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Save Our Children, Inc. was an American political coalition formed in 1977 in Miami, Florida, to overturn a recently legislated county ordinance that banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation.
From 1966 to 1968 a growing force of conscientious objectors grew in Australia and by 1967 became openly popular due to a growing protest movement. Information campaigns were carried out by organizations like Students for a Democratic Society and Save Our Sons to spread information on how to avoid the draft. [2] [4]
Jean came to public notice as convenor of the Save our Sons Movement, which from 1965 to 1973 campaigned against conscription and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. [1] She was also vice-chair of the Vietnam Moratorium Movement.
In the early 1980s, Jacob helped develop a plan for urban recovery similar to the 1947 Marshall Plan initiated to assist European nations after World War II. Aid was sought from private sectors to facilitate entry-level job training programs, and Jacob proposed the League give direct assistance from its own resources to poverty-stricken minorities and whites, including housing and job placement.
“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 ...
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.
Knoxville Area Urban League president and CEO Dr. Charles F. Lomax has stepped down “to pursue other opportunities,” the organization announced Aug. 7. “Dr. Lomax has been a dedicated leader ...
May 3–5, The May Day Protests, planned by Rennie Davis and Jerry Coffin of the War Resisters League, are joined by Michael Lerner; militant mass-action tries to shut down the government in Washington, D.C., and 12,614 are arrested, the most people ever arrested at a single event in American history.