An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America - Softcover

Young, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602580731 ISBN 13: 9781602580732

Verlag: Longleaf Services on behalf of Baylor University P, 2008

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Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the U.S. civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. Working closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he endured beatings and arrests while participating in seminal civil rights campaigns. In 1964, he became Executive Director of the SCLC, serving with King during a time of great accomplishment and turmoil. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading. Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers today.

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Andrew Young was born in New Orleans in 1932. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served as its executive director from 1964 to 1970. He was elected to three terms in Congress and two terms as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first African American to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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A personal account of America's civil rights movement by a prominent insider.

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• Verlag: Longleaf Services on behalf of Baylor University P
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1602580731
• ISBN 13: 9781602580732
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 584
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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