Paula Young Shelton grew up in Atlanta in the 1960s, as the civil rights movement grew up alongside her. Her father, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, helped lead the struggle as the executive director of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Young Shelton, 48, now teaches first grade at Georgetown Day School. She recently completed a children’s book called “Child of the Civil Rights Movement,” and will welcome Black History Month by speaking about it at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. She shared with The Examiner by e-mail thoughts on her faith rooted in a remarkable childhood.

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