Editorial

By: T. Arnold Hill

Date: September 1933

Source: Hill, T. Arnold. "An Emergency Is On!" Opportunity, The Journal of Negro Life, 11, no. 9, September 1933, 280. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp33280.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org/ (accessed March 1, 2003).

About the Author: T. Arnold Hill (1888–1947) became one of America's foremost civil rights leaders decades before the movement's 1960s heyday. He moved up through the ranks of the National Urban League, eventually becoming the organization's general secretary. Formed as the Committee on Urban Conditions Among Negroes in 1910, the National Urban League still stands as one of this country's most influential civil rights associations.

Introduction

Although the New Deal...