She continued working with the YWCA, promoting the establishment of new branches to help female migrants find employment and job training. Like many African American women, Haynes continued her reform work after the birth of her son, George Jr., in 1912. Haynes, who co-founded the National Urban League. In that capacity she met and married the prominent sociologist George E. She later moved north to New York City, New York where she served as the YWCA’s student secretary for work among black women from 1908 to 1910. Born in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1883, Elizabeth Ross obtained a sterling education culminating with an A.B. Ross Haynes was at the forefront of developing institutional resources for young African American women seeking better employment and living conditions. Lacking settlement houses and other resources African American reformers such as Elizabeth Ross Haynes turned to one of the few institutions available to them, the YWCA. In the early twentieth century Progressive era reformers largely ignored the needs of African American women.
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