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The powerbroker : Whitney Young's fight for civil rights / produced by Bonnie Boswell.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Filmakers library online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young, Whitney M.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (57 minutes).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2012.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- The Powerbroker portrays the life of Whitney Young, once called "the inside man of the black revolution". As Executive Director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, he helped thousands of people struggling against discrimination. Unique among black leaders, Young took the fight directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government, but often arousing disdain from the very people he was trying to help. The Powerbroker chronicles the public and private trials of a man navigating a divided society in an explosive time.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 9, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 864629275
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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