advisor on Negro Affairs. In this role, Jones was a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet, an informal group of African American public policy advisors to the President. Legacy Jones retired from the NUL in 1940 and was succeeded by Lester Granger. Jones’ correspondence with Marian Anderson in the Marian Anderson Papers, folder 2927, is held at the University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book and Manuscript Library. References Further reading Armfield, Felix L. (2012) Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. External links Alpha Phi Alpha website 1885 births 1954 deaths Alpha Phi Alpha founders Cornell University alumni Place of birth missing Place of death missing