Atlanta Urban League

Mission Statement

The mission of the Atlanta Urban League is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. To encourage, assist and engage in such activities and the kinds of work, which will lead toward the improvement of underprivileged persons and families in metropolitan Atlanta. To promote the improvement of interracial understanding and cooperation. To employ the techniques of effective community organization to the discovery, the correction and the prevention of conditions out of which racial tension, poverty, and disorder arise.