Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid striding to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job.
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
For Release
Black History Month 2005
Coleman Young and HUAC
Coleman Young
Feb. 28, 1952: Two decades before Coleman Young
became Detroit's mayor, he made a name for himself by defying members of
the House Committee on Un-American Activities when they came to Detroit
to investigate communists during the McCarthy era. Although the
committee
