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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]
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.
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.
Ruth Standish Bowles Baldwin (December 5, 1865 – December 14, 1934) was an American suffragist and a co-founder of the National Urban League. Early life and education
National Council of Negro Women; National Equal Rights League; National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association; National Federation of Colored Farmers; National Independent Political League; National Negro Business League; National Negro Committee; National Negro Congress; National Negro Labor Council; National Urban League ...
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.
He served as the President of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003. Price is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Price is a member of the advisory board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation , a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
Ann (Anna) Elizabeth Tanneyhill (January 19, 1906 - May 15, 2001) was the National Urban League's director of vocational services from 1947 to 1961. Starting in 1930 and until her retirement in 1971, she was on the headquarters staff of the organization and led the league's efforts to increase job opportunities for Black Americans.