{"id":1625859,"date":"2022-08-29T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625859"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:34:30","slug":"at-90-civil-rights-leader-andrew-young-shares-the-secrets-of-building-a-better-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-90-civil-rights-leader-andrew-young-shares-the-secrets-of-building-a-better-society\/","title":{"rendered":"At 90, Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares the Secrets of Building A Better Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-90-civil-rights-leader-andrew-young-shares-the-secrets-of-building-a-better-society%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625859&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Having just turned 90, a milestone marked with the release of a biography, Andrew Young has a few lessons for young people inspired by his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>One boils down to \u201cCapitalism, baby.\u201d Another is, \u201cYou have no idea what hard times are.\u201d A third might be, \u201cYou can work with Republicans. I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a book party in Atlanta\u2019s Millennium Gate Museum last week, Young told wellwishers about the life recounted in \u201cThe Many Lives of Andrew Young,\u201d penned by Ernie Suggs, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a coffee table book with plenty of text and hundreds of photos, many from the voluminous family archives created by Young\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>His life touches a tremendous amount of history, from the civil rights movement to Selma, St Augustine, and the March on Washington. From Martin Luther King\u2019s assassination in Memphis to the Atlanta mayor\u2019s office to the United Nations. To the crowning achievement of landing the 1996 Olympics for Atlanta, marking it as a world-class city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/04\/51656880-1200x779.jpg\"><\/a> Coretta Scott King (5R) leads a \u201cMarch on Memphis\u201d on 9 April 1968, five days after the assassination of her husband, civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Andrew Young (3R), became U.S. president Jimmy Carter\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta. (AFP\/AFP\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned along the way were that the world was a vast place with all kinds of people in it, that they wouldn\u2019t all be on your side, but that they weren\u2019t necessarily against you either. A business leader who once referred to him with the (expletive) word later became a strong supporter.<\/p>\n<p>A life lesson he twice mentioned was growing up in New Orleans, where Young was born in 1932. Whites and blacks mingled more. By his family\u2019s house, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an Irish grocery on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just turned 90, a milestone marked with the release of a biography, Andrew Young has a few lessons for young people inspired by his legacy. One boils down to \u201cCapitalism, baby.\u201d Another is, \u201cYou have no idea what hard times are.\u201d A third might be, \u201cYou can work with Republicans. I do.\u201d At a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}