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National Urban League
FormationSeptember 29, 1910; 113 years ago (1910-09-29)
FounderRuth Standish Baldwin
George Edmund Haynes
Founded atNew York City
President
Marc Morial
Websitenul.org

The National Urban League, formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.[1] It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial.

  1. ^ "Mission and History". National Urban League. Retrieved 12 April 2020.

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