Summary Information
Urban League of Pittsburgh Records
AIS.1981.11
Urban League of Pittsburgh.
1915-1963
12.5 linear feet (10 boxes)
Language: English
Abstract: The records of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, founded in 1918, contain minutes, correspondence, department reports, photographs and Urban League Fellows theses from 1915-1963. The emphasis of the Urban League was on African-American employment and training; topics include federal housing projects, youth employment, worker discrimination and African-American welfare work. Digital reproductions of selected images are available
online.
ULS Archives Service Center
University of Pittsburgh Library System
7500 Thomas Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA, 15260
412-648-3232
archives-ref@mail.pitt.edu
August 1987
Finding aid prepared by Jeffrey Rollinson. Revisions occurred to the finding aid as a part of the encoding process on August 30, 2004.
December 2010:
Description of oversize material added to the finding aid.
History
In 1917, John T. Clark surveyed the needs of Pittsburgh's African-American community of the by bringing the National Urban League to Pittsburgh. In 1918, Dr. Francis Tyson and the Pittsburgh Council for Social Services Among Negroes asked that Clark establish an Urban League branch in Pittsburgh (505 Wylie Avenue).
The Board of the Pittsburgh Council became the first executive board members of the Urban League. Some of its active members were Dr. Francis Tyson of the University of Pittsburgh; Robert L. Vann, Editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier and Walter A. May of the May Drug Company, who became the first board president.
During World War I, African-Americans migrated North to Pittsburgh seeking work in the mills and factories. The League helped to provide housing, sanitary conditions and work for the African-American masses. In the 1923
Directory of the Philanthropic Social and Civic Agencies of the City of Pittsburgh, the goals of the Urban League of Pittsburgh were cited as: "Renders social service to Negroes through work in Courts with delinquents; in homes with a Home Economics service; Girl's Clubs in various parts of the city; Home and School visiting service, and especially the Industrial problems of Negroes throughout the Pittsburgh District."
The Urban League expanded its activities through the Depression of the 1930's and World War II to include health, education, home economics and industrial welfare. In the 1933 edition of the directory, known in that year under the title,
Directory of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, the purpose of the organization was noted as: "Renders social service to Negroes through programs with junior and adult clubs in various parts of the city; home and school visiting service; and especially in dealing with the Industrial problems of Negroes throughout the Pittsburgh district; operates employment bureau; program largely educational, with speakers on current inter-racial matters furnished various groups; acts as consultant on matters regarding the relations between the races. In 1939, a summer camp for African-American youth was established, Camp James Weldon. The growth of government spending and programs led to one of the most active times for the League and provided new opportunities for Pittsburgh's African-American community. The League began to enroll African-Americans in government programs and assisted with overcoming the discrimination of unions and businesses."
The 1950 edition of the
Directory of Social Agencies of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County gave as the organization's purpose: "To conduct a social service program including vocational guidance, employment, educational and recreational work and neighborhood groups designed to improve the conditions under which Negroes in Allegheny County may live, work and play." The League was especially concerned about the industrial problems faced by many African-Americans in Pittsburgh. As a way to confront the issue the League created a specialized employment bureau. This program was largely educational that involved speakers who spoke on current inter-racial matters common in the work-place. The bureau acted as a consultant to African-American workers on matters regarding race-relations and cooperated with governmental agencies to ensure African-American participation on the basis of equality.
Collection Scope and Content Notes
The records of the Urban League of Pittsburgh, founded in 1918, contain minutes, correspondence, department reports, photographs and Urban League Fellows theses from 1915-1963, with a concentration of materials between 1918-1945. Many of the records were destroyed in a fire that occurred in the League offices in 1945. The collection is divided into 8 series according to subject and are arranged chronologically and alphabetically. The strength of the collection concerns African-American employment and training. Topics such as federal housing projects, youth employment, worker discrimination and African-American welfare work. The records contain extensive material about the National Urban League, Negro Industrial Welfare Workers, National Vocation Opportunity Campaign and Camp Weldon Johnson. The photographs separated from the general collection maintain the file numbers present in this finding aid.
Subject Terms
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Employment -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Societies and clubs
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Pennsylvania
- Charities -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Discrimination -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Home economics -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Industrial relations -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Public welfare -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Race discrimination -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Recreation -- Pennsylvania
- Recreation -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Social service -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Sports -- Pennsylvania
- Sports -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Unemployment -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- National Urban League.
