Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Fayette Avery McKenzie (July 31, 1872 – September 1, 1957) was one of the most prominent educators of the American Progressive Era and devoted his professional life to the uplift American Indians and Blacks in the United States. McKenzie was the first American sociologist to specialize in Indian affairs and an influential expert on government Indian policy. McKenzie was a founder of the Society of American Indians (1911), a member of President Calvin Coolidge's Advisory Council on Indian Affairs "Committee of One Hundred" (1923), and an author of the Brookings Institution Meriam Report (1928), marking the ideological shift in American Indian policy to restore of tribal self-government and communal lands. From 1915 to 1925, McKenzie was President of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. McKenzie's tenure, before and after World War I, was during a turbulent period in American history. In spite of many challenges, McKenzie developed Fisk as the premier all Black university in the United States, secured Fisk’s academic recognition as a standard college by the Carnegie Foundation, Columbia University and the University of Chicago, raised a $1 million endowment fund to ensure quality faculty and laid a foundation for Fisk’s accreditation and future success. McKenzie was a Professor of Sociology at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1941."@en }
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- Fayette_Avery_McKenzie abstract "Fayette Avery McKenzie (July 31, 1872 – September 1, 1957) was one of the most prominent educators of the American Progressive Era and devoted his professional life to the uplift American Indians and Blacks in the United States. McKenzie was the first American sociologist to specialize in Indian affairs and an influential expert on government Indian policy. McKenzie was a founder of the Society of American Indians (1911), a member of President Calvin Coolidge's Advisory Council on Indian Affairs "Committee of One Hundred" (1923), and an author of the Brookings Institution Meriam Report (1928), marking the ideological shift in American Indian policy to restore of tribal self-government and communal lands. From 1915 to 1925, McKenzie was President of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. McKenzie's tenure, before and after World War I, was during a turbulent period in American history. In spite of many challenges, McKenzie developed Fisk as the premier all Black university in the United States, secured Fisk’s academic recognition as a standard college by the Carnegie Foundation, Columbia University and the University of Chicago, raised a $1 million endowment fund to ensure quality faculty and laid a foundation for Fisk’s accreditation and future success. McKenzie was a Professor of Sociology at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania from 1925 to 1941.".