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To commemorate the National Urban League's 100 Years of Greatness and Accomplishments in the United States of America.
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WHEREAS, the National Urban League grew out of the lack Migrations movement to escape the brutal system known as Jim Crow from the South as well as to tackle the racial discrimination in the North; and
WHEREAS, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was established on September 29th, 1910 in New York City by Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George Edmund Haynes and merged with predecessors such as Committee for the Improvement of Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women to form the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes-eventually shortening the name to the National Urban League in 1920; and
WHEREAS, the organization strived to help black migrants from the brutal South, trained social workers, and worked in many other ways to bring educational and employment opportunities to blacks; and
WHEREAS, its research into the problems blacks faced in employment opportunities, recreation, housing, health and sanitation, and education is the reason for the League's fast growth, as by the closing of World War I, the organization had eighty-one staff members in thirty cities; and
WHEREAS, the League was able to expand its campaign to bring down the barriers to black employment, brought on by the economic boom of the 1920s, and then by the downturn of the Great Depression; and
WHEREAS, the efforts at reasoned persuasion were supported by boycotts against firms that refused to employ blacks, pressures on schools to expand vocational opportunities for young people, constant prodding of Washington officials to include blacks in New Deal recovery programs and a drive to get blacks into segregated labor unions; and
WHEREAS, the League during World War II, under Lester Granger, pushed to integrate trade unions and led the effo...
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