# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/whitney-young
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:45.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/whitney-young"
name: "Whitney Young"
slug: "whitney-young"
description: "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."
tagline: "American civil rights leader"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Whitney_Young_at_White_House%2C_January_18%2C_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1921-07-31"
deathDate: "1971-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.4
  momentum:             2.472266244057052
  historical:           8.836653333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f180277a-1f61-47e6-833b-afc9a4148cde"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ويتني يونغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young"
    title: "Whitney Young"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3025297"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump