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1981-05-31, Andrew Young Interviewee: Atlanta, Georgia

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Andrew Young Interviewee: Atlanta, Georgia, 1981 May 31 [Box 140, Item 3, Side 1 and 2]. Topics include: Dorothy Cotton's comments in My Soul Is Rested on women in the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s problems with women, Ella Baker, the decision making processes of Baptist preachers, decision making within SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Converence), King's decision making process, Hosea Williams, the involvement of children in the Birmingham (Alabama) Movement, Jim Lawson, assassination (of Martin Luther King Jr.) in Memphis, other cities during the time of Birmingham, conditions in the Albany (Georgia), Americus jails, Diane Nash, Randolph Blackwell, Young's mayoral campaign, and Fred Shuttlesworth.

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