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An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America Paperback - 2008

by Andrew Young

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the US civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory
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  • Title An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
  • Author Andrew Young
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 582
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Baylor University Press
  • Date 2008-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781602580732_pod
  • ISBN 9781602580732 / 1602580731
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - History -, Civil rights workers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007049679
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the jacket flap

A personal account of America's civil rights movement by a prominent insider.

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2008, Page 65

About the author

Andrew Young was born in New Orleans in 1932. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served as its executive director from 1964 to 1970. He was elected to three terms in Congress and two terms as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first African American to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.