"Race was a delicate matter": the academic study of race relations -- "Go ahead and do harm": the academic study of labor relations -- "A complex and baffling age": Frank Porter Graham ushers in a new decade -- "A new Negro is about to come on the scene": leadership vs. caution in struggles for racial equality -- "The rankest center of communism": the left comes to campus -- Epilogue: "the university must go on being a university": Frank Graham and the World War II era.