 Harris left Howard in 1945 and moved to the University of Chicago, and became one of the first African-American academics with a high position at a historically white institution.His move was facilitated on part of the efforts of Chicago economist Frank Knight, one of the founders of the famed Chicago School of economics that fostered the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economists Milton Friedman and George Stigler.Knight had been publishing many of Harris' papers on the subject of economic doctrine in "The Journal of Political Economy" since the late 1920s when Harris was at Howard.