Andrew Young Interview: Insights from Martin Luther King Jr's Confidant

Andrew Young discusses how he came to be the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. He credits his wife Jean and Martin’s wife Coretta as courageous women who were the reason for both of their success. Young recalls Malcolm X expressing his admiration for Dr. King after his Nobel Prize lecture.
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born March 13, 1932, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Young is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Young became active in politics, serving first as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, then United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and finally Mayor of Atlanta. Since leaving political office, Young has founded or served in a large number of organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “King in the Wilderness” that follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life: from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, through personal stories of the people who were around him.
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Andrew Young, Executive Director, SCLC
Interviewed By: Taylor Branch
Interview Date: April 13, 2017
Chapters:
00:00 Meeting Dr. King
08:31 Decision to Work with Dr. King
22:05 Nobel Prize Lecture
36:35 Watts Riot
44:04 Chicago
01:01:52 Meredith March
01:14:53 Dr. King and Depression
01:23:54 Riverside Church Speech
01:33:07 Dr. King’s Personal Side
01:43:34 Vietnam
01:52:42 Personal Attacks
01:54:34 Dr. Kings Temperament
01:59:09 Poor People’s Campaign
02:20:08 Last Day and Dr. King’s Legacy
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[@jeffmckee3929]

Mr. Young, I met you for the first time today and I just want to thank you for your time. It's so important for the younger generation to understand the struggles you guys went through for our freedom that we have today. Even for my generation. We all owe so much to Dr. King and these courageous men for their bravery and dedication to the eradication of prejudice, bigotry and injustice. Mr. Young this was a very long interview and for a man your age to sit patiently for almost 3 hours to tell us a story from your past is certainly an admirable thing. You are appreciated and respected. Thank you for sharing your story and for shedding a light on the extraordinary life of Dr. King.

[@jackiesurratt8118]

King and Mr. Young epitomizes moral positions compared to unmoral solutions....Such Powerful positions to demonstrate LOVE wins over HATE. Frustrating as it most had been King embracing moral ignorance should be learned by this generation and future generations. Rivalry can create division or opportunities to create WIN-WIN solutions and a more dialectical approach that creates LOVE, PEACE and UNITY!!!🙏🙏🙏🖤😎

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[@johndoe9362]

Jeff Mckee, MLK just marched around a 90% majority white western nation and begged white men to take care of blacks. Google: "MLK LAUGHED AS PASTOR RAPED WOMAN AT WILLARD HOTEL IN 1964."

[@issaquahjeans5934]

I admired this man so much and enjoyed this video

[@TanyaRadic]

I WAS IN MEMPHIS on that weekend . I was 16 old . What a life experience

[@selinarobinson6767]

We love you, Andrew Young, and we have much respect and admiration for you for your leadership and for holding it down. May God's choicest blessings and favor continue to chase you and overtake you and your family.

[@kevinpoole4323]

A Great Man Andrew Young I Met Him Thank God

[@tp1201]

Thank you, Mr Young, for all of your hard work and dedication.

[@bettyholden7725]

I also met him when he was running for congress in Georgia❤️

[@psycsoci]

I, we, as Black people in America,, are forever indebted to you, Dr. King, and your wives for your heart to fight for the lives rightly due us in America, for every advancement we are still fighting for, but your efforts and every other Black person helping you then,, have significantly made our f8ght easier of! Glory Be and All Praises to GOD, for your 💕 ♥️ 💜

[@Mr.Majestic77]

Got a chance to meet Andrew Young on many occasions and even worked for his brother Walter Young after my time in tbe U.S.Navy.

[@mrsmommyyoung]

Dr. Young - you are a true superhero- my God may you have a great reward ❤

[@Multifacetinc]

Incredible 2 hours of television. So, very needed!

[@Whalee39]

Andrew Young is one of the great ones. ♥️

[@Jurssicparkfan]

Social Gospel at work during extraordinary times. Wives and Pastors with great intellect, vision, and courage!

[@aimchurch991]

Wonderful treasure.

[@MichelMawon4982]

Great interview

[@bettyholden7725]

I will always love this man Andrew young always❤️❤️❤️

[@GoldenGateNum9]

Thank you so much for adding the interviews, I was hanging on every word.. I wish that genuine people like this were the majority in this sick world of ours.

[@robertpattonjr8667]

Great talk. A.Young.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

[@henriomoeje8741]

Living in small African hamlet, my dad who was an avid news junkie, knew Mr. Young. He's a blessing to our world, just like MK

[@jamesmoses6092]

We discovered Rev. Bishop Barber listening to Martin Luther King tapê in Florida and i thank God

[@TS-tv2ik]

Beautiful human being ♥ 🙏

[@Big-mike07126]

Great video thank you

[@MsMaishaB]

Love every bit of this interview

[@sabbaclennon8429]

The world need a lot more of these people.

