(1971) Executive Director of the Voter Education Project, a program of the Southern Regional Council.
(1977 - 1980) Director of ACTION, a federal volunteer agency, appointed by President Jimmy Carter.
(1968) Consultant to Bobby Kennedy for President campaign and was upstairs in the Kennedy hotel suite at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the hotel kitchen on June 6, 1968.
(January 3, 1987 - July 17, 2020) Seventeen Term Member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th Congressional District.
(1981 - 1986) Member of Atlanta, Georgia City Council.