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DATE: TUESDAY, June 26, 1990                   TAG: 9006260366
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

MOLLIE MOON, URBAN LEAGUE LEADER, DIES AT 82

Mollie Moon, the founder and full-time volunteer president of the National Urban League Guild, died Sunday at her home in Long Island City, Queens, N.Y.

Her death, at the age of 82, apparently resulted from a heart attack, a family spokesman said.

Moon founded the guild in 1942 to raise funds for Urban League programs for racial equality and amity. Under Moon, the guild has grown to almost 30,000 volunteers in 80 guilds around the country.

Among the positions held by Moon were secretary of the Urban League's board of trustees and a board member of the Dance Theater of Harlem, the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Coalition of 100 Black Women.

She was a former adviser on programs of the Food and Drug Administration and she led fund-raising efforts in recent years for the Henry Lee Moon Civil Rights Library.

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