- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Jean Childs Young and Rosalynn Carter
- Contributor to Resource:
- Courtesy of Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. Photograph by Rick Reinhard
- Date of Original:
- 1979
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Jean Childs Young (left), pictured with Rosalynn Carter in 1979, was appointed by U.S. president Jimmy Carter as chair of the 1979 International Year of the Child, a program celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The program also worked to raise awareness of children's rights and issues.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/jean-childs-young-1933-1994/m-11141/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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