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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.
Ida M. Bowman Becks (March 28, 1880 – 1953 [1]), also known as Ida M. Becks, was an American elocutionist, suffragist, and African-American community organizer.She played prominent roles in establishing a number of community organizations, especially in Kansas City, Kansas, from the 1910s to the late 1940s.
Kansas City 33 School District, [2] operating as Kansas City Public Schools or KCPS (formerly Kansas City, Missouri School District, or KCMSD), is a school district headquartered at 2901 Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The district, which lost accreditation in 2011 [3], regained provisional accreditation from the state in ...
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In the early 1970s an entire city block inside the loop in downtown Kansas City was labeled as blighted, making way for this project completed in 1977. Photos show what downtown Kansas City urban ...
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
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 ...