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Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Howard University, and earned a divinity degree from Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. Young worked in the Youth Division of the National Council of Churches in New York City, in 1960 joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and was named its director in 1964. He was a key part of the Civil Rights Movement alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, where Young organized voter registration campaigns and helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Young served two terms as U.S. Congressman in the House of Representatives between 1973-1977, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1977-1979, and as mayor of Atlanta from 1982-1990. Since his retirement from politics, Young has served as director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, as president of the National Council of Churches, and has founded the Andrew Young Foundation.Andrew Young talks about the connection between politics, race, and economics, and traces the historical precedent of economic enfranchisement of the newly-freed slaves through the creation of the Freedman’s Bank and the promise of land grants. Young talks about the ramifications of the nullification of the Bretton Woods Agreement on the trade and economic stability of countries across the globe, and references John Maynard Keynes’ book The Economic Consequences of Peace. Young discusses bringing international investment and businesses, such as Lufthansa, to Atlanta and the addition of the international terminal to the Atlanta...

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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

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