- Urban League of Pittsburgh. Executive Board.
- Urban League of Pittsburgh. Industrial Welfare Dept..
- Urban League of Pittsburgh.
- Pennsylvania -- Social conditions
- Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions
- Associations
- Education
- Ethnic groups
- Social action
Access and Use
No restrictions.
Donated by the Urban League of Pittsburgh in 1981.
Digital reproductions of the collection are available electronically at
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/urbanleague.html.
Urban League of Pittsburgh Records, 1915-1963, AIS.1981.11, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Previously cited as: Urban League of Pittsburgh, Records, 1917-1968, AIS 81:11, Archives of Industrial Society, University Library System, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.
This collection was processed by Jeffrey Rollinson in August 1987.
Revision and rearrangement for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Michael O'Malley on March 21, 2003. Further revision to the finding aid was done by Andy Newman on August 30, 2004. Information about the collection title and the controlled access terms was extracted from the MARC record in the University of Pittsburgh catalog Voyager ID number: 1381983
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Collection Inventory
Series I. Executive Board
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Scope and Content Notes: Series I, Executive Board, consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, and memoranda, from 1917-1942, arranged chronologically except for the committee series, which is arranged alphabetically by committee. The Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Urban League oversees all activities of the League staff and committees oversee the League Departments. All social welfare activities performed by the League, along with daily operations, are represented in the records.
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Subseries 1. Administrative Material
Box 1
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1-18 |
Correspondence, 1920-1942
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| Folder |
19-33 |
Minutes, 1917-1941
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| Folder |
34 |
Reports, 1930-1931
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| Folder |
35 |
Membership, 1928-1941
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| Folder |
36 |
President's Report, 1927
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Subseries 2. Executive Committees
Box 2
| Folder |
37 |
Membership Committee, 1926-1937
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| Folder |
38 |
Adult Education Committee, 1941-1942
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| Folder |
39 |
Budget Committee, 1937
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| Folder |
40 |
Case Work Policy Committee, 1929
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| Folder |
41 |
Civic Committee, 1936-1940
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| Folder |
42 |
Consititution Committee, 1925-1926
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| Folder |
43 |
Contact Committee, 1930
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| Folder |
44 |
Defense Committee, 1941
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| Folder |
45 |
Delinquency Committee, 1924
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| Folder |
46 |
East End Parent's Committee, 1940-1941
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| Folder |
47 |
Education Committee, 1924-1928
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| Folder |
48 |
Negro Emergency Relief Committee, 1920-1929
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| Folder |
49 |
Finance Committee, 1926-1930
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| Folder |
50 |
Finance Committee, Fund Raising, 1926
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| Folder |
51 |
Health Committee, 1925-1933
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| Folder |
52 |
Home Community Committee, 1926
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| Folder |
53 |
Home Economics Committee, 1922-1925
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| Folder |
54-56 |
Industry Committee, Minutes, 1926-1944
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| Folder |
58 |
Industry Committee, Membership, 1939
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| Folder |
59 |
Industry Committee, Meetings, Announcements, 1942-1944
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| Folder |
57 |
Industry Committee, Correspondence, 1942
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| Folder |
60 |
Interracial Committee, 1934
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| Folder |
61 |
Job Mobilization Campaign Committee, 1940
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| Folder |
62 |
Library Office Service Committee, 1923
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| Folder |
63 |
Nominating Committee, 1935-1936
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| Folder |
64 |
Public Education Committee, 1932-1934
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| Folder |
65 |
Publicity Committee, 1926
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| Folder |
66 |
Race Relations Committee, 1920
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| Folder |
67 |
Temporary Education Committee, 1925
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| Folder |
68-69 |
Visiting Teacher Committee, 1931-1937
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Series II. Departments
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Scope and Content Notes: Series II, Departments, contains correspondence, applications, reports, publications, clippings, and memoranda. The actual work if the League was carried out by its various departments. As the League grew in membership and influence, so did its activities. A department was created for each new area of activity and a secretary provided oversight. The Industrial Department was the largest; its responsibilities included worker placement, welfare work in the plants, liaison with companies and efforts to achieve union membership for African-American workers. Other departments were concerned with health, recreation, home economics, education, and clubs. The files span the years 1918-1945 and are arranged in two sub-series. The first is an alphabetical arrangement of all departments except the Industrial Department. The second sub-series is the Industrial Department.
