Billie Young Explained

Billie Young
Birth Date:	1947
Workplaces:	Jackson State University facultyMississippi State University

Billie Jean Young (born 1947, died March 2021) was an actor, activist, poet and educator.^[1]

She lived in Marion, Alabama from which she traveled the world to teach and work with young people.^[2] She graduated from Judson College,^[3] and Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. She taught at Jackson State University. She has taught at Mississippi State University, Meridian campus.^[4] She was Artist-in-Residence, at Judson College.^[5] Her papers are held at the University of Alabama Hoole Special Collections Library.

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program^[6]
• 1995 Mississippi Governor's Award for Artistic Achievement ^[7]
• 1995 Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award

2009 Southern Rural Black Women's Hall of Fame Award2014 Black Belt Hall of Fame Award2011 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,
• Fear Not The Fall, New South Books, 2004,

Editor, Now How You Do, a memoir, 2009 Westry Wingate Press, Family Secrets, Westry Wingate Press, 2009,

External links

• Author's website
• Conversations - (#622) Sonny Brewer; Billie Jean Young, Mississippi Public Television

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7e452X_UAk Performing Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light...

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jet - Google Boeken . 1984-11-12 . Johnson Publishing Company . 2011-12-23.
2. Web site: Alabama Bound Author Billie Young . Alabamabound.org . 2005-02-11 . 2011-12-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120305114234/http://www.alabamabound.org/AuthorPages/YoungBillie.htm . 2012-03-05 .
3. Web site: Judson College - Intranet . Intranet.judson.edu . 2011-12-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111124042554/http://intranet.judson.edu/JudsonCollege/index.cfm?pageID=234 . 2011-11-24 .
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-04-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612141910/http://www.campusprogress.org/events/2504/billie-jean-young . 2011-06-12 .
5. Web site: Billie Jean Young, Associate Professor of Fine and Performing Arts/ Artist-in-Residence, Judson College . https://web.archive.org/web/20040321045751/http://www.womenarts.org/network/profile_59.html . dead . 2004-03-21 . Womenarts.org . 2008-12-10 . 2011-12-23 .
6. Web site: Billie Jean Young, Community Development Leader. MacArthur Foundation.
7. Web site: Mississippi Actors, Actresses, Stars of Stage, Screen, and Television, Directors . MSwritersandmusicians.com . 2011-12-23 . 2011-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111230121520/http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/actors/index.html#Y . dead .