Scholarship #rp @xiphi_1926 XI PHI Chapter Black History Month ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Though initiated into Atlanta’s citywide Eta Chapter in 1920, Ira De Augustine Reid was a student at Morehouse – recruited expressly by President John Hope – and thus reassigned to Psi Chapter upon the chapter’s charter in 1921. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Soon after graduation, Reid moved to New York City where from 1924 to 1934 he worked ultimately as the director of research for the National Urban League and editor of the NUL’s publication “Opportunity”. Reid produced a number of studies conducted with black communities around the United States. While living in Harlem, Reid helped charter the New York City’s professional chapter of XI PHI, then serving as the Grand Marshall of the 1927 Grand Conclave in NYC. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Beginning in 1934, Reid would begin a 30 year career in higher education – with W.E.B. Du Bois in the sociology department at Atlanta University; in 1946 at NYU, as the first black full-time faculty member at a white northern university; and in 1947 until his retirement in 1966, as chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Haverford College – where the school’s Black Cultural Center bears his name. He was also a visiting professor at several universities, served as a consultant and was on the board of a variety of sociological and educational organizations. ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ Reid was a prolific writer and was particularly known for his work with black communities (particularly in Harlem) and West Indian immigrants, the studies produced while he was at the NUL, and his work on youth and the sociology of education. Reid entered Omega Chapter in 1968. #OmegaPsiPhi #BlackHistoryMonth #XiPhiChapter #ROO (at Harlem)
