Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the U.S.
civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American
leaders. Working closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, he endured beatings and arrests while
participating in seminal civil rights campaigns. In 1964, he became
Executive Director of the SCLC, serving with King during a time of great
accomplishment and turmoil. In describing his life through his election
to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading.
Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a
militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers
today.
Brand new, leather, signed, first edition.