National Urban League

National Urban League (USA) A movement created in 1910 to campaign for the amelioration of urban social and economic problems affecting African Americans in northern states of the USA, the League was revitalized in the 1960s after a period of moribund drift. It advocated racial integration in the economy and society, and racial conciliation. It attracted millions of dollars in corporate contributions, and was a key organization in the Great Society programmes of urban regeneration and renewal. However, by the early 1970s its message was overwhelmed by separatist rhetoric and Black Power agitation in the African American community, and by a general shift to the right on the part of corporate executives and the federal government. It began to operate at a deficit, which grew more substantial as the 1970s and 1980s progressed, though it was still extant in the 1990s, with over 100 affiliates across America.

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National Urban League voluntary nonpartisan community service agency, founded in 1910, whose goal is to help end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States, especially toward African Americans, and to help economically and socially disadvantaged groups to share equally in every aspect of American life. It provides direct service in the areas of employment, housing, education, social welfare, health, family planning, mental retardation, law and consumer affairs, youth and student affairs, labor affairs, veterans affairs, and community and minority business development. Considered more conservative in outlook than the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , the National Urban League has 50,000 members in 115 affiliates in 34 states and the District of Columbia.