Urban League Head’s Goal: Opportunity

National Urban League President Hugh B. Price called for better marketplace opportunities and better public education to promote black economic power. In his keynote address before about 3,000 people at the Washington Convention Center, Price sounded the 87th National Conference’s theme of economic power as the next frontier of civil rights. Price laid out a three-part formula for black Americans to attain that power: quality public education; economic opportunity for anyone who plays by society’s rules; and compassionate life supports for those who cannot follow the rules.