Whitney M. Young Sr.

Whitney M. Young Sr. (1897–1975) was an American educator, from Kentucky.[1] He was the father of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. (1921–1971), and the first African American director (1935–1966) of the Lincoln Institute, a school for African American students near Simpsonville, Kentucky.[2][3]

Young was the president of the Kentucky Negro Education Association (KNEA) from 1948 to 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

  1. ^ Smith, Gerald L.; McDaniel, Karen Cotton; Hardin, John A. (August 28, 2015). The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky. p. 550. ISBN 978-0-8131-6066-5.
  2. ^ "Young, Whitney M., Sr". Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA). Reinette Jones & University of Kentucky Libraries.
  3. ^ "Whitney M. Young Sr". The New York Times. August 19, 1975. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  4. ^ "Whitney M. Young Sr. Dies in Louisville At 77". Jet (Obituary). September 4, 1975.
  5. ^ "Young, Whitney Moore". The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. July 31, 1921. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
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