(EDUCATION) Personal papers of sociologist George E Haynes i

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(EDUCATION.) Personal papers of sociologist George E. Haynes, including his passports and correspondence. 39 items, many of them laid down on loose scrapbook leaves; condition generally strong. Vp, 1929-65

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George Edmund Haynes (1880-1960) was an Arkansas native, Fisk graduate, and the first African-American to earn his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He went on a distinguished career as a sociologist. From 1918 to 1921, he was director of the Division of Negro Economics in the Department of Labor, and then taught at Fisk and the City College of New York. Included in this lot are his passports dated 1930 and 1946 (heavily stamped for travels in Europe and Africa) Retained carbons of Haynes's supportive letters to incoming presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, with their responses Letters from W.E.B. Du Bois, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, New York Governors Thomas Dewey and Herbert Lehman, and 14 others (many of them important African-American educators) 5 photographs, including an event at the WLIB radio station on the release of Haynes's book "Africa: Continent of the Future" and another as a member of the Temporary Commission on the Need for a State University, meeting with Governor Dewey, 1948 4 items from musician Olyve Jeter, who married Haynes late in life.