Andrew Young was an important Civil Rights leader. He grew up with a middle class family, in New Orleans. He went through school and graduated with a bachelor’s degree, then went on to earn some higher degrees. He won some great awards and was recognized for many great things. He made a great impact on Georgia and the Civil Rights movement, he continues to make an impact on Georgia to this very day.
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, he grew up in a middle class family. His mother’s name was Daisy Fuller and his father’s name was Andrew Young, his mother was a school teacher, and his father was a dentist. He was brought up to believe “from those to whom much has been given, much will be required.” Young was raised with good morals, by good parents. Young had a wife, Jean Childs Young, which died of cancer in 1994. He married his second wife, Carolyn, in 1996. He also has 4 children Andrew Young graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He then went on to Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut and graduated from there with a divinity degree. He then accepted the pastorate of Bethany congregational church in Thomasville, Georgia in 1955. He then joined the staff of the National Council of Churches in 1957. …show more content…
So much so, that a college was renamed to the Andrew Young Center for International Studies. Young has two books published about the movement, A Way Out of No Way (1994) and An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (1996). He was dedicated a monument in downtown Atlanta. He was and still is a part of Georgia’s civic affairs. He is currently a professor at Georgia State University’s , Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He has continued to be a part of fostering economic developments in the developing world working as a business consult and working as a chairman of the South African Enterprise Development
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born on March 12, 1932, he grew up in a middle class family. His mother’s name was Daisy Fuller and his father’s name was Andrew Young, his mother was a school teacher, and his father was a dentist. He was brought up to believe “from those to whom much has been given, much will be required.” Young was raised with good morals, by good parents. Young had a wife, Jean Childs Young, which died of cancer in 1994. He married his second wife, Carolyn, in 1996. He also has 4 children Andrew Young graduated from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He then went on to Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut and graduated from there with a divinity degree. He then accepted the pastorate of Bethany congregational church in Thomasville, Georgia in 1955. He then joined the staff of the National Council of Churches in 1957. …show more content…
So much so, that a college was renamed to the Andrew Young Center for International Studies. Young has two books published about the movement, A Way Out of No Way (1994) and An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (1996). He was dedicated a monument in downtown Atlanta. He was and still is a part of Georgia’s civic affairs. He is currently a professor at Georgia State University’s , Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He has continued to be a part of fostering economic developments in the developing world working as a business consult and working as a chairman of the South African Enterprise Development