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[[image - black and white photograph of Walter P. Washington]]
[[caption]] WALTER P. WASHINGTON [[/caption]]

Attorney Walter E. Washington, Chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, had already served as the Executive Director of the National Capitol Housing Authority for five years and had been already a veteran of 25 years of service with the Housing Agency, which constructs and operates public housing in Washington, D.C. Mr. Washington had also received a United States Civil Service Career Service Award, the highest award recognizing achievement by career Federal employees.

Under his direction, The National Capitol Housing Authority embarked on an intensive study of social services needs of low-income families, and provided impetus for national legislation in housing.

Mr. Washington was born in Dawson, Georgia, is 51 years old, and received his collegiate and professional training at Howard University Law School and American University Graduate School of Public Administration. 

[[image - black and white photograph of Thomas Bradley]]

Public service is Thomas Bradley's third career. The Los Angeles Councilman, who is chairman of the important State, County and Federal Affairs Committee, previously was a policeman and a lawyer.

The one-time high school and UCLA athlete worked his way up to the rank of lieutenant in his 21 years with the Los Angeles Police Department. He studied law in his spare time at Southwestern University, won his degree and was admitted to the bar in 1957. He later opened his own law office.

Mr. Bradley, who has a broad background in community service including much experience in youth work, was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 1963. He is also the Council's delegate to the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities.

The Councilman is a member of the board of directors of the Avalon-Carver Community Center and the Advisory Board of the Community Relations Conference of Southern California. He is Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He also continues to be active in the United Civil Rights Committee and hold membership in the NAACP and the Urban League. 

[[image - black and white photograph of Maynard Jackson]]
[[caption]] 
MAYNARD JACKSON 
Mayor 
City of Atlanta 
[[/caption]]

In the present political climate, I believe that the National Council on Full Employment can function initially as a committee of inquiry responsible to the Congress, so that its views will not be stifled. We need to make this program for full employment a prime goal of every human rights organization in America. You and I must make sure that, once the council is created, it becomes a forceful and effective tool for the development of national policy. We must make it abundantly clear that those elected officials who do not understand the primacy of the full employment goal will not be re-elected.

I want to work with you. I pledge to work with you. We must move quickly and forcefully to overcome the apathy and hopelessness which affect our nation. Let this 1975 National Urban League Conference in Atlanta mark the beginning of a national storm of commitment to full employment.

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