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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gary Fields

Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King's side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Andrew Young’s first thought when he heard the Voting Rights Act had been signed into law was not celebratory. It was strategic.

“Where are we going to get the money to get the country mobilized to register these voters?” he recalled thinking at that momentous time nearly 60 years ago.

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