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The Knoxville Area Urban League, a civil rights, economic development, and social service organization, began in 1968 at the height of the civil rights movement to promote equal employment opportunities for African-Americans in Knoxville, Tennessee. Today, the organization is a non-profit, non-partisan, interracial community-based organization serving a diverse client base in Knox, Blount, and Anderson counties.

The Knoxville Area Urban League is an affiliate of the National Urban League, the country’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. Today, the National Urban League spearheads the non-partisan efforts of its local affiliates.

VISION: Be the recognized leader and premier nonprofit in the greater Knoxville area, promoting diversity and economic and social equity for all people.

MISSION: Enable African Americans, other minority groups, and the underserved to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.