Young, Andrew

Young, Andrew
in full Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.

born March 12, 1932, New Orleans, La., U.S.

U.S. politician.

He earned a divinity degree in 1955 and became a pastor at several African American churches in the South. Active in the civil rights movement, he worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1961–70). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1972–77). An early supporter of Jimmy Carter, he was appointed U.S. ambassador to the UN (1977–79), the first African American to hold the post. He served as mayor of Atlanta (1982–90).

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▪ American politician
in full  Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.  
born March 12, 1932, New Orleans, La., U.S.

      American politician, civil-rights leader, and clergyman.

      Young was reared in a middle-class black family, attended segregated Southern schools, and later entered Howard University (Washington, D.C.) as a premed student. But he turned to the ministry and graduated in 1955 from the Hartford Theological Seminary (Hartford, Conn.) with a divinity degree.

      A pastor at several black churches in the South, Young became active in the civil-rights movement—especially in voter registration drives. His work brought him in contact with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (King, Martin Luther, Jr.), and Young joined with King in leading the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). Following King's assassination in 1968, Young worked with Ralph Abernathy (Abernathy, Ralph David) until he resigned from the SCLC in 1970.

      Defeated that year in his first bid for a seat in Congress, Young ran again in 1972 and won. He was reelected in 1974 and 1976. In the House he opposed cuts in funds for social programs while trying to block additional funding for the war in Vietnam. 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. His apparent sympathy with the Third World made him very controversial, and he was finally forced to resign in 1979 after it became known that he had met with a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 1981 Young was elected mayor of Atlanta, and he was reelected to that post in 1985, serving through 1989.

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