To Be Equal; Urban League in D.C.: Bringing Reinforcements

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The grace of her remarks--and the determination not to let her audience lose sight of the work yet to be done and the wrongs that need correcting--is a characteristic of the [Dorothy I. Height] we at the National Urban League know well; for she's been a "contributor" to the league's work since her college years in New York in the 1920s.

That's why fate was so kind to us in "scheduling" these two events side by side, for there's no better representative than Dorothy Height of the importance and the power of "civic engagement" that was the wellspring of our Legislative Policy Conference.

This was the most important "statement" our presence in Washington last week made: that we will be back every year in this kind of concerted fashion because we recognize that, as important as voting is, it's also important that "we the people" represent ourselves equally well in all facets of the political process--in the halls of Congress, and our state legislatures and our city and town councils--to influence the decisions being made which affect America.

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To Be Equal; Urban League in D.C.: Bringing Reinforcements

Fate conspired to be kind to the National Urban League last week.

For it was our great good fortune that we opened our long-ago-scheduled, first-ever Legislative Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on the very day, March 24, that an American legend, ...

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