Andrew Young was given the Young the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He received this from President Jimmy Carter in the year1981.
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had replaced veteran leaders with young, militant leaders
The civil rights era began when a African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. This started a boycott by other African Americans who refused to sit at the back of the bus. A young minister named, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the protest and the civil rights movement.
Andrew Young Jr. was Born March 12th, 1932 in New Orleans, LA
As a result of the success of the lunch counter boycotts in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement by students, SNCC understood the need to encourage these young activists to stay involved in the movement. Therefore, it entrusted all decisions about priorities and tactics to young activists.
Civil Rights lobbyists always try to put slavery at the centre of the picture. But it was really the potential loss of the cotton revenues that worred the North, along with the fragmenting of the young American democracy.