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Whitney Young was one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders of the civil rights era. As head of the National Urban League, he fought for the right...
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Whitney Young served as the executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, the critical years in the civil rights movement. Although the National Urban League was not involved in direct action protests, Young often collaborated with Martin Luther King, who appreciated that each leader played a different role in the movement and praised Young’s “creative vitality ...
19 de mar. de 2007 · Whitney Moore Young, Jr. was born July 31, 1921 in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky on the campus of Lincoln Institute where his father was President. Young received a Bachelor of Science degree from Kentucky State College for Negroes in 1941. Upon graduation, Young joined the Army Specialist training program and was assigned to a road construction crew ...
Whitney M. Young, Jr. was head of the National Urban League (NUL) during its most progressive period (1961-1971). Born in 1921, Young graduated from the Lincoln institute in 1937 and Kentucky State in 1941, earning a Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota in 1947.
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was born in 1921 just west of Louisville, Kentucky on the campus of Lincoln Institute—an African American high school where his father was head principal and president. Young graduated from the school as class valedictorian, before earning an undergraduate degree in social work from Kentucky State University in 1941.
14 de may. de 2018 · Whitney Moore Young, Jr. (1921-1971), black American civil rights leader and social work administrator, was one of America's most influential civil rights leaders during the 1960s. Whitney Young, Jr., was born on July 31, 1921, in Lincoln Ridge, Ky. He received a bachelor of science degree from Kentucky State College in 1941 and a master of ...
Whitney Young Bio. Abstract. Young discusses the history of the Urban League, and he reports on the interracial aspect of the organization. He describes the group as social engineers and strategists. Young examines how, in the civil rights movement, issues of race and class intersect. He is concerned with the split between the African American ...
