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[witcheslife]

“Creepy girl in her own creepy world “

[webbpete57]

Thank you WPTV and Urban League for partnering with United Way.

[dcmikeash]

“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.” Whitney M. Young, Jr. #URBANLEAGUE #CIVILRIGHTSLEADER #blackcommerce #universityofminnesota #KENTUCKYBORN #marchonwashington1963 https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCI1-gO8ST/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the37208]

Welcome to the barbershop! #UrbanLeague #HartmanPark #NorthNashvilleAction (at Hartman Park Regional Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7FJ5euD8f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the37208]

Free backpacks and haircuts for students! #UrbanLeague #HartmanPark #NorthNashvilleAction (at Hartman Park Regional Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg6_2YyuneZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the37208]

Back to School Bash! Free backpacks and haircuts!!! #UrbanLeague #HartmanPark #NorthNashvilleAction (at Hartman Park Regional Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg6-lu-OeUf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[petervintonjr]

Lesson 96: "It has been said, 'The Negro woman in politics would be a failure.' Let us make this statement false. Let us have a mind of our own and use it, make it do your own thinking, asking God for divine leadership, unselfish, untarnished and unbiased. Take a stand for the right, and stand anyhow, stand for the right if you must stand alone. Remember that God and one is a majority."

Meet orator and suffragist Ida M. Bowman Becks, one of the unsung heroes of the Urban League and an early voice in the still-coalescing National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Born in 1880 Armstrong, Mo., Ida graduated from Lincoln High School as class valedictorian in 1899, and then went on to the Chicago School of Elocution, where she honed her skills as a public speaker.

In 1908 she married and moved to Kansas City, where she co-founded that city's first YWCA for black women (Yates), and also traveled on behalf of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. Her pro-suffrage speeches at numerous churches and clubs, were praised for their eloquence; audiences would describe Becks as "fearless and persuasive," and she was unafraid to engage in public debates. In 1916 she wrote and published a play, "Up From Slavery: Evening’s Entertainment in 8 Acts."

In the 1920s Becks served on the board of directors of Wheatley-Provident Hospitals. In 1921 she was one of five delegates from Kansas City to the 1921 NAACP convention in Detroit. That same year, the Negro Women’s National Republican League appointed Becks to organize a chapter in Kansas City, of which she eventually was elected chairman.

More info at: https://aahtkc.org/ida-m-bowman-becks

[petervintonjr]

Lesson 88: "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

Whitney M. Young, Jr. was born in 1921 Kentucky and grew up with an eye towards a career in medicine, however after serving in the Army during WWII, he pivoted to social work and civil rights. Apocryphally, while training with the Army, Young was reportedly assigned to a road construction crew of black soldiers being supervised by white officers, having been promoted from private to first sergeant. Young discovered a latent talent for mediation --helping to defuse tensions between his white officers and black soldiers angry at their poor treatment. After the war he spent 3 years as a member of the Urban League of St. Paul, Minn., he then became that organization's executive secretary in 1950. He was named Dean of the School of Social Work of Atlanta (Georgia) University in 1954.

Perhaps most significantly, however, was Young's ten years as head of the National Urban League (1961–71), at the time the world’s largest social-civil rights organization, when he pushed for equal opportunities for Blacks in both industry and in government. His advocacy of what was popularly referred to as a “Domestic Marshall Plan” —massive funds to help solve America’s racial problems— is widely regarded to have influenced early federal poverty programs in the 1960's. Young enjoyed a reputation as a national figure who could bridge the gap between white political and business leaders and poor blacks and militants.

Young was regularly consulted by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon on racial matters throughout the 1960's. Johnson in particular considered naming Young to his Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, but could not reconcile this with Young's opposition to the war in Vietnam. As part of the FBI's notorious COINTELPRO operations against the Black liberation movement, a conspiracy to murder Young was uncovered in 1968; police infiltrators who had concocted this scheme had intended to frame it in the press as a Black "revolutionary" plot.

"First of all, I think the country is in deep trouble. We, as a country have blazed unimagined trails technologically and industrially. We have not yet begun to pioneer in those things that are human and social… I think that social work is uniquely equipped to play a major role in this social and human renaissance of our society, which will, if successful, lead to its survival, and if it is unsuccessful, will lead to its justifiable death."

--from a speech by Young to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) in May 1969