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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: The Urban Coalition For further information: Donald Canty, Urban America Inc., 2 65-2224 The Urban Coalition has scheduled its Emergency Convocation for August 24 at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D. C. Co-chairmen o f the Convocation will be Andrew Heiskell and A. Philip Randolph. Mr. Heiskell is chairman of the board of Time Inc. and also of Urban America Inc. Mr. Randolph is president of the Brother- hood of Sleeping Car Porters. The Coalition was formed Monday, July 31, by 20 national leaders of business, labor, religion, civil rights, and city government. It is call- ing the Convocation to mobilize the nation's public and private resources in a concerted attack on urban problems. Announce ment of t h e date and co-chairme n of the Convocation was made today at a pla nning meeting i n the Urban America offices . Also releas ed wa s a list of 12 additional indiv i duals who had expressed su pport of the Co a lit ion but wer e una bl e to attend the July 31 meeting, and have joined the ori gina l 2 0 l ead ers as members of the Coa lit ion St eering C ommittee: May o r Ivan All e n of Atlanta; Roy Ash, President of 'i-,itton Industries ; Mayor Jerome P . Cavanagh of D et ro it; Fr e derick J. C lo se , Chairman of the Boa rd of th e Aluminum Company of America; Mayor John F. Co llin s o f Bosto n; Ma y or Ri chard J. Dal ey of Chicago ; Henry For d II , Chairman of the For d Mo tor Company; James Rous e , Pr es ident of Th e Rouse Company and o f Urban America Inc.; Theodore Schl es inger, Pr eside nt of Allied Stores Corpora - �r The Urban Coalition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Page 2 tion; Asa T. Spaulding, President of the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company; David Sullivan, President of the Building Service Employees International Union; and Mayor James H. J. Tate of Philadelphia, President of the National League of Cities. The Coalition expects an attendance of 1,000 at the one-day Convocation. Each segment will issue invitations to 200 individuals . In the morning, there will be a general session on the Convocation' s three major programs. They are: --An emergency work program to provide job training and employment for the urban poor, now being drafted into specific legislation; --A major expansion of the private sector's efforts to train and provide jobs for the hard-core unemploy ed, such as the "Earn and Learn" programs now underway in several cities; - -A long-range program for the phy sical and social reconstruction of American cities "to break up the vicious cycle of the ghetto," in the \ words of the Coalition's July 31 statement of purpose. Following the morning session, a delegation from the Coalition's Steering Committee will call upon Congressional leaders of both parties to present thes e programs. In the afternoon, the Convocation will break up into work groups to discuss the means of implementing these programs, particularly through formation of local coaliti ons involving the same segments as the national �7 The Urban Coalition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Page 3 effort. At the end of the day, there will be a general session to hear a report of the Steering Committee delegation to Congress. The July 31 meeting at which the Coalition was formed was convened by Mayor Joseph M. Barr of Pittsburgh, president of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, and by Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York, a member of the Conference's executive committee. A copy of the Coalition's statement of purpose and a roster of the full Steering Committee are attached.

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