Whitney Moore Young Jr. by Uriel Gonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR Civil Rights Leader en-us 2017-02-10 22:30:53 UTC 2017-02-12 22:31:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Whitney Moore Young JR. ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193122 Born-July 31, 1921
In Lincoln Ridge Kentucky
-African American
Died-March 11, 1971 In Nigeria, Africa.]]> 2017-02-10 22:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193122 References ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193202 Whitney M. Young, Jr., (2017). In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved fromWhitney M. Young, Jr.. (2017).   
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Dic. Kerson, D. C. (1998). Militant Mediator : Whitney M. Young Jr. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.]]> 2017-02-10 22:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193202 Background ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193701 Whitney Young grew up in a segregated Kentucky. He was raised in a middle class family, his mother and father were educated individuals. He was raised around prominent black professionals, who helped shape who he became. He also had access and economic resources to attend prestigious segregated high school and college. 
Whitney Young served in the army in WW2, at this time he had been pursuing a medical degree and decided he would change his major to social work. His decision was based on the mediation he lead between African American soldiers and white soldiers. He quickly realized this was his passion. Whitney always excelled in school and attended Kentucky State, which was segregated at the time. ]]> 2017-02-10 22:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153193701 Accomplishments ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153196309
  • Leader of the National Urban League for 10 years he helped lead black advancement and interracial support.
  • Consultant in racial matters for Pres. JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • Dean of the School of Social Work at Atlanta University.
  • Activist educator.
  • Domestic Marshal Plan
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  • Through his leadership in the National Urban League he encouraged influential white and black colleagues in positions of power to drop barriers of color in employment, housing, and business. He also influenced corporate America to help fund many self help groups in that were a part of the civil rights movement. 
  • Whitney became a consultant for presidents JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson; he helped with racial matters between United States and other nations around the world. He also helped develop a Domestic Marshall Plan. That had some of the poverty programs used as relief for the poor within the plan
  • Whitney Young also helped as an activist educator at Atlanta University. He helped the school become a leader in Social Work and also helped the growth of financial aid and the stabilization of its enrollments in the Social Work Program. Whitney Young also played a pivotal role in the desegregation of the university adding white students to the university. 
    • ]]>     2017-02-11 00:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153197661     Domestic Marshall Plan ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153199434 Whitney Young helped Lyndon B Johnson develop a domestic Marshall plan which directly influenced federal poverty programs that would help address black inequalities with whites. The Marshall Plan was a plan to help set programs to assist the poor with housing, employment, education, etc. ]]> 2017-02-11 01:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153199434 Whitney Young JR. ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153199785 2017-02-11 01:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153199785 Quote ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153200128 "It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared"
    - Whitney Young Jr.]]>     2017-02-11 01:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153200128     National Urban League sign ugonzalez https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153309506 2017-02-12 22:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ugonzalez/WhitneyMooreYoungJR/wish/153309506