Civil rights icon Andrew Young says SCLC infighting is about organization, not movement
By Errin Haines, APTuesday, June 1, 2010
Andrew Young decries infighting at SCLC group
ATLANTA — Civil rights icon Andrew Young says he has little use for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, where he once worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded in 1957.
Young says the fight is not over a movement, but an organization.
He says “If anybody is doing anything that is a movement, or the possibility of a movement, I would be glad to support it. But I’m not interested in organizations. None of them. Except the NAACP.”
In April, separate factions that both claimed to be the SCLC’s board of directors met hundreds of miles apart, and each said they made moves toward saving the group.
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