Digitized version of the Urban League of Portland News Roundup newsletter, dated December 1961. The newsletter reports on the Urban League's Equal Opportunity Day meeting, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to an audience of 3,500 people at Portland Civic Auditorium. Page 4 provides more details about King's other activities and speaking engagements around Portland. Other newsletter contents include: the Urban League's Forum on Vital Housing Facts; objections to a 58-unit Housing Authority of Portland public housing project in the Albina area; and negotiations between the Urban League and the International Longshoremen's Union, Local 8, leading to employment opportunities on Portland's docks for Black Oregonians.