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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Andrew Young (b. 1932)
Andrew Young's lifelong work as a politician, human rights activist, and businessman has been in great measure responsible for the development of Atlanta's reputation as an international city.
Young graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., in 1951 with a bachelor of science degree in biology.
Young's election was momentous: he and Barbara Jordan, a Democrat who was also elected to the House (from Texas) in 1972, became two of the first fl southerners in Congress in the twentieth century.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1395   (1065 words)

  
 King Encyclopedia
Andrew Young’s work as a pastor, administrator, and voting rights advocate led him to join Martin Luther King, Jr.
Young recalled how King relied on him ‘to ask the hard questions” during their discussions: “He would want somebody to express as radical a view as possible and somebody to express as conservative a view as possible.
Young served as mayor of Atlanta from 1982 to 1990 before launching an unsuccessful bid for governor of Georgia in 1990.
www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/young_andrew.htm   (486 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Andrew Jackson Young Jr.
Young was reared in a middle-class fl family, attended segregated Southern schools, and later entered Howard University (Washington, D.C.) as a premed student.
He was an early supporter of Jimmy Carter, and, after Carter's victory in the 1976 presidential elections, Andrew Young was made the United States' ambassador to the United Nations.
In 1981 Young was elected mayor of Atlanta, and he was reelected to that post in 1985, serving through 1989.
www.medaloffreedom.com /AndrewYoung.htm   (290 words)

  
 Andrew Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew was supposed to become a dentist, but the struggle to survive in the South, the experience in segregated and overcrowded public schools, and growing up in an integrated lower class neighborhood, developed a social conscience which led him to the Christian ministry upon graduation from Howard University in 1951.
Andrew Young was appointed to serve as pastor of a church in Marion, Alabama.
Young is the namesake of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Young   (1290 words)

  
 CAP/ADID Andrew Young International Design Competition
Andrew Young resigned from the SCLC to run for the United States House of Representatives in Georgia's predominantly white Fifth Congressional District; beaten by two-term incumbent Fletcher Thompson; after defeat, Young took a job as chairman of the Atlanta Community Relations Commission.
Andrew Young runs again in a realigned Fifth District and wins congressional seat; he was returned to Congress in landslide victories of 72 percent in 1974 and 80 percent in 1976.
Andrew Young elected mayor of Atlanta; re-elected in a landslide in the 1986 election.
www.atlantadowntown.com /AndrewYoungBio.asp   (439 words)

  
 COMMENTARY: Painting of Ambassador Andrew Young Amazes Viewers
Andrew Young, asked family members to assist her in unveiling the new portrait in the Andrew Young School's lobby.
The commissioned oil painting of Ambassador Young hangs in the main lobby of the school and is part of its permanent collection.
The oil painting of Ambassador Young hangs in the main lobby of the school and is part of its permanent collection.
www.mkfinearts.com /process/ayoung-commentary_ciel.htm   (837 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Wal-Mart's hired advocate takes flak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Young, one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s top aides, a former United Nations ambassador and former mayor of Atlanta, announced last month that he would head a group formed to spread the word about the positive contributions of Wal-Mart Stores (WMT).
Young says he was drawn to the Wal-Mart venture because the company is creating wealth, especially in rural and inner-city communities shunned by other retailers.
Young, a professor at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, is national spokesman for Operation Hope, a non-profit effort to teach youths financial literacy.
www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2006-03-15-young-walmart-usat_x.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Andrew Young / Schooler Lecture / Academics / Mount Union College - Mount Union College
Andrew Young, former United States ambassador to the United Nations, spoke of war, peace and America's global role at the Mount Union College Schooler Lecture on March 20.
Young encouraged a questioning United States to support the Bush administration and be patriotic to the government's decisions.
Young said that we cannot complain about the wrongs of the administration because, "When you compare the wrongs of the United States and Iraq, there is no comparison," said Young.
www.muc.edu /academics/schooler_lecture/andrew_young   (579 words)

