Edwin R. Embree

(1883-1950) born at Osceola, Polk County. Administrator, sociologist, author, foundation executive, aided the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s in establishing advances in medical and biological science in China, Europe, Australia, and Central America, as president of Rosenwald Fund from 1928 to 1948 he initiated programs to improve conditions in Southern rural schools, worked to improve rights of Negro tenant farmers by focusing national attention on the harmful effects on the lives of both blacks and whites, authored 20 books and numerous articles on education, race relations, and foundations, served as officer of numerous educational and charitable organizations. Consult Current Biography (1948) 190-192 and New York Times obituary, February 22, 1950, p. 29 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 4 (1974) 250-252.

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