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Subseries General Departments,
| Folder |
70-71 |
Civic Department, 1930-1932
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| Folder |
72-75 |
Club Worker Department, 1926-1928
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| Folder |
76-78 |
Education Department, 1931-1941
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| Folder |
79 |
Fine Arts Department
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| Folder |
80 |
Home Economics Department, 1919-1925
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| Folder |
81 |
Home School Department, 1929
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| Folder |
82 |
Information and Advice, 1920
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| Folder |
83 |
All Embracing Musical Group, 1938
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| Folder |
84 |
Recreation Department, 1936-1940
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| Folder |
85 |
Toy Library, 1936
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Section: Administrative Material
| Folder |
86 |
Directors, 1924
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Box 3
| Folder |
87-92 |
Correspondence, 1919-1945
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Section: Companies
| Folder |
93 |
Major War Plants, 1944
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| Folder |
94 |
Names and Addresses, 1920-1927
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| Folder |
95 |
Allis-Chalmers, 1942
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| Folder |
96 |
American Sheet Tin, 1919-1920
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| Folder |
97 |
American Steel Wire, 1918-1923
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| Folder |
98 |
Carnegie Steel, 1922
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| Folder |
99 |
Carnegie Illinois Steel, 1922
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| Folder |
100 |
Consolidated Coal, 1918
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| Folder |
101 |
Curtis Wright, Greyhound Bus, 1944
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| Folder |
102 |
Freemont Foundry, 1929
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| Folder |
103 |
G.M. Johnson, North Dakota,
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| Folder |
104 |
Jones Laughlin Steel, 1923
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| Folder |
105 |
Keystone Picture Frame, 1918
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| Folder |
106 |
Lockhart Iron and Steel, 1918-1921
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| Folder |
107 |
Mellon Stuart, 1919
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| Folder |
108 |
National Malleable Castings, 1923
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| Folder |
109 |
Pittsburgh Coal, 1933-1938
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| Folder |
110 |
Standard Sanitary, 1920-1921
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| Folder |
111-112 |
Westinghouse, Electric, 1918-1923
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| Folder |
113 |
Westinghouse, Air Brake, 1919
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| Folder |
114 |
Wheeling Mold Foundry, 1920
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| Folder |
115 |
Worthington Pump Machinery, 1916-1919
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| Folder |
116 |
Youngstown Sheet Tube, 1920
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Section: Company Visits
| Folder |
117 |
New Castle, 1920
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| Folder |
118 |
Bush Terminal, 1917
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| Folder |
119 |
Reports, 1925-1930
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| Folder |
120 |
Pittsburgh Public Schools, 1934-1942
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| Folder |
121 |
YMCA, YWCA, 1937
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| Folder |
122 |
Apprenticeship Programs, 1936-1938
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Section: Reports, Meetings, and Memoranda
| Folder |
123-129 |
Classes, Meetings, and Campaigns, 1919-1944
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| Folder |
130 |
Memoranda, 1930-1932
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| Folder |
131-135 |
Reports, 1920-1939
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| Folder |
136-145 |
Employment Department, 1918-1944
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Section: Labor Unions
| Folder |
146-147 |
Publications, 1930-1950
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| Folder |
148 |
Clippings, 1934-1939
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| Folder |
149 |
Correspondence, 1918-1946
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| Folder |
150 |
Plastering Union, 1918-1919
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| Folder |
151 |
Railroad Station Porters, 1937-1940
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| Folder |
152 |
Domestic Service, 1939
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| Folder |
153 |
Domestic Service, Philadelphia Institute, 1937-1938
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| Folder |
154 |
Women's Trade Union League, 1942-1944
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| Folder |
155 |
Worker's Council, 1935-1942
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| Folder |
156 |
Worker's School, 1937-1939
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| Folder |
157 |
Negroes Strikes, 1937
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Series III. Financial Records
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Scope and Content Notes: Series III contains the financial records of the Urban League which consists of budgets, financial statements, and payroll records. The majority of the subgroup are the payroll records. These records concern the League staff and a series of grant programs operated during the 1960s.
