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The '''Division of Negro Economics''' was a division of the [[US Department of Labor]] created during | The '''Division of Negro Economics''' was a division of the [[US Department of Labor]] created during World War I in the United States. It was established during [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s presidency on May 1, 1918.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Guzda |first=Henry P. |date=October 1, 1982 |title=Social Experiment of the Labor Department: The Division of Negro Economics |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/tph/article/4/4/7/91059/Social-Experiment-of-the-Labor-Department-The |journal=The Public Historian |volume=4 |issue=4 |pages=7–37 |doi=10.2307/3377046 |jstor=3377046 |via=online.ucpress.edu}}</ref> [[George E. Haynes]] of the [[National Urban League]] was appointed to head it.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/2006876|title=The Rise and Fall of Negro Economics: The Economic Thought of George Edmund Haynes|author=Stewart, James B.|year=1991|journal=The American Economic Review|volume=81|issue=2|pages=311–314|jstor=2006876 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> It ceased as a separate division in 1921 under the [[Warren G. Harding|Warren Harding]] administration and became effectively defunct in 1922.<ref name=":1">https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1982/06/art6full.pdf</ref><ref name=":0" /> | ||
In October 1918, the Division claimed control of the "colored section of the Housing Corporation" from the Department of Labor, with Haynes immediately removing its chief, African-American lawyer and [[suffragist]] [[Jeannette Carter]] (1886–1964), who had been appointed earlier that month; the event was reported by the ''[[New York Age]]'' as "one of the most peculiar cases of its kind on record in the department".<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/33453802/ "Drop Miss Carter as Bureau Head in Labor Department", ''The New York Age'' via Newspapers.com, November 23, 1918, pages 1 and 5. Accessed October 11, 2019.]</ref> With Wilson, Haynes developed a three-part program:<ref name="dol2">[http://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/shfgpr00 Judson MacLaury, U.S. Department of Labor Historian, "The Federal Government and Negro Workers Under President Woodrow Wilson"], Paper Delivered at Annual Meeting, [[Society for History in the Federal Government]], Washington, D.C., March 16, 2000, accessed 10 March 2016</ref> First, organizing inter-racial committees of "Negroes" and whites from local bodies to promote mutual understanding and deal with problems of discrimination; second, mounting a national publicity campaign to promote racial harmony and cooperation with the department's war effort; and third, developing a competent staff of "Negro" professionals to operate the Division. | In October 1918, the Division claimed control of the "colored section of the Housing Corporation" from the Department of Labor, with Haynes immediately removing its chief, African-American lawyer and [[suffragist]] [[Jeannette Carter]] (1886–1964), who had been appointed earlier that month; the event was reported by the ''[[New York Age]]'' as "one of the most peculiar cases of its kind on record in the department".<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/33453802/ "Drop Miss Carter as Bureau Head in Labor Department", ''The New York Age'' via Newspapers.com, November 23, 1918, pages 1 and 5. Accessed October 11, 2019.]</ref> With Wilson, Haynes developed a three-part program:<ref name="dol2">[http://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/shfgpr00 Judson MacLaury, U.S. Department of Labor Historian, "The Federal Government and Negro Workers Under President Woodrow Wilson"], Paper Delivered at Annual Meeting, [[Society for History in the Federal Government]], Washington, D.C., March 16, 2000, accessed 10 March 2016</ref> First, organizing inter-racial committees of "Negroes" and whites from local bodies to promote mutual understanding and deal with problems of discrimination; second, mounting a national publicity campaign to promote racial harmony and cooperation with the department's war effort; and third, developing a competent staff of "Negro" professionals to operate the Division. | ||