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Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the struggle for civil rights / Nancy J. Weiss.

Title
Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the struggle for civil rights / Nancy J. Weiss.
Author
Weiss, Nancy J. (Nancy Joan), 1944-
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1989.

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Description
xv, 286 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Young, Whitney M
  • National Urban League > Biography
  • Civil rights workers > United States > Biography
  • African Americans > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [271]-277.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Growing up at Lincoln Institute -- Kentucky state -- World War II -- St. Paul and Omaha: early years in the urban league -- Atlanta: social work and civil rights -- A year off and a new job -- Leader of the National Urban League -- The Civil Right Movement -- The corporate establishment -- The Kennedy and Johnson administrations -- The strains of celebrity -- Black power -- The Nixon administration -- Doubts, pressures, prospects for the future -- Lagos.
ISBN
069104757X (alk. paper) :
LCCN
^^^89004045^
OCLC
19553016
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library