National Urban League history

After some initial resistance from the Committee on Urban Conditions, the organizations agreed to join, and on October 16, 1911, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes was born.

In this position, he led a 1913 meeting of Negro leaders with American Federation of Labor (AFL) President, Samuel Gompers.

In 1918, Doctor Haynes left the National Urban League to become director of the United States Department of Labor’s Division of Negro Economics.

With the growth of the black population in these cities, the Urban League grew to twenty-seven affiliates by 1919, all but one (in St Louis, Missouri) east of the Mississippi River.

North Carolina Mutual continued to grow and to establish more black-operated subsidiaries in the 1920s.

In 1925, the magazine Opportunity was created to present factual data on African American life to businessmen, government officials, labor leaders, and the general white community.

By 1930, for example, the black population of Harlem, New York, had grown to 165,000.

Lester B. Granger succeeded Jones in 1941 as the NUL’s executive secretary and began redirecting the organization’s agenda by focusing on leading civil rights causes of the era.

Granger, for example, played a major role in persuading President Harry Truman to desegregate the armed forces in 1948.

1, 1952, Durham, N.C.), American business leader who built the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company into the nation’s largest black-owned business by the time of his death, when it was worth about $40 million.

In 1961, Granger’s successor, Whitney M. Young Jr., expanded on most of Granger’s ideas and made the NUL one of the five major civil rights organizations in the nation during that decade.