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Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, IL.
This school opened in 1975 as the city's first public magnet school. This school is consistently ranked among the best schools in Illinois every year (Young, 2018).
There are 5 schools in the U.S. named after Whitney M. Young: Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Fort Worth and Jersey City.

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President of National Conference of Social Welfare 1965

President of NASW in 1969

Elected a NASW Social Work Pioneer in 1993

(NASW, 2004).

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The League was primarily a social welfare agency concerned with helping African Americans that migrated from the south, navigate the "industrial urban environment" of the north ("Whitney M.," 2017). When he was the director, he transformed the organization into a major civil rights organization that grew from 38 employees to 1,600 in four years. He initiated programs such as "Street Academy" and "New Trust" ("Whitney M.", 2017)

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Appointed executive director of the National Urban League in 1961

Co-sponsor of the 1963 March on Washington

The League, and Young, were responsible for racially integrating staff in various big-company positions nationwide

Close advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson- Young's Domestic Marshall Plan was thought to shape the President's policies

Presidential Medal of Freedom 1968

("Whitney," 2014)

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Young was born on July 31, 1921 in Kentucky ("Whitney," 2014). He attended Kentucky State Industrial College and then served in World War II. When he returned to the states, he obtained his MSW from the University of Minnesota ("Whitney," 2014). Shortly after graduating, Young started to work with the Urban League in Minnesota, an organization that assisted African Americans in getting jobs that were previously reserved for whites only (NASW, 2004).

In the mid-1950's, he became the dean of Atlanta University School of Social Work while remaining very active in the Civil Rights Movement and heading his state's NAACP branch ("Whitney," 2014). While in this position, he supported the alumni in the boycott of the Georgia Conference of Social Welfare, "which has a poor record of placing African Americans in good jobs" ("Whitney M.," 2017).

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“Whitney understood power, he understood politics, and most of all he understood people. They said Martin was in the streets, Roy and Thurgood were in the courts, and Whitney was in the boardroom. One could not have been successful without the other" (The Powerbroker, 2013).