Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Yungblut, June (Johnson)
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Yungblut, June (Johnson), 1925-1982
Other form(s) of name
- June Yungblut
- June Johnson Yungblut
- June J. Yungblut
- Yungblut, June J.
- Yungblut, June Johnson
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1925-1982
History
June Yungblut is a Quaker and scholar with graduate degrees from Yale and Emory. Her ancestry with the Society of Friends (Quakers) dates back to Thomas Fitzwater, who came to America aboard the Welcome alongside William Penn. At the time of writing to Merton, she was co-director of the Quaker House in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband John Yungblut. She and her husband were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and were friends of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. June Yungblut attempted to arrange a retreat for Martin Luther King, Jr. at Gethsemani Abbey; however, King was not able to come because of the situation in Memphis which culminated in his assassination. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», p. 635.)