| Description |
1 online resource (x, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : portrait, black and white photographs |
| Contents |
Introduction -- As the twig is bent -- Growing up with Jim Crow -- Maturing in Minnesota -- Becoming a leader -- An activist educator -- Crossroads -- Retooling the League -- Maintaining a middle ground -- Humanizing the city -- Corporate philanthropy and civil rights -- Washington insider -- On the war front -- The ties that bind -- Home to Africa -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
"During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy to achieve equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued together were the best tactics for achieving social, economic, and political change. Militant Mediator is a powerful reassessment of this key and controversial figure in the civil rights movement. It is the first biography to explore in depth the influence Young's father, a civil rights leader in Kentucky, had on his son. Dickerson traces Young's swift rise to national prominence as a leader who could bridge the concerns of deprived blacks and powerful whites and mobilize the resources of the white America to battle the poverty and discrimination at the core of racial inequality. Alone among his civil rights colleagues--Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, John Lewis, and James Forman--Young built support from black and white constituencies. As a National Urban League official in the Midwest and as a dean of the School of Social Work at Atlanta University during the 1940s and 1950s, Young developed a strategy of mediation and put it to work on a national level upon becoming the executive director of the League in 1961. Though he worked with powerful whites, Young also drew support from middle-and working-class blacks from religious, fraternal, civil rights, and educational organizations. As he navigated this middle ground, though, Young came under fire from both black nationalists and white conservatives."--Jacket |
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Includes chapter notes (pages 320-361), bibliographical references (pages 362-369) , and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Young, Whitney M.
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Young, Whitney M. fast |
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Young, Whitney M. swd |
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National Urban League -- Biography
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National Urban League fast |
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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African American civil rights workers
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African Americans
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Civil rights workers
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Biografie
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United States
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813171067 |
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9780813171067 |
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9780813148816 |
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0813148812 |
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