Heading: (African American, 1912-1936)
Author:
Title: Two early volumes on Black economic gains and difficulties
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1912-1936
Description:

2 volumes comprising:

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  Haynes, George Edmund. The Negro at Work in New York City, A Study in Economic Progress (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Volume XLIX, No. 3). New York: Columbia University Press, 1912. 158 pp. Removed from larger volume, taped at spine. Probable First Printing


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  Franklin, Charles Lionel, Ph.D. The Negro Labor Unionist in New York, Problems and Conditions among Negroes in the Labor Unions in Manhattan, with Special Reference to the N.R.A. and Post- N.R.A.Situation (Columbia University Studies in History, Economic and Public Law, Number 420). New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. 415 pp. Original cloth binding. First Edition. Inscribed and signed on front pastedown to his brother and sister-in-law, August 1936.

Published 24 years apart these are the first scholarly publications on economics by Black doctoral candidates at Columbia. Both outlined the economic problems of Blacks in America, Haynes concluding that "Negro wage-earner and businessmen have great difficulty in scaling the walls of inefficiency and of race prejudice in order to escape the discomforts and dangers of a low standard of living", while Franklin noted that while Depression-era unions offered some protection to Black members, they did not hold executive positions in the organizations and did "not enjoy...equality of opportunity to share the benefits of union membership..."

Both authors were notable for their later accomplishments. Haynes was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Columbia. After completing his thesis, he co-founded and was the first Executive Director of the National Urban League, as well as the co-founder of its now-classic magazine, "Opportunity". At the end of World War I, he entered federal government service as director of the newly established Division of Negro Economics in the Labor Department, created by the Wilson Administration to win Black support for the war effort.

As if following in Haynes' footsteps, after receiving his PhD, Charles Franklin moved to Washington, D.C. to begin his government career as economist with the New Deal Social Security Board. During World War II, he headed the economic information and analysis branch of the Office of Price Administration. In 1952, he was tapped to be chief statistician and research director for the Democratic National Committee during Adlai's Stevenson unsuccessful campaign for the Presidency.

Slight wear to gilt; very good or better.