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[[image - black & white photograph of a woman speaking at podium]] [[image - black & white photograph of three people]] 1968 NATIONAL URBAN LEA[[cutoff]] Headquarters: The Jung Hotel July 28 Dear Friend: This is an urgent invitation to you to attend the 1968 National Urban League Conference. The urgency is underscored by the facts brought out in the [[underlined]] Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. [[/underlined]] These are facts which all of us have been aware of for a long time. Our Conference discussions will be directed to the major subjects treated in the Report, which are also Urban League programs: employment, education, housing and community relations. We will discuss white racism and positive means of combatting its insidious influences. The Urban League's "Domestic Marshall Plan" is now again in the spotlight because the Commission urges every segment of national life to mount the kinds of programs we called for in our proposal four years ago - "programs on a scale equal to the dimension of the problems...that will require a commitment to national action - compassionate, massive and sustained." Our volunteers and staff, in working toward League objectives and goals, need your cooperation. We want you to learn, firsthand, of our social action programs, and how we do our job. We want you to listen to, and participate in dialogue with people who have benefitted from our programs and services. We welcome you to our Conference, whether you come as a representative of government, industry, business, labor, education, social and civic groups, health and social welfare agencies, or just as a parent or a concerned citizen. There will be opportunity for your voice to be head, and your concerns to be articulated. Please return the registration materials enclosed. We urge again that you join us in New Orleans, with the words of the Commission in your consciousness: "It is time to adopt strategies for action that will produce quick and visible progress... From every American this will require new attitudes, new understanding, and above all, new will." Sincerely yours, [[signature]] Whitney M. Young Jr [[/signature]] Whitney M. Young, Jr. Executive Director Encls. WMY:rr [[image - black & white photograph of four women]] [[image - black & white photograph of three men]]
