Leet County, GA mass meetings excerpts, no date, 1960s

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	(clapping)	0:05
	(chatting)	0:09
	♪ I'm gonna tell them how you treat me ♪	0:14
	♪ Oh, I'm gonna tell them how you treat me ♪	0:19
	♪ One of these days, hallelujah ♪	0:23
	♪ I'm gonna tell them how you treat me ♪	0:25
	♪ Oh, tell them how you treat me one of these days ♪	0:31
	♪ I'm gonna get my freedom ♪	0:38
	♪ Oh, I'm gonna get my freedom here of the days ♪	0:43
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:49
	♪ I'm gonna get my freedom here ♪	0:50
	♪ I'm gonna get my freedom ♪	0:55
	♪ One these days, hallelujah ♪	0:58
	♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table ♪	1:02
	♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table ♪	1:08
	♪ One of these days, hallelujah ♪	1:11
	♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table ♪	1:14
	♪ Eat at the freedom table one of these days ♪	1:19
-	Well, well.	1:23
	♪ Guide my feet, Lord, while I run this race, oh ♪	1:31
	♪ Guide my feet while I run this race ♪	1:39
	♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪	1:47
	♪ Hold my hand while I run this race ♪	1:56
	♪ Hold my hand while I run this race ♪	2:05
	♪ Hold my hand while I run this race ♪	2:14
	♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪	2:22
	♪ Guide my soul while I run this race ♪	2:30
	♪ Guide my soul while I run this race ♪	2:38
	♪ Guide my soul while I run this race ♪	2:46
	♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪	2:55
	♪ Fix my heart while I run this race ♪	3:03
	♪ Fix my heart while I run this race ♪	3:10
	♪ Fix my heart while I run this race ♪	3:19
	♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪	3:26
	♪ Well, hold my hand while I run this race ♪	3:35
	♪ Hold my hand while I run this race ♪	3:44
	♪ Hold my hand while I run this race ♪	3:52
	♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪	4:01
	(talking)	4:15
-	Let us to bow our heads in a word of prayer.	4:20
	Oh, gracious king, as we come together,	4:22
	we pray that thou would bless our coming together.	4:25
	Bless this people, we pray that thou would give	4:29
	us strength to give us courage to carry on,	4:32
	to fight on and on until the victory is won.	4:35
	This we ask in the name of thy son, Christ Jesus, amen.	4:39
-	Amen.	4:43
-	At this time, I'd like to say, welcome everybody	4:48
	to the home of the brave.	4:50
	I think I use that name because of what we people	4:52
	in Terrell County went through in order to get	4:54
	the few people that we have gotten registered to vote.	4:58
-	Amen.	5:01
-	Because that's our primary objective,	5:02
	and it's a very hard one, although it shouldn't be.	5:03
	But it's a very hard one.	5:07
	(clapping)	5:13
	(coughing and thunking drowning out speaker)	5:16
-	I have been in here a while.	5:21
	I've been here six hours.	5:23
	And I've been asking people about freedom.	5:24
	Everybody in Terrell County's afraid to talk about freedom.	5:28
	I talk with some of the people, strangers.	5:32
	I went up to some of the people's houses and ask 'em,	5:34
	they said, "You one of them Freedom Riders."	5:37
	They say, (mumbling) "You come here, so we had to move."	5:40
	I said no, I said, "Well, I'm not a Freedom Rider."	5:42
	I said, "I'm in here trying to do the will of God.	5:44
	"Trying to wait for the Lord."	5:47
	I'm not a Freedom Rider.	5:48
	I'm trying to hold up and get freedom for myself.	5:50
	(exclaiming)	5:54
	My mother, my grandmother, and they,	5:54
	all of them, died enslaved.	5:57
	Now, I'm fighting for my rights.	5:59
	Give me my rights, please.	6:01
	The people in Terrell County need to wake up.	6:04
	I tell you what we need to do.	6:06
	We need to go on over here to Dawson and fall down	6:07
	on our knees and ask God to help message	6:10
	like He did in Albany.	6:12
