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October 16th

2 events recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1910
    The Rise

    National Urban League founded

    George Edmund Haynes and Ruth Standish Baldwin merge three New York City organizations into the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, later the National Urban League. The league places newly migrated Black workers into jobs across industrial cities during the Great Migration.

  2. 1995
    The Rise

    Million Man March

    Roughly 837,000 to 1.1 million Black men gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., at a march convened by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and co-organized by Benjamin Chavis. Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, Cornel West, and Jesse Jackson speak. The march produces a voter-registration surge across thirty-two states.

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