Militant mediator : Whitney M. Young, Jr. /

Militant mediator : Whitney M. Young, Jr. /

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Author / Creator:	Dickerson, Dennis C., 1949-
Imprint:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Young, Whitney M. Young, Whitney M. National Urban League -- Biography. National Urban League. African American civil rights workers -- Biography. Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography. African Americans -- Biography. African American civil rights workers. African Americans. Civil rights workers. United States. Biographies. Electronic books. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113148

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ISBN:	0813171067 9780813171067 0813120586 9780813120584
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-369) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy for achieving 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. Alone among his civil rights colleagues - Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, John Lewis, and James Forman - Young built support for integration from both black and white constituencies." "As a National Urban League official in the Midwest and as 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. In this position, Young forcefully alerted elite whites to the urgency of the black struggle for equality and encouraged them to spend federal, corporate, and foundation funds to improve the lives of black residents in the nation's inner cities." "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 white America to battle the poverty and discrimination at the core of racial inequality."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Dickerson, Dennis C., 1949- Militant mediator. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998 0813120586

Table of Contents:

ch. 1. As the twig is bent
ch. 2. Growing up with Jim Crow
ch. 3. Maturing in Minnesota
ch. 4. Becoming a leader
ch. 5. Activist educator
ch. 6. Crossroads
ch. 7. Retooling the League
ch. 8. Maintaining a middle ground
ch. 9. Humanizing the city
ch. 10. Corporate philanthropy and civil rights
ch. 11. Washington insider
ch. 12. On the war front
ch. 13. Ties that bind
ch. 14. Home to Africa.