biography
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Young, Whitney M(oore), Jr
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921–71)
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| biography:
| Social reformer, born in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky, USA. He studied at the University of Minnesota (1947) and became dean of the Atlanta School of Social Work (1954–61). While a visiting scholar at Harvard University (1960–1), he was named executive director of the Urban League (1961–71). Author of To Be Equal (1964) and Beyond Racism (1969), and recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969), he worked to improve African-Americans' conditions in the community, until his untimely death by drowning while on a visit to Africa. |
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