	That same God in Albany is over here in--	6:13
	(clapping) in Terrell County	6:16
	That same God can come over here in Terrell County.	6:19
	Let's all get on the bus, the Freedom Riders or not,	6:22
	Let's all get on the bus and go to town	6:25
	and fall down on our knees and ask God to have mercy!	6:27
	And that we ask God on it, from our heart,	6:30
	he will have mercy!	6:34
	We can't do nothing without Jesus!	6:36
	We got to have God in front of us!	6:39
	We scared!	6:42
	I'm not afraid!	6:43
	They can kill me!	6:44
	Listen.	6:46
	I got something over here I know somebody know	6:46
	something about it.	6:49
	They say you walk around here, you going to jail.	6:50
	If I go to jail, I'm satisfied.	6:54
	Jesus gonna fight my boss, right there.	6:56
	He will kinda need you to wake up.	6:59
	Awe, but listen, I tell you what we need to do.	7:02
	Let's go to Dawson with this.	7:04
	If it caused the Freedom Riders, and pray a prayer	7:06
	and ask God to have mercy.	7:09
	Yes, fall on down on our knees in Lee Street.	7:12
	Right there in front of the courthouse.	7:15
	It ain't far from the jail, and ask God to have mercy.	7:17
	And give us freedom.	7:20
	Yeah, they call you white.	7:23
	Call out some name for him.	7:25
	But now, listen, your skin's a little bit brighter	7:27
	than mine, but it's all you.	7:29
	If you cut me tonight and I bleed red blood	7:32
	that's like you bleed.	7:34
	Let's wake up and get it!	7:36
	Let's wake up and get it, here!	7:37
	Let's wake up here this time!	7:40
	I'm with you!	7:43
	(clapping drowning out speaker)	7:44
	no saving us but prayer.	7:46
	I've been (inaudible) a slave	7:47
	I want my child to come up with a education.	7:50
	I didn't get much.	7:52
-	So true, now.	7:54
-	Mm-hmm, but I want my mind to come on up and get it.	7:55
	I'm willing to fight for mine.	7:58
	Thank you.	8:00
-	All right!
	(clapping)	8:01
	(mumbling)	8:04
-	Freedom Riders!	8:06
	Let's go to Dawson and ask God to have mercy.	8:07
	That's a public place.	8:10
	He had mercy over in Dougherty County.	8:12
	That same God over there.	8:14
	Thank you.	8:15
	(clapping)	8:16
	(mumbling)	8:21
	When the time come, he called me a Freedom Rider.	8:22
	If I go to jail, I'm--	8:24
	(clapping)	8:26
	(mumbling)	8:28
-	Tuesday, I'm going over to Dawson.	8:31
	There's a gentlemen here, and another one.	8:37
	And I done my best to get registered.	8:44
	I done my best.	8:51
	I done all that I could do.	8:53
	I don't know whether it's gonna stand up or not.	8:58
	I attempted to vote once before,	9:02
	'bout 30 or 40 years ago.	9:08
	And I was kicked out.	9:12
	And I don't know, they may kick me out now.	9:16
	(laughing and chatting)	9:19
	I hope they won't, but I've been kicked out before	9:21
	from voting and it's gone just about towards	9:26
	I'm done gonna go now.	9:30
	(mumbling)	9:32
	I went up to Dawson and I registered.	9:37
	I don't know whether it'll stand up or not.	9:43
	(mumbling)	9:46
	But I did.	9:47
	I couldn't get no, there's some things about it,	9:51
	I didn't think I was going to be able to do	9:54
	and they wouldn't help me none.	9:57
	Throwed the book down, take it and go ahead,	10:02
	and if you can do anything, do it.	10:05
	So I think I done very well.	10:07
	(chatting and clapping)	10:11
	I think I done (clapping drowning out speaker).	10:12
	I think I done well enough for it to stand.	10:16
	I believe I did.	10:20
	(clapping)	10:23
-	When we think of the Albany Movement, we do not think	10:41
	of Albany alone.	10:44
	We think of Southwest Georgia.	10:47
	Even though we feel that we are only, let's say	10:51
	a couple thousand strong there in Albany,	10:57
	we start thinking about how strong we really are.	11:02
	We think of Lee, Sumter, Terrell, and all the other counties	11:07
	because we are all working for the same thing.	11:13
	(mm-hmm)	11:17
