Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers, 1960-1977

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Cataloged Correspondence and Manuscripts

All cataloged correspondence is addressed to Whitney M. Young, Jr., unless noted otherwise. Most cataloged correspondence addressed to Margaret B. Young contains condolences on the death of Whitney M. Young, Jr.



Box A Anderson, Marian, 1970 April 3, Telegram


Box A Bearden, Romare H., 1970 March 14


Box A Burger, Warren E. to Margaret B. Young, circa 1971 March 11


Box A Dillon, C. Douglas to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 19


Box A Douglas, William O. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 12


Box A Eisenhower, Dwight David, 1959 November 6, Telegram


Box A Farley, James A. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 25


Box A Ford, Henry II, 1969 June 18, undated, 2 folders


Box A Gardner, John M., 1969 April 11-1970 October 7, 8 folders


Box A Gilchrist, Huntington, 1961 May 23, June 13


Box A Goldberg, Arthur, 1961


Box A Humphrey, Hubert H., 1964 December 14-1967 December 5, 4 folders


Box A Humphrey, Hubert H. to Harold R. Sims, 1971 May 28, June 4, 2 folders


Box A Javits, Jacob K., 1964 December 30, 1970 September 23, 2 folders


Box A Javits, Jacob K. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 12


Box A Johnson, Lady Bird to Margaret B. Young, 1971 May 4, 1972 April 13, 2 folders


Box A Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 1964 January 16-1969 December 15, 8 folders


Box A Johnson, Lyndon Baines to Margaret B. and Whitney M. Young, Jr., 1970 December 30


Box A Johnson, Lyndon Baines to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 11-1971 July 16, 3 folders


Box A Jones, LeRoi, 1970 November 6, Letter is signed Imamu Baraka.

LeRoi Jones changed his name to Imamu Amear Baraka in 1967, and is best known as Amiri Baraka.


Box A Kennedy, Edward M., 1970 April 2, Telegram


Box A Kennedy, Edward M. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 11-1971 July 16


Box A Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1964 January 14-1967 July 31, 3 folders


Box A King, Coretta Scott, 1961 January 10


Box A King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1958 June 210-1962 October 2, 3 folders


Box A Lefkowitz, Louis J. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 15


Box A Lindsay, John Vliet, 1969-01-17


Box A Lindsay, John Vliet to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 11-1971 July 16


Box A McCormack, John W., 1965 January 22


Box A Malcolm X, 1963 July 31

With carbon copy reply


Box A Mead, Margaret to Margaret B. Young, 1971 April 1


Box A McGill, William J. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 12


Box A McNamara, Robert S., 1963 September 3

With carbon copy reply


Box A Meany, George, 1966 September 2


Box A Mills, Wilbur D. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 11


Box A Mondale, Walter F., 1970 May 5

With draft of reply


Box A Muskie, Edmund S. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 15


Box A Nixon, Richard Milhous, 1959 April 25


Box A Nixon, Richard Milhous to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 16


Box A O'Brien, Lawrence F., 1964 July 13

With related photograph


Box A Proxmire, William, 1970 June 22


Box A Pusey, Nathan M., 1968 January 22


Box A Richardson, Elliot L. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 15, May 14, 2 folders


Box A Rockefeller, David, 1961 December 7, 1969 January 8-December 15, 5 folders


Box A Rockefeller, John D., 3rd, 1968 April 4, 18, 2 folders


Box A Rockefeller, Nelson A., 1963 April 26, 1967 September 20-1969 May 9, 6 folders


Box A Rusk, Dean, 1960 May 12-July 26, 3 folders


Box A Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 1967 August 9, September 15, 2 folders


Box A Sorensen, Theodore C., 1961 September 8


Box A Sorensen, Theodore C. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 15


Box A Stokes, Carl B. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 12


Box A Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, 1964 March 3


Box A Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs to Margaret B. Young, 1971 March 11


Box A Udall, Stewart L. to Margaret B. Young, 1971 April 15


Box A Westmoreland, William C., 1967 October 2


Box A Wilkins, Roy, 1958 December 5, 1961 February 16, 2 folders


Box A Wilkins, Roy to Margaret and Whitney M. Young, Jr., undated


Box A Wilkins, Roy and Minnie, 1970 April 2


Box A Whitney M. Young, Jr. to Pope Paul VI, 1967 July 10



Mapcase 15-H-1 Johnson, Lyndon Baines appointment certificate of Whitney M. Young, Jr. to the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, 1964 November 14

Also signed by Dean Rusk.


Mapcase 15-H-1 Johnson, Lyndon Baines appointment certificate of Whitney M. Young, Jr. to the National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, 1965 January 28


Mapcase 15-H-1 Johnson, Lyndon Baines appointment certificate of Whitney M. Young, Jr. to the National Advisory Council, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965 February 3

With two related items.



Box 283 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Executive Order 11063, Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1962 November 27, Typescript, signed, with pen used in signing ceremony. Framed.



Box A King, Martin Luther, Jr. typed manuscript: "Facing the Challenge of a New Age", 1957 January 1



Mapcase 15-H-1 Rockefeller, Nelson A. appointment certificate of Whitney M. Young, Jr. as a director of the New York State Urban Development Corporation, 1968 July 1