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The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. [1]
Ruth Standish Bowles Baldwin (December 5, 1865 – December 14, 1934) was an American suffragist and a co-founder of the National Urban League. Early life and education
She founded the National Urban League Guild in 1942 in order to raise funds in support of the League's racial equality programs. [5] Lester B. Granger, then director of the Urban League, challenged Moon personally to help the league become 'financially stable.' [ 2 ] At first an informal group, it eventually developed bylaws and held elections ...
Haynes helped found the National Urban League, from three organizations, to assist in the urbanization of African Americans that was taking place. He served as its first executive director from 1911 to 1918. He also was a co-founder and patron of Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, an academic journal
Eugene Kinckle Jones (July 30, 1885 – January 11, 1954) was a leader of the National Urban League and one of the seven founders (commonly referred to as Seven Jewels) of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. Jones became Alpha chapter's second President.
He served as the President of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003. Price is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Price is a member of the advisory board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. [1]
Upon returning from the war, Granger joined the National Urban League as the Newark chapter’s industrial relations officer. In 1922, Granger was an extension worker with the Bordentown School, New Jersey's state vocational school for African American youth, in Bordentown. [3]
He served as the president of the National Urban League between 1982 and 1994. Jacob received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Howard University and was a social worker in Baltimore before joining the Urban League. In 1965, he became director of education and youth incentives at the Washington, D.C. chapter. Later he served as president and ...