	There's one thing I would like to say to you.	11:19
	That is keep going.	11:22
	If we had stopped, and we've had many ups and downs,	11:25
	if we had stopped, we would not have been	11:29
	where we are today.	11:32
-	That's the truth.	11:33
-	If possible, follow your leader.	11:35
	Whoever the leader is, give him support, stand behind him	11:39
	and work with him.	11:44
	A few word about the SNCC workers.	11:48
	I don't think I have met a more dedicated group	11:51
	since I have been, well, here these 30 years.	11:55
	(laughing)	12:01
	Certainly when they came into Albany,	12:08
	and I think my husband and I went to the first	12:10
	or second meeting, and I knew then that I was going	12:12
	to stick with this.	12:16
	I have (mumbling).	12:18
	I would like for you to stick with them.	12:20
	Give them your support, and in turn, they will support you.	12:23
	Thank you.	12:26
	(clapping)	12:27
-	And in conclusion that many of you might not have heard	12:40
	what happened at a place in Albany named	12:43
	Bob's Candy Company, that there are not	12:46
	as many colored employees.	12:48
	But this was an outgrowth of the Albany Movement	12:50
	that a lady was fired there because her child was one	12:52
	of the children who attempted to integrate	12:56
	the white high school in Albany.	12:57
	And all of them walked out, and it was just wonderful	13:00
	to see that sort of spirit and that sort of unanimity.	13:04
	And many of them might not have wanted to walk out,	13:07
	but they knew that their black sisters and brothers,	13:10
	they could never live with any peace if they didn't walk	13:13
	out of that place.	13:16
	But I'll say this, I think of one good brother.	13:17
	You know, we got a lot of brothers who don't believe	13:20
	in what we are fighting for in Albany and in other places.	13:24
	But one of the good brothers, he was telling me,	13:26
	he didn't believe in the Albany Movement too much.	13:29
	He was seeing them, oh, he'd say, the sister amazef him.	13:32
	He said, "I'm amazed at how much better things are	13:34
	"at Bob's now, and it has proved one thing to me."	13:37
	He said, "I walked out of that place and now I hold	13:40
	"all these bills, and I wasn't thinking about family,	13:42
	"I wasn't thinking about nothing else."	13:45
	He said, "And it proved to me when you really want something	13:46
	"and you believe in it, you gotta give up everything	13:50
	"to try and get it."	13:52
	(audience exclaiming)	13:54
	So I hope that we will fight with that kind of spirit.	13:55
	Thank you.	13:57
	(clapping)	13:58
-	One of the main reasons we sit	14:10
	in this tent together tonight is addressing	14:14
	how our country is fundamentally built up	14:20
	that it's political	14:25
	And one of the great lessons we learned,	14:28
	in this section of the country, was that with the vote	14:32
	we could have, had we had the vote, put in	14:40
	a man who would've stood up for us and represented us.	14:46
	Without a doubt.	14:52
	But because we didn't have the vote, we didn't have	14:55
	the voice to say we want this man	14:59
	to represent us in government.	15:07
	We fightin' now, and we're moving inch by inch.	15:12
	Out here in Terrell, out there in Sumter, and Lee,	15:16
	and in Dougherty.	15:21
	Many of you have heard of a man, spoke on TV.	15:25
	Black man.	15:31
	Spoke on TV about what he thought about politics	15:33
	and economics and society, and all those big words.	15:38
	Spoke out.	15:44
	And we sat back and felt proud of this man	15:47
	because here was a man, his face black,	15:52
	was sitting up there dignified and running	15:58
	for the office of City Commissioner, just like anybody else.	16:02
	We were proud of him.	16:08
	And we heard of his name, Thomas Chatmon.	16:11
	We heard of his name on TV, and we heard	16:14
	of his name on radio.	16:17
	And we wondered about him.	16:19
