In 1925, Horne received second place in the Amy Spingarn Literary Award contest for his "Letters Found Near a Suicide." The poem was published in the NAACP's Crisis magazine and later included in Alain Locke's New Negro anthology of the Harlem Renaissance. Other Horne poems would be collected in the anthology, Haverstraw which appeared in 1963. Horne also wrote reviews for the Urban League's Opportunity magazine.
In 1927, Frank Horne went to Georgia to become the Dean and later President at Fort Valley High and Industrial School (which subsequently became Fort Valley State College in 1939). During this time he married Frankye Bunn. Horne, the uncle of actress Lena Horne, briefly served as her guardian when she began her film career.
In 1936, Horne took the first of a series of government appointments when he was recruited to Washington, D.C., by Mary McLeod Bethune as assistant director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration (NYA). In 1938, he began work for the U.S. Housing Authority on minority housing issues and eventually became Director of the Office of Race Relations. During this time he advised the FDR administration on racism in public housing, project planning, labor employment in housing construction, management, and public policies. He continued with the U.S. Housing Authority until 1955. In 1956, Horne became the Executive Director for the New York City Commission on Intergroup Relations which the following year developed the nation's first laws against discrimination in public housing. Horne also introduced the Open City Housing Project to promote racially integrated neighborhoods. In 1962 Horne became a member of the New York City Housing Redevelopment Board and also founded the National Committee against Discrimination in Housing.
By 1974, after much ongoing suffering throughout his life, Dr. Frank Horne died from complications of arteriosclerosis on September 7, 1974 in New York City.
In 1925, Horne received second place in the Amy Spingarn Literary Award contest for his "Letters Found Near a Suicide." The poem was published in the NAACP's Crisis magazine and later included in Alain Locke's New Negro anthology of the Harlem Renaissance. Other Horne poems would be collected in the anthology, Haverstraw which appeared in 1963. Horne also wrote reviews for the Urban League's Opportunity magazine.
In 1927, Frank Horne went to Georgia to become the Dean and later President at Fort Valley High and Industrial School (which subsequently became Fort Valley State College in 1939). During this time he married Frankye Bunn. Horne, the uncle of actress Lena Horne, briefly served as her guardian when she began her film career.
In 1936, Horne took the first of a series of government appointments when he was recruited to Washington, D.C., by Mary McLeod Bethune as assistant director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration (NYA). In 1938, he began work for the U.S. Housing Authority on minority housing issues and eventually became Director of the Office of Race Relations. During this time he advised the FDR administration on racism in public housing, project planning, labor employment in housing construction, management, and public policies. He continued with the U.S. Housing Authority until 1955. In 1956, Horne became the Executive Director for the New York City Commission on Intergroup Relations which the following year developed the nation's first laws against discrimination in public housing. Horne also introduced the Open City Housing Project to promote racially integrated neighborhoods. In 1962 Horne became a member of the New York City Housing Redevelopment Board and also founded the National Committee against Discrimination in Housing.
By 1974, after much ongoing suffering throughout his life, Dr. Frank Horne died from complications of arteriosclerosis on September 7, 1974 in New York City.
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