found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Boas, Franz; anthropologist, ethnologist, science educator, lecturer; born 09 July 1858 in Minden, Germany; PhD in physics from the University of Kiel (1881); conducted first fieldwork, among the Inuit people of Baffin Island; began research among the Indians of the Pacific Northwest (1887); was the first professor of anthropology at Columbia University (1889); developed a methodology that focused on gathering hard evidence first and delaying the development of grand theories until serious research had been conducted; conducted research that found its way into legal briefs against segregation, including the famous Brown v. Board of Education (1954); died 21 December 1941 in New York)