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Box 4
| Folder |
158 |
Audits, 1930-1938
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| Folder |
159-163 |
Budgets, 1921-1940
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| Folder |
164 |
Statistical Reports, 1932
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| Folder |
165-166 |
Financial Statements, 1920-1932
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| Folder |
167-183 |
Payroll, 1964-1968
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| Folder |
184-192 |
Programs, 1967-1968
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Series IV. Office Files
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Scope and Content Notes: Series IV, Office Files, consist of records that are generated during the course of daily operations of the League such as, correspondence, reports, publications, memoranda, clippings. The major topics covered are annual meetings, Camp James Weldon Johnson, relations with churches, Community Fund, contributors, history of the League, events, and files of the executive secretary from 1918-1963.
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Subseries 1. Administraive Material
Box 5
| Folder |
193-200 |
Annual Meetings, 1923-1942
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| Folder |
201-203 |
Camp James Wendell Johnson, 1941-1942
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| Folder |
204-207 |
Churches, 1920-1943
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| Folder |
208-210 |
Community Fund Campaign, 1937-1939
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| Folder |
211-214 |
Correspondence, 1918-1941
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| Folder |
215-223 |
Executive Secretary, Reports, 1920-1933
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| Folder |
224 |
Executive Secretary, Correspondence, 1923
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| Folder |
225 |
Executive Secretary, Idlewild Meeting, 1921
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| Folder |
226 |
Executive Secretary, Baltimore Agencies, 1930
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| Folder |
227 |
Executive Secretary, R.M. Moss-Personal Papers 1924-1935
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| Folder |
228-232 |
Fundraising, 1921-1928
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| Folder |
233-239 |
History of Urban League, 1915-1929
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Box 6
| Folder |
240-241 |
Publications, 1918-1945
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| Folder |
242-245 |
Urban League Publicity, 1919-1940
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| Folder |
246-250 |
Reports, 1925-1961
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Subseries 2. Subject Files
| Folder |
251 |
Adoption, 1919-1925
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| Folder |
252 |
Clothing, Donations, Distribution,, 1925-1926
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| Folder |
253 |
Complaints, 1933
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| Folder |
254 |
Cornell Questionaire "Negro Trade Unions", 1934
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| Folder |
255 |
Credit Union, 1934
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| Folder |
256 |
Education, 1940
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| Folder |
257 |
Essay Contest, 1922
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| Folder |
258 |
Farm Sales to Negroes, 1920-1923
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| Folder |
259-260 |
Institutional Homes, 1927-1930
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| Folder |
261 |
Junior Achievement, 1940
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| Folder |
262-263 |
Lists of Staff, Boards, Committees,
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| Folder |
264 |
Manufacturers Sales Campaign Contest, 1923
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| Folder |
265 |
March on Washington, 1943-1944
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| Folder |
266 |
May Fair, 1920
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| Folder |
267 |
Morals Court, 1926
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| Folder |
268 |
Mountain, Elsie Gary Red Cross, 1920
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| Folder |
269 |
Office Equipment, 1934
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| Folder |
270 |
Opportunity Magazine, 1922
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| Folder |
271 |
Post War Economic Plans, 1943
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| Folder |
272-273 |
Presidents Correspondence, 1920-1933
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| Folder |
274 |
Public Health Meeting, 1935-1938
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| Folder |
275 |
Public Relief, 1935-1938
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| Folder |
276 |
References and Recommendations, 1934-1938
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| Folder |
277 |
Rosenwald Fund, 1943
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| Folder |
278 |
Scholarship Correspondence, 1939-1942
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| Folder |
279 |
Segregation Discrimination, 1924-1932
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| Folder |
280 |
Speech Material,
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| Folder |
281 |
Staff Minutes, 1932-1942
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| Folder |
282 |
Memoranda, 1930-1938
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| Folder |
283 |
Resignations, 1923-1924
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| Folder |
284 |
Stanton Heights Unit, 1931-1933
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| Folder |
285-286 |
Statistics, 1932-1940
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| Folder |
287 |
Student Nurses,
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| Folder |
288 |
Travel Itineraries,
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| Folder |
289 |
Unwed Mothers, 1927
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| Folder |
290 |
Worksheets, 1926
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| Folder |
291 |
Newspaper Clippings, 1919
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Box 7
| Folder |
292-300 |
Newspaper Clippings, 1920-1963
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| Folder |
301-303 |
Publications
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Series V. Organizations
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Scope and Content Notes: Series V, Organizations, contains correspondence between the Urban League of Pittsburgh and national, regional and local social welfare agencies from 1915-1945. All of the organizations represented reflect the interest of the League improving conditions and employment opportunities of Pittsburgh's African-American community. Topics of special interest are the American Association of Social Workers, Negro Industrial Welfare Workers and the Industrial Baseball League organized by the League for Blacks in local factories.
