The powerbroker Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights

The Powerbroker portrays the life of Whitney Young, once called "the inside man of the black revolution." As Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961-1972, he helped thousands of people struggling against discrimination.

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"The Powerbroker portrays the life of Whitney Young, once called "the inside man of the black revolution." As Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961-1972, he helped thousands of people struggling against discrimination."@en
"The Powerbroker tells the story of Whitney Young, who biographer Nancy Weiss Malkiel called 'the inside man of the black revolution.' By challenging America's business and political communities directly, Young was able to make in-roads where other civil rights leader could not."@en
"The Powerbroker portrays the life of Whitney Young, once called "the inside man of the black revolution." As Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, he helped thousands of people struggling against discrimination. Unique among black leaders, Young took the fight directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government, but often arousing disdain from the very people he was trying to help. The Powerbroker chronicles the public and private trials of a man navigating a divided society in an explosive time."@en
"The Powerbroker tells the story of Whitney Young, who biographer Nancy Weiss Malkiel called 'the inside man of the black revolution.' A social worker who became the executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to his death in 1971, he was denigrated by black power advocates, but by challenging America's business and political communities directly, Young was able to make in-roads where other civil rights leader could not."