Organizational records, 1932-2004 (bulk 1967-2001).

ArchivalResource

Organizational records, 1932-2004 (bulk 1967-2001).

Correspondence and subject files, director's minutes (1967-1987), clippings, press releases, studies and reports, position papers, financial information, speeches, some oversize posters, and other records of a nonprofit human service and advocacy organization for low-and moderate-income African Americans and other minorities.

18.9 cu. ft. (19 boxes and 1 oversize folder, unboxed).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7315531

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minneapolis Urban League Guild.

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Minneapolis Model City Program (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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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 ...

Edwards, R. W.

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Zion Baptist Church (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Minnesota Negro Defense Committee.

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Darby, Ann E.

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Price, Perry S.

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Sudduth, Gary

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United Black Front (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American Studies.

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Minneapolis Public Schools

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The Urban Area Summer Program and Project Head Start in Minneapolis were tuition free programs aimed at helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds improve their chances for progress in school and subsequent employment by providing them with summer-time learning experiences and activities previously unavailable to them. Money obtained through Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 funded the programs. Selection of eligible children was made by teachers, pr...

Clarke, Dexter A.

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Minneapolis Urban League. Street Academy (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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McCannel, Louise Walker, 1915-

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Philanthropist and civic activist Louise Walker McCannel was the granddaughter of Harriet G. and Thomas Barlow Walker, who was a Minnesota lumber magnate, art collector, and founder of the Walker Art Center. Her father, Archie Dean Walker, was a businessman and civic leader married to Bertha Willard Hudson Walker; they had six children: Hudson, Louise, Phillip H., Stephen A., Walter W., and Archie D. Walker, Jr. Louise Walker was married to Malcolm A. McCannel, a physician. From the ...

Harris, Abraham Lincoln, 1899-1963.

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Glover, Gleason.

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Minneapolis Urban League

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The Minneapolis Urban League is a private, nonprofit human service and advocacy organization established in 1925 to serve the interests and concerns of low- and moderate-income African Americans in Minneapolis. It is an affiliate (chapter) of the National Urban League, a New York City-based group organized in 1911 with affiliates in cities throughout the United States. The organization's mission is to enable African Americans and other minorities to cultivate and exercis...

United Way of Minneapolis Area

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The collection contains extensive documentation of the planning and budget-allocation and, to a lesser extent, fund-raising, activities of the United Way of Minneapolis -- previously known as the United Fund, the Community Chest, and the Council of Social Agencies -- for the period 1920-67. A War Chest series deals with the special arrangements for war-relief and war-related fund raising during the World War II era. Topics include the full range of social services provided under United Way auspi...

Hightower, Clarence.

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Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. Gamma Tau Chapter (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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