Topics include: The family's return to the South, Albany, St. Augustine, Birmingham, and King. Highlander Folk School; the Citizenship Education Program; portraits of Septima Clark and Dorothy Cotton; Albany, GA; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); St. Augustine, FL; the death of Randolph Blackwell; Birmingham, AL; Martin Luther King, Jr.
00:00 - Tom Dent interviews Jean Young. She talks about her participation in the St. Augustine Movement. She was not there when Andrew Young was beaten, but she saw it on television. 02:45 - She was in one of the marches to the slave auction block. Young did not want the two of them to participate in the same marches for the sake of their children. She talks about walking with an older woman and impressions of the white mob surrounding them. She felt amazement more than fear.05:45 - It made the marchers feel superior to the crowd. The Civil Rights Movement gave people a sense of self-worth.07:00 - Participating in the marches took away the anxiety for Jean. Young did not want to talk the day-to-day operation of the Movement. To Jean, it came in spurts. Home was Young's haven away from his work.10:10 - Young suffered from migraines until he went to Congress. He also felt bad at [Randolph] Blackwell's funeral. Jean conjectures that it may have been because the event was a 'recap' of the Civil Rights Movement. Everyone had respect for Blackwell.12:20 - Dent asks about Birmingham, AL and Young's coming into the mainstream of SCLC activities. Young carved out a place for himself within the Movement.14:40 - The Birmingham Movement. Jean went prior to the major demonstrations, during the planning phase. She was less involved with that movement. She talks about the closeness of the SCLC people. She felt removed from that closeness, as did many of the wives.18:30 - The Young's friends in Atlanta. Dent remembers visiting with their friends. They were close to Edwina Moss [née Smith], the Abernathys, Randolph and Libby Blackwell, and Dorothy Cotton. They would swim at the Kings' home and Wyatt Tee Walker's home. Hosea Williams and his wife were also friends. They were closest to the Blackwells.21:05 - Dent asks how King was addressed informally. Jean says they called him Martin, but Ralph Abernathy called him Mike. Even in social settings, some of the staff would still call him Dr. King. His brother A.D. used to call him M.L. He reprimanded Jean for calling him Dr. King and encouraged her to call him Martin in private. In public she would often not call him anything. He was the center of attention. He liked to tease people to diffuse the fear and anxiety. 26:20 - People called Young Andy, which they had done since seminary. Jean and his friends and family from New Orleans and Howard called him Andrew.[Recording ends 28:12.]