Records 1917-1971.

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Records 1917-1971.

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Minutes, reports, correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, financial and membership records, and files of Director Ernest Cooper and Deputy-Director Anita Polk.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Urban League of Cleveland

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Organized in 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Negro Welfare Association of Cleveland to aid the adjustment of black workers coming to Cleveland during the Great Migration following World War I. Led by Wm. R. Conners for the first 25 years, it joined the National Urban League in 1930 and changed its name to the Urban League of Cleveland in 1940. Formed initially to confront barriers to economic opportunities and find jobs for black workers, by the 1930s the primary goal of the League was the issu...

Polk, Anita Lewis.

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Cooper, Ernest C.

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Negro Welfare Association of Cleveland

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