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{{Short description|Division of the US Department of Labor}}
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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" />
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.
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