Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights

Feb 18, 2016 on PBS at 10:00 PM

Summary

The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights 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 ... (more)was able to make in-roads where other civil rights leader could not. His efforts to open the doors of equal opportunity were often attacked by the very people he was trying to help. (source: Amazon.com)

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