25th Anniversary Edition - An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

by Andrew Young, Quincy Jones (Foreword by)

Overview

25th Anniversary - 90th Birthday Edition

An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

Featuring a new introduction and exclusive photos of the legendary Andrew J. Young

Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the U.S. civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. Working closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he endured beatings and arrests while participating in seminal civil rights campaigns. In 1964, he became Executive Director of the SCLC, serving with King during a time of great accomplishment and turmoil. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading. Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737800422
Publisher:	JSJ Enterprises & Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	02/18/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	782
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Andrew Young is a living legend. He was an activist for the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King Jr, as the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He became a member of Congress, two-term mayor of Atlanta and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Quincy Jones is an award-winning and legendary producer, composer, and film and television executive.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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 Seminary

"With extraordinary insight and humanity, Andrew Young brings to life major campaigns of the movement and illuminates with rare honesty the key personalities on all sides and their motives. An Easy Burden is required reading for everyone who wants to better understand Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, and the ongoing struggle for social justice that continues in his name."―Coretta Scott King

"Full of history and hope, An Easy Burden is a wise, thoughtful, and fascinating examination of this cataclysimic century and the people whose lives changed the world for the better and forever."

-Marian Wright Edelman

President, Children's Defense Fund

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