Elizabeth Ross Haynes
Elizabeth Ross Haynes | |
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Born | |
Died | October 26, 1953 New York City | (aged 70)
Nationality | American |
Education | State Normal School of Montgomery |
Alma mater | Fisk University, Columbia University |
Spouse | George Edmund Haynes |
Scientific career | |
Fields | sociology |
Institutions | Young Women's Christian Association, |
Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1883–1953) was an African American social worker, sociologist, and author. She wrote the book Unsung Heroes about African Americans and their achievements.
Biography
Elizabeth Ross was born on July 31, 1883, in Mount Willing, Alabama[1] to formerly enslaved parents Henry and Mary (née Carnes) Ross. She was valedictorian of her class at the State Normal School of Montgomery. She won a scholarship to Fisk University and received her AB from there in 1903. From 1905 to 1907 she summered in Chicago, attending graduate school at the University of Chicago. In 1908 she became the first black national secretary of the
Haynes pursued her master's degree at Columbia University where her thesis was "Two Million Negro Women at Work", a landmark study on black women and employment. She received her MA in 1923. She was elected to the national board of the YWCA in 1924.[2]
Ross published The Black Boy of Atlanta, her biography of R.R. Wright in 1952. Ross died in New York City on October 26, 1953.[2]
References
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- ^ ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the originalon 2016-02-20.
External links
- "Milk and Ice Fund Committee Formed". The Nashville globe. November 16, 1917. p. 4.
- Works by Elizabeth Ross Haynes at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)