Andrew J. Young, civil rights leader, diplomat, and politician, was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP in 1978. The Spingarn Medal is the NAACP’s highest honor, awarded annually for outstanding achievement by an African American.
Young played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement, working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a strategist and negotiator. He later became the first African American U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1977–1979) and served as Mayor of Atlanta from 1982 to 1990.
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