Young, a civil rights icon, was an elite Atlanta power broker. His path had begun in the ministry in the late 1950s, and he grew close to Martin Luther King Jr. They marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama together, stood unbowed against police and military in Birmingham, and fought segregation at the “swim-in” at St. Augustine, Florida. Young was also with King when he was murdered in Memphis in April 1968. In the decades that followed King’s death, Young went on to become a U.S. congressman and the first African American to be a United Nations ambassador. Since 1982, he had
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