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Los Angeles Urban League Records, 1933-1945
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Title: Los Angeles Urban League Records,
Date (inclusive): 1933-1945
Collection number: 203
Creator: Los Angeles Urban League
Extent: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Abstract: The Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who
attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The league gathered information about racial discrimination
against African Americans and other minorities in jobs, health services, and housing; helped develop fair employment programs
during World War II, and was active in the formation of the City Human Relations Commission. The collection consists of correspondence
and papers relating to African Americans, immigrant labor and problems of social planning in Los Angeles.
Language:
English
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Los Angeles Urban League Records (Collection 203). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
2221052
The Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League stems from a 1921 organization founded by Katherine Barr and others who
attended Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; gathered information about racial discrimination against African
Americans and other minorities in jobs, health services, and housing; helped develop fair employment programs during World
War II, and was active in the formation of the City Human Relations Commission; membership changed from 90% black in 1970
to 40% Hispanic by the late 1990s; works in partnership with business and government to serve disadvantaged and poor people.
Collection consists of correspondence and papers relating to African Americans, immigrant labor and problems of social planning
in Los Angeles. Correspondents include Ralph Bunche, and papers include Carey McWilliams' Report on importation of Negro labor
to California. Also contains forms related to the Carnegie-Myrdal study.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Los Angeles Urban League--Archives.
African Americans--Employment--California--Los Angeles.
African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Economic conditions.