National Urban League 1976 Boston Segregation Busing Crisis Civil Rights P1202 For Sale

DETAILS: Original pinback button issued by the National Urban League for their convention in Boston held August 1-4, 1976. Oversize measuring 3" inches.


The National Urban League, formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based black rights organization of its kind in the United States. During theCivil Rights Movement theUrban League, along with theSouthern Christian Leadership Counsel (SCLC) and the Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC), wasat the forefront ofcombattingracism and segregation. They selectedBoston to hold their1976 convention so as to highlight theinjustices black students were facing due to the Boston Desegregation Busing Riots that were occurring in the city between 1974-1976.


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BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS

Circa 1950-1970

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