National Urban League

Three organizations, the League for the Protection of Colored women, the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the Committee for Improving the industrial Conditions Among Negroes in New York merged together in 1911 to form a non-profit social service and civil rights organization, the National Urban League. Its headquarters was in New York City. This organization helped blacks mainly rural Southern Blacks that moved to New York City, to find housing, jobs, to get them adjusted to rural life. The National Urban League implements its mission through advocacy and public education.

This organization expanded across the nation very quickly. The National Urban league had 113 affiliated in the nation. The group was primary composed of lacks and whites. The president of the organization for ten years (1961-71) was Whitney M. Young. This was the world's largest social-civil rights organization. The organization continuos to prosper up to this day.