Andrew Young Speaking at a Voting Rights Rally, circa 1981

Andrew Young is shown speaking at a Voting Rights Act rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Written on verso: Battle Fierce Over Voting Rights -- Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young addresses an Atlanta rally in support of extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act and emphasizes action on the part of those supporting extension. "Progress has never come from the top down in America; it always comes from the people and travels up," he says.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection