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The Chicago Urban League, established in 1916 in Chicago, Illinois, is an affiliate of the National Urban League that develops programs and partnerships and engages in advocacy to address the need for employment, entrepreneurship, affordable housing and quality education.
James Washington Compton (born April 7, 1939), also known as Jim Compton, is an American businessman and civil rights activist who served as president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League [1] from 1978 until 2006. During his tenure, the Chicago Urban League refocused its interest in education and economic development and developed a new emphasis ...
Cheryle Robinson-Jackson (born Cheryle Robinson; July 20, 1965) is an American who was appointed in October 2006 to be the first female president and CEO in the 90-year history of the Chicago Urban League. [1]
Karen Marie Freeman-Wilson (born October 24, 1960) [1] is an American attorney, former judge, and politician who served as Indiana Attorney General from 2000 to 2001, as well as mayor of Gary, Indiana from 2012 to 2019.
Hal Baron was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. [4] He attended Amherst College in 1948. [2] He attended the University of Chicago for his PhD Hal Baron directed the Chicago Urban League from 1961-1968; during that time he was a strategic political advisor to civil rights leaders during the Chicago Freedom Movement including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [6]
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
Alexander Louis Jackson II (March 1, 1891 – October 21, 1973) was an African American business owner and civic leader. Active in the Black community of Chicago's South Side, Jackson was the executive secretary of the Wabash Avenue YMCA, a co-founder of the Chicago Urban League, and general manager of The Chicago Defender.
She is a long-time activist for the Chicago Urban League. In 1964, she and her husband moved to Harlem, New York, [5] where she gave birth to their son, Tom. Morello and Ngethe divorced when Tom was one year old in 1965. [4] Morello then moved with her son to Libertyville, Illinois, a small suburb north of Chicago.