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There will be a very important meeting of the Trustees of the Negro Welfare Association in the conference room of the Y. M. C. A., Prospect Avenue, corner of 22nd Street, Friday afternoon, November 18th at Four o'clock.3
A full attendance of the Board is earnestly desired at this meeting as there will come up for consideration plans for the enlargement of the work.
It is earnestly hoped that you will arrange to be present as we need your advice and co-operation on the proposed plans for the development of the work.
Sincerely yours, William R. Conners William R. Conners, Executive Secretary. WRC-TS.Correspondent: William Randall Conners (1878–1942) was a Black activist and organizer who was born in Georgia, graduated from historically Black Biddle College (now Johnson C. Smith University) in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a B.A. (1897) and an M.A. (1903), followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. After stints as a college instructor and principal in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, he came to Cleveland in 1917. He founded Cleveland's Negro Welfare Association, forerunner of Cleveland's Urban League, and was its executive secretary (1917–1940). He also founded the Lower Woodland Community Council to work with Black leaders in the Woodland district of Cleveland.