History of the Chicago Urban League
By: Arvarh E. Strickland ; introduction by Christopher R. Reed.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Chicago Urban League -- History.; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies, etc.; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Other titles: Chicago Urban League
Description: "The first scholarly study of a local racial advancement organization, History of the Chicago Urban League provides a detailed history of the Chicago League from its founding in 1916 through the early years of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and relates the work of this agency to broader developments in Chicago and the nation. In his introduction, Christopher R.

Reed, author of The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966, cites Strickland's work as a landmark study of the earliest civil rights efforts in Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-272 and index.
Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1966.