[@dmrwaallen9588]

The Shoulders we stand on...salute and TY HISTORY DOES REPEAT...we not only need to know our history but global history that affects all black ppl...and we need to study our indoctrination to learn ourselves to love ourselves first to move forward with unity among community

[@elielmekre1034]

I finally got my chance to meet Andrew Young!!! I Love That Part at 2:17:39

[@brendamstewart5883]

Excellent

[@charlenecampbell654]

Very interesting and enlightening interview

[@kevinpoole4323]

The Best of the Best Ambassador Congressman Andrew Young

[@doloreswilliams9794]

Thank you Mr Young For your service and time spend on this earth And your dedication to the truth and your compassion towards others and your love for your people and country God is proud of you all And now you are home with the Lord Amen

[@raineyj560]

Mrs Young was not feeling my hometown at all. So glad to hear Mr Young say the truth about church politics.

[@aarondigby5054]

@2:07:07 you can tell reminiscing all this nostalgia and reliving this tragedy was exhausting for Amb Dr Young .

[@carlettagoodrich-mann1377]

Creating precincts within the church gives the community credibility. Infrastructure development secures the academic value of the consumers worth. CLUSTERS DISTRICTS and DIVISIONS are taught to see seamless integration. Brown and Blacks covernants shielded our geo-Diadactics . FORWARD thinkers analyze their spiritual experiences and enhance their mental skills to overcome racial barriers. We appreciate your commitment to excellence.

[@reginarayam8403]

God bless 🙏 this is an inevitable event we should as people honor and cherish 🙏 forever 🙏. Andrew Young ❤ speak about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr 🤴 and family!!!Awesome!!!

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

The elephant in the room: “Black Perspective”! I never got the opportunity to meet you, it would have been awesome I am sure! I am up in age now, and have tried to understand an activist motive? What I do get that they share is “don’t fear”! So we go, we vote, we press on, and when we do and someone dies, as did Dr. King we fear! It’s not because we did not trust the movement cause we go daily believing Dr. King understood safety, no we do not know or believe putting our lives on the line will bring King back, or help us out? I appreciate you, Mr. Young, and may God bless black people. For effort! ✌🏽 and Respect#night owl

[@kevinpoole4323]

I Met Andrew Young Great Man

[@Clyde177]

Give us more

[@thescatman5029]

Does a renovation of his house and finds an old wire! What a great man, who had to put up with stuff like this!

[@aarondigby5054]

Didn't nobody see a truck, repair truck, electrician wiring the house, none of the neighbors see anything? When did they have time to connect wiring and nobody notices anything.

[@thescatman5029]

@aarondigby5054 The mob will be the first to tell you that it's easy for "Agent Joe the Plumber" to infiltrate your home. At least, in that instance, there were warrants. I'm sure there was no legal reason, and no court order, to wire up Andrew Young's crib....!

[@kmarkhamussco]

Amazing!

[@darrylgallagher2102]

Awesome man

[@chantaln6843]

Amazing interview. It’s so good to hear his account & his perspective. BRAVO!

[@cgcade1]

One of my mentors from a far.

[@theraceanalystphdprovingha4119]

"Yes sir...you may finish how Selma preceeded..."

[@dawnwilliamson4660]

Gems 💎 💎 knowledge and power

[@keenannorris3309]

There's a fair amount of Andrew Young's worldview that I take issue with, or at least see as highly debatable, but nevertheless this is one courageous man, a great man in a way, and until his last day he'll be an inestimable fount of history and knowledge.

[@jackieburns5257]

I enjoyed the one with Belafonte

[@debrapowell5261]

THANK YOU Andrew Young we need to stay together Black and white doing Now him and Martin L King it's going on now for real.

[@dddddadadad1796]

I wish the audio was louder on this video

[@aarondigby5054]

It sure needs to be louder. These were true modern day disciples: MLK, John Lewis, Andy Young, CTVivian, Shuttlesworth,, Abernathy,Bunche, Wilkins, Randolph, etc, Malcolm X, Carmichael, Davis, Evers, Cleaver, Newton, Rush, Seale, Hampton, Hamer, etc,...

[@debrapowell5261]

Mr Andrew Young was a strong man back then Martin L King didn't want into the wrong thing he wanted sent out with peace for the people power to move forward with pric Johnson would be with him for right for the people.

[@kevinpoole4323]

Forward in Faith

[@chineainguanzo6341]

The great Dr king, you are also a great man! ❤I'm cuban born, Interested in black history,yes I have read a lot about the struggle that black Americans have had to endure.my mother father,sister were Dr kings admirers as I'm am.they have since passed on.

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

Thank you for caring! I have no qualms with our Brother Dr. Andrew Young! Not me,

[@sashek8451]

Behind every great man….

[@TanyaRadic]

He said their wives made them active

[@ev3goddess]

~*Well Thankosz 4 sharing

[@jamesstokes867]

One of greatest teachers and leaders the world has ever know.

