Ambassador Andrew Young To Visit McCallie School

  • Friday, August 26, 2016

The McCallie School is proud to host Civil Rights pioneer Andrew Young — former congressman, Atlanta Mayor and U.S. Ambassador to United Nations — to speak to the Upper School student body on Tuesday, Aug. 30, to speak to the Upper School student body and later spend time speaking with students in smaller settings.

Ambassador Young’s visit has been made possible by the Mandela Fund, an endowment
founded by alumnus Bob Eager ’63 to advance students’ understanding of what it means to be
an agent of hope, reconciliation and social justice in a community, the nation or the world.
Ambassador Young is a graduate of Howard University and Hartford Theological Seminary, and
he was active in the early years of the Civil Rights movement organizing voter­registration drives
and working closely with Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. at the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference. Ambassador Young was a key strategist and negotiator during civil rights
campaigns that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of
1965.

In 1972, Ambassador Young became the first African American U.S. Representative elected from
from the Deep South since Reconstruction, and in 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed

Ambassador Young served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. As UN Ambassador,
Young negotiated an end to white­minority rule in Namibia and Zimbabwe and brought
President Carter’s emphasis on human rights to international diplomacy efforts.
In 1981, Ambassador Young was elected Mayor of Atlanta, where he served for two terms. He
was instrumental in bringing the 1996 Olympic Games to Atlanta, and since 2003, he and his
wife, Carolyn McClain Young, have operated the Andrew J. Young Foundation to support and
promote education, health, leadership and human rights in the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean.
Ambassador Young will speak to McCallie’s Upper School at 10:20 a.m. in the McCallie Chapel
before visiting several classes and meeting with students. The media is invited to the Chapel for
Ambassador Young’s remarks, and a brief media availability will be held afterward with
Ambassador Young as well as McCallie students and faculty.and later spend time speaking with students in smaller settings.

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