Whitney young jr (24 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. Second tier men like Jesse O. Thomas  finalized the dreams of mega stars like Booker T. Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and Eugene Kinkle Jones."My Story in Black and Whiteis an engrossing picture of Negro-white relationships as seen through the eyes of an active participant in the drama of race relations in America for more than half a century. The life story that Jesse O. Thomas recounts in simple and straightforward fashion is made vivid by well-chosen anecdotes skillfully told. Many of the important personalities that people these pages have gone from the scene; and the events involving them have been forgotten by many, or have never been known by some who will read this book."This is a personal history that will give its readers a kaleidoscopic view of the institutions and agencies, the patterns and attitudes, and the black and white people-to-people relationships that helped to shape the education and economic condition of the Negro in America during the decades when Jesse O. Thomas moved about on the national scene."   Whitney M. Young, Jr.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. None. First Edition. An issue of this famed journal (Vol. 94, No. 4) on the theme The Negro American, with original essays and papers by the aforementioned and other important authors, including Talcott Parsons's "Full Citizenship for the Negro American?" A clean, unmarked copy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st edition, 2nd printing. 1st edition, 2nd printing, 1969. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 255 pp., bound in publishers black cloth with black dust jacket, $6.95. Some minor scratches and scuffing to glossy dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.…

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 257pp. Gray lining papers. Black cloth boards with white title on spine and blind "equal logo" on front board. Blue top edges with minor intrusion. Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition. Book issued in black cloth with white titles in a gorgeous dust jacket. There is a fold to the front flap of the dust jacket. $6.95 price code on front flap. 257 pages. Now in Mylar. A beautiful copy! Selling quality book for 35 years.…

Tidy ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. First Edition. The book is a hardcover first edition with a dust jacket that shows wear, including edge tears and tape repairs. The binding remains intact, and the pages are clean, offering a well-preserved reading experience despite the jacket's condition. Worn with edge tears and tape repairs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Third printing. 254pp. Slight spotting on the top page edge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing, foxing, and some rubbing. "A program of special effort in employment, education, housing, health, welfare and leadership proposing practical alternative to continuous racial conflict.".…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. promotional (campaign); reprinting of the Young article along with the cover portrait.distributed for promotins at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; some edge wear and old staining. Reprint of Article with Young's Cover Drawing By Boris Chaliapin; (illustratore). Signed By Young. …

Condizione: FINE. First printing. An account which focuses on how Young, the executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, bridged the worlds of race and power. A "solidly researched, clearly written biography [which] argues that Young served an often overlooked and thankless role, carrying the message of the movement to the U.S. power elite. While the author focuses on Young as a complete individual, an effort is made to highlight the necessity of his role in the movement, the relish and vigor with which he played that role, and the recognition of other major civil rights leaders of the importance of that role." (Joseph Stewart Jr., University of Texas). Illustrated with photographs. Includes extensive notes, sources, index. xv, 286 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Condizione: Acceptable. McGraw-Hill Book Company Hardcover with jacket in mylar. EX-LIBRARY with bibliographic information on dedication page and copyright page, holes punched on biography page still readable, and card pocket and sticker on rear fly leaf. First Edition. Tight binding.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Second tier men like Jesse O. Thomas  finalized the dreams of mega stars like Booker T. Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and Eugene Kinkle Jones."My Story in Black and Whiteis an engrossing picture of Negro-white relationships as seen through the eyes of an active participant in the drama of race relations in America for more than half a century. The life story that Jesse O. Thomas recounts in simple and straightforward fashion is made vivid by well-chosen anecdotes skillfully told. Many of the important personalities that people these pages have gone from the scene; and the events involving them have been forgotten by many, or have never been known by some who will read this book."This is a personal history that will give its readers a kaleidoscopic view of the institutions and agencies, the patterns and attitudes, and the black and white people-to-people relationships that helped to shape the education and economic condition of the Negro in America during the decades when Jesse O. Thomas moved about on the national scene."   Whitney M. Young, Jr.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in publisher's black paper-covered boards with copper titling stamped to the spine. Some light soiling on the top edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket showing some edgewear and rubbing. 8vo. Pp. [9] 10-254.…

