Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd Atlanta mayor.

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During the era when civil rights came to the forefront of America, her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.