Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960
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- Affiliation Start: 1899
- Affiliation End: 1903
- Organization: Fisk University
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- Affiliation Start: 1903
- Affiliation End: 1904
- Organization: Yale University
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- Affiliation Start: 1910
- Affiliation End: 1917
- Organization: Fisk University
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- Affiliation Start: 1921
- Affiliation End: 1947
- Organization: Church of Christ. Department of Race Relations
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Social workers
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found: His The negro at work in New York City ... 1912.
found: Rummel, Jack. African-American social leaders and activists, ©2003:pages 95-97 (George Edmund Haynes, 1880-1960, social worker, educator, Urban League founder. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he lived until about age 10, then moved to Hot Springs where schools were better. Studied for a year in a college preparatory course at the Agricultural and Mechanical College in Normal, Alabama (1898-1899) then transferred to Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., graduating in 1903. Admitted to Yale in 1903, he earned a master's degree in 1904. 1905-1908, served as secretary of the Colored Men's Department in the International YMCA, then enrolled in Columbia University's New School of Philanthropy in 1908, graduating in 1910. By 1912, completed his Ph.D., becoming the first African American to earn a doctorate from Columbia. Worked for the Committee for Improving the Industrial Conditions of Negros in New York (CIICNNY) while at Columbia, where he met Mrs. William Baldwin. Along with Mrs. Baldwin, formed the Committee of Urban Conditions among Negros in 1910. This organization merged with CIICNNY to become the National Urban League later that year. That year he also accepted the position of Fisk University's director of social work department. Worked at the U. S. Department of Labor 1917-1921 then 1921-1947, director of the Church of Christ's Department of Race Relations. Served on the board of trustees of the State University of New York and taught at the City College of New York. Died in New York City in 1960.)
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