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An Evening With Interviewed by A PBS-TV Special to benefit |
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
Georgia Public Broadcasting
260 14th Street
Atlanta, GA 30318-5360
Entertainment
Faye Raye & Friends
Dwight Andrews
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For more information or to purchase tickets, call 312-674-1900 or e-mail your ticket request to info@thehistorymakers.com
Ticket price: $150.00 Reserved tickets are $500.00.
Sponsor a HistoryMakers interview in Andrew Young's name for $2,500.00
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• Logo placement on all printed event materials
WISHMAKER $10,000
• 4 reserved tickets to An Evening With Andrew Young PBS-TV Special
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• Listing in program book for An Evening With Andrew Young PBS-TV Special
• Listing in credits of 60:00 An Evening With Andrew Young PBS-TV Special
GIFTMAKER $5,000
• 2 reserved tickets to An Evening With Andrew Young PBS-TV Special
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Andrew Young
Ambassador Young is a founding principal and Chairman of GoodWorks International. He has brought his long-held mission of facilitating economic development in the Caribbean and in Africa to an active role in GoodWorks. Ambassador Young has held a wide variety of leadership positions over the past several decades. Beginning his career as an ordained minister and top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the civil rights movement, he went on to be elected to three terms as a United States Congressman before being appointed as the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations. Subsequently, he served two terms as the Mayor of Atlanta and assumed a leadership position as Co-Chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Ambassador Young as Chairman of the $100 million Southern Africa Enterprise Development Fund. Ambassador Young remains active in community matters. He often sets time aside to talk to various schools and universities on a range of issues. He participates in events that foster sound public policy, economic development, human rights and education. Ambassador Young travels extensively to meet with officials and other individuals interested in improving the economic situation in Africa and the Caribbean. He has headed numerous missions to the continent of Africa and continues to use his extensive network to facilitate new business developments. His interest in international affairs is not limited to Africa and the Caribbean. He speaks and attends conferences focusing on global affairs.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Acclaimed journalist and author, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, has amassed more than 40 years in the media industry. She began her journalism career as a reporter for The New Yorker magazine. By 1997, she joined NPR after 20 years with PBS, where she was a national correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In 2005, she returned to NPR as a Special Correspondent after six years as CNN’s Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent. Her numerous honors include two Emmy awards, two Peabody awards, more than three dozen honorary degrees, the 1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists, the 1990 Sidney Hillman Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, and the Good Award for her CNN series on Zimbabwe. In August 2005, she was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame. She is also the author of In My Place, a personal memoir of her groundbreaking history as the first black woman to attend and graduate from the University of Georgia, and New News Out of Africa, a compelling book on the renaissance of modern Africa.
Honorary Co-Chairs |
Benefit Committee
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Valerie Richardson Jackson Event Chairs |
Lisa & Douglas Alston Amalia Amaki June Dobbs Butts Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Cook Dr. Willie Clemons Dr. Angela Crowell Thomas Dortch Jr. John Grant Dorothy & Moses Harden Francine Henderson Thomas Houck Stephanie Hughley Robert & Angela James Diane King |
W. Chuck Lewis Carolyn & Paul Mauldawer Carl Masters Dr. Rogsbert Phillips Anita Ponder Norman & Peggy Ross Herman Russell Steve Smith Felker Ward Dr. Camille Davis Williams Dr. Peyton Williams Diane Wisner *list still in formation |
