Whitney M. Young Sr.

Whitney M. Young Sr. (1897 - 1975) was an educator from Kentucky. He was the father of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. and the first African American director of the Lincoln Institute, a school for African American students near Simpsonville, Kentucky, from 1935-1966.

Dr. Young was the president of the Kentucky Negro Education Association from 1948-1956, when the KNEA merged with the all-white Kentucky Education Association. He was also part of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson's Citizens' Committee for the Implementation of Civil Rights Law in 1964, a columnist for the Chicago Daily Defender newspaper, and an advisory board member of the Whitney M. Young Jr. Job Corps Center in Louisville, Kentucky.