{"id":5078,"date":"2003-07-07T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:17:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:17:51","slug":"civil-rights-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/07\/07\/civil-rights-the-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights, the Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/07\/opinion\/07HERB.html\">Civil Rights, the Sequel<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nJuly 7, 2003<br \/>\nBy BOB HERBERT <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been more than 30 years since Whitney Young Jr. died and his name is no longer particularly well known, which is a shame. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Young was the executive director of the National Urban League and one of the big four civil rights leaders of the 1960&#8217;s, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins and James Farmer. <\/p>\n<p>He drowned at the absurdly young age of 49 during a visit to Nigeria in 1971. More than 6,000 people attended his funeral at Manhattan&#8217;s Riverside Church, and thousands more lined the streets of Harlem to view the funeral procession.  Mr. Young had been a giant in the movement and it was widely recognized that his death represented a terrible loss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Rights, the Sequel The New York Times July 7, 2003 By BOB HERBERT It&#8217;s been more than 30 years since Whitney Young Jr. died and his name is no longer particularly well known,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1jU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}