Melville Jean Herskovits was born on September 10, 1895, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Melville J. Herskovits was a Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University in 1940. Professor Herskovits was the Director of African Studies at Northwestern University on May 25, 1962. In 1961, a Special Inquiry investigation was done at the request of the White House. He received no White House appointment. In February 1963, he died of a stroke at his home in Evanston, Illinois. He had suffered a heart attack the month before and had spent three weeks in the hospital. He was 67 years old.
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