	We'd like to see him, we probably said to ourselves.	16:21
	Well tonight, we have the chance to see and hear	16:25
	this man in person.	16:29
	Mr. Thomas C. Chatmon.	16:31
	(clapping)	16:33
-	Mr. Sherrod, and all the SNCC workers.	16:42
	Ladies and gentlemen.	16:45
	I'm very happy to be with you tonight.	16:50
	I, too, am very, very much impressed by those	16:55
	of you who are here.	17:00
	I see Mr. Sherrod as a very good man to introduce you.	17:03
	(mumbling and laughing)	17:08
	It's a nice choice of words.	17:11
	But in all seriousness, when I walked into this tent tonight	17:15
	I thought about when I was a boy.	17:17
	Now speaking about ground floors	17:20
	I was reared in the country.	17:22
	We lived in a cotton field.	17:24
	My house was situated in the middle of the cotton field,	17:26
	you see, and this tent reminds me of a tent	17:29
	that I used to attend when I was a boy	17:31
	to what they called the sanctified church.	17:33
	Those people there were prayer and singing	17:38
	as you are tonight.	17:43
	They were praying and singing for freedom then.	17:46
	And I said when I came into this tent, I said,	17:51
	"Well, the Negroes are still praying and singing	17:53
	"in tents for freedom."	17:57
	Today I think the Negro is faced with one	18:05
	of the greatest challenges of his time.	18:08
	And that challenge is to save America.	18:14
-	Yes, Lord.	18:17
-	I think that if America is to be saved,	18:18
	the Negro must save America.	18:22
	How are we gonna save it?	18:26
	I think the future of the Negro depends upon the ballot box	18:27
	and the future of America depends upon the Negro.	18:32
	(exclaiming)	18:36
	Now we are engaged in Albany, Dougherty County,	18:37
	Suffolk County, Lee County, Terrell County,	18:43
	and I hope soon we'll be in Baker County, Mitchell County,	18:46
	(inaudible) County and all these counties.	18:48
	We must continue to press forward to try to teach	18:51
	our people the importance of the ballot,	18:55
	as Mr. Sherrod has pointed out to you.	18:58
	Last year, when I ran for City Commissioner,	19:01
	we had, I believe, 4,400 registered Negroes in Albany.	19:04
	And I believe it was 11,080 whites.	19:09
	Well, we, to be frank with you, we didn't think	19:13
	4,000 votes could win over 11,000 votes.	19:19
	But at least we could present a new image of the Negro	19:23
	in this section of the country.	19:28
	Now we can talk about college and (inaudible)	19:34
	and (inaudible) as long as you want to talk.	19:37
	But until you get enough votes to vote these people	19:39
	out of office (exclaiming).	19:43
	We will not be able to accomplish what we set out to.	19:45
	I know that in order to lead a fulfilling life	19:52
	and to speak with a mind that's (mumbling).	19:56
	Again I would like to say to Mr Sherrod	20:01
	Thanks very much for the invitation	20:03
	I'm very proud to be here.	20:04
	I will be back, and I hope you will come over to Dougherty,	20:06
	I mean to Lee, to Sumter, to all these counties.	20:11
	We must attain and show this type of unity	20:15
	to encourage these people, give them more vigor	20:18
	and enthusiasm and all that we might be able	20:23
	to say this position so that when the fine day comes,	20:26
	we can shoot and hit our targets	20:30
	And our targets will be Zeke Matthews, (inaudible), Terrell	20:33
	Lee, Dougherty County and all these corrupt politicians	20:36
	in Southwest Georgia.	20:41
	Thank you very much.	20:43
	(clapping)	20:44
	(clapping)	20:58
-	I'm not a speaker, I'm a preacher.	21:00
	(laughing)	21:02
	If you would like to hear me preach tonight	21:05
	If I'm just preachin'.	21:09
	What I wanted to say, I welcome you all	21:11
	to this tent, since the church has been destroyed.	21:15
-	The cause of this church being destroyed,	21:21
	was the congregation opened the doors for	21:24