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition / 1st Printing. Signed & Inscribed by author on half-title "To Peri : / With admiration for / our joint efforts to build / a better World and appreciation / for your personal friendship / Sincerely / Whitney Young Jr.". 1st Edition / 1st Printing. Very good ni very good dust jacket. 14.5 x 22cm. hard cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Hardcover reprint of a special edition of Ebony magazine, with articles studying the American race problem from the "Negro" point of view, arguing that Black folks have demonstrated they can do anything white folks can, and the only thing preventing racial equality is "the unthinking white man"; the essays aim to examine the white man in the hope that he will look harder at himself, and understand that HE must change to solve the race problem. Dated but still depressingly relevant. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), listing no later printings, "First published in book form, 1966". Light wear to book, dent/gouge to top page edge; jacket a bit rubbed with some chips, short tears, creases, $3.50 price intact. Text clean, no names or marks; [x], 181 pages; 21 essays. Size: Octavo.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Third printing. Good copy lacking dust jacket. Inscribe to Bishop Curtis of Bridgeport, CT. and signed by Young on front free endpaper. In black paper covered boards with copper lettering on spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping to ends of spine, else light wear. In mylar protective cover. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Sophia. Best Wishes. Whitney Young Jr." The author was the Executive Director of the National Urban League. In this he "proposed the nation's first truly comprehensive programs of special effort in employment, education, housing, welfare, and leadership-a program that offers an alternative to continuous and deepening racial conflict.His provocative and original theme is that the mere elimination of injustices and inequities is not enough-that a special effort on the part of the entire white and Negro population must be made to halp the Negro overcome 'the discrimination gap'-the crippling effects that a three-hundred year legacy of deprivation has produced" (blurb). Inscribed. Original black boards. Original dust jacket. Some light rubbing of jacket, else an excellent copy. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author inside the front free end page. 3rd printing. Wear and tear to the jacket. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 254, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Some endpaper and minor page soiling noted. Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 - March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. During World War II, Young was trained in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then assigned to a road construction crew of black soldiers supervised by Southern white officers. After just three weeks, he was promoted from private to first sergeant, creating hostility on both sides. Despite the tension, Young was able to mediate effectively between his white officers and black soldiers angry at their poor treatment. This situation propelled Young into a career in race relations. In 1961, at age 40, Young became Executive Director of the National Urban League. He was unanimously selected by the National Urban League's Board of Directors, succeeding Lester Granger on October 1, 1961.[17] Within four years he expanded the organization from 38 employees to 1,600 employees; and from an annual budget of $325,000 to one of $6,100,000. Young served as President of the Urban League until his death in 1971. In his eulogy, Nixon stated that Young's legacy was that "he knew how to accomplish what other people were merely for". This work offered the author's recommendation for a program of special effort in employment, education, housing, health, welfare, and leadership proposing practical alternatives to continuous racial conflict. At the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Whitney Young took the fight for equal opportunity from the pulpits and street corners to the board rooms and corner offices of corporate America. Forging allies from Wall Street to the Oval Office, Whitney Young's battle for economic justice and inclusion laid the foundation for an upwardly mobile Black middle class that is still rising today. Though recognized as a major civil rights leader and one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington, Whitney Young's strategy of engaging political and corporate leaders as partners in the struggle for economic justice was met with opposition by many Whites and skepticism by more militant Blacks. Despite these challenges, Whitney Young turned the rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement into jobs and economic opportunity for African Americans. In addition to sitting down with corporate titans, he was a trusted advisor to three presidents - John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Johnson used Young's "Domestic Marshall Plan" as the basis for his "War on Poverty.". First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. near fine. First Edition. Octavo, 254pp. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to the base of the spine. This copy SIGNED and warmly INSCRIBED by Young on the front free endpaper: "To Zelma: With respect, admiration and appreciation for you as a real friend and a real "Pro" in the cause. Whitney Young, Jr." Zelma is almost certainly Zelma Watson George, the African-American philanthropist, advisor to President Eisenhower, and opera singer who broke barriers in numerous fields. She was the first African-American to play the lead in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Medium," a lead role which would ordinarily have gone to a white woman. She settled in Cleveland, and served on the boards of numerous civic and activist groups. This would account for Young's unusually effusive inscription.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 5 7/8 X 8 5/8 Inches. 257 PP. Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page. Original price of $6.95 intact. Signed, "To My Friend, Manuel Vazquez: From his admirer and supporter. In the name of Unity & Justice - Whitney Young Jr." Young was a close personal advisor to President Kennedy, President Johnson and President Nixon. As the Director of the National Urban League and later President of the National Association of Social Workers, Young stands out as one of the great Civil Rights leaders of the 1960's. Much of Young's career was spent on employment discrimination in the United States. This particular copy signed by Manuel Vazquez, noted Spanish author and Political Prisoner. A bit of spotting and discoloration to gutters. Light wear to DJ edges. A very attracive copy overall. Signed.…

First edition of the second trade book by the executive director of the National Urban League. With the author's warm half-page presentation inscription. Cloth. Top edge a bit sunned, else fine dust jacket.