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| | DefenseLINK News: Whitney M. Young Jr.: Little Known Civil Rights Pioneer |
 | | Young's plan sought to eradicate ghettos and to increase spending on education, housing, vocational training and health services at a cost of $145 billion over 10 years. |
 | | Young was born in a two-story wooden house on the campus of the Lincoln Institute of Kentucky (Lincoln Ridge), where his father, Whitney M. Young Sr., taught and was president. |
 | | Young, in his first book, "To Be Equal," published in 1964, hammered at the need for the government, big business and unions to open their doors to training, educating and hiring more African Americans. |
| www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb2002/n02012002_200202011.html (1706 words) |
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