page_title: Whitney Young
hierarchical_section_title: Whitney Young
caption_attribution_description: Whitney Young at the White House.
context_page_description: Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. 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.
context_section_description: Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader.  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.
caption: Young in 1964
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