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Fred K. Fleagle
Best known for an early 20th-century study of Puerto Rico, this educator and scholar wrote with the eye of a teacher trying to map out the island’s biggest social challenges. His work offers a revealing snapshot of how poverty, education, health, and labor were being discussed in 1917.
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Social Problems in Porto Rico
by Fred K. Fleagle
About the author
An early 20th-century academic, Fred K. Fleagle is best known for Social Problems in Porto Rico, published in 1917. The book examines rural life and social conditions in Puerto Rico, bringing together observations on education, public health, labor, and poverty in a form meant to support study and discussion.
Contemporary catalog and archival records connect him with both the University of Porto Rico and Davidson College. A Davidson College catalog lists him as a professor of Spanish, while archival copies of Social Problems in Porto Rico identify him as a dean at the University of Porto Rico.
Although not much biographical detail is easy to confirm from widely available sources, his surviving work shows a writer deeply interested in social research and education. Today, he is remembered mainly through this concise but historically useful book, which reflects both the concerns and the attitudes of its era.