  
 Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The group was widely seen as a front group for the giant retailer, which was facing mounting criticism for its labor, environmental and healthcare policies, not to mention its effects on local economies and a pending class-action lawsuit alleging sexism in the company's pay and promotion practices.
Young is a member of the Board of the United Nations Foundation.
Young lives in Atlanta with his wife, Carolyn, and is the father of three daughters and one son.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Andrew_Jackson_Young,_Jr.   (839 words)

  
 Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
In 1955 Young was ordained a minister in the socially liberal and predominantly white United Church of Christ.
Young marched at King's side in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964; Selma, Alabama, in 1965; Chicago in 1966; and Memphis in 1968 and was at the motel in Memphis when the civil rights leader was shot and killed on April 4, 1968.
Young remained with the SCLC as its executive vice-president for two more years, but increasingly articulated the view the movement would have to shift from protest to political action.
www.bookrags.com /biography/andrew-jackson-young-jr   (1239 words)

  
 Andrew Young
Prepare: The Reverend Andrew Young has served as everything from a pastor to the president of the National Council of Churches (NCC), from a US congressman to Ambassador to the United Nations to the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
Such civil-rights luminaries as Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, and Andrew Young were all participants in the conference in its early years, with Young serving as a staff member from 1961-1970.
Andrew Young claims that the youth of the 1960s "believed they were children of God and that gave them the strength, courage, and discipline to overturn segregation." Is it different today?
www.scu.edu /ethics/architects-of-peace/Young/lesson.html   (515 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Andrew Young Affair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
...What the Young affair demonstrated is the extent to which this attitude has been internalized by fls, who erupt with anger if their position is criticized, as if intellectual approval were still another one of the entitlements of race...
...The failure to subject Young's "fl perspective" to critical examination is also the result of the racial climate in the country, in particular the kind of liberal racism which exempts "fl" ideas from scrutiny according to universal moral, intellectual, and political standards...
...Young, who had prepared the way with his resignation for all this fl involvement on the side of the PLO, was warmly applauded by 5,000 guests at a dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus when he attacked Israel for its "constant bombing of Palestinians in Lebanon...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V68I5P27-1.htm   (6675 words)

  
 AYSPS People - Andrew Young
The Honorable Andrew Young is chairman of Atlanta-based GoodWorks International, a specialty consulting group that provides strategic services to corporations and governments operating in the global economy.
Young also is a member of the boards of directors of numerous businesses and organizations, including Delta Air Lines, Argus, Host Marriott Corp., Cox Communications and Thomas Nelson Publishing.
Young is an ordained minister, international businessman, sports enthusiast, human rights activist, published author and former public servant.
aysps.gsu.edu /people/YoungA.htm   (346 words)

  
 Burntisland, Fife - Andrew Young
The accompanying photograph of Andrew Young was taken in 1887, when he was about 32 years of age.
Andrew Young was a professional photographer in the relatively early days of commercial photography.
Young is reputed to have created it as a wedding present for the couple who are pictured centre stage (with some of their relations also appearing).
www.burntisland.net /young.htm   (978 words)

  
 Ambassador Andrew Young, NCC President in 2000-2001
Andrew Young, born March 12, 1932, was ordained a United Church of Christ (UCC) minister and worked on the NCC staff before serving as a civil rights leader, mayor, congressman and ambassador.
He explained in an interview, "at that conference, young people were questioning their family traditions and the basic value structure of their communities because of their realization that the Bible and the Spirit of Christ were different from what they were being taught.
Ambassador Young, Chairman of GoodWorks International in Atlanta, Ga., now brings his uncompromisingly inclusive view ingrained by his ecumenical training, as well as his media savvy, to the NCC presidency, a position akin to being "chairman of the board" of a company.
www.ncccusa.org /about/young.html   (1376 words)

  
 Lesson Plan - Andrew Young
Andrew, his family, and his Black friends were not allowed to go to the same schools, restaurants, or use the same public bathrooms as the White people.
Andrew enjoyed learning about the worldís great religious leaders, especially Mohandas Gandhi, This was a man who had shown the people of India how to settle their disagreements peacefully.
Andrew and Barbara Jordan, were the first two Blacks to be in Congress for a long time.
teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/andrewyo.html   (2254 words)

