Jean Young (translator)
Jean Young may refer to: * Jean Childs Young (1933–1994), educator and advocate for equal access to education in the United States * Jean Smith Young (born 1942), American psychiatrist, writer, and civil rights activist {{hndis, Young, Jean ...
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Jean Childs Young
Jean Childs Young (July 1, 1933 – September 16, 1994) was an educator and advocate for equal access to education in the United States. Young also dedicated much of her life to involvement in children's rights, and served as the American chairwoman of the United Nation's International Year of the Child in 1979. Young worked alongside her husband, Andrew Young, as an involved advocate in the Civil Rights Movement. Early life Jean Childs Young was born on July 1, 1933 in Marion, Alabama. Her father, Norman Lorenzo Childs, worked at a family-owned grocery store and bakery in Marion, sometimes traveling around Alabama to sell the store's homemade peanut brittle during the Great Depression. Her mother, Idella Jones Childs, was an elementary school teacher. Young had four siblings. She spent her childhood and early adulthood in Marion, attending Lincoln Normal School, and later attended Manchester College in Indiana, where she received her bachelor's degree in education in 1954. ...
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