VITA 



The author was born June 18th, 1893, in Macon, Georgia. 

 His secondary education was received in Athens, Georgia. 

 In 1912 he graduated from the University of Georgia with 

 the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following year was 

 spent as Phelps-Stokes Fellow at the University of Georgia. 

 The next three years were occupied in assisting in a study 

 of Negro Education in the United States, which was under- 

 taken cooperatively by the Phelps-Stokes Fund and the 

 United States Bureau of Education. The academic year 

 1916-17, which was. begun as Fellow of the American Uni- 

 versity at Columbia University, was interrupted by the war. 

 After preparing a report for the United States Depart- 

 ment of Labor, on Negro Migration, the author entered the 

 army, where he remained until the middle of 1919. For the 

 last four months in France he was placed on detached ser- 

 vice with the Army Educational Corps and attended lectures 

 under Professor C. Bougie in Sociology and Professor A. 

 Souchon in Rural Economy at the Sarbonne. His studies 

 in the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University 

 were resumed in 1919-1920. He was lecturer in economics 

 in Teachers' College for one term of that year. While in 

 residence he took courses under Professors Franklin H. 

 Giddings, R. E. Chaddock, Henry L,. Moore, R. S. Wood- 

 worth and A. A. Tenney. He has assisted in the prepara- 

 tion of "Negro Education in the United States" and has 

 published "The Negroes of Athens, Georgia," and "Negro 

 Migration, 1916-1917 — from Georgia and South Carolina." 



