Felix L. Armfield, Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp. 136. Cloth $55.00. Paper $26.00.

2014 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-314
Author(s):  
Millington Bergeson-Lockwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Urban League ◽  
National Urban League

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix L. Armfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Urban League ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
National Urban League

This introductory chapter lays out a brief biography of Eugene Kinckle Jones and his work in black social reform, including his affiliation with the National Urban League (NUL). It laments the lack of scholarship on Jones's role in both the NUL and the American social-work movement. Moreover, the chapter narrows the focus of this book—not to the NUL in particular—but to Jones and his role in the professionalization of black social work, in order to increase our understanding of the “urban black experience”—the processes of migration and of migrants becoming black urbanites. The chapter furthermore attempts to illustrate how social work as a profession engaged black Americans and how it was administered during its infancy. It then closes with a brief overview of the following chapters.

Young, Whitney Moore, Jr.

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Urban League ◽  
National Urban League

Whitney Moore Young, Jr., (1921–1971) was a social work educator, civil rights leader, and statesman. He worked to eradicate discrimination against Blacks and poor people. From 1961 until his death he was executive director of the National Urban League.

The National Urban League, 1910-1940

1975 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1132
Author(s):  
Raymond Wolters ◽  
Nancy J. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Urban League ◽  
National Urban League
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