Baylor University Press
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — November 2008
An easy burden; the civil rights movement and the transformation of America.
Young, Andrew.
Baylor University Press, ©2008 550 p. $29.95 E840
978-1-60258-073-2
As the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1964 to 1970, Andrew Young was an ally of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s and in fact was at his side at the moment he was assassinated. In this memoir, he describes his early life and reflects on his experiences with the Civil Rights movement. The memoir ends in 1972 and thus does not cover Young's congressional career or his later stints as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and US Ambassador to the United Nations. Distributed in the US by Hopkins Fulfillment Services. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
