[fancy_header]History of the NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE[/fancy_header]

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[dropcap2]T[/dropcap2]he National Urban League, online which has played so pivotal a role in the 20th-Century Freedom Movement, grew out of that spontaneous grassroots movement for freedom and opportunity that came to be called the Black Migrations. When the U.S. Supreme Court declared its approval of segregation in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the brutal system of economic, social and political oppression the White South quickly adopted rapidly transformed what had been a trickle of African Americans northward into a flood.
Those newcomers to the North soon discovered they had not escaped racial discrimination….
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[fancy_header]History of the Greater Toledo Urban League[/fancy_header]

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[dropcap2]I[/dropcap2]n October of 1994, a local group of concerned citizens began a movement to establish an Urban League Affiliate in the Toledo area. This effort resulted in the organization, planning and development of the Toledo Urban League Sponsoring Committee which included a working subcommittee for satisfying applicant status requirements
In August of 1996, the Greater Toledo Urban League, Inc. was officially established as a National Urban League Affiliate.
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[fancy_header]DEPARTMENTS[/fancy_header]

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Last Updated September 3, order 2010
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Administration
John C. Jones – President/CEO

Ret Littleton – Administrative Assistant

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Workforce Development
Brandon R. Tucker – Dir., Workforce Development

Phil Cunningham – Workforce Coordinator

Charlotte Jones – Program Specialist

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Project Reconnect – The SOURCE
1301 Monroe St. – Toledo, OH 43604

(419) 213-6370

(419) 213-6268 (fax)

Brooke Campbell – Admin Coordinator

Shirley Lyons – Workforce Coordinator

Steve Eaton – Educational Specialist

Kristie Knighten – Employment Specialist

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Health & Quality of Life
J. Frank Troy Senior Center

1235 Division St,

Toledo, OH 43604

(419) 255-6206

(419) 255-1670 (Fax)

Barbara Kyles – Dir., Senior Programs

Prince McDonald – Program Assistant

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