Description: Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the U.S. civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. Working closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he endured beatings and arrests while participating in seminal civil rights campaigns. In 1964, he became Executive Director of the SCLC, serving with King during a time of great accomplishment and turmoil. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading. Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers today., Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers today.
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Subject Area: Political Science, History
Publication Name: An Easy Burden
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Item Length: 9 in
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Softcover
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1.3 in
Author: Andrew Young
Personalized: Yes
Features: Signed, Inscribed
Item Weight: 30 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 582 Pages
