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Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a dentist and his mother a school teacher.

After one year at New Orleans' Dillard University, in 1947 Young went to Howard University in Washington D.C. where he received his Bachelor of Science and pre-med degree in 1951. He had originally planned to follow his father's career of dentistry, but then felt a religious calling. He entered the ministry and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut in 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal.

Andrew Young then served as pastor of a church in Marion, AlabamaMarion is a city located in Perry County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 3,511. The city is the county seat of Perry County 6. Geography Marion is located at 32°37'58" North, 87°19'2" West (32. 632838, -87. According to the. In Marion he met Jean Childs, who was to become his wife, and studied the writings of Mohandas Gandhi. Young became interested in Gandhi's concept of non-violent resistance as a tactic for social change. He encouraged African AmericanAfrican Americans also known as Afro- Americans or black Americans comprise an ethnic group in the United States of America whose dominant ancestry is from Sub-Saharan West Africa. Many African Americans also claim European, Native American, or Asian ances to register to vote in Alabama, sometimes facing death threats while doing so. He became a friend and ally of Dr. Martin Luther King at this time.

In 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t moved to New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York, to accept a job with the National Council of ChurchesThe National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (or NCC is an organization currently (2004) consisting of 36 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox Christian denominations. They are widely associated with the ecumenical movement within Christianity, and. However as the civil rights movement heated up Young decided that his place was back in the US South, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. He again worked on drives to register Black voters. In 1964 he was named executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with whom he organized many peaceful protests. Young became one of Dr. King's principle lieutenants, and was with King in Memphis, Tennessee when King was shot in 1968.

Andrew Young helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

In 1970 Andrew Young ran unsuccessfully for Congress; in 1972 he ran again and became Georgia's first African American congressman since Reconstruction. He was re-elected in 1974 and 1976.

In 1976, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He held that post until 1979, when, contrary to the policy of the Carter administration, he met with a representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. When the occurrence of that meeting was revealed, Young's public statements on the status of the meeting were condemned as evasive by opponents of the administration and he was forced to resign. Defender's of Carter's role in securing Young's resignation point to the significance of the pledge made by Carter, when he took office in the wake of Watergate, to commit his administration to the highest standards of honesty in its public statements.

Andrew Young was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1981, and re-elected in 1985.

Young was co-chair of the committee which brought the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.

Young continues his activism in favor of human rights, and is co-chair of Good Works International . In 2004, he briefly considered running for US Senate after the incumbent, Zell Miller announced his retirement.