Harriet C. Frazier

Background

Harriet C. Frazier was born on September 15, 1934, in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States to the family of restaurant owners Frank and Cecil Frazier.

Education

In 1957 Harriet C. Frazier earned a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The next year she became a graduate with a master's degree from the University of California located in Berkeley.

In 1967, Frazier obtained a doctoral degree in Renaissance English literature at Wayne State University, and, finally, graduated from the University of Missouri with the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1974.

Career

Harriet C. Frazier's working experience started in 1958 when she became a teacher of English literature at the University of Nebraska. Then, she moved to Detroit to continue her academic practice at Wayne State University. While receiving there a doctoral degree, Harriet worked for Mills College and Macomb County Junior College. The last place of employment where Dr. Frazier taught literature was Missouri University in Kansas.

Besides, the scholar was a licensed attorney. In 1975, Harriet was called to the Bar of the State of Missouri and in a short while she joined Central Missouri State University. Dr. Fraizer became a Professor of law. That background helped her create a series of works dedicated to the issue of slavery in the state of Missouri.

Frazier is the author of such books as Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865, Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865, Lynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981, and Lynchings in Kansas, 1850s-1932.

Achievements

• Harriet C. Frazier has written local histories on lynching, capital punishment, and slavery in her native state and managed to provide an alternative approach to both antebellum political history as well as popular beliefs.

Works

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  • Lynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981

    (At least 227 mob murders took place on Missouri soil betw...)

    2009
  • Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865

    (From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 thr...)

    2004
  • Lynchings in Kansas, 1850s-1932

    (In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society ...)

    2015
  • Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005

    (This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Mis...)

    2006
  • Slavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865

    (Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue i...)

    2001
  • A babble of ancestral voices 1974

Views

Frazier belongs to a broader radical tradition of protesting man’s inhumanity to man that stretches back into the courtyard of Missouri’s State Penitentiary.

Quotations: "My primary motivation for writing is to document what others have either ignored or skimmed over, the specifics of slavery, the death penalty, and lynching in Missouri. I live in this state: the materials are available here, and I want my work to be accurate. To write about these subjects nationwide is to be both superficial and inaccurate."

Interests

• Bridge, dogs

• Sport & Clubs

  Tennis

Connections

Father:

Frank Frazier

Mother:

Cecil Frazier