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Civil Rights activist ANDREW YOUNG talks with Terry Gross about his new book "An Easy Burden: ...

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Published October 9, 1996 at 10:00 PM MDT

Civil Rights activist ANDREW YOUNG talks with Terry Gross about his new book "An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America." It is published by Harper Collins. Young served as Executive Director of Southern Christian Leadership Conference where he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. In 1972, he was elected to Congress. In 1977, President Carter named Young as Ambassador to the United Nations. In addition, he served two terms as the Mayor of Atlanta.