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Eleanor Young Love

1922–2006

United States

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Eleanor Young Love (October 10, 1922 – July 14, 2006) was an American librarian from Kentucky. The daughter of Whitney Young and the sister of Whitney Young Jr., she worked at the Lincoln Institute, a boarding high school for African American students founded in Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky, during the period when Jim Crow laws were enforced. Her father was its president.

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