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...search for answers proceeds, however guiltily or imperfectly, with new resolve. Since the murder of Martin Luther King, says Whitney M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, civil rights has stopped being a "spectator sport." Like no other single event in the history of U.S. race relations, the assassination of King, a man who staked his life on his country's conscience, drove home the need for personal commitment to a cause that can easily be lost by default. "The vast untapped resources of the silent, decent people have been awakened," wrote Young in his syndicated...
...fourth of the overtime affairs, Joe Tibbetts took a double-bogey six to lose to opponent John Whitney's bogey five...
...Very little, according to National Urban League Director Whitney Young, who said that Carmichael's following amounts to "about ) Negroes and about 5,000 white newsmen...
...Whitney Young said, Dr. King "had more faith in America's goodness than America has in herself...
...needs to. "It would be tragic to get caught up in a 'Who speaks for the black community?' trap," says Boston City Councilman Thomas Atkins, a Negro. "There is no spokesman for the white community. Why should there be for the black?" Adds National Urban League Director Whitney Young: "I am not looking today for a black leader to replace Dr. King. I am looking for an American leader who will lead us all to justice...