Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: In the Community...
...Urban League's executive director, Whitney Young Jr., is unwilling to follow Wilkins' example. "I do not see," he says, "why I should have to go to jail to prove my leadership." Founded in 1910 and mainly supported by white philanthropic funds (notably including the Rockefeller), the Urban League stresses community action, including job training and social welfare programs. The most "professional" of the organizations, the league, with its fulltime, salaried staffers, furnishes research and planning guidance to almost all the other groups...
With chapters in 65 cities, the Urban League seeks civil rights progress through biracial consultation and cooperation. For that reason it is sometimes accused of Uncle Tomism-but smart, tough Director Young, 42, is certainly no Uncle Tom. Educated at Kentucky State College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Minnesota, he was dean of the Atlanta University School of Social Work when selected for his Urban League post. As soon as he assumed Urban League leadership, he stepped up the organization's pace. A veteran staffer protested: "We don't work this fast." Replied Young...
Last week the National Urban League called for a special national effort "to overcome the damaging effects of generations of deprivation and denial, and to make it possible for the majority of American Negroes to reach the point at which they can compete on a basis of equality." A "compensatory effort" on the part of the whites, said the League, "may well be the only means of overcoming the heavy aftermath of past neglect." The organization's Director Whitney Young argues that what is needed is a massive domestic Marshall Plan to help ready Negroes for acceptance of their...
...fully clothed, but a man. One caption tells how Jayne "writhes about seductively," another how she is "gyrating." "The real issue," said Chicago's American in an editorial, "is how far a magazine can go. Hefner's philosophy appears to be that the modern, urban male likes and even needs to look at pictures of naked, suggestively posed women-that it is practically a duty to encourage the habit...