  
 The Irrationality of Patriotism by Andrew Young
To say that we must not allow those who have already died to have lost their lives in vain is to say that, to prevent them from having lost their lives in vain, more people should die in vain.
Hopefully, since my generation is more responsive to economic incentives than patriotic ones, this is a sign that Lew Rockwell is correct in his prediction that we are moving toward libertarianism, which promotes individual freedom, and away from statism and patriotism, which promote despotism and war.
Andrew Young [send him mail] is a junior history major at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/young-andrew1.html   (454 words)

  
 andrew maynard @ young guns 4
Andrew Maynard's work is currently being exhibited in New York as part of the Young Guns exhibition for international designers aged 30 and under.
On September 9th Andrew Maynard and Kylie Boucher attended the opening of the exhibition at the ADC Gallery 106 West 29th Street in Manhattan.
Andrew Maynard is the only architect and the only Australian exhibiting.
www.andrewmaynard.com.au /yg4.html   (100 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - Freedom Rider: Andrew Young and Vote Theft
Young is not just being used to cover Carter’s and Baker’s backsides, he is now praised by the Wall Street Journal, proof of wrongdoing if it ever existed.
Young came from a middle class family in New Orleans, the son of a dentist and a teacher.
Andrew Young profited from the civil rights movement and now allows himself to aid and abet people who would undo its accomplishments.
www.blackcommentator.com /152/152_freedom_rider_vote_theft.html   (1046 words)

  
 Lance Mannion: Andrew Young
Young, Carter's ambassador to the UN, is the chair of DMI's board of directors.
Young was ahead of Ellis and he told Wynton that he likes to kid Ellis about how he failed to take care of the school.
Young is still proud of his service, still proud to have worked for Jimmy Carter, still proud to call Carter a friend.
lancemannion.typepad.com /lance_mannion/2006/06/andrew_young.html   (1143 words)

  
 The City College of New York :: A Conversation with Andrew Young
Young resigned that position in 1979 and two years later was elected to the first of two terms as Mayor of Atlanta.
Young co-founded and is Chairman of the global advisory firm GoodWorks International, and chairs the Board of the Drum Major Institute.
Young is a graduate of HowardUniversity and holds a bachelor of divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary.
www1.ccny.cuny.edu /advancement/pr/A-Conversation-with-Andrew-Young.cfm   (547 words)

  
 Ambassador Andrew Young
Young’s vision of advancing economic development with private sector involvement was honed during comprehensive leadership positions in public service and private industry.
Young is co-founding Principal and Chairman of GoodWorks International, which allows him to execute his life-long mission of energizing the private sector to advance economic development in Africa and the Caribbean.
He is Distinguished Executive Fellow and Honorary Professor of Public Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and the former president of the National Council of Churches.
www.lclark.edu /org/artslive/andrewyoung.html   (329 words)

  
 Andrew Young: Archives
Andrew Young on Calhoun and Popular Rule, by H. Lee Cheek.
Andrew Young on The Guns of the South.
Andrew Young on American intervention in the Middle East.
www.lewrockwell.com /young-andrew/young-andrew-arch.html   (51 words)

  
 Andrew Young   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Andrew Young was born in New Orleans on 12th March, 1932.
Ordained in 1955, Young served as a pastor in Marion, Alabama and Thomasville and Beachton, Georgia.
Young returned to political office in 1981 when he was elected mayor of Atlanta.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAyoungA.htm   (280 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - Cover Story: Andy Young - The Shameless Son
There was, Young had concluded, "no evidence or pattern of widespread or systematic abuse or mistreatment of workers" in the twelve operations he examined.
Only weeks behind Andy Young's cotton patch tour auditors from the accounting firm Ernst and Young visited some of the same locations, and detailed the unsafe, inhuman and abysmal conditions.  This report, promptly leaked by a gutsy company insider with a human conscience flatly contradicted Andy Young's lies. 
In that sense, every fl event can make a difference, if we do not allow ourselves to be hoodwinked and bamboozled by whores like Andrew Young, who have sold us out to the corporate world - but yet expect us to worship at the altar of their own prosperity.
www.blackcommentator.com /173/173_cover_andy_young.html   (775 words)

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