Brown, Ruth Murray 1927-2002

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BROWN, Ruth Murray 1927-2002

PERSONAL:

Born February 24, 1927, in Brooklyn, NY; died May 2, 2002; daughter of Alvin White (a Methodist minister and college president) and Wilma Lucille (a schoolteacher; maiden name, Dorth) Murray; married Sidney DeVere Brown (a professor of history), January 24, 1948; children: Margaret Ruth Brown Nickell, Nancy Ellen, Russell Murray, Frederick Leonard. Ethnicity: "Scotch/German." Education: Southwestern College, Winfield, KS, A.B., 1948; University of Wisconsin—Madison, M.A., 1951; University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., 1974. Politics: Democrat. Religion: United Methodist. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening.

CAREER:

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, instructor in sociology, 1970-71; Rose State College, Midwest City, OK, professor of sociology and political science, 1974-91; Donetsk State University, Donetsk, Ukraine, member of political science faculty, 1992-93. Past member of League of Women Voters.

WRITINGS:

For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 2002.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, May 15, 2002, James A. Overbeck, review of For a "Christian America": A History of the Religious Right, p. 101.

Publishers Weekly, March 25, 2002, review of For a "Christian America", p. 53.

[Date of death provided by husband, Sidney DeVere Brown.]

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