The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1955-07-23
Urban League annual
Report Looks Ahead'

Excerpts from the Urban Leagues 44th annual report
TO us in the Urban League, social action means e.
fecng improvements in the social and economic status of
the Negro population and nergroup relationships in the
United States We accomplish this by organizing the best
leadership of the American community to act the basis
of the common good plus enlightened self interest
The Urban Leagues tools are simple consisting OF
persuasion and egoaOn But these TOOLS simple they
have been primarily responsible for much of the social
gains made since the founding of our great country
This report of Urban League activity during 1854 is
illustration of how those tools appledin of
social and economic inequality which Negro Americans
have experienced for long While is true that have
registered gains in employment there still exists wide
economic gap between the white and the nonwhte pop
but the historic day of May IT, 1854 the beginning of
series Of community problems which must be solved
through effective social action Housing is pointed out
in this report is still frustrating challenge to commun-
ty planners Many colored youth need job and career
guidance special effort to insure their receiving the
guidance advantages as their white fellows.
In rendering service along all these and other lines,
Ahead and been working example of social action
We offer this report to friends and supporters evil
dence that in race relations as in other of democrat
&c effort, American Teamwork works.
HOUSING: The desire of the Negro family to live in
decent house in neighborhood of its choosing
The Urban Leagues chief efforts in this complex field
1854 have been directed towards the stimulation of mort
gage money and the popular acceptance of open
panc ya efforts Of wars of contestant n,no;n -
Leagues bore fruit in New Orleans, Warren Kansas City,
Canton Minneapolis, Seattle and many other cities In
New Orleans $15,000,O0O development of over 200
homes for Negroes started the shores of Lake
chartrain This the result of housing survey con-
Quoted the previous year by the New Orleans League It's
president Mrs Charles Keller Jr. played leading role
in pulling together the corporation which is building the
development At the end of the year ten per cent of the
homes had been sold.
LA Urban League cities the country, than
800 Pilot Placement 'frsts" registered In Mwau-
kee Negro switchboard operators hired by the local
telephone company for the first time In Gary the first Ne
groes were placed machins electricians apprentices
at Gary Sheet Tin and at u S. Steel phone operator
was promoted to supervisor in the traffic department of
the telephone company In Dayton youth placed by the
League in the local General Motors plant topped the list
for training at GIN Institute and given Mechanical
Engineering scholarship at Akron Universty-a first.
CAREER CONFERENCE
That first Career Conference, Urban League Pilot
Operation stimulated Negro colleges to conduct similar
programs of their own. Many of them using null
pubicaton-"Career Conferences: Program Aid For
Colegesas their blueprint and guide Last year II col
leges conducted their own Career Conferences modelled
after the UL's program.
Now an increasing number of qualified Negro grad
begun satisfying in American industry
and through these conferences AS result of
five years of these conference activities than 900
students interviewed and counseed by almost 1000
experts from industry labor government and the profess
sons These conferences integral part of pres
ent college guidance programs.