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Events on Thursday 11 March 1971 1
1921 – 1971Whitney Young (1921-1971)Died 11 March 1971, aged 49Whitney Young led the National Urban League and was a key strategist of the American civil rights movement, working to open corporate and government employment to Black Americans. He helped plan the 1963 March on Washington. He died of a heart attack while swimming in Lagos, Nigeria.