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Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945

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Date of Original
1939

Subject
African Americans--Employment--California--Los Angeles
African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Economic conditions
Los Angeles Urban League--Archives

Location
United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 34.05223, -118.24368

Medium
letters (correspondence)
questionnaires

Type
Text

Description
The Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The league gathered information about racial discrimination against African Americans and other minorities in jobs, health services, and housing; helped develop fair employment programs during World War II, and was active in the formation of the City Human Relations Commission.

Metadata URL
https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz001b3mnq

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections

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