	as they called them, Freedom Riders.	21:26
	(laughing)	21:29
	Amen.	21:30
	I've been pastor here this coming year,	21:32
	kind of worshiping 30 years at this spot.	21:37
	I have a good core group of officers.	21:41
	So we opened the door for them to come in	21:45
	that they hold a meeting. They closed them out every place	21:48
	in Terrell County but not ours	21:51
	That's why she's destroyed.	21:55
	I heard that they were gonna burn it down, but I told them	21:58
	if they burn it down, we're gonna build another one.	22:00
	(clapping)	22:03
	So they burnt down the building but they didn't burn	22:08
	the church down.	22:12
	(shouting)	22:13
	Now, I'm way on up there in years,	22:22
	but I'm tired of going to the back door.	22:26
	(laughing and chatting)	22:29
	The little time that I stay I want to go to the front door	22:32
-	All right.	22:36
-	To get the saints.	22:38
	And if my wife, waiting to (inaudible) can't go	22:39
	into the front door, I don't think she oughta work there.	22:41
	(clapping)	22:44
	(inaudible) white folks if we have	22:49
	to go around to the back door instead of going in the front,	22:51
	I think you ought to tell 'em come on out.	22:53
	(clapping and exclaiming)	22:56
	Isn't that right?	22:57
	(exclaiming)	22:58
	Amen.	23:00
	So I'm saying to you, let's stand up here for the Lord.	23:01
	The only way we going to get this thing completed,	23:04
	(inaudible) just won't do.	23:08
	(exclaiming)	23:11
	You have to be sincere in what we do.	23:13
	And put the Lord in front of the banner.	23:15
	Isn't that right?	23:18
	(exclaiming)	23:19
	He brought Israel out with a strong hand.	23:21
	And that same God that brought Israel out is here, too.	23:24
	(exclaiming)	23:28
-	Y'all listen to Brother Tex.	23:33
	(shouting)	23:34
	You can't hate the white man who	23:37
	(talking drowning out speaker).	23:40
-	No!	23:40
-	You gonna have to love him.	23:43
	Love them that (mumbling)	23:44
	strike to use you (mumbling)!	23:45
-	Amen.	23:47
-	Isn't that what the book says?	23:49
	I know we don't wanna do it, but you gonna have to do it.	23:51
-	Amen.	23:54
-	Amen.	23:56
	Isn't that right?	23:57
	Then the Lord will break down that separating wall	23:59
	between the other man, and we get together.	24:03
-	All right, reverend!	24:06
-	Okay, then.	24:08
	(speakers drowning each other out)	24:14
	(clapping)	24:19
	♪ No more jailhouse ♪	24:20
	♪ No more jailhouse ♪	24:23
	♪ No more jailhouse over me ♪	24:27
	♪ Not over me ♪	24:33
	♪ And before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave ♪	24:35
	♪ And go home to my Lord and be free ♪	24:45
-	Oh freedom!	24:54
	♪ Oh freedom ♪	24:55
	♪ Oh freedom ♪	24:59
	♪ Oh freedom over me, over me ♪	25:04
	♪ And before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave ♪	25:12
	♪ And go home to my Lord and be free ♪	25:21
-	Now the Martin Luther King of southwest Georgia,	25:32
	Dr. Reverend Johnson.	25:36
	(clapping)	25:39
-	I don't know whether I like that introduction or not.	25:46
	(laughing)	25:49
	To my colored friends (laughing),	25:53
	and to you honorary colored folks, I want all of you	25:59
	to know first of all that Zeke Matthews doesn't like	26:04
	what's going on out here.	26:07
	(laughing)	26:09
	And I want you to know that Fred Chapel in Americus	26:10
	does not like what's going on out here.	26:14
	(exclaiming)	26:16
	Colonel Campbell doesn't like it in Albany.	26:17
	And I'm sure Mr. Short is a might unhappy man this evening	26:21
	(laughing)	26:26
	As a matter of fact, I think you're gonna make them	26:29
	even more unhappy because you are trying to disturb	26:34
	and upset our traditional Southern way of life.	26:39
	I wonder sometime why it is that they act so stupidly	26:45
	and have a difficult time understanding	26:54
	what it is we want.	26:56
	As story was told to me when I was in New York	26:59
