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.
[5] Her papers are held at the University of Alabama Hoole Special Collections Library.
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 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