Whitney M. Young Sr. (1897 - 1975) was an educator from Kentucky.[1] He was the father of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. and the first African American director of the Lincoln Institute, a school for African American students near Simpsonville, Kentucky, from 1935-1966.[2][3]
Dr. Young was the president of the Kentucky Negro Education Association from 1948-1956, when the KNEA merged with the all-white Kentucky Education Association. He was also part of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson's Citizens' Committee for the Implementation of Civil Rights Law in 1964, a columnist for the Chicago Daily Defender newspaper, and an advisory board member of the Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps Center in Louisville, Kentucky.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Smith, Gerald L.; McDaniel, Karen Cotton; Hardin, John A. (2015-08-28). The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 550. ISBN 978-0-8131-6066-5.
- ^ Notable Kentucky African Americans
- ^ "WHITNEY M. YOUNG SR". The New York Times. 1975-08-19. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
- ^ Jet Magazine, 9/4/1975
- ^ "Young, Whitney Moore". The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. 1921-07-31. Retrieved 2023-09-09.