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1st ANNUAL MEETING
JULIUS A. THOMAS SOCIETY
Held at NUL, Chicago, July 21, 1979

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JULIUS A. THOMAS was an Urban League staff member for 37 years - 1924-61. He served as Executive Secretary for the Atlanta Urban League, 1924-25, organizer and first Executive Secretary, for the Jacksonville Urban League, 1925-29, Executive Secretary for the Louisville Urban League, 1934-43, and at the National Urban League, 1943-61, where he was Director of Industrial Relations (Job Development and Employment).

Mr. Thomas provided personal and professional leadership to the affiliates in developing job information, counselling, recruitment, placement and follow-up programs.

It was during his tenure that the NUL launched such activities as pilot placement programs, career conferences on predominantly black college campuses, labor-management studies, etc.

He is credited with being the father of EOD celebrations and organized and staffed the Commerce & Industry Council from 1947 to 1961, and the Labor Affairs Trade Union Advisory Council from 1949 to 1961. He was the first recipient of the Winthrop Rockefeller Award, given for his commitment to the goals of equal employment opportunity.

Mr. Thomas died in 1973.

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The Julius A. Thomas Society has been established by the National Urban League in response to growing indications that such an organization is needed to bring together the many Urban League associates and friends in business, industry, social work, education, labor, and the general community who wish to assist the NUL in achieving its mission of assuring equal opportunity for minority citizens.

By naming the Society in honor of the late Julius A. Thomas, who spent 37 productive years in the service of the Urban League Movement, attention is called to the very special qualities of commitment and dedication to the welfare of others that are so necessary if the mission of the Urban League is to be achieved.

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