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When Jimmy Carter appointed Andrew Young to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, black America felt cheated. Africans, similarly, were sceptical. What was Carter trying to achieve? Was the Afro-American vote which sent him to the White House to be placated by a meaningful sinecure or had Carter sensed a strong feeling of Afro-Americans toward Africa that needed a credible mediator in the person of Young? Were US-African relations going to be such a critical factor during Carter’s tenure of office that it made diplomatic sense to appoint an Afro-American as ambassador to the United Nations?
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Mark Lane and Dick Gregory, Code Name ‘Zorro’: The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr (New York: Pakangaroo, 1977) p. 95.
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See Andrew Young, ‘Economic Development’, Ivy Leaf, Fall 1982, pp. 9–11.
Marcel Liebman, The Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1970) p. 342.
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Newsum, H.E., Abegunrin, O. (1987). The Andrew Young Affair Revisited. In: United States Foreign Policy Towards Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07514-0_1
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