[@Zweizweinull]

humans scared of 2 tings the fall and the unknown but in the same hand its a enourmous power of to keep it moving

[@1944RLeeHiggs]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kwamesarpong1925]

I think, Andrew Young is more of a follower. He served Dr Kiing in the best way that he knew how. He & Jessie Jackson played the same role. They were younger than Dr. King and as such they played their role as required. Could we ssy that the people who claimed to be his disciples disappointed him? After his death, these disciples could not hold it together as all hopes were dissipated and each started fighting for their own. I wish him the best for the rest of his life. Not like Dr. King. Comparing Andrew Young to Harry Belafonte, the later did a lot to elevate the black race. Mr. Belafonte will be really missed. An awesome human being.

[@atiyahicks3354]

😳 if ONLY it was anywhere nearly that cheap per semester... I'd been finished!

[@mistychenoweth9716]

“Don’t get mad get smart.”

[@professorx8549]

"The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth".

[@smitdiot1410]

This is the history that Lil Disantis wants to erase. We cannot allow this to happen.

[@heywardsanders1680]

One has to realize that no one wakes up to take on the road they did not plan to be. The thoughts did not grow in them as they grow in life, by doing hobbies they start to like. Then comes others seeking for opportunities to find a human gold mine to help them get rich in life. That's when the hobby takes over one life. They no longer have their own thoughts, someone else does all of that for them. It can get intense as one excels in their career. Decades can go pass without them having the self growth of understanding things in life. Decades of lost thinking for oneself, making mistakes trying to have a normal life. Where everything one try to do just will not come out right because too much scheming is being pushed on one life. Where the drugs, and the excitement becomes the only thing pushed on one life. That all kinds of behaviors come out of that type of life. One reason is that it's hard for one to say what they really want to do with their life. When one is under a controlled life, who don't know how to free themselves from it, or keep it separated from what is so important to them. So, things can stay like it will be when one returns back to the life they want it to be. One can be drowned in an artificial life, and lose interest in the reality of life. That the system will help the promoters to push the artificial life on the people as being right. Is why we see the destructive things taking place today.

[@tomroberts9794]

Great interview. Too many particulars to rehearse.

[@jackieburns5257]

Also see the interview with Belafonte

[@anthonywooten-zq4zh]

Hey good evening how are you.its me Tony

[@Zweizweinull]

New York City age 500 years time lapse video does that help?

[@carydavidhoffson6014]

Take the time to get to know each other and do things together to find out about each other and know one wants to take any thing away from know one and every one wants the same thing that is to be loved and cared about from each other that is all any one would want to have to understand that and you have more friends that Way then you have now and you would get used to it that it would not be a big deal to you and everyone else to

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

Motives of the heart: Leading from - Psalm 139 New International Version Psalm 139 For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand- when I awake, I am still with you. 19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

[@bobbymarsh1]

What they failed to realize is that killers don’t care about your non violence activism. Secondly these events and statutory laws were codified and upheld by this government. Thirdly it was not the fear of non violence that led to change in law but in fact the fear and threat of the secondary plan to meet violence w violence.

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

“The Maegan Merkel story”, it all started with Queen Elizabeth! Unlike the Blue Blood royal family like Harry’s Maegan was a simple, extraordinary lil mix breed (from a mulatto back ground) that grew up and married Royalty The ferry book details of a true Princess, a lil black princess at that! Wow! Well unfortunately we are not all Princesses, but she paved the way for the dream! Hey, black child! Based on a true story! LETH Grow!!

[@dlee6014]

Andy Young was a US Ambassador and after he stated there should be a two state solution in Palestine, he was removed and disgraced.

[@BibleSamurai]

He didnt continue King's work. He continued the work. There were so many unspoken heroes from civil rights era. King was an important figure. The face of the movement. But not "the" movement. These ppl, especially the women in the back ground marching, the those ppl arrested and clubbed, hosed down, the kids who the cops put in hot boxes, are to be honored just as much as the martyr's.

[@genevievehawkins9856]

24:55 #RockefellerCenter

[@Zweizweinull]

Still human

[@michaelgilmore3038]

Was young always a KUUN.... Or did it come later in life ?

[@SondriaInglesias-cb8ms]

i never dated a man with name yng or yung or not me. did they live near 43 and drexel? dnt jnow? wwere those ronald mcdonald associations?

[@Wizdomman1]

2:15:00

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[@nathalieanderegg2033]

je lis ..

[@Zweizweinull]

Its Angst Sir were coming closer to each owa were in a sick point of view ghosts or souls

[@juanlopez4353]

How come they never put a Hispanic role model speaking about civil rights for the native, the mestizos, the Hispanics, the blacks, the for everybody..... Martin Luther King is flesh-and-blood like anybody put a native, a mestizo, a Mexican, middle Eastern, Asian, to speak about civil rights it's not all about blacks we speaking about it it's not a black-and-white TV is a color TV for everybody to see in color.......

[@nakialandry5988]

Shush😞

[@klu753]

this is a long boring ass story.

[@terenceporter9786]

it takes balls telling the truth even if means you have to take it or what could happen. Civil right posters like this are nothing like today. They were marching through town, not clogging up the streets sitting for 24+ hours because they just there to party.

[@whoamiinmyrealreality9062]

Yiunor czjust had wrong partmer

[@Zweizweinull]

Hf gl