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St. Paul Recorder
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
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The National Urban League receives a $215,000 Carnegie Corporation grant in St. Louis to bolster its five-year youth education program amid rising Negro school dropout rates, as announced by executive director Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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St. Louis (ANP) - The National Urban League has received a $215,000 foundation grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to be used over the next five years for strengthening the League's youth incentives program of educational motivation and guidance for Negro youth.
The announcement was made last week the Spring meeting of the League's board of trustees at the Statler-Hilton hotel here.
In commenting on the grant, Whitney M. Young, Jr., the League's national executive director noted what he termed a "staggering trend" upward in school drop-out rates, particularly among Negro youth. He said the Carnegie contribution will, among other advantages, give the Urban League the means "to forge new and vital tools to reverse this devastating upsurge."
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The National Urban League receives a $215,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to strengthen its youth incentives program for educational motivation and guidance for Negro youth over five years. Announced at the League's Spring board meeting, executive director Whitney M. Young, Jr. highlights rising school drop-out rates among Negro youth and states the grant will help reverse this trend.