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Andrew Young Timeline
| 1932 | Andrew Young born, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana |
| 1951 | Awarded Bachelor of Science (biology) degree from Howard University, Washington DC |
| 1954 | Marries first wife Jean |
| 1955 | Received Bachelor of Divinity from Hartford Theological Seminary, ordained and began full-time ministry. |
| 1957 | Offered job by National Council of Churches in New York City, job frequently exposed him to international affairs. |
| 1961 | Returned to Georgia and began working with Southern Christian Leadership Conference. |
| 1964 | Named executive director of SCLC and helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated; Young named executive vice-president of SCLC by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy |
| 1970 | Andrew Young resigned from the SCLC to run for the United States House of Representatives in Georgia's predominantly white Fifth Congressional District; beaten by two-term incumbent Fletcher Thompson; after defeat, Young took a job as chairman of the Atlanta Community Relations Commission. |
| 1973 | Andrew Young runs again in a realigned Fifth District and wins congressional seat; he was returned to Congress in landslide victories of 72 percent in 1974 and 80 percent in 1976. |
| 1976 | President-elect Jimmy Carter nominates Andrew Young as U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. |
| 1979 | Andrew Young forced to resign his post as United States Ambassador to the United Nations after it became public knowledge that he had covertly met with a delegation from the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 1981 | Andrew Young elected mayor of Atlanta; re-elected in a landslide in the 1986 election. |
| 1990 | Leaves office to run a failed campaign for the Democratic nomination for Georgia governor, losing to Zell Miller; however, tireless efforts in promoting Atlanta resulted in a confirmation of Atlanta as host of the Centennial Olympic Games in September. |
| 1994 | President Bill Clinton appoints him to oversee the $100 million Southern Africa Development Fund . |
| 1994 | Loses wife Jean to cancer. |
| 1994 | Appointed co-chairman of the Atlanta Olympic Organizing Committee. |
| 1995 | Selected as chair of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. |
| 1996 | Young co-founds GoodWorks International, whose mission is to promote education and build capacity in Africa and the Caribbean, and foster improved US-Africa and US-Caribbean relations. His involvement in this organization continues to the present in his capacity as Chairman. |
| 2000 | Played a key role as Master of Ceremonies at the 2000 National Summit on Africa, which provided him a key forum to pronounce his vision for Africa by increasing investment, expanding trade, and facilitating cooperation between corporations and African governments. |
| 2000 –2001 | Served as president of National Council of the Churches of Christ. |
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