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WCLK's The Local Take(Saturdays 8am) reached out to our resident historian and former Atlanta Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young to speak about our past,
Crossing St. Augustine
During a rally led by Hosea Williams at First Baptist Church, Young was invited to lead a march that night.
Although it strayed from Young’s original purpose for his visit, he agreed.
“King was afraid violence would break out,” Young said.
His plan was to have the demonstrators wait while he crossed the street and attempted to reason with the angry crowd that had gathered in the plaza.
It seemed to be working until someone hit him and knocked him down.
“That was all I knew,” Young said noting that he didn’t remember much of the attack after that.
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Georgia Today, I m Steve Fennessy. It s Friday, Jan. 29th, 2021. Last week, the nation lost not just a titan of Major League Baseball, but an American icon.
Henry Aaron: I had a great career. I played for 23 years. And that s the end of it. You know, I hope that the home run is not the only thing that people or anybody, for that matter, Black or white, look at me and say, that s the only thing that he could do.
Steve Fennessy: That s former Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron in a 2018 interview with 11 Alive News. Aaron died Jan. 22nd. He was 86. It would be difficult to overstate Henry Aaron s impact on not just baseball, but the nation. Yes, he broke Babe Ruth s home run record in 1974, but Aaron s journey from Mobile, Alabama, to baseball s Hall of Fame was a fraught and complicated one. Here to discuss Henry Aaron is ESPN senior writer Howard Bryant, who s also a contributor on NPR s
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