Donald Stuart Strong was born on December 31, 1912, in New York City.
[1] He published his first book, Organized Anti-Semitism in America: The Rise of Group Prejudice During the Decade 1930-40, in 1941.
[2] A year later, in 1942, he published an essay entitled Anti-Revolutionary, Anti-Semitic Organizations in the United States Since 1933.
[6] Later, Strong became an authority for his research on the rise of the Republican Party in the Southern United States at an early stage.
[1][4] He also exposed white supremacist efforts to suppress African-American voting in the South.