Haynes Report

(noun)

A report drafted by Dr. George Edmund Haynes, the director of Negro Economics for the U.S. Department of Labor, as a study of the violence-filled Red Summer of 1919. The Haynes Report identified 38 separate riots in widely scattered cities in which whites attacked blacks.

Related Terms

  • Dillingham Commission
  • Nativism
  • National Equal Rights League
  • First Red Scare
  • National Equal Rights league
  • Industrial Workers of the World

Examples of Haynes Report in the following topics:

  • Racial Friction

    • George Edmund Haynes, the director of Negro Economics for the U.S.
    • The so-called Haynes Report identified 38 separate riots in widely scattered cities, in which whites attacked blacks.
    • In addition, Haynes reported that between January and September 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 African-Americans, with 16 hanged and others shot, while another eight men were burned at the stake.
    • Published in major newspapers, the Haynes Report was a call for national action.
    • FBI agents filed reports that leftist views were winning converts in the black community.
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

    • In the autumn of 1919, the so-called Haynes Report identified 38 separate riots in widely scattered cities, in which whites attacked blacks.
    • It was reported that between January and September 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 African-Americans, with 16 hanged and others shot, while another eight were burned at the stake.
  • African Americans in Southern Politics

    • Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832–August 1, 1887) was the first African American to serve in the U.S.
  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • In 1789, Congress authorized Hamilton to assess the public debt situation and to submit reports with recommendations for strengthening the government's credit.
    • Within the next two years, Hamilton submitted five influential reports that detailed his economic vision for the United States:
    • In Hamilton's "Second Report on the Public Credit," submitted to Congress in 1790, he recommended the chartering of a national bank, modeled on the Bank of England.
    • In his reports, Hamilton also helped draft proposals for the U.S.
    • Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton , shown here in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull, released the “Report on Public Credit” in January 1790.
  • From Annapolis to Philadelphia

    • The conference was a success, and a report was prepared for the two state legislatures on 18 March 1785.
    • The report contained thirteen proposals known as the Mount Vernon Compact, ratified by both Maryland and Virginia.
    • They produced a report which was sent to the Congress and to the states.
    • The report asked support for a broader meeting to be held the next May in Philadelphia.
    • The direct result of the report was the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which produced the United States Constitution.
  • The "Surge" in Iraq

    • Senator Dick Durbin issued the Democratic response that called upon Iraqis to "disband the militias and death squads. " On January 18, Xinhua News Agency reported that "Whitehouse hopefuls," Sens.
    • On December 6, 2006, the Iraq Study Group (ISG) presented their report, which recommended both external and internal approaches for achieving positive progress in Iraq .
    • Among other approaches, the report suggested that the "United States should significantly increase the number of U.S. military personnel, including combat troops, imbedded in and supporting Iraqi Army units. " However, this language is not specifically included in any of the report's 79 recommendations .
    • The ISG report mentioned a possible 10,000-20,000 troop increase for training but only until early 2008.
    • Senator Dick Durbin issued the Democratic response that called upon Iraqis to "disband the militias and death squads. " On January 18, Xinhua News Agency reported that "Whitehouse hopefuls" Sens.
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    • When news of the battle spread through the colonies, it was reported as a colonial loss as the ground had been taken by the enemy and significant casualties were incurred.
    • The report, which included casualty figures that were somewhat inaccurate, gave Washington hope that his army might prevail in the conflict.
    • Their report, however, did not reach England before British Lieutenant General Gage's official account arrived on July 20.
    • Gage's report had a more direct effect on his own career.
    • His dismissal from office was decided just three days after his report was received, although General Howe did not replace him until October of 1775.
  • The Environment

    • Cooney is now known to have edited government climate reports in order to minimize the findings of scientific sources tying greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.
    • In July 2005, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to delay the release of an annual report on fuel economy.
    • The report shows that automakers have taken advantage of loopholes in U.S. fuel economy regulations to manufacture vehicles that are less fuel-efficient than they were in the late 1980s.
    • In May of 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) allegedly blocked release of a report that suggested global warming had been a contributor to the frequency and strength of hurricanes in recent years.
    • In February, NOAA (part of the Department of Commerce) set up a seven-member panel of climate scientists to compile the report.
  • Social Criticism

    • During the Progressive Era, these journalists relied on their own reporting and often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
    • The growth of wire services also had contributed to the spread of the objective reporting style.
    • McClure, emphasized factual reporting but also aimed for a mixture of, "reliability and sparkle" to interest a mass audience.
    • In contrast with objective reporting, muckrakers saw themselves primarily as reformers and were politically engaged.
    • While living there, Riis's personal experience with poverty led him to become a police reporter, writing about the quality of life in the slums.
  • The Antecedents of Progressivism

    • Nellie Bly, another yellow journalist, used the undercover technique of investigation in reporting "Ten Days In The Mad-House," her 1887 exposé on patient abuse at Bellevue Mental Hospital, first published as a series of articles in The World newspaper and then as a book.
    • In response to the exaggerated facts of yellow journalism, objective journalism, as exemplified by The New York Times under Adolph Ochs after 1896, turned away from sensationalism and reported facts with the intention of being impartial and a newspaper of record.
    • The growth of wire services had also contributed to the spread of the objective reporting style.
    • McClure, also emphasized factual reporting but also aimed for a mixture of "reliability and sparkle" to interest a mass audience.
    • In contrast with objective reporting, the journalists whom Roosevelt dubbed "muckrakers" saw themselves primarily as reformers and were politically engaged .
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