(DOWNLOAD) "Eugene Kinckle Jones and the Struggle to Keep the National Urban League Afloat During the Great Depression." by Afro-Americans in New York Life and History * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Eugene Kinckle Jones and the Struggle to Keep the National Urban League Afloat During the Great Depression.
- Author : Afro-Americans in New York Life and History
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 236 KB
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The late 1920s ushered in a new day in national reform policies. Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885-1954), the Executive Secretary to the National Urban League (NUL) 1916-1940 had already proven himself to be a progressive reformer by the arrival of the 1930s. This essay will examine Jones' fund raising activities, his relations with white philanthropists and his position with an important department within the federal government during the New Deal--the Department of Commerce. As the stock market crash of late 1929 consumed the nation's attention, the efforts of Eugene Kinckle Jones and other trained black social workers intensified. Jones and the NUL had succeeded in developing a cadre of individuals to deal with the dispossessed population of black urban people. Jones had not only worked to secure avenues to train black social workers, but had fought to have them accepted as professionals of equal status to white social workers. Much of the duality in American social work during the early twentieth century was based upon the separate but [not] equal principles of Jim Crow. (1.)