Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Leslie White

Born: January 19, 1900
Died: March 31, 1975 (aged 75)
Bio: Leslie Alvin White was an American anthropologist known for his advocacy of theories of cultural evolution, sociocultural evolution, and especially neoevolutionism, and for his role in creating the department of anthropology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.
Known for:
- The evolution of culture (1959)
- The science of culture (1949)
- Modern Capitalist Culture
- The pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico (1935)
- The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico (1962)







