Greater Baltimore Urban League Celebrates
100
years
OF SUCCESS
A century of Impact. A Future of Promise.
November 9, 2024
Greater Baltimore Urban League
November 9, 2024
Greater Baltimore Urban League
Event Speakers
Tershea Rice
Interim Chief of Operations
Ricky D. Smith
Board Chair
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November 9, 2024
Greater Baltimore Urban League
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- 45 Second promotional video previewed at gala
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100K Donation:
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- 2 Premium Reserved Tables at Gala Dinner
- 2 Page Middle Spread in the gala program
- Sponsor features profile for 3 months on website gala page
- Access to VIP Meet and Greet pre-gala event
- Company logo on promotional materials and social media
- 1 premium table at Business Summit Breakfast
- 45 Second promotional video previewed at gala
- Opportunity to host a workshop
- Inclusion in press releases promoting the gala
- Exhibit booth in the Business Summit
- Brand signage at gala
- Recognition as a sponsor in the video
- Recognition as a sponsor in the State of Black Baltimore Report
- A room commemoration in the headquarters building after the redevelopment project
Baltimore Urban League Early Milestones
1919
BUL founder Reverend Peter Ainslie, attended the Hague Conference on World Friendship, the first volunteer gathering of WWI warring nations. Inspired, he organized an Interracial Conference to improve racial attitudes and conditions in health and welfare.
1920
BUL led effort to save Victory Hospital, one of a handful of Baltimore Hospitals treating black patients and hiring black nurses and doctors. Victory Hospital did not survive, but BUL gained the support of local medical and civic leaders and successfully helped organize Provident Hospital.
1922
Extensive survey of Black industrial workers conducted by Dr. Charles Johnson, prompted by the interest of Rev. Ainslie and Mr. Cary.
1924
The study results and the work of the Interracial Conference formed the initial founding of the Baltimore Urban League.
1925
BUL begins work to clean up the Lung Block, referring to the area with the highest death rate of tuberculosis in Baltimore. (Pennsylvania to Druid Hill, Biddle to Present Streets).
1926
First funding received from the Community Chest.
1930
BUL recommends widening Preston Street and paving alleys within block and mayor authorizes. Another recommendation by BUL, the construction of Preston Street Elementary School is followed despite opposition.
1933
At BUL’s request, six black caseworkers appointed to the Baltimore Emergency Relief Commission
1939
After multiple unsuccessful efforts to integrate AFL Trade Unions, BUL organized 200 black building craftsmen. After two years of negotiations, Local #544 of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Affiliated with the AFL was organized.
1940
BUL member Carl J. Murphy chairs the newly founded Citizen’s Committee on Current Educational Problems. Committee-prepared brief presented to Boar5d of School Commissioners documenting teacher and classroom supply shortages in black schools and the need for a vocational school.
1943
BUL incorporated.
1947
Baltimore City Fire Department integrated with support from BUL. BUL trained 30 applicants, and 14 passed the exam and were hired. BUL Education Committee mobilized the public in support of integration of the University of Maryland; the University issued a statement that applications would be reviewed without consideration of race.
1949
BUL’s Health Committee successfully advocates for an increase in bus transportation to Henryton Hospital to 3 per day for tuberculosis patients. BUL conducts the research identifying the need in Cherry Hill for parks and playgrounds; Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks acquires 31 acres, 12 of which to be immediately developed as a park and playground. The Maryland Theater announces policy change and will serve theatergoers regardless of race. The Baltimore Superintendent of Public Instruction described a BUL study of clerical training “constructive interest…in the program of public education” and noted “the thoughtfulness with which you developed your recommendations.”
1970
National Urban League establishes a census project in ten cities, including Baltimore, to reverse the Black undercount.
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