Young wins poll
The former American Ambassador to the United Nations. Andrew Young, has been elected mayor of Atlanta in a hotly-contested run-off election to’determine whether blacks would keep political control in the financial capital of the south-east. Mr Young, scoring heavily in the city’s mainly black precincts, built a lead of more than 11,000 votes over a state representative, Sydney Marcus, a white, with all but seven of the city’s 188 precincts reporting. Mr Young, aged 49, succeeds Maynard Jackson, who was elected in 1973 as Atlanta's first black mayor.—Atlanta.
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Press, 29 October 1981, Page 8
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