2015) was an American sociologist. He was a professor of sociology at Harvard University for twenty-three years[3] and was a co-founder of the Luxembourg Income Study, for which he was research director between 1983 and 2005. He was the author, co-author, or editor of over twenty books, including Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum (1970), a study of the notorious St Louis, Missouri, housing development Pruitt–Igoe. A series of memorial lectures has been founded in his name at CUNY and will begin in 2017.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mrs. J. Tennis Rainwater". National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society. 45 (1): 91. March 1957.
  2. ↑ "Lee Rainwater". The Boston Globe. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Garsten, Bryan D. (15 December 1992). "Rainwater Delivers His Final Lecture at Harvard". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture Series". The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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