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Beshears: PamphletEntry/Object ID
2022.40.28Scope and Content
'Decent and Fair!' Copyright ©1950 National Urban League, New York 10, N.Y. Forward by Lester B. Granger, Executive Director, April 28, 1950. Front and back covers in dark green. The text throughout the pamphlet is in red or green ink.Context
"What is Urban League?" over a light green map of the United States with red pin markers.
"Urban League is a National organization of Professional and Volunteer Negroes and Whites working to accomplish Equal Economic Opportunity for Negroes on the Basis of their Merit!."
"How does Urban League go about doing his?"
'The Urban League "opens the doors" of companies to qualified workers and places them in jobs in commerce and industry.'
'Industry and commerce, through the Urban League,make known their needs and requirements to the schools, colleges, and groups i the community.'
'When League applicants require additional training to meet the requirements for skilled and technical jobs, they are referred by the Urban League to appropriate schools and colleges.'
This 2-page section includes 3 placements of the insert "A Two Way Operation" conveying the meaning of the text.
'But how is Urban League different?'
The Wrong Way The Urban League Way
AGITATION! PILOT PLACEMENTS!
COMPULSION! SELLING AND SERVICING MANAGEMENT
VIOLENCE! AND LABOR!
JOB COUNSELING!
'Very good - - - but does it work?'
Cooperating Job Opportunity Companies
STARTED STARTED STARTED
1917 to 1927 1928 to 1938 1939 to 1949
The National Urban League works with the headquarters' offices of national corporations while the 58 local Urban Leagues cooperate with the branch plants of these corporations as well as with independent local companies. 'Participating Companies at a Local Level'
(Center fold)
Extent & Success of Vocational Guidelines & Counseling (pictures of comments on letterheads of various companies)
'Why is all this necessary?'
'Because with a population equal to that of - NEW YORK Negroes represent a market with about the buying power of - WISCONSIN. . . . . . .
Also - if the Negro is unskilled minstead of skilled and unemployed instead of employed - - . . . . . . . .
Then too - - (a picture of a globe divided into thirds showing the parts Yellow, White, & Brown, with a drawing of Uncle Sam on the left and a Communist leader on the right each speaking Democracy, Equality & Opportunity.) 'Before we can sell a way of life we must practice it!'
'And besides - - an equal chance to earn a good living is only Decent and Fair!'
LAST YEAR IN BRIEF (a list of figures and categories)
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE 1950
(A list of Officers And Board Of Trustees)
THE URBAN LEAGUE MOVEMENT IS NATIONWIDE
There are 58 Leagues Located in the following cities. (The list follows)Collection
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