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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
1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
1995 Mississippi Governor's Award for Artistic Achievement
1995 Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award
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
Works
"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
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
References
External links
Author's website Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
Conversations - (#622) Sonny Brewer; Billie Jean Young, Mississippi Public Television
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7e452X_UAk Performing Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light...
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