Title: A resolution commemorating the 90th birthday of former Mayor of Atlanta, ambassador, and congressional representative Andrew Jackson Young and recognizing the contributions of Andrew Jackson Young to civil and human rights and his work to uplift Georgia.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
This resolution commemorates the 90th birthday of Andrew Young (former mayor of Atlanta).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 556 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 556

Commemorating the 90th birthday of former Mayor of Atlanta, ambassador, 
 and congressional representative Andrew Jackson Young and recognizing 
the contributions of Andrew Jackson Young to civil and human rights and 
                      his work to uplift Georgia.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 24, 2022

 Mr. Warnock submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Commemorating the 90th birthday of former Mayor of Atlanta, ambassador, 
 and congressional representative Andrew Jackson Young and recognizing 
the contributions of Andrew Jackson Young to civil and human rights and 
                      his work to uplift Georgia.

Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was born on March 12, 1932, to Daisy Fuller Young 
        and Andrew Jackson Young, Sr., in New Orleans, Louisiana;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young received an undergraduate degree from Howard 
        University in 1951 and a degree in divinity from Hartford Theological 
        Seminary and was ordained with the United Church of Christ in 1955;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young is a proud 1950 initiate of Alpha Phi Alpha 
        Fraternity, Inc.;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was a devoted pastor in Georgia and Alabama for 
        several years, and worked with the National Council of the Churches of 
        Christ in the USA (commonly referred to as the ``National Council of 
        Churches'') from 1957 to 1961;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young worked diligently throughout the early 1960s with 
        the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (commonly referred to as 
        the ``SCLC'') to mentor and uplift African-American leaders in 
        communities across Georgia, and served as Executive Director of the SCLC 
        in 1964 and Executive Vice President from 1967 to 1970;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to 
        advance the civil rights movement;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972 
        and 1974 and was the first African American to represent Georgia in the 
        House of Representatives since Reconstruction;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was nominated by President James E. Carter to serve 
        as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979, 
        and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Carter in 
        1981;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1981, and 
        served 2 terms as mayor;
Whereas, during his time as mayor, Andrew Jackson Young was instrumental to 
        modernizing and spurring the economic development of the city of 
        Atlanta, making it an international city;
Whereas, in 1994, Andrew Jackson Young was appointed by President William J. 
        Clinton to oversee the Southern Africa Development Fund;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young, as Mayor of Atlanta, launched the Atlanta 
        Organizing Committee to win the bid to host the Centennial Olympic Games 
        and was co-chairman of the host committee for the 1996 Summer Olympics, 
        which were hosted in Atlanta, Georgia;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young served as President of the National Council of 
        Churches from 2000 to 2001;
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young established the Andrew J. Young Foundation in 2003, 
        which focuses on education, economic justice, and global human rights; 
        and
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young is a husband, a father of 4 children, a grandfather 
        of 9 children, a great-grandfather of 1 child, and a renowned author, 
        speaker and leader and continues to uplift the people of Georgia and the 
        United States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) commemorates the 90th birthday of Andrew Jackson Young;
            (2) expresses thanks and commendations to Andrew Jackson 
        Young and his family for his decades of public service to 
        Georgia and to the United States; and
            (3) honors the life and impact of Andrew Jackson Young, an 
        American civil rights hero whose work has helped generations of 
        people in the United States and Georgia prosper.
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