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| Interviewee: | Andrew Young |
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Andrew Young, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0080. An African American Congressman from Georgia Remembers Changing Race Relations During the Civil Rights Movement: Andrew Young, the first African American congressman from Georgia since Reconstruction, describes his involvement in the early civil rights movement. After dedicating much time and energy to voter registration drives as a minister in Georgia, Young later entered politics and was first elected to Congress in 1972. Young cites the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the decisive turning point in race relations and argues that it was this access to political power that allowed African Americans to bring to fruition other advances they had made in education, business, and social standing. Interviewee: Andrew Young Interviewer: Jack Bass, Walter DeVries Duration: 00:42:21 Annotated Excerpts: Listen to and read all 4 excerpts. |