Arthur Franklin Raper (8 November 1899 – 10 August 1979) was an American sociologist.
[1] In 1925, he started his PhD at Chapel Hill, under the direction of Howard W. Odum, and completed it in 1931.
[1][4] In 1926, he worked for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation with Will W. Alexander in Atlanta, Georgia.
[1] In 1927 he produced a report on the conditions of African Americans in Tampa, Florida with Benjamin Elijah Mays.
[1][2] His papers are in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Library; four of his books were reviewed by The New York Times.