00:00 – Tom Dent interviews Andrew Young. He continues to talk about working in Cleveland to help Carl Stokes run for mayor in 1967. There was no further relationship with Stokes. Martin Luther King, Jr. felt that Stokes was controversial. They got the gangs involved with voter registration. He tells a story about King speaking with prostitutes on Euclid Avenue while Bernard Lee was driving. He earned their support for Stokes. 04:13 – James Orange introduced Ahmed Evans, who was later arrested for trying to shoot a policeman [in the Glenville Shootout], to King. Evens wanted to provide a bodyguard service for King. 05:20 – Half of SCLC’s northern field staff stayed in Cleveland, including Orange, Lee, Eddie [Osborn?], James Bevel, and Al Sampson. They worked through the ministers and recruited local people. Reverend O.M. Hoover was involved and Olivet Institutional Baptist Church was their headquarters. 07:30 – Dent asks if there were any direct lessons learned from Cleveland that Young used in his Congressional campaign. Young says the Congressional campaign was the culmination of all his work, especially on voter registration with SCLC. 08:30 – Stoney Cooks and his work with Hosea Williams and Ben Clark to elect the first black senator in Alabama, Fred Gray. The conflict between Cooks and Williams. 12:00 – More on Fred Gray. 13:18 – [Microphone testing to end.] [Recording ends 13:40.]
