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Proclamations commending the 2006 Spirit of King Award sponsors for honoring the lifetime achievements of Dr. Eugene Lloyd Youngue, Jr. and Mr. Everett Emory Utterback.
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WHEREAS, each year, the Spirit of King Award, established by the Kingsley Association, Port Authority and the Pittsburgh Pirates, honors the lifetime achievements of local citizens who pursue human rights and equality in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and
WHEREAS, born May 21, 1914, Eugene Lloyd Youngue, Jr. received his undergraduate degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Howard University Medical School; and
WHEREAS, after a two-year tour of duty in Italy with the U.S. Army, he studied psychiatry at Homer Phillips Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and several years later studied under world-renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger, at the Menninger Psychiatric Institute in Topeka, Kansas, as well as with the well-known neurologist, Dr. Francis Forrester at Georgetown University, and in 1950 Dr. Youngue came to Pittsburgh to work at the Veteran's Hospital in Oakland but soon discovered that as an African American physician he did not have equal rights in the medical field, as African Americans were not eligible to join the Allegheny County Medical Society, a state requirement in order to care for patients in area hospitals; and
WHEREAS, because of this injustice, Dr. Youngue worked tirelessly as an advocate to correct ethnic and racial inequality in the healthcare industry, emphasizing the importance of mentoring future African American healthcare professionals, and he authored more than 50 award-winning educational articles based on his own experiences in medicine; and
WHEREAS, he belonged to numerous professional organizations including the Gateway Medical Society, Chi Delta Mu Medical Society, the National Medical Association and the Black Faculty and advisory board of Minority Health Center...
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