Career
Worked as a researcher for Chicago Urban League, 1918-19; appointed to Illinois Governor's Committee to investigate Chicago race riot, 1919; co-authored study of riot, 1922; became director of research and investigation for the National Urban League, 1921; became editor of Urban League publication Opportunity, 1923; Fisk University, Nashville, TN, chairman of department of social sciences, 1928-46, president, 1946-56. Consultant to President Herbert Hoover's Conference on Negro Housing, 1931; served on Tennessee Valley Authority, 1936-37; directed a program for the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Christian Church, 1943; president of Southern Sociological Society, 1945-46; delegate to UNESCO and member of U.S. State Department's group sent to assess Japanese educational system, 1946
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