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The National Urban League Guild
presents New York....New York! at its 39th Annual Beaux Arts Ball

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[[caption]] Walter Haiman, Mollie Moon, Lillian Roberts, Vernon Jordan [[/caption]]

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1979 Recipient of The Seagram Vanguard Society Award
LILLIAN ROBERTS

As Associate Director of District Council 37, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Lillian Roberts is one of the labor movement's highest-ranking women. As such, she plays an important role in representing District Council 37, the largest union of municipal employees in the country.

Ms. Roberts, a Chicago native, came to New York and to District Council 37 in 1965, after beginning her career as a nurse's aid in Chicago and later becoming a union organizer for state mental health and volunteer hospital employees.

She is the recipient of many honors and awards, especially for her dedication to the labor movement and to the human rights cause. These include the A. Philip Randolph Award, the New Leadership Award of the Americans for Democratic Action, the Woman of the Year award of the New York N.A.A.C.P., the Sojourner Truth Award of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the Ebony Exclusive, Inc. Woman of the Year Award. She received an honorary doctorate from the College of New Rochelle in 1973.

Ms. Roberts is active in many civic and labor organizations, including the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Board of the Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association, the Executive Council of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the Board of the Legal Aid Society.
The National Urban LEague Guild is proud to honor Lillian Roberts for her distinguished service to her community to her brothers and sisters in the labor movement. Her energy, hard work and loyalty to New York City and its workers have played an important part in the history of New York, New York.

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The Seagram Vanguard Society was chartered in 1952 and began functioning the following year. The official aim of the Society is to "encourage, foster, and perpetuate outstanding achievements on behalf of Negroes in the fields of athletic endeavor, community service, cultural development, economic improvement, fraternal brotherhood, notable journalism, and progressive education."

To help achieve its purposes, the Society presents annual Distinguised Leadership Awards to individuals selected by committees representing selected organizations. These awards are in the form of handsome trophies.

Among the organizations that aid in selecting recipients of the annual awards are the National Urband League, the Elks, the National Bowling Association, and the United Golfers Association. In addition, special awards are granted when the occasion arises to any individual whose activities have been deemed outstanding on behalf of the Negro community by the Society's Awards Committee.

In the sixteen-year period that the Vanguard Society has been active, over 70 awards have been made including special trophies presented to such outstanding leaders as the Honorable Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall, Dr Mary Church Terell, Earle Hyman, Louis Peterson, the Errol Garner Trio, Corneal A. Davis, Dr. John Robinson and others.

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