Andrew Young talks with Around the Rings founder Ed Hula.

Andrew Young has been called Atlanta’s secret weapon in the campaign to host the 1996 Olympic Games.

After stints as a member of the U.S. Congress and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Young was mayor of Atlanta when he gave the green light in 1987 to make a bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Young played a significant role in the Atlanta bid. He reached out to the worldwide network of contacts he made as a diplomat as well as through his work in the U.S. civil rights movement. Young is now the elder statesman of the cause once led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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