Talk:Whitney Young

Early Influences/Parental Influences
Young grew up on the campus of the Lincoln Private School, that was administered by his father, for several decades. This was a blacks only school, funded by various white charities to promote the segregated education of young blacks, but rather transparently, to serve the Jim Crow purpose of "keeping 'em in their place." Job training and education was limited to menial, blue-collar preparation with no science and math classes. Surreptitiously, though, students were given various higher education opportunities and classes--and when there was a tour of the donor class, it was off to the fields, shop aprons, laundry, and janitorial work. Thus, graduates were uniquely prepared--knowing that significant levels of manipulation might be needed to meet important goals, along with an education that was, most likely, quite superior to that received by blacks not privileged to attend Lincoln. Young's education here, along with his father's administrative style, had to be a major part and a unique preparation for later Urban League activities, where he had the audience of many, major industrial leaders, who were exclusively Caucasian, at the time. Homebuilding (talk) 13:34, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Death?
49 is young to die, and yet there's no word about the circumstances of his death. Angr/ talk 13:09, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

It might be fair to guess that he was a heavy smoker, as in many photographs, when appearing with others, he appears to be the only person who is smoking a cigarette.Homebuilding (talk) 00:04, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

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"inequality that held back African Americans"
The sentence "Young's work was instrumental in breaking down the barriers of segregation and inequality that held back African Americans.", seems to imply inequality that hold back African Americans have all, at last, disappeared. What do you think? Popol0707 (talk) 02:13, 28 October 2018 (UTC)