	not long ago about a little colored boy	27:02
	who decided he wanted to see what it would be like	27:07
	to be white for just a little while.	27:09
	So he went home one evening and got down in the basement	27:11
	and got in his daddy's lime and he powdered himself	27:14
	all over and ran upstairs and he said,	27:17
	"Mommy, Mommy, look at me, I'm a white boy."	27:21
	And she took him down and tanned his hide good.	27:25
	(laughing)	27:27
	And when his daddy came home, Momma told Daddy	27:29
	and Daddy took him into basement	27:32
	and tanned his hide good again.	27:33
	(laughing)	27:35
	Went back upstairs and his momma asked him, said,	27:38
	"Well, how was it to be white?"	27:40
	(laughing)	27:42
	He said, "Well, I see what it's all about.	27:44
	"I was white for 15 minutes, and I hate	27:47
	"two Negroes already."	27:48
	(laughing and clapping)	27:50
	You gonna have a dream of being a first-class citizen.	27:53
	And his dream has been filled with nightmares	27:57
	for many years past.	27:59
	Many of us can remember with horror the infliction	28:02
	of bodily harm and pain that has come to Negroes	28:07
	down through the generations.	28:10
	I can yet remember so vividly, and it hasn't been	28:12
	too long ago, the Negro who was shot down	28:15
	on the courthouse steps in Baker County	28:18
	and was tied to the back of an automobile and dragged around	28:21
	In this day and generation!	28:24
	I can remember very vividly, as early as last year,	28:27
	a Negro who was in jail in Bainbridge, Georgia,	28:33
	because he said that he would vote against Marvin Griffin	28:36
	if he was out of jail and could vote, was beaten and died.	28:40
	I can remember too vividly an Emmett Till in Mississippi	28:46
	who would not even reach the voting age	28:52
	and would not be given the opportunity to go down	28:54
	and put his name on the books.	28:57
	He was deprived of the right to live,	28:59
	and ultimately the right of being	29:02
	a first-class American citizen	29:04
	because he dared act like anybody else.	29:07
	Because he dared to live and breathe as a Negro	29:11
	in the state of Mississippi.	29:16
	We live in a day and time when men can commit	29:19
	such dastardly crimes and be given a license to do it.	29:22
	A time when a sheriff like Johnson down in Baker County	29:29
	can lynch a Negro and be elected to office	29:32
	the next year.	29:35
	A time when a man like Zeke Matthews can walk	29:38
	into a church where a voter registration meeting is going on	29:40
	and disrupt the service, create chaos and confusion,	29:46
	and be licensed to carry that pistol	29:51
	and still be the sheriff in the same county.	29:54
	When we as Negroes have a dream!	29:59
	Yes, these nightmares are in our dreams,	30:02
	but we have, at the end of the dream,	30:05
	a shining light that says on it, freedom.	30:09
	Amd we know that that road to freedom is	30:12
	a long and narrow road!	30:15
	We know that on one side of it, there are briars	30:19
	and bramble bushes, and we know on the other side	30:21
	there are cottonmouth moccasins	30:23
	and diamondback rattlesnakes.	30:25
	We know that segregation and discrimination will be	30:26
	over our heads every inch of the way!	30:29
	But we'll keep our eyes set on that little light	30:31
	at the end of the road that shines to freedom.	30:33
	This is the dream of the American Negro.	30:36
	I dream of the day I'll be able to walk up	30:39
	the courthouse steps in Dougherty County,	30:42
	and I'll be able to go in and sit down	30:46
	and converse with Mr. Chatmon in his chambers	30:48
	of the city commission.	30:51
	(exclaiming)	30:52
	My dream is of the day when I'll be able to go	30:53
	into the Holiday Inn and sit down at the welcome table	30:56
	and join my friends having dinner.	30:59
	(exclaiming)	31:00
	They can go upstairs and enjoy the comforts	31:02
