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 coming back to the South after living in New York. New York was a period of growth. They had originally planned to go to Highlander Folk School. She bought a set of encyclopedias to teach the children with because the area was so remote. 02:48 - Jean liked Highlander. She talks about the area and their first visit there. She talks about the decision to come back to the South while watching coverage of the Nashville Sit-ins on the news.04:47 - She talks about their life in New York. She got her Master's Degree at Queens College. She had to adjust to the lifestyle of cocktail parties and personal questions. She was disappointed that they would not be going to Highlander [which had closed]. She did not know what to expect from Atlanta. Andrew Young purchased their house before she came down.06:30 - Her first reactions to living in Atlanta and Young's work with the Citizenship Education Program. Young continued traveling because the program was run out of Dorchester. He also worked on voter registration. Their house became a SCLC meeting place.08:07 - After a year, Jean decided that she had to start teaching again. She was unhappy as the 'all-purpose housewife' and wanted a regular work schedule. Paula was about two years old. She found it easier to cope with the Movement while she was working. She worked at Whitefoord Elementary and taught black children. She also participated in the larger demonstrations.11:00 - Jean worked on the workbook for the Citizenship Education Program, including a section on phonics and black history. Septima Clark and Dorothy Cotton already had a workbook, but they rewrote it. 11:57 - A portrait of Clark.16:14 - A portrait of Dorothy Cotton. The people working on the program complimented each other. The local leader participants worked very hard. The selection process for the program was based on an individual's relationship to the community, not on any elected leadership role.18:22 - Jean talks about spending time in Albany, Georgia, where she expected to go to jail. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in jail at that time.20:15 - They met at Dr. William Anderson's home in Albany. C.B. and Slater King were also active in the Movement. She talks about visiting the people who had been locked up. C.B.'s pregnant wife had been beaten. The importance of the Albany Movement.22:27 - Jean describes the town of Albany and the mood of the environment. She welcomed the intense experience and involvement. There was anxiety. 25:00 - Her relationship with the Kings. She knew Coretta from high school.27:13 - Young did not talk about a desire to move closer to the center of action within the SCLC. His involvement was a natural outgrowth. There was distrust of new people having control of the money.[Recording ends 31:15, continues on Side 2.]