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Floyd Hunter  

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  • Born in Kentucky to a farming family, Floyd Hunter attended the University of Chicago and became a social worker first in Indianapolis and then for the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he worked for a welfare agency in Atlanta, the city he studied in his famous Community Power Structures (1953). He stood for the Progressive Party for Congress in 1948 and was fired by his employer for hosting in the agency an anti-segregation speech by Progressive presidential candidate William Wallace. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Hunter, Floyd]

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