An Easy Burden

Andrew Young was born in New Orleans in 1932. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served as its executive director from 1964 to 1970. He was elected to three terms in Congress and two terms as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first African American to be appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

In An Easy Burden Andrew Young draws on his own life's experiences to recount with both passion and objectivity one of the most dramatic periods in U.S. history. -President Jimmy Carter y There is no better personal account of the struggles of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement than Andrew Young's An Easy Burden . The strategies, the alliances, and the debates that created the greatest social movement America has ever seen are here in a personal and touching story. -Juan Williams, Senior Correspondent,Morning Edition Andy Young's courageous participation and strategic leadership were crucial to the success of the Civil Rights Movement. His political witness and theological insight are indispensable to any understanding of those historic events. --James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminar