02/20/2026
George Edmund Haynes was a social worker, educator, and Co-Founder and first Executive Director of the National Urban League. He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned a BA Degree. In 1904, he received an MA Degree from Yale University. While studying at the University of Chicago during the summers of 1906 and 1907, Dr. Haynes became interested in social problems affecting Black migrants from the South. This interest led him to the New York School of Philanthropy, from which he graduated in 1910. Two years later he received a PhD from Columbia University. Columbia University Press published his doctoral dissertation, The Negro at Work in New York City.
