Haynes, Elizabeth Ross, 1883-1953

found: Her Unsung heroes ; The Black boy of ... 1996:CIP t.p. (Elizabeth Ross Haynes) galleys (pioneering sociologist, talented author of Black children's literature, activist in Black women's clubs; Elizabeth Ross, b. 1883 in Lowndes County, Alabama; in 1910, married George Haynes; d. 1953 at age of 70)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Haynes, Elizabeth Ross; essayist, sociologist, social worker, social reformer, educator; born 30 July 1883 in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States; AB degree from Fisk University (1903); taught school in Alabama and Texas for several years after graduation; during 1905 and 1907 attended summer school at the University of Chicago; invited to work with "colored students" for the student department of the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association (1908); cofounder and first executive director of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes (renamed the National Urban League in 1920); master's degree in sociology at Columbia University; the first African American member of the YWCA National Board (1924); joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in 1923; served on the New York State Temporary Commission on the Conditions of the Urban Colored Population in 1937; died 26 Oct. 1953 in New York, New York, United States)