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The Urban League and other Black groups concentrate on economic rights; includes information on joining major African American activist groups - Economic Empowerment
Economic rights through aggressive economic empowerment has become the goal of many traditional Black civil rights organizations. Hugh B. Price, CEO of the Urban League, is concentrating on economic development through covenants with white firms to increase hiring, promotions, and contracts with Blacks.See the full content of this document
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The new rights agenda.
The Urban League is the latest to take aim at removing economic barriers from the pursuit of the American Dream
ARE YOU AMONG THE CURRENT GENERATION OF African Americans who, while enjoying the rights of inclusion the civil rights movement helped to secure, see little or no value today in the organizations that delivered the goods? "I respect these organizations a great deal," says 40-year-old Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, a research scientist with the New Jersey Department of Health, "but they seem to be best at putting out fires. We need something new." Ironically, it's Nsiah-Jefferson's generation that the NAACP, Urban League, SCLC, Rainbow/PUSH and other civil rights organizations are counting on most to help breathe life into th...See the full content of this document
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