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

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Series I: Personal Files of Whitney M. Young, Jr.



Box 1 Personal Correspondence (incoming and outgoing) -- General, ca. 1958, 3 folders



Box 1a Personal Correspondence - General, 1943-1971, 2 folders

See Also Box 259


Box 1a NASW letters to/from


Box 1a Citations - General Whitney M. Young


Box 1a Whitney M. Young - Note books


Box 1a Whitney M. Young Biographical information

See Also Box 259


Box 1a Whitney M. Young - Personal - Miscellaneous



Box 2 Personal Correspondence -- General


Box 2 Letters -- Miscellaneous, 1961


Personal files -- Subjects:


Box 2 Senator Everett Dirksen, 1964


Box 2 Harvard Club of New York, 1964


Box 2 Harvard Club of New York, 1965


Box 2 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 1966


Box 2 RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement Incident), 1967


Box 2 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, 1967


Box 2 Trip to Virgin Islands, 1967



Box 2 a-b Time Eastern Europe Trip, 1967


Personal files -- Comments, Reactions, Crank Letters:



Box 3 Correspondence, 1964


Box 3 Articles and Columns -- Comments Received, 1966


Box 3 To Be Equal (book) -- comments, 1967


Box 3 Time Cover Story -- comments, 1967


Box 3 Comments on articles and columns, 1967


Box 3 Comments on articles and columns -- Crank letters, 1967


Box 3 Comments on articles and columns, 1969


Box 3 "To Be Equal" (column) -- Reaction, 1969



Box 4 Crank letters, 1969


Box 4 Crank letters, 1970


Box 4 Comments -- General, 1970


Box 4 Reactions to articles, statements, etc., 1970


Box 4 Reactions to statement on President Nixon and Vice-President Agnew, 1970


Personal files -- References and recommendation:



Box 5 1961, 2 folders


Box 5 1963


Box 5 1964


Box 5 1965 May-December



Box 6 1965 January-April


Box 6 1966


Box 6 1967 (Prentis Yancy)


Box 6 1967


Box 6 1968


Box 6 1969


Box 6 1970


Personal Files -- General:



Box 7 School of Social Work, 1960


Box 7 Publicity Clippings, 1961


Box 7 Guest invitations, 1963


Box 7 Publicity Clippings, 1963


Box 7 White House, 1964


Box 7 Awards -- AFL-CIO Community Service Award, 1966


Box 7 Awards -- Veterans' Association, Mt. Vernon, NY, 1966


Box 7 Awards -- Whitehall Award, 1966


Box 7 St. Louis Luncheon -- Speech by Ramon Scruggs, St. Louis, Mo., 1966


Box 7 Who's Who in the East Citation, 1966


Box 7 Doctor of Laws Degree, University of Rochester, 1966


Box 7 Luncheons & Dinners, 1966


Box 7 Luncheons - Kaiser Peterson, 1966 December 6


Box 7 Luncheons - Marriott Twin Bridges, 1966 December 7


Box 7 Man of the Year--Ohio State Association of Elks, 1966


Box 7 Tours -- Eastern Europe -- Time, 1966


Box 7 Abortion Conference, 1967



Box 8 Abortion Conference, 1967


Box 8 Awards -- High School of Fashion Industries, 1967


Box 8 Booker T. Washington Business College, Alabama, 1967


Box 8 Boys Harbor, NY, 1967


Box 8 Christmas Card lists, 1967


Box 8 Expo '67 Trip (cancelled), 1967


Box 8 Honoraria, 1967


Box 8 Luncheons, 1967, 3 folders


Box 8 Request for Materials, 1967


Box 8 Vietnam, 1967, 2 folders



Box 9 Citibank Luncheon, Speech [by Guichard] Parris, New York, 1967 November 9


Box 9 March on Washington (1963). Interview with Dr. [Albert E.] Gollin, [Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc.], 1967 July 26


Box 9 Princeton University, Dr. of Laws Degree from, Princeton, NJ, 1967 June 13


Box 9 Rome, Trip to, 1967



Box 10 Vietnam, 1967, 1 binder


Box 10 Young, Mrs. Margaret B., 1967


Box 10 Citation -- Manhattan College, Dr. of Laws Degree, 1968 March 20


Box 10 Degree--Accepted by Mr. Steele from the Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, Calif., 1968 May 19


Box 10 Beyond Racism , 1969


Box 10 Honorary Degree, University of Kentucky, 1969


Box 10 Honorary Degree, University of Nebraska, 1969


Box 10 Hotel Reservations, etc., 1969


Box 10 Luncheons, 1969


Box 10 Time Tour (cancelled), 1969


Box 10 Afro-American Day Parade, NYC, 1970


Box 10 Biography and photograph, Requests for 1970


Box 10 Beyond Racism , 1970



Box 11 Buckley, Tom -- NY Times Article, 1970


Box 11 Ben Heineman Luncheon, 1970


Box 11 Invitations - General, 1970


Box 11 Permission to reprint, 1970


Box 11 Security Service, 1970


Box 11 Special Requests, 1970


Box 11 Testimonial Invitations


Box 11 Whitney Young, Jr. -- File, 1970


Box 11 Funeral, 1971


Box 11 Eulogy at American Academy of Political and Social Science Meeting, 1971 April 2


Box 11 Memorials, 1971-1972



Box 11a Books by and about Whitney M. Young - General