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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...
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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...
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    head of Kraft Family Philanthropies and board chairman of the National Urban League's Eastern Massachusetts chapter. Kraft previously worked for twelve...
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    employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that...
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    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 as the...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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  • An urban debate league (UDL) is a group of high school policy debate teams from urban high schools in the United States. UDLs are generally located in...
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    and the Urban League of Portland was formed. The Urban League of Portland was established in 1945 as an affiliate of the National Urban League. It is one...
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    is a U.S. civil rights leader. He served as the president of the National Urban League between 1982 and 1994. Jacob received his B.A. and M.A. degrees...
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    The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues (NAUDL) is a Chicago-based non-profit organization that prepares low income students of color to succeed...
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    College Fund. He was president of the National Urban League from 1971 to 1981. While still with the National Urban League, Jordan in 1981 said of the Ronald...
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    IMPACT formed partnerships with the National Bar Association, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, National Urban League, Rainbow/PUSH, Congressional Black...
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  • communities. The single raised over $100,000 that was donated to the National Urban League. After a young fan was killed at a 1988 Boogie Down Productions...
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    part of their rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner", while the National Football League announced that "Lift Every Voice and Sing" would be played or performed...
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  • the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. She became their first female CEO in 1995. Grant has received numerous honors including the National Urban League’s...
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    were Mathew Ahmann of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney Young of the National Urban League; Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King...
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    December 14, 1934) was an American suffragist and a co-founder of the National Urban League. Ruth Standish Bowles was born in Ludlow, Massachusetts, the daughter...
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  • NUL may refer to: National University of Lesotho National Urban League, US civil rights organization Nul (band) or NuL, a South African band Nul, rulers...
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    the National Urban League's executive director, a position he held until his death in 1971. As executive director, he turned the National Urban League from...
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  • and freedom across the world. In 1947 K. Leroy Irvis of Pittsburgh's Urban League, for instance, led a demonstration against employment discrimination...
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    African American social worker, and civic leader who headed the National Urban League (NUL) from 1941 to 1961. Granger was born on September 16, 1896...
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    urban violence in numerous cities during Red Summer, Johnson worked as a researcher for the National Urban League and in 1921, he became the League's...
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  • The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is a collaborative umbrella council composed of historically African American fraternities and sororities, commonly...
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    involved with the NAACP, The National Association of Colored Women, the National Urban League and National Negro Business League, and the United Order of...
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  • Better Housing Association The Crisis, official magazine National Independent Political League NAACP New Orleans Branch NAACP Theatre Award – President's...
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    but a few were integrated. The leaders of the all-black units were mostly urban Black People from the North who had never been enslaved. Historian Eric...
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  • league consisting of all-black teams, the National Colored Base Ball League, was organized strictly as a minor league but failed in 1887 after only two weeks...
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  • current urban debate leagues in the United States. National organizations include: Associated Leaders of Urban Debate National Association for Urban Debate...
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  • Urban League of Central Carolinas, previously known as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban League, is the division of the National Urban League, nonpartisan...
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