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| Folder |
304-305 |
American Association of Social Workers, 1938-1943
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| Folder |
306 |
American Association of Schools of Social Work Pitt Meeting, 1942
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| Folder |
307 |
American Negro Exposition 1940
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| Folder |
308 |
Association of Negro Social Workers, 1930-1934
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| Folder |
309 |
Baltimore Camp for Underprivileged Children, 1932
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| Folder |
310 |
Big Brothers, Big Sisters, 1926
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| Folder |
311 |
Conferences and Institutes, 1944
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| Folder |
312 |
Consumer Cooperatives Publications, 1920-1940
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| Folder |
313 |
Employers Association of Pittsburgh, 1920
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| Folder |
314-316 |
Federation of Social Agencies, 1934-1941
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| Folder |
317-319 |
Hill District Community Council,, 1936-1939
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| Folder |
320 |
Association for the Improvement of Social Conditions in the Hill District Consititution, 1915
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| Folder |
321 |
Housewives Cooperative League, 1937
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| Folder |
322 |
Building Maintenance Association, 1932
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| Folder |
323 |
League for Social Justice, 1936
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| Folder |
324 |
Livingston Memorial Hospital, 1933-1934
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| Folder |
325 |
Merit System League, 1937-1939
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| Folder |
326-327 |
National Conference of Social Work, 1924-1939
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| Folder |
328 |
National Negro Business League, 1940
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| Folder |
329 |
National Negro Congress, 1937
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| Folder |
330 |
National Negro Health Movement, 1927-1937
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| Folder |
331 |
Negro Businessmen's League, 1929
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| Folder |
332-333 |
Negro Industrial Baseball League, 1920-1923
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| Folder |
334-339 |
Negro Industrial Welfare Workers, 1918-1921
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Box 8
| Folder |
340 |
Open Forum, 1922
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| Folder |
341 |
PA Conference on Social Work, 1940
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| Folder |
342 |
PA Security League, 1935-1936
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| Folder |
343 |
Red Cross Disaster Committee, 1942-1943
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| Folder |
344 |
Social Workers Club, 1919-1921
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| Folder |
345 |
Society of Women's Minstrel, 1921
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| Folder |
346 |
Western PA Youth Assembly, 1937
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| Folder |
347 |
World Alliance Newsletters, 1943-1945
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| Folder |
348-349 |
YMCA, 1935-1944
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Series VI. National Urban Leagues
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Scope and Content Notes: Series VI, National Urban Leagues, consist of correspondence and meeting programs which reflect the active interest of the Urban League of Pittsburgh in the activities of the National Urban League from 1918-1963. Some of the subjects include the National Urban League's 25th Anniversary celebration, national annual meetings, the Vocational Opportunity Campaign, and publications and correspondence with other urban leagues.
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| Folder |
351-353 |
25th Anniversary, 1935
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| Folder |
354-370 |
Annual Meetings, 1918-1963
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| Folder |
371-380 |
National Vocational Opportunity Campaign, 1931-1948
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| Folder |
381-382 |
National Publications
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| Folder |
383 |
National Emergency Advisory Council, 1933
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| Folder |
384 |
Defense Employment, 1942
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| Folder |
385 |
Memoranda, 1943-1944
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| Folder |
386-387 |
Correspondence, 1921-1929
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| Folder |
388 |
Affiliate Members, 1935
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Section: Cities
| Folder |
390 |
Baltimore, 1928-1942
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| Folder |
391 |
Springfield, Illinois
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| Folder |
392 |
St. Paul, Minnesota
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| Folder |
393 |
Kansas City, St. Louis, Missouri
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| Folder |
394 |
Englewood, Newark, New Jersey
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| Folder |
395 |
Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Ohio
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| Folder |
397 |
Washington D.C.
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| Folder |
398 |
Correspondence with City Urban Leagues
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Series VII. Government Bodies
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Scope and Content Notes: Series VII, Government Bodies, contains reports, statistics, minutes, and correspondence about employment discrimination, housing projects, the Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, and the National Youth Administration, mostly concerning the Federal government from 1917-1952. Correspondence and reports from the Pennsylvania state government concerns the employment of African-Americans and the Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practices Bill.
