Because of this success, he was chosen in 1933 to design and deploy the Tennessee Valley system of dams for flood control and electrification.

The faculty, most personally chosen by Morgan, included not only academics but also architects, engineers, chemists, advertising executives, and government bureaucrats.

[5] In his later life, Morgan was a Humanist Quaker, a member of the Society of Friends in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as was his son Ernest.

[6] After his departure from the TVA in 1938, Arthur Morgan was active in Quaker war relief efforts in Mexico and Finland.

[11] He travelled across India in 1948 as part of the commission and also supported a community education initiative in Kerala called Mitraniketan begun by K. Viswanathan in 1965.

Morgan advanced a wide variety of cooperative enterprises and cottage industries and created a number of planned towns that followed the English garden city model.

CSI was created to advance family life and small towns, which Morgan saw as the necessary ingredients for a positive American future.

In the same year, Morgan founded the Fellowship of Intentional Communities, an organization that fostered relationships between communal settlements.

To illustrate this point, Morgan once wrote that, "The extreme and universal immorality of the negro is a bigger blight on the country than people realize.

Morgan's views on race greatly informed his actions as head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, leading him to exclude Black Americans from employment and housing opportunities offered to whites by the "New Deal" program.

To this day, Norris Tennessee remains almost exclusively white, as documented in James W. Loewen's book "Sundown Towns."

In his memoir of his TVA years, he denied any responsibility for the program's negative effects, claiming that there was nothing else he could do but to honor the attitudes of a racist, majority white America.