The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-18
National League on Urban
Conditions Among Ne
groes Formed.
PLAN MUCH ACTIVE WORK
CONSOLIDATION OF oRGANIZA-
TIoNs MARKS NEW DEPARTURE
IN SOCIAL WoRK-oFFicERs
OF NEW LEAGUE.

Conditions of Negroes In New York,
the National League for the Protec-
ton of Colored Women, and the Com
mittee ON Urban Conditions Among
Negroes, consolidated with view to
doing more constructive work, and
formed what will be known as the
National League on Urban Conditions
Among Negroes.
The organization of the new league
marks a new departure in social work
among negroes as well as in the en-
tire community. This is the first time
that a number of social agencies have
gotten together with a definite aim OF
uniting their work and preventing
overlapping and duplication. 1t Is al
so the first time that such organiza-
tion have come together to make
consolidated appeal to the community
for financial support. The National
League on Urban Conditions Among
Negroes viii not only act as clear
ing house for information, but Will
superintend and direct in general
way the work of the different organiza-
tions under it's direction.
The objects of the league are to
promote and to carry on constructive
and preventive social work, for i'm
proving the social and economic con-
ditions among negroes in urban CEN
ters; to bring about coordination and
cooperation among existing agencies
among negroes in urban centers to de-
velop other agencies where necessary;
to secure and train negro social work
ers. and to make such studies In cities
as may be required for the carrying
out of the objects of the league.
The membership of the league con-
sists of equal representation from the
membership of the three organiza-
tions.
The officers are: Prof. E. R. A. Sc
ligman, chairman; DR.. VIM. L. Bulk
ley, Mrs. VIM. H. Baldwin, Jr., and
Jacob w. Mack, vice-chairmen; Ed
ward e. Pratt, secretary; A. S. Fris-
sell, treasurer; l.. Hollingsworth
Wood, assistant treasurer.
The executive committee are: Paul
d. Cravath, Prof. Felix Adler and Miss
Frances A. Kellor, from the Commit
tee on Urban Conditions Among Ne
groes; DR.. E. P. Roberts, Mrs. e. b..
Leaf and Mrs. Haley Fiske, from the
National League for the Protection of
Colored Women; the Rev. VIM. H.
Brooks, Abraham Lefkowitz and the
Rev. S. H. Bishop, from the Commit
tee for Improving the Industrial Condi-
tion of Negroes in New York.
The members of the finance COM
mittee are: The chairman, secretary
treasurer and assistant treasurer. ex-
officic; v. Everit Macy, Fred r. Moore
and DR.. VIM. Jay Schieffelin.
The National League on Urban
Conditions Among Negroes is not only
local committee. Already branches
are being organized in various cities
throughout the country, which will be
under the general direction of the
new National League. The object Of
these committees in other cities will
be to do work similar to that done by
the Committee on Urban Conditions
Among Negroes, which has been in
existence in New York city for about
one year.
This new movement toward the con-
solidation of the negro activities in
New York and other large cities is
the outgrowth of the work of the Com
mittee on. Urban Conditions Among
Negroes, which was organized large
ly through the efforts of Mrs. VIM. H.
Baldwin, Jr., the latter part of 1910.
The work of the Committee on Urban
i'm q
the past year has been peculiarly sue
cessful. In addition to bringing about
the organization of the new league,
it has made a preliminary survey of
the Harlem district, which has re-
suited in a local movement among the
colored residents for improvement.
The committee is also conducting the
work of the Central Bureau of Ne
gro Fresh Air Agencies and has su-
pervised and directed all the fresh
air work among negroes in New York
city during the last summer. The
committee also conducted a modei
camp for colored boys at Manorville,
l.. l., and a playground was estab-
lished in Harlem. One of the most in
teresting parts of the committees
work, which will be continued under
the national league, is the work done
in economics and social science at
Fisk university. This work has been
conducted with great success by Prof.
Geo. E. Haynes. and the students have
not only been given academic work,
but practical work in the community
as we'll.
ed two graduate fellowships under the
Committee on Urban Conditions
Among Negroes, and two students, one
a graduate of Fisk university and the
other of Atlanta Biptist college, are
studying at the New Yort '""ool of