September 29: The civil rights organization, the National Urban League, was founded in New York City, 1901
Six leaders of the nation’s largest black civil rights organizations meet in New York’s Hotel Roosevelt in July 1963 to plan a civil rights march on Washington. From left: John Lewis, chairman, Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, national director, Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Martin Luther King Jr., president Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary, NAACP. (Harry Harris/AP Photo)
September 29: The civil rights organization, the National Urban League, was founded in New York City, 1901
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