American civil rights leader and politician Andrew Jackson Young, Junior, served as executive director of the southern Christian leadership conference from 1964 to 1970, later as ambassador of United States to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979, and as mayor of Atlanta from 1982 to 1990.
This diplomat, and activist began his career as a pastor in an early movement as a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_... American civil rights leader and politician Andrew Jackson Young, Junior, served as executive director of the southern Christian leadership conference from 1964 to 1970, later as ambassador of United States to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979, and as mayor of Atlanta from 1982 to 1990.
This diplomat, and activist began his career as a pastor in an early movement as a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.