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unusual facts about Urban League



D'Urville Martin

Organizations such as the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Urban League condemned these films, and formed the Coalition Against Blaxploitation.

Edge of the City

The film was considered unusual for its time because of its portrayal of an interracial friendship, and was praised by representatives of the NAACP, Urban League, American Jewish Committee and Interfaith Council because of its portrayal of racial brotherhood.

Oscar W. Ritchie

He was also an active member of the Massillon Urban League and the Canton NAACP, which recognized his work as the leader of their local recruitment drive in the 1950s, that nearly doubled the size of their local membership.


see also

Chicago Urban League

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 commercial real estate and a quality education.

Cheryle Robinson Jackson is the current president of the Chicago Urban League.

George Haynes

George Edmund Haynes (1881–1959), co-founder and first executive director of the National Urban League

Scherod C. Barnes

He is a member of the Baltimore Urban League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and the Prince Hall Masons, A.F. & A.M.

Urban League of Central Carolinas

Urban League of Central Carolinas, previously known as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban League, is the division of the National Urban League, nonpartisan civil rights organization, in Charlotte, North Carolina.