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DetroitHostingLeagueWorkshops dealing with unemployment federal resources and the use of community coalitions to bring about changes will be in sharp focus at the National Urban League’s Annual Conference in Detroit’s CoboHall, July 25—28.Participants in Case Study Workshops beginning July 26 will focus on coalitions as they examine case studies taken from League affilites.On TuesdayfaulR. Ackerjman, Jr., Director of Program Planning and Evaluation, United States Office of Education, will discuss day care services in the black community — a case study taken from the Philadelphia Urban League’s involvement with day care.Labor Workshops on July 27 will yield specific recommendations for accelerating a back-to-work movement and the development of special emergency systems to curb unemployment.In the area of housing, Harold B, Finger, Assistant Secretary for Research and Tech-Housing and Urban Development, will appear as a panelist along with Samuel C. Jackson, Assistant Secretary of Metropolitan Planning of HUD, and Samuel J. Simmons, Assistant Secretary for Equal Opportunities of HUD in a workshop on “The Urban Leagues and Federal Housing Programs/'Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, Director, Women’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor, and Frank W. Render, 11, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Civil Rights, Department of Defense, will discuss employment problems of youth, veterans, women and the working poor. - At the very outset of the Conference, on Sat., July 24, Malcolm R. Lovell, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower, will address a Council Session on “Economic Development and Employment.The Conference will end Wed., July 28, with Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Executive Director-Designate of the National Urban League, addressing the annual dinner.
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Kalamazoo Focus News
Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
Thu, Jul 01, 1971
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