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The Union League of Philadelphia is a private club founded in 1862 by the Old Philadelphians as a patriotic society to support the policies of Abraham Lincoln. As of 2022, the club has over 4,000 members. [ 2 ]
Union League of Philadelphia building on Broad Street in Center City of Philadelphia is a Victorian style architecture mansion with a mansard roof, constructed in 1865. Union League Club of New York, established 1863.
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]
The most crucial component in making the Urban Debate League a national education reform movement was seed funding from George Soros’ Open Society Institute.In the spring of 1997, OSI launched its High School Debate Grantmaking Program, the purpose of which was to support initiatives that seek to institutionalize competitive debate opportunities in high schools in traditionally underserved ...
Modern image of the Philadelphia Tribune building at 520 South 16th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Tribune Historical Marker. The Philadelphia Tribune is the oldest continuously published African-American newspaper in the United States. [2] The paper began in 1884 when Christopher J. Perry published its first copy.
Mollie Moon (July 21, 1912 – June 22, 1990) was the founder and president of the National Urban League Guild, the fundraising branch of the National Urban League.She served as president of the Guild for almost 50 years, from its founding until her death.
“The National Urban League felt it was important to create an opportunity for us to showcase the accomplishments of Black women in politics, in business, in fashion, and created this vision of ...
Charles Reyes, former Philadelphia Department of Education official [37] Melissa Robbins, activist and Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at the Urban League of Philadelphia [18] Eryn Santamoor, former chief of staff to then-councilor Allan Domb [38] [31] Curtis Segers, assistant elementary school principal [31] Derwood Selby [18]