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Subseries 1. Federal
Box 9
| Folder |
399 |
Apprenticeship Programs, 1940-1942
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| Folder |
400-401 |
Civil Service Job Announcements, 1938-1941
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| Folder |
402-403 |
Civilian Conservation Corps, 1938
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| Folder |
404-405 |
Defense Plants, 1940-1942
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| Folder |
406-416 |
Housing Programs, 1917-1952
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| Folder |
417-418 |
Department of Labor, 1919-1927
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| Folder |
419-426 |
National Youth Administration, 1935-1939
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| Folder |
427 |
Public Relief Publications, 1935
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| Folder |
428 |
Public Health Service Survey, 1936
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| Folder |
429-435 |
Works Progress Administration, 1937-1940
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Subseries 2. Pennsylvania
| Folder |
436 |
Brown Bill Fair Employment Practice, 1945
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| Folder |
437 |
Department of Labor and Industry, 1939-1942
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| Folder |
438-439 |
Employment Service-Negro Department, 1919-1920
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| Folder |
440 |
Job Mobilization Committee Publications, 1940
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Box 10
| Folder |
441-442 |
Temporary Commission on the Urban Colored Population, 1930
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| Folder |
443 |
Public Relief, 1935-1936
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| Folder |
444 |
Investigative Committees, 1939
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| Folder |
445 |
Department of Public Assistance,
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| Folder |
446 |
Program of Child Welfare, 1930
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447 |
Display and Sale of Firearms, 1924
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Series VIII. Reports, Studies and Theses
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Scope and Content Notes: Series VIII, Reports, Studies, and Theses, were created by the Urban League of Pittsburgh, Urban League Fellows, and outside organizations. The subjects covered are education, employment, and African-American life from 1906-1950.
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Subseries 1. Reports and Studies
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448 |
"Relation of Negro to Unemployment in Food Industry", by R. Maurice Moss, 1933
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| Folder |
449 |
CWA Project "Survey of Industrial Relationships of Negro Workers", 1934
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| Folder |
450 |
CWA Project Correspondence, 1934
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| Folder |
451 |
Survey of Negro Employment Domestic Employment in Pittsburgh, Correspondence. Includes statistical report of the Allegheny Emergency Committee, 1931-1935
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| Folder |
452 |
NYA "Survey of Negro Religious Life," 1935
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| Folder |
453 |
"Notes on Negro Life" by Reginald A. Johnson, 1935
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| Folder |
454 |
"Negro as consumers and Consumer Pressure for Jobs", 1939
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| Folder |
455 |
"Guiding Youth Toward Tomorrows Jobs", conducted jointly by the Urban League of Pgh. and the St. Cyprian Consistory #4 of Pgh., 1953
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| Folder |
456 |
"Study of 200 Negro Prisoners in the Western Penitentiary" by Ira De A Reid, 1927
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| Folder |
457 |
"Recent Studies Conclusions Pertinent to Negro Problems," prepared by Charles S. Johnson, 1928
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| Folder |
458 |
White Plains Survey, Correspondence, 1928
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459 |
Woofter Summary and Recommendations, Study of the Economic Status of the Negro, prepared by T. J. Woofter, Jr., 1930
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460 |
"Study of the Economic Status of the Negro" by T. J. Woofter, Jr., 1930
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| Folder |
461 |
"The Adult and Female Offenders in New York," 1906-1910
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| Folder |
462 |
"Our Colored Folks of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York, by R. Maurice Moss, 1920-1930
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| Folder |
463 |
Survey of Pittsburgh Public Schools by a Special Commission appointed by the Board of Public Education, 1940
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| Folder |
464 |
Theses written in the Division of Social Work, School of Applied Social Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh, 1936-1950
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| Folder |
465 |
"Survey of Negro Population of Grand Rapid, Michigan," 1928
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| Folder |
466 |
"The Negro in Pittsburgh Industries" by C. Gould, 1934
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| Folder |
467 |
"The Negro Worker in Pittsburgh" by Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr., M.A., University of Pgh., 1924
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| Folder |
468 |
"Race Relations on South Side as seen through Brashear Settlement", by Pauline Redmond, M.A., Univ. of Pgh., 1936
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Subseries 2. Theses
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469 |
"Occupational Status of Negro in Iron and Steel Industry Pittsburgh and environs by F. Alden Wilson. Submitted to the Bur. of Bus. Res., Univ. of Pgh., 1934
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| Folder |
470 |
"Juvenile Delinquency in Restricted Area of Pittsburgh" by Elsie Rosalia Clarke, 1932
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| Folder |
471 |
"Baker Personnel Administration with Reference to Negro Labor" by James H. Baker, Jr., M.A., Univ. of Pgh., 1929
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Series IX. Photographs, ca. 1920's-1950's
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Scope and Content Notes: Series IX, Photographs, depict activities and prominent people of the Urban League circa 1920's-1950's. Photographs were separated from general collection and are housed in the media room at the Archives Service Center. A sample of photographic images from this collection have been digitized and are available for
online research. The images depict housing and working conditions for black employees at Camp James Weldon and show group portraits taken at conventions and youth conferences from 1923-1958.
