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Fredda Witherspoon (1923 or 1924–1996), formerly Fredda Crawford, was an educator and activist in St. Louis, Missouri.She was also known for her close ties to the community, serving as the president of the Missouri Conference of the NAACP and as vice chair of the St. Louis Urban League.
Born in Helm, Mississippi, she attended Vashon High School, Sumner High School, Hubbards Business College, Harris-Stowe State University, and Washington University in St. Louis. [1] [2] Betty L. Thompson was a civil rights leader and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. She was born on December 3, 1939, and was raised in a large family of 12 ...
Gwendolyn Grant is an American activist. She is President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. [1] She became their first female CEO in 1995. [2]Grant has received numerous honors including the National Urban League's Whitney M. Young Leadership Award for Advancing Racial Equity and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Community Service Award.
By partnering with Feeding America and the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Advantage is embracing its purpose of connecting people with the products and experiences that enrich their lives. The investments will support initiatives in the St. Louis area where Advantage is headquartered and span across the country.
Neidorff began serving on the board of the National Urban League in St. Louis in 2010, and in 2014, he was named the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. That same year, Neidorff was inducted into the St. Louis Business Hall of Fame. [17]
Blacks in the City: A History of the National Urban League. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. Strickland, Arvarh E. History of the Chicago Urban League (U of Missouri Press, 1966). Touré F. Reed, Not Alms but Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910–1950. (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). online
Beaumont High School was a public high school in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It has been converted to a technical school, hosting a number of CTE programs today. It is part of the St. Louis Public Schools. It was closed as a high school after the final graduating class on May 14, 2014, but continues its career training mission.
In January 1995, Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the National Football League team known as the Los Angeles Rams (now St. Louis Rams), announced she would move that team to St. Louis. [252] The team replaced the St. Louis Cardinals (now Arizona Cardinals ), an NFL franchise that had moved to St. Louis in 1960 but departed for Arizona in 1988 ...