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Rubinow to Julius Rosenwald, Nov. 27, 1929, Rosenwald Papers, Box 75; Strickland,
History of the Chicago Urban League, pp. 97-102, 105—106; Guichard Parris and Lester
Brooks, Blacks in the City: City: A History of the National Urban Urban League (Boston, 1971), pp.
202-203 ("incompetent").
5.3. 53. The following account of Jewish financial financial support for the National Urban
League is drawn, unless otherwise noted, from records of annual contributions to the
League, which can be found in the following sources: for the 1910s, 1910s, lists of contributors
in the Wood Papers, the Haynes Papers, and the Rockefeller Family Archives,
Record Group 2, 2, Rockefeller Archive Center, Pocantico Pocantico Hills, Hills, NY; for the period period
1919—1931, 1919—1931, the annual Financial Statement and List of Contributors of the National
Urban Urban League, printed pamphlets in the National National Urban League Papers, Manuscript
Division, Library of of Congress; for for the the remainder of the the 1930s, principally memoranda
of meetings to discuss yearly yearly requests for funding for the National Urban League
in the Rockefeller Family Archives, as well as scattered correspondence in the
Carnegie Corporation Corporation Archives, New York City.
54. 54. On On the Altman Foundation, Foundation, see see Foundation Foundation Directory, Directory, 3rd ed. (New York,
1967), p. 499. Another Jewish foundation, the the Hofheimer Foundation, established in
1919 by Nathan Hofheimer "to improve the living conditions of unfortunate persons
through research and publications and by the establishment of benevolent agencies"
(ibid., (ibid., p. 594), occasionally provided smaller gifts—$1,500 in several years in the
mid-1920s, $1,000 in in several several years in the mid-1930s.
55. New York Foundation, Forty Year Report, 1909-1949 (New York, n.d.), pp.
5, 29, 50. Its contributions to the National and New York Urban Leagues are recorded
in its its annual financial statements. For the the period 1935—39, the Foundation was also
making substantial substantial annual gifts (they averaged $2,000) to the New York Urban
League. On Felix Warburg, Warburg, see David Farrer, The Warburgs: Warburgs: The Story of a Family (New
York, York, 1975), chs. 6, 9. The Booker Booker T. Washington quote quote comes comes from a letter to
Marcus M. M. Marks, May 24, 24, 1904, in Harlan and and Smock, Smock, eds., The Booker Booker T. Washington
Papers, •ers, vol. VII (Urbana, 1977), p. 512.
56. The Friedsam Foundation Foundation shared an office and a common set of officers with
the the Altman Foundation. Foundation. It It had a lifespan lifespan of twenty years. years. American Foundations and
Their Fields, vol. IV (New (New York, 1939), pp. 39, 73; 73; New New York York Times, Apr. 8, 1931, pp.
1, 1, 16; telephone conversation with Karen L. Rosa, vice vice president and and executive direcdirector, Altman Altman Foundation, Dec. 12, 1994. A gift of $10,000 in the mid-1930s is equivequivalent to approximately $100,000 in mid-1990s purchasing power.
57. William M. Ashby, "Some "Some Unimportant Incidents in the Life of an
Unimportant Man Who is Eighty and Still Alive" Alive" (n.d.), (n.d.), pp. 92—93, 109, Free Public
Library, Newark, NJ.
58. Arthur Arthur J. Edmunds, Edmunds, Daybreakers: The Story of the Urban League of of Pittsburgh,
The First Sixty-Five Years (Pittsburgh, 1983), 1983), pp. 44-45. 44-45.