Citadel of Free Speech Award - Ambassador Andrew Young
The City Club of Cleveland
June 01, 2006
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Location: Cleveland Marriott Downtown and Key Center
Time: 12 noon
Tickets: $50/75. Must be prepaid and are non-refundable. Call 216.621.0082 or visit www.cityclub.org.
The City Club Citadel of Free Speech Award recognizes and honors and individual or organization who has made a significant contribution to the advancement, protection or promotion of free speech. This year, The City Club is pleased to honor Ambassador Andrew Young.
Ambassador Young has brought his long-held mission of facilitating economic development in the Caribbean and in Africa to an active role in GoodWorks. Young has held a wide variety of leadership positions over the past several decades. Beginning his career as an ordained minister and top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the civil rights movement, he went on to be elected to three terms as a U.S. Congressman before being appointed as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Subsequently, he served two terms as the mayor of Atlanta and as co-chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Ambassador Young as chairman of the $100 million Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund.
Ambassador Young remains active in community matters. He often sets time aside to talk to various schools and universities on a range of issues and participates in events that foster sound public policy, economic development, human rights and education.
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