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TONY BROWN HOSTED NUL'S FOUNDERS DAY

With popular television personality Tony Brown serving as host, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee as principal narrators, the National Urban League will present its Founders Day Observance, Sunday, January 27, 1985, 3 P.M., at St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 55 Edgecombe Avenue between 137th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. 

The program is open to the public without charge. 

The Founders Day Observance will mark the official opening of the NUL's 75th Anniversary Year. It was founded in New York City in 1910 as an interracial organization devoted to helping recently arrived black emigrants from the rural South adjust to the different type of life they found in an urban setting. 

Others who will appear at the observance will include the outstanding singer Cissy Houston and the young artist who made his sensational national debut at the Democratic National Convention, Wintley Phipps. Additional music will be provided by the highly regarded United Negro College Fund Choir under the direction of Huston Ownes. 

John E. Jacob, President of the National Urban League and Vernon E. Jordan, the immediate past President of the NUL, will conclude the program. The invocation will be delivered by the Rev. Calvin Butts, Executive Minister, Abyssinian Baptist Church, and a special welcome will be extended on behalf of St. Mark's by its senior minister, the Rev. Robert Smith. 

St. Mark's was selected for the observance because one of the NUL's founders, the Rev. William H. Brooks, was pastor of that church during the early years of this century. 

A special feature will be added to the observance when descendants of Ruth Standish Baldwin, whose interest led to the founding of the NUL, and George Edmund Haynes, who served as the first executive secretary, read brief excerpts from their writings. The descendants are Deborah Baldwin, the great granddaughter of Mrs. Baldwin, and George Edmund Haynes, Jr., the son of Mr. Haynes. 

From its beginning in New York City, the National Urban League has grown into a national movement with 113 affiliates in 34 states and the District of Columbia providing services to more than one million people every year. It is regarded as one of the most respected and effective community service organizations in the country. 

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