(1921-07-31)July 31, 1921 Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.
Died
March 11, 1971(1971-03-11) (aged 49) Lagos, Nigeria
Spouse
Margaret Buckner
(m. 1944)
Children
2
Education
Kentucky State University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MSW)
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1941–1946
Rank
First Sergeant
Battles/wars
World War II
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised. Young was influential in the United States federal government's War on Poverty in the 1960s.
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career...
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Christian Leadership Conference; Roy Wilkins, president of the NAACP; and WhitneyYoung, president of the National Urban League. King in particular had become...
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comparable to the Master of Social Work. Clark Atlanta University's Whitney M. Young School of Social work is also credited with creating the administration...
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families, and exposed their homes as targets for firebombing. In 1961, WhitneyYoung became the executive director of the National Urban League. In 1963...
IHSA playoff single game scoring record against the Jahlil Okafor–led WhitneyYoung High School by scoring 56 points in a 75–68 state playoff semi-final...
closed and demolished in the 1980s. When Civil Rights Movement leader WhitneyYoung arrived in Omaha in 1950, Omaha Public Schools employed twelve Black...