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| Folder |
476 |
30th Anniversary, December 1948
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477-481 |
Annual Meetings, 1939-1958
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| Folder |
482 |
Annual Report Cover, 1956
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| Folder |
483 |
Apprenticeship Recognition Ceremony, 1950
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| Folder |
485 |
Barton, Thomas E., Plaque
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| Folder |
486 |
Business Establishment Store
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| Folder |
487 |
Camp James Weldon Johnson
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| Folder |
488 |
Career Conference
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| Folder |
489 |
Career Conference Neighborhoods
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| Folder |
490 |
Carnegie Steel Co.
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| Folder |
491 |
Cherry, Florence A.
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| Folder |
492 |
Community Choir
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| Folder |
493 |
Darnley, Samuel, Meeting
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| Folder |
494 |
Davis Home Day Nursery for Colored Children
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| Folder |
496 |
Equal Opportunity Day Observance, 1957
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| Folder |
498 |
FEPC Institute
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| Folder |
503 |
Guild Ball, 1957
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| Folder |
504 |
High Doris, Secretary of the Year, 1959
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| Folder |
505 |
Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Women
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| Folder |
507 |
Housing, Penn Twp.
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| Folder |
509 |
Industrial Workers
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| Folder |
510 |
Highland Park Pool
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| Folder |
511 |
Joint Meeting, 1949
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| Folder |
512 |
Modern Land Improvement Co.
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| Folder |
513 |
Monticello Street
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| Folder |
515 |
National Urban League Headquarters Building
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| Folder |
516 |
National Youth Association
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| Folder |
517 |
Neighborhood Party, Sept. 9, 1954
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| Folder |
518 |
Urban League Officers
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| Folder |
519 |
Urban League Organization
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| Folder |
521 |
Philadelphia Co. Veterans, 1927
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| Folder |
522 |
Pgh. Courier Employees and Press Operation
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| Folder |
523 |
Rauh and Walk Shirt Factory
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| Folder |
525 |
Sixth Mt. Zion Church
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| Folder |
526 |
Trinity Church
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| Folder |
527 |
Urban League Staff
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| Folder |
528 |
Urban League Streetcar
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| Folder |
529 |
Urban League Meeting Chicago Detroit, 1919-1921
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| Folder |
530 |
Urban League Meeting Richmond, 1948
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| Folder |
531 |
Urban League Meeting Pittsburgh, 1954
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| Folder |
532 |
Urban League Meeting, St. Louis, 1946
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| Folder |
533 |
Urban Renewal Institute, June 7,8, 1956
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| Folder |
535 |
Dr. Marichal Neil E. Young
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| Folder |
536 |
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.
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| Folder |
537 |
Youth Conference for Vocational Opportunity
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| Folder |
540 |
Negatives Uncategorized
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| Folder |
541 |
Urban League National Meetings, 1930-1948
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| Folder |
542 |
Johnson, Luther H., Photographer photos by LHJ
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| Folder |
543 |
Urban League Community Choir
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| Folder |
544 |
Photo: Uncategorized
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Section: Oversized
Map-case 7
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5 |
1. Picture of the National Urban League meetings-Buffalo, 1930
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2. Pictures of N.U.L meetings-Minneapolis, 1931
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3. Pictures of N.U.L. meetings- Pittsburgh, 1933
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4. Pictures of N.U.L. meetings- St. Louis, 1948
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5. Pictures by Luther H. Johnson, F.F.B.
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6. Pictures of Urban League Community Choir, F.F.C.
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7. Associated Pictures, F.F.D.
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