The Fighter

"The thing that has been important to me in all my studies, far more than the studies themselves, is... how anything I gain from having gone through these disciplines, how any of that would help the general sociological situation in the United States, between the blacks and the whites" (Carpenter 1999: 225).



• Attended the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy for Men to qualify as a teacher; received 1st position in 1918.
• Became principle of the Joseph Singlerly School in 1926.
• Driven to challenge the system to transform the system.
• Belonged to the Philadelphia Anthropology Society
• American Anthropological Association
• American Folklore Society