Papers. 1959-1972.

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Papers. 1959-1972.

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Social worker, teacher, executive director of National Urban league. Principally photostatic copies. The items are correspondence, clippings, writings, programs, and photographs. Several relate to the period following the retirement of Dr. Granger after twenty years as Executive Director of the National Urban League. A program honoring him on his retirement accounts for a small number of items. The writings included are articles, some in typescript and others in print.

0.2 linear ft. 1 Box (chiefly photostatic copies)

Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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Tulane University, Amistad Research Center

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National urban league

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The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League, resulted from the 1910 merger of three welfare organizations in New York, N.Y.: the Committee for Improving Industrial Conditions among Negroes in New York, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the National League for Protection of Colored Women. From the description of Records of the National Urban League, 1910-1986 (bulk 1930-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130941 ...

Granger, Lester B. (Lester Blackwell), 1896-1976

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Member of Dartmouth Class of 1918. From the description of [Collection of his published writings]. 1939-1953. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 240653249 Lester Blackwell Granger was an African American civic leader and social worker. Born in 1896, he grew up in Newark, NJ, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. After serving in the United States Army during the First World War, he worked briefly for the Newark chapter of the National Urban League. From...