[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 53 (Thursday, March 24, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1777-S1778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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SENATE RESOLUTION 556--COMMEMORATING THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF FORMER MAYOR 
OF ATLANTA, AMBASSADOR, AND CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW JACKSON 
  YOUNG AND RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ANDREW JACKSON YOUNG TO 
         CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AND HIS WORK TO UPLIFT GEORGIA

  Mr. WARNOCK submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary:

                              S. Res. 556

       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was born on March 12, 1932, to 
     Daisy Fuller Young and Andrew Jackson Young, Sr., in New 
     Orleans, Louisiana;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young received an undergraduate 
     degree from Howard University in 1951 and a degree in 
     divinity from Hartford Theological Seminary and was ordained 
     with the United Church of Christ in 1955;


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  On page S1777, March 24, 2022, in the second column, the 
following appears: Mr. WARNER submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary: S. Res. 556 
Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was born on March 12, 1932. . . .
  
  The online Record has been corrected to read:Mr. WARNOCK 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary: S. Res. 556 Whereas Andrew Jackson 
Young was born on March 12, 1932. . . .


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       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young is a proud 1950 initiate of 
     Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was a devoted pastor in 
     Georgia and Alabama for several years, and worked with the 
     National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA 
     (commonly referred to as the ``National Council of 
     Churches'') from 1957 to 1961;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young worked diligently throughout 
     the early 1960s with the Southern Christian Leadership 
     Conference (commonly referred to as the ``SCLC'') to mentor 
     and uplift African-American leaders in communities across 
     Georgia, and served as Executive Director of the SCLC in 1964 
     and Executive Vice President from 1967 to 1970;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young worked alongside Dr. Martin 
     Luther King, Jr., to advance the civil rights movement;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was elected to the House of 
     Representatives in 1972 and 1974 and was the first African 
     American to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives 
     since Reconstruction;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was nominated by President 
     James E. Carter to serve as the United States Ambassador to 
     the United Nations from 1977 to 1979, and was awarded the 
     Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Carter in 1981;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young was elected mayor of Atlanta, 
     Georgia, in 1981, and served 2 terms as mayor;
       Whereas, during his time as mayor, Andrew Jackson Young was 
     instrumental to modernizing and spurring the economic 
     development of the city of Atlanta, making it an 
     international city;
       Whereas, in 1994, Andrew Jackson Young was appointed by 
     President William J. Clinton to oversee the Southern Africa 
     Development Fund;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young, as Mayor of Atlanta, launched 
     the Atlanta Organizing Committee to win the big to host the 
     Centennial Olympic Games and was co-chairman of the host 
     committee for the 1996 Summer Olympics, which were hosted in 
     Atlanta, Georgia;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young served as President of the 
     National Council of Churches from 2000 to 2001;
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young established the Andrew J. 
     Young Foundation in 2003, which focuses on education, 
     economic justice, and global human rights; and
       Whereas Andrew Jackson Young is a husband, a father of 4 
     children, a grandfather of 9 children, a great-grandfather of 
     1 child, and a renowned author, speaker and leader and 
     continues to uplift the people of Georgia and the United 
     States: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) commemorates the 90th birthday of Andrew Jackson Young;
       (2) expresses thanks and commendations to Andrew Jackson 
     Young and his family for his decades of public service to 
     Georgia and to the United States; and
       (3) honors the life and impact of Andrew Jackson Young, an 
     American civil rights hero whose work has helped generations 
     of people in the United States and Georgia prosper.

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