Whitney Young
Civil rights campaigner
Died when: 49 years 223 days (595 months)Star Sign: Leo
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.
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