A Lion of the Civil Rights Era Is Still Preaching Optimism
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 10, 2022
ATLANTA — Andrew Young was beaten by white supremacists at a civil rights march in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1964. And he was close by when an assassin’s bullet fatally severed the spine of his friend and mentor, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Memphis in 1968.
He would go on to become the U.S. ambassador to the . . .
