History | Greater Toledo Urban League

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[fancy_box][dropcap2]O[/dropcap2]ur Health and Quality of Life Department provides programming for youth and adults to promote healthy lifestyles and access to resources that do the same. Our signature program is the senior program held at the J. Frank Troy Senior Center[/fancy_box]

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

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[dropcap2]T[/dropcap2]he National Urban League, more about which has played so pivotal a role in the 20th-Century Freedom Movement, physician 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, search 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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