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Largest Black business promotes Urban League magazine

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Heading: (African American, 1934)
Author:
Title: National Urban League promotion for its magazine Opportunity, with supporting letter from the largest Black-owned business in America
Place Published: New York and Durham, North Carolina
Publisher:
Date Published: 1934
Description:

2 items comprising:

National Urban League. Rare Promotional leaflet for its magazine, Opportunity. 4 pp. folded. 5½x3½" (Light creasing, very good).

Cox, George W. Printed letter signed as Vice President of the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, Durham, North Carolina, September 1934, 1 pg. To Shaw University President W. Stuart Nelson, Raleigh North Carolina, famed Black educator, theologian and civil rights activist. Touting the Urban League's magazine and its Scholarship contest for Black students.

The Urban League leaflet mentions Sterling Brown, Alain Locke, Kelly Miller, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, R.R. Moton, and E. Simms Campbell among the contributors to its magazine "Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life". Cox, its North Carolina booster, was executive of the largest Black-owned enterprise in America. Dr. Shaw, who received this letter, later became Dean of Howard University and as an advocate of non-violence, marched with Gandhi in India and with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma.

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Largest Black business promotes Urban League magazine

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