Former Atlanta Mayor, civil Rights Icon Andrew Young Turns 93
Thursday, March 13th, 2025
Andrew Young - civil rights giant, Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century, former United Nations Ambassador, and 53rd mayor of Atlanta - marked his 93rd birthday on Wednesday.
According to Young’s U.S. House biography, Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 12, 1932. His father was a dentist, and his mother was a schoolteacher. He and younger brother Walt lived in a middle class, predominantly Irish and Italian community, and were the only Black children in the neighborhood.
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