Biographical sketch
Following Yonge School, he was enrolled in David T. began his education at the Yonge Street Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia. Dexter Scott (JanuAtlanta, Georgia) and.
Martin Luther III (OctoMontgomery, Alabama).Yolanda Denise (NovemMontgomery, Alabama).King, the brother of Martin Luther King, Jr., best man.įour children were born to Dr. King, maid of honor, and the Reverend A.D. The Reverend King, Sr., performed the service, with Mrs. The marriage ceremony took place on the lawn of the Scotts' home in Marion. He married the former Coretta Scott, younger daughter of Obadiah, and Bernice McMurray Scott of Marion, Alabama on June 18, 1953. His paternal grandparents, James Albert and Delia King, were sharecroppers on a farm in Stockbridge, Georgia. Martin Luther King's maternal grandparents were the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, second pastor of Ebenezer Baptist, and Jenny Parks Williams. Other children born to the Kings were Christine King Farris and the late Reverend Alfred Daniel Williams King. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the first son and second child born to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., and Alberta Williams King. Charles Johnson was the attending physician. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at the family home, 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. Young Collection on Agent Orange, located in Special Collections, the National Agricultural Library, is the result of his 30-year effort to collect reports, slides, photographs and other documents and materials on issues associated with the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides during the Vietnam War.Martin Luther King, Jr. He has published four books and more than 70 peer-reviewed publications on herbicides and TCDD. Young has been involved with all phases of Agent Orange research, from testing and evaluation of dissemination equipment to environmental fate and health impact studies. Young was Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow with the Institute for Science and Public Policy at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In 1987, he became a Science Advisor for the United States Department of Agriculture and in 1998, he accepted the position of Director, Center for Risk Excellence, United States Department of Energy in Argonne, Illinois.
Young was assigned to the Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, from 1983-1987, where he provided advice to the White House on the issues of Agent Orange and dioxin. His primary responsibilities were the establishment of exposure assessment protocols for the epidemiological studies of Vietnam veterans. Young was affiliated with the USAF Occupational and Environmental Health Laboratory (OEHL), Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, and the Environmental Epidemiology Unit of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. His work at the Academy also included studies on the biodegradation of massive surplus quantities of Agent Orange.įrom 1978-1983, Dr. Young was an associate professor at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he conducted studies on the environmental fate of TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin, a toxic impurity found in Agent Orange and often referred to as dioxin). At Eglin, he evaluated the environmental fate of herbicides and dissemination characteristics of the USAF aircraft used in South Vietnam. Young began his 21-year career with the United States Air Force (USAF) as a Project Scientist at the Armament Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. in Agronomy (herbicide physiology and environmental toxicology) in 1968 at Kansas State University in Manhattan. in Agricultural Science in 1964 and an M.S. He attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he completed a B.S. Young was born on August 3, 1942, in Laramie, Wyoming.