George Edmund Haynes papers

Founder of Fisk University Social Science Department, co-founder of National Urban League. Photostatic copies of correspondence at Fisk and writings about him, including correspondence concerning the organization, activities, and staffing of the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, as well as its concern with the sociological conditions of Afro-Americans, primarily in New York. Correspondents include Victor G. Flinn, Hortense Bruce, Ruth Baldwin, Samuel H. Bishop, B. F. Lee, Jr., and Booker T. Washington. Attached to one of the letters is a membership list showing union and non-union carpenters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, etc. Also included are writings by Haynes (2 books and 9 pamphlets or articles), biographical information, a dissertation by Daniel Perlman entitled "Stirring the White Conscience: The Life of George Edmund Haynes, and a published biography by Haynes' wife Elizabeth Ross Haynes entitled The Black Boy of Atlanta.