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George Edmund Haynes was born on May 11, 1880 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. He was the son of Louis Haynes and Mattie Sloan. His father, an unskilled laborer, was often unemployed; his mother supported the family by domestic service.
Haynes attended high schools connected with Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College at Normal (1895-1896) and Fisk University (1896-1899). He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk in 1903, working to pay his way and support his family.
He earned the Master of Arts in sociology from Yale in 1904, then entered Yale Divinity School on a scholarship. He dropped out early in 1905 to help finance his sister's education.
In 1905 Haynes became coordinator of YMCA work on black college campuses. He studied at the University of Chicago in the summers of 1906 and 1907.
In 1908 he resigned his job to enter Columbia University, where he majored in sociology, with cognate studies in social work at the New York School of Philanthropy (later the New York School of Social Work).
Haynes was the first black graduate of the social work school (1910). He expanded the study he did there into a dissertation, for which he became the first black to receive a doctorate from Columbia (1912). His dissertation, The Negro at Work in New York City (1912), stressed that African American people were becoming increasingly urbanized and urged greater attention to them.
While at Columbia, Haynes worked for the Committee for Improving the Industrial Condition of Negroes, finding jobs for black people taking vocational classes. Some of the leaders of the committee were also active in the National League for the Protection of Colored Women. Both groups were composed predominantly of upper-class whites and intellectuals working on black problems.
Haynes wanted black people trained to work as equals with whites in resolving racial problems. Accordingly, he and philanthropist Ruth Standish Baldwin set up the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes on May 19, 1910. The three groups consolidated into the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes on October 16, 1911.
The National Urban League dates its founding from the Committee on Urban Conditions and considers Haynes its founder. Haynes was less militant than W. E. B. Du Bois, but more aggressive than Booker T. Washington. On balance, Urban League tactics--persuasion, self-improvement, negotiation--were more like Washington's accommodationist program than like the militancy of Du Bois' NAACP.
Haynes was the first executive secretary of the Urban League until 1917, when he lost control of the organization. While developing the Committee on Urban Conditions, he moved to Nashville, where he set up the sociology department at Fisk in the fall of 1910.
Haynes tried to supervise the work of the committee from Nashville, returning to New York every six weeks. But Eugene Kinckle Jones - taff and board. Haynes, who had fought his way up from poverty, was brusque and argumentative; Jones, who was the son of college professors, was tactful and conciliatory. Haynes stressed the league's mission to train black leaders and social workers, while Jones emphasized its social service role. Jones became co-executive with Haynes in 1916 and was made the full-time executive secretary in 1917, with Haynes reduced to educational secretary.
From 1918 to 1921 Haynes served in the U. S. Department of Labor as director of Negro economics and as commissioner of reconciliation. His job was to reduce friction resulting from blacks migrating north to wartime factory jobs. He surveyed migration to Detroit, publishing the results as Negro Newcomers in Detroit (1918).
In 1922 Haynes became the first executive secretary of the Commission on the Church and Race Relations (after 1932 the Department of Race Relations) of the Federal (now National) Council of Churches, a post he held until his retirement in 1946. The Race Relations Department sponsored interracial conferences, committees, and clinics.
His third book, The Trend of the Races (1922), hailed black accomplishments and delineated the duty of the church in racial matters.
Haynes founded Race Relations Sunday in 1923 and Interracial Brotherhood Month in 1940. He administered Harmon Foundation awards to black achievers (1926-1931), formed the American Scottsboro Committee to save black youths condemned unjustly (1934), chaired the Joint Committee on National Recovery (1933-1935) to ensure blacks a fair share of New Deal programs, clashed with Du Bois over the latter's advocacy of separatism (1934), and joined A. Philip Randolph to forestall temporarily Communist takeover of the National Negro Congress (1937-1940). Haynes served on the commission that recommended a state university system for New York and on the initial board of trustees of that system (1948-1954).
He toured Africa for the YMCA in 1930 and 1947, and recorded his impressions in Africa, Continent of the Future (1950). From 1950 to 1959 he taught courses at City College of New York on inter-racial adjustments, black history, and Africa in world affairs.
He died in New York City in 1960.
George Edmund Haynes went down in history as a prolific sociologist, scholar, race relations expert, co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League, and the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Columbia University. He devoted his life to improving interracial relations, and his research activities generated active involvement in associations to improve the working conditions of Black people. As head of the department of race relations for the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, he developed an innovative program of interracial clinics designed to combat racial tensions following World War II. These were used successfully in more than 30 American cities. He also introduced the concept of Race Relations Sunday, which was widely observed by churches throughout the nation.
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On December 14, 1910, he married Elizabeth Ross, a sociologist; they had one son. His first wife died in 1953, and he married Olyve Jeter, his secretary, on April 12, 1955.
