Lee Rainwater

Lee Rainwater
Born	7 January 1928[1] Oxford, Mississippi
Died	4 July 2015 (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.