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NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE

TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DAY DINNER
of the 
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
honoring

COY G. EKLUND
Chairman
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

and

DOROTHY I. HEIGHT
National President
National Council of Negro Women

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November 18, 1982
Grand Ballroom
The New York Hilton
New York City

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The National Urban League, founded in 1910, is committed to the elimination of poverty and racism and its attendant evils that are the cause of much of the frustration and hopelessness of many black Americans and members of other minority groups. It is especially equipped by experience and expert skills to attack the problems of the ghettoes of this country, and is on a never ending campaign to develop and put into effect action programs to solve these problems.

At the League's national headquarters, its Washington Bureau, Research Department and four Regional Offices, and in 118 affiliates across the country more than 3,000 League staffers and scores of volunteers are working side by side, to help create the kind of world that we can all live in with dignity and pride—secure in the fact that no individual will ever be denied opportunity because of race, sex, religion or national origin.

The Urban League is committed to that heritage—and will never abandon its role as advocate for America's deprived, never cease to search for more effective programs to help people better their lives and will never stop speaking out on the issues that affect the lives of our primary constituency—black and poor Americans.

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