Life Lessons My Mother Taught MeJean Young, a respected advocate in the civil rights and children's rights movements, was so beloved by friends and colleagues that when former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young ran for Congress, he was known in parts of the South as "Jean's husband." After Jean's death, her daughter Andrea came to realize the enormous legacy her mother had left--the values of truth, love, integrity, and faith with which she had been brought up in tiny post-Depression Marion, Alabama. |
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