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2 unusual facts about Frank Tannenbaum


Frank Tannenbaum

In 1931, he reported to the Wickersham Commission study on Penal Institutions, Probation and Parole (Volume 9).

On March 4, Tannenbaum led a group of unemployed workers from Rutgers Square to the Catholic St. Alphonsus Church on West Broadway.


Eugene Genovese

He considered the demand by Marxist anthropologist Marvin Harris in The Nature of Cultural Things (1964) for a materialist alternative to the idealistic framework of Frank Tannenbaum, Stanley Elkins, Gilberto Freyre, and others.


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