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A flyer for events held by the National Negro Business League, an American organization founded in 1900 by Booker T. Washington in Boston, MA to promote the economic development of African Americans. The flyer lists events for the week from August 18…

A photograph of Bishop R.R. Wright, Jr. an African American reverend, as well as a banking entrepreneur, an educator, a college president, a politician, and a civil rights advocate.

African American workers hauling freight at the Pennsylvania Railroad Yards on March 28, 1938

Black workers constructing a bridge in Philadelphia.

This photograph depicts the Armstrong Association Employment Office in 1912. The Armstrong Association was a private organization that then in 1957 became affiliated with the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This shows the office…