Its quite an impressive list, please take the time and review the entire document:
suggested reading:
A Century of Service: A History of the National Urban League
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court declared its support of Louisiana‟s „separate but equal‟ segregation law in the Plessey v. Ferguson case. This decision to uphold the brutal economic, social and political system of oppression in the South led to a flood of African Americans to move northward, known as The Great Migration...
In order to capitalize on those opportunities, successfully adapt to urban life and reduce the pervasive discrimination, the new immigrants arriving from the South required help. The
Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (now the National Urban League) was established on September 29, 1910 in New York City to provide assistance. Central to the organization were two remarkable people, founders Dr. George Edmund Haynes, who would
become the Committee‟s first Executive Secretary and Mrs. Ruth Standish Baldwin ...