Whitney M. Young Sr.
African American educator (1897–1975)
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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]