Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker

Title:

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker

Number of Pages:

29

Description:

Biographical information; feelings about LBJ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; JFK’s administration; argument between RFK, MLK and Burke Marshall; intensity of civil rights movement; JFK’s judicial appointment to the South; non-violence; Bayard Rustin; March on Washngton; Dorchester Center; criteria for confrontation; Southerner as President; Goldwater and partisan politics; LBJ’s relationship with MLK; MLK’s stand against the Vietnam War; SCLC’s motto: “To Redeem the Soul of America;” work for Senator Joseph McCarthy; Justice Department and Ramsey Clark; Community Relations division; Roger Wilkins; Leroy Collins; FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; 1965 Voting Rights Act; solution to race and peace problems.

Contributor:

Young, Andrew, 1932-

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Andrew Young

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details