Political History

Congressman Andrew Young and his son Bo run down the hallway of the Rayburn House of Representatives Building in Washington in June, 1975.

Atlanta Mayor-elect Maynard Jackson makes a speech on election night on October 3, 1973 at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Midtown.

Governor Jimmy Carter spends time making art with an orangutan in 1971.

For a brief and tumultuous few weeks in 1946 and 1947, Georgia had three governors. What followed is the stuff of political legend.

When the citizens of Georgia elected Andrew Young to the US House of Representatives in 1972, there had not been a Black congressperson elected from Georgia since Jefferson Franklin Long in 1871.