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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]
Sylvester Turner speaks on stage during the National Urban League Conference Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Gala on July 28, 2023 in Houston. - Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
The National Urban League is a civil rights organization that advocates for Blacks and other historically underserved groups. The National Fair Housing Alliance works to end discrimination in housing.
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.
Marc Haydel Morial / ˌ m ɔːr i ˈ æ l / (born January 3, 1958) [1] is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League.Morial served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 [2] as the city's youngest Mayor, [3] President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001, and as a Louisiana State Senator from 1992 to 1994.
National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial sat down with The Palm Beach Post last week for a wide-ranging interview on a variety of topics.
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 ...
Harris, then a U.S. Senator from California, was among a large field of Democratic presidential hopefuls who gave speeches at the National Urban League Conference in Indianapolis on July 26, 2019.