Whitney Young

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Whitney Young

Political Science

#1079

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Human Rights

#78

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• Political Science

Why Is Whitney Young Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Whitney Moore Young Jr. 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. Young was influential in the United States federal government's War on Poverty in the 1960s.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Whitney Young?

Whitney Young is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Minnesota
• Kentucky State University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Harvard University