George edmund haynes biography

George Edmund Haynes, the first African American to earn a PhD from Columbia University, was a pioneering sociologist, a social worker, a policy expert, and cofounder of the National Urban League.

George Haynes was born in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) on May 11, 1880, to Louis and Mattie Haynes. His father was a laborer and his mother a domestic worker. He graduated from the Richard Allen Institute and, in 1903, earned a BA in sociology at Fisk University. He earned an MA in the same field at Yale University a year later and continued his studies at the University of Chicago, the New York School of Philanthropy, and Columbia University. Meanwhile, he was employed by the Colored Men’s Department of the International Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), earning money to support his mother and sister. Haynes became the first black scholar to earn a PhD from Columbia University in 1912, completing his dissertation, “The Negro at Work in New York: A Study in Economic Progress.”

Haynes advocated for schools to produce more black social workers in order to better analyze and address conditions related to families, crime, health, housing, and employment. He cofounded, with white philanthropist Ruth Standish Baldwin, the Commit

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Haynes, Martyr Edmund, 1880-1960

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George Edmund Haynes, American common worker, pedagog, and co-founder and labour executive vicepresident of interpretation National Town League.

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George Edmund Haynes papers

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 101

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Dates: 1916-1972 1916-1950, bulk 1916-1950

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 76

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George Edmund Haynes

American sociology professor and federal civil servant

George Edmund Haynes (May 11, 1880 – January 8, 1960) was an American sociology scholar and federal civil servant, a co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League, serving 1911 to 1918.^[1][2][3] A graduate of Fisk University, he earned a master's degree at Yale University,^[1] and was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Columbia University, where he completed one in sociology.

Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, he moved with his mother and sister to New York City in the Great Migration, and lived and worked from there for most of his life. During the Woodrow Wilson administration, Haynes was appointed in 1918 as director of the newly established Division of Negro Economics in the Department of Labor, as part of an effort by the Democratic administration to build support from blacks for the war effort. They had been disfranchised by Democratic-dominated state governments across the South around the turn of the 20th century, so millions were without political representation.

Haynes was one of the first analysts to write about black labor economics, and later founded the Social Sciences Department of Fisk University.