Billie Young

Billie Jean Young (born 1947, died March 2021) was an actor, activist, poet and educator.

She lived in Marion, Alabama from which she traveled the world to teach and work with young people. She graduated from Judson College, and Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. She taught at Jackson State University. She has taught at Mississippi State University, Meridian campus. She was Artist-in-Residence, at Judson College. Her papers are held at the University of Alabama Hoole Special Collections Library.

Awards
2009 Southern Rural Black Women's Hall of Fame Award 2014 Black Belt Hall of Fame Award 2011 Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama Woman of Distinction Award
 * 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
 * 1995 Mississippi Governor's Award for Artistic Achievement
 * 1995 Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award

Works
Editor, Now How You Do, a memoir, 2009 Westry Wingate Press, ISBN 978-1-935323-04-4 Family Secrets, Westry Wingate Press, 2009,ISBN 9781935323150
 * "Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light", Mississippi Writers: Drama, Editor Dorothy Abbott, University Press of Mississippi, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87805-238-7
 * Fear Not The Fall, New South Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58838-161-3