In 1934, Fisk University professor Bond and his wife, Julia, lived briefly in rural Washington Parish (county) located in southeastern Louisiana. They moved there to study the operation of local black schools and to report their findings to the Rosenwald Fund, which assisted in the development of black public education in the South. The book concludes with a tragic shooting and lynching that splintered one of the most cohesive of these families.Urban ( American Education ) here describes in detail the career of a scholar and university administrator. The grandson of a slave, Bond was born into a family that encouraged educational pursuits, and graduated from college at age 18. After writing articles disputing the theory that IQ test scores were determined by heredity rather than environment, in 1934 he published The Education of the Negro in the American Social Order , a study of great distinction. Because racial prejudice limited African-American scholars' access to the publishing world, he devoted his career to college administration