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New York, NY, January 25, 2002, National Urban League president Hugh B. Price announced today that Mildred L. Love, who has served as the Senior Vice President of Operations for four years, will be vacating her current position to serve as a consultant for the National Urban League.

As a consultant, Ms. Love will work with Maria McFarlane, the Director of Program Development and Corporate Solicitation, to develop the content side of the League’s Annual Conference and other specified projects assigned by the President or Executive Vice President.

Ms. Love will also serve as a resource, providing the League with the vast information and knowledge she has about the League’s operations and personnel divisions. This new role will enable her to continue executing some of the same responsibilities that she had as senior vice president, but with the flexibility to pursue other interests that have languished as a result of her total devotion in a three-decade-plus commitment to the movement.

"Mildred Love has served the Urban League movement in a manner that distinguishes her from all others," Price said. "She has been an integral force in the organization working from the ground floor up, as an activist in the early Civil Rights movement, to her growth as a primary leader in our national organization.

The Urban League has been both fortunate and blessed to have had her leadership, undivided attention and dedication these many years. We extend our movement’s absolute gratitude, respect and appreciation for her decades of unflinching service, and wish her the best in her new role."

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A 31-year veteran of the Urban League movement, Ms. Love has held 10 different positions and served under three presidents. She started her career in the movement at the New York Urban League in 1971, and in 1973 joined the National organization in its Eastern regional Office.

"I have been privileged to be a part of a movement that has enabled African Americans and other minority group members to cultivate and exercise their human potential on par with all other Americans," Ms. Love said.

"Great strides have been made from the early days of the Civil Rights movement to the present, and the opportunity to play a leadership role in creating some of those changes has been the fulfillment of my dreams.

My abiding love and commitment to civil rights continue, my devotion to our great movement is unchanged. It is my hope now to contribute to the movement in a different way, and to bring some of my skills and talents to bear in other avenues that promote our movement’s mission.

Though my new role in the League will be a different one, my commitment to its principles and ideals remains the same."

Ms. Love is the recipient of the League’s Ann Tanneyhill Award, its highest honor presented to an Urban League employee for exemplary service.

The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. The National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheads the nonprofit, nonpartisan movement, while Urban League affiliates operate in more than 100 cities in 34 states and the District of Columbia.