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Andrew Young

Civil rights lieutenant to MLK, US Congressman, UN Ambassador under Carter, and two-term Mayor of Atlanta.

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Born in New Orleans in 1932. As an SCLC executive, Young was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when MLK was shot. He went on to engineer Atlanta's rise as the Black-mayor capital of the South and the 1996 Olympic Games.

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Atlanta, GA, USA

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