Whitney M. Young Jr.

(1921-1971) lived in Omaha. Social worker, educator, civil rights activist, became executive director of National Urban League and influenced U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in war on poverty programs, was dean of the School of Social Work at Atlanta University, appeared on cover of Time, August 11, 1967; recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. Consult American Social Leaders (ABC-CLIO, 1993) 498-499 and American National Biography, Vol 24 (1999) 189-190.

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