Books
- The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order(1934),
- The Education of the Negro in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel (1939),
- Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University (1976); and
- The Star Creek Journal (1997), with Julia W. Bond, ed. Adam Fairclough
He published "stinging critiques" of racial claims about the intelligence of blacks, among which the best known was his essay "Racially Stuffed Shirts and Other Enemies of Mankind", a parody of segregationist psychology of the 1950s.
His papers are archived at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In his research, he studied the social, economic, and geographic factors influencing academic achievement of black children.
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