ATLANTA - Civil rights icon Andrew Young says he has little use for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization he once worked in alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The SCLC that I worked with was a movement," Young said Tuesday. "That movement ended somewhere, a little after the early '70s."

Today, infighting and allegations of financial mismanagement are threatening to undermine the social justice group King co-founded in 1957. The SCLC is headed back to a Fulton County courtroom today for a hearing to determine who is in control of the fractured group.

Young says the fight is not over a movement, but over an organization.

"If anybody is doing anything that is a movement, or the possibility of a movement, I would be glad to support it," Young said. "But I'm not interested in organizations. None of them. Except the NAACP."

Young and other King lieutenants - including the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who served as SCLC president from 1977 to 1997, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis - have distanced themselves from the feud.

Last fall, federal and local authorities began investigating allegations that the SCLC chairman and treasurer mismanaged at least $569,000 of the group's money. The two deny the allegations and continue to challenge their dismissal by some board members.

Chairman Raleigh Trammell and Treasurer Spiver Gordon have not been criminally charged, but the SCLC has spent the months in court, wrangling over control of the organization.

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.