{"70907":{"#nid":"70907","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Andrew Young Delivers Double Speeches to Tech Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Young has\nspent his life working toward freedom and equality for people around the world;\non Tuesday, Oct. 11, he\u2019ll speak to Georgia Tech students about his Civil\nRights legacy as part of the Freshmen Reading Project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe United\nNations ambassador and former Atlanta mayor was an early leader in the Civil\nRights Movement and is one of three surviving aides who was with Martin Luther\nKing Jr. when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. For this year\u2019s Freshman\nReading Project, students read a collection of King\u2019s work, \u201cI Have a Dream:\nWritings and Speeches that Changed the World.\u201d Young will address students at\nthe Ferst Center at 11 a.m. Tickets are free with a valid BuzzCard and are\navailable at the Clough Commons information desk or the Student Center box\noffice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung will also visit the Ferst Center on Sunday, Oct. 9, at\n4 p.m. with his godson, Kabir Sehgal, with whom he recently co-authored \u201cWalk\nin My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the\nJourney Ahead.\u201d The two will discuss their book and mentorship at this event\nhosted by Delta Upsilon fraternity. Tickets are $5 for students and $12 for the\npublic, and can be purchased at the Student Center box office, through Delta\nUpsilon members or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/andrew-young.eventbrite.com\/\u0022\u003Eonline\u003C\/a\u003E. Proceeds will benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung and King worked\ntogether throughout the Southeast on nonviolent civil rights demonstrations,\nvoter registration drives and other goodwill efforts through the Southern\nChristian Leadership Conference (SCLC), where Young served as executive\ndirector from 1964\u201368. Through the SCLC, Young was instrumental in securing the\npassage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 as well as the Voting Rights\nAct of 1965.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYoung\nrepresented Georgia\u2019s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives, served\nas a U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under President Jimmy Carter and was a two-term\nmayor of Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYoung will speak to students on Oct. 11 about his Civil Rights legacy as part of the Freshmen Reading Project.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Young will speak to students on Oct. 11 about his Civil Rights legacy as part of the Freshmen Reading Project."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2011-10-05 09:06:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:22","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63207":{"id":"63207","type":"image","title":"Ambassador Andrew Young","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Ambassador Andrew Young","file":{"fid":"191778","name":"Andrew_Young_gray.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andrew_Young_gray_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Andrew_Young_gray_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":802722,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Andrew_Young_gray_0.jpg?itok=SfyQlbd4"}},"70159":{"id":"70159","type":"image","title":"Andrew Young Delta Upsilon Event","body":null,"created":"1449177288","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:48","changed":"1475894616","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:36","alt":"Andrew Young Delta Upsilon Event","file":{"fid":"192927","name":"final_book_cover_template.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_book_cover_template_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_book_cover_template_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":83523,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/final_book_cover_template_0.jpeg?itok=pAWf5b0r"}}},"media_ids":["63207","70159"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtdu.org\/","title":"Georgia Tech Chapter of Delta Upsilon"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.success.gatech.edu\/plenary-lecture-programs-and-events","title":"Other Freshman Reading Events"},{"url":"http:\/\/andrew-young.eventbrite.com\/","title":"Purchase Tickets for \u0022Walk in My Shoes\u0022 event"},{"url":"http:\/\/gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=70160","title":"Walk in My Shoes: A Discussion on Mentorship"},{"url":"http:\/\/gatech.edu\/calendar\/event.html?nid=69304","title":"Andrew Young Plenary Lecture"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11476","name":"Andrew Young"},{"id":"13592","name":"freshman reading project"},{"id":"11586","name":"martin luther king"},{"id":"14601","name":"mentorship"},{"id":"14391","name":"walk in my shoes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:steven.girardot@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESteven Girardot\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EFreshman Reading Project\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ndesai@gtdu.org\u0022\u003ENeil Desai\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EDelta Upsilon\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.shaw@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Shaw\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ECommunications and Marketing\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}