National Urban League - Definition and Overview

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The National Urban League is a non-profit, nonpartisan, civil rights and community-based movement that advocates on behalf of Black Americans and against racial discrimination. It is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement empowering Black Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.

Its current President is Marc Morial.

History

The Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was founded September 29, 1910 in New York, New York by Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes among others. It merged with the Committee for the Improvement of Industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York (founded in New York in 1906), and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women (founded in 1905) and renamed the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes.

In 1920 the National Urban League the organization took its present name.

The National Urban League is an organizational member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which advocates gun control.

See also

• List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations

External links

• National Urban League official site (http://www.nul.org)