WATCH: Civil rights curriculum aims to shape future leaders

(The Center Square) – It was the winter of 1962. Demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, came to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his support in organizing a protest in the segregated city where Black people were forced to sit in the back of buses, couldn’t sit at lunch counters with white people, couldn’t even drink out of the same fountains as white people.

Andrew Young was there.

More than 60 years later, Young, who went on to become a United Nations ambassador during the Carter administration and later mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s, recalled working with his close friend, Dr. King, during the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement.

During an exclusive interview with The Center Square, Young talked about the pivotal moments in history – a history that he wants to keep alive for today’s generation.

Young said a new Civil Rights curriculum he endorses gives students the facts and figures about what drove the movement and what young activists experienced during that time. He’s backing the curric...