NEW YORK - Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and civil rights activist Andrew Young, long at the forefront of advancing equal opportunity in the United States, recalled in a recent interview with Kyodo News his experiences as an athlete during the racial segregation of the 1940s and the "thrill" of seeing African American swimmers begin to triumph on the Olympic stage.
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