	of the Holiday Inn.	31:05
	I look forward to the day when I can exert myself	31:06
	as a man downtown and demand what is rightfully mine	31:09
	and get it!	31:12
	Without fear of any retaliation, without fear	31:14
	of my life being lost, of my body being harmed.	31:17
	I look forward to the day when I would not have	31:20
	to go around to the back door anymore.	31:22
	I would not have to be subjected to the humiliations	31:24
	and embarrassments of being called a boy.	31:28
	And know why I can't go into the zoo	31:32
	because my face is black.	31:34
	In my dream, too, I see my daughter going	31:36
	to Albany High School, she was turned back one time.	31:39
	And they'll never learn, God bless their souls!	31:43
	In Albany, they'd rather close the door	31:46
	and deprive all the students of education!	31:48
	Rather than let a Negro join them	31:52
	in this education process.	31:56
	But our dream of the free Negro	32:00
	in the United States is becoming a reality.	32:03
	And it's becoming a reality because you here	32:07
	in Terrell County and the Negroes over in Dougherty County,	32:09
	and the Negroes in Lee County, and the Negroes	32:12
	in Baker County have decided that they aren't	32:15
	gonna take it any longer!	32:17
	They decided they will not have their backs bent	32:20
	and be enslaved anymore.	32:22
	They are determined to be free and nothing can turn	32:24
	them around because the change has come from within.	32:26
	And once the change has started from within,	32:30
	there is no turning back.	32:34
	The martyr has already mounted the cross.	32:36
	He has felt the pierce of the spear in his side.	32:39
	He cannot come down off the cross.	32:44
	He will stay there.	32:47
	He will suffer, bleed and die until he is free.	32:49
	I would admonish the people that when they ask	32:56
	in my travels what happened to the Negroes down there	32:58
	in southwest Georgia.	33:01
	And I tell the story of the Negro who had been working	33:04
	as a sharecropper, and he went up to old master	33:06
	at the end of the season and he said,	33:10
	"Old Master, how did we do this year?"	33:12
	Master said, "Well, Johnny, you did very good this year.	33:14
	"You had the best crop of peanuts and corn and cotton	33:17
	"I've ever seen.	33:22
	"But you know, Johnny?	33:22
	"We just did break even, so there's no money	33:24
	"for you this year.	33:27
	"You gonna try me again next year?"	33:29
	He said, "Well, yes sir, I guess I'll try	33:30
	"you again next year."	33:33
	And he worked even harder than he'd ever worked before	33:35
	and at the end of the season, he went up and said,	33:37
	"Old Master, how did we do this year?"	33:38
	He said, "Well, John, you outdid yourself.	33:41
	"This is the best year that you've ever had.	33:44
	"I'm just proud of ya.	33:47
	"You had more cotton and peanuts and corn.	33:50
	"We had a tremendous year this year.	33:52
	"But you know, John, we just did break even."	33:54
	(laughing)	33:58
	"You gonna try me again next year, John?"	34:00
	And he said, "No, I'm gonna try you now!"	34:01
	(laughing)	34:04
	I tell him that!	34:06
	We have contributed our all to the building	34:07
	of this nation!	34:12
	We have made cotton king!	34:14
	We just decided we weren't gonna take it anymore,	34:16
	we decided we'd try now.	34:19
	(clapping)	34:22
	We decided that we are gonna stop going to the back door.	34:27
	Gonna stop buying and scraping and as Wyatt Walker says,	34:31
	"Scratching where we don't itch and	34:35
	grinning when we don't tickle."	34:37
	(laughing)	34:39
-	Amen.	34:40
-	This is a Negro who's not afraid any longer.	34:41
	And as we sing that song, "We Are Not Afraid,"	34:42
	we sing it from the bottom of our hearts	34:45
	because we really mean it.	34:47
	(exclaiming)	34:48
	It's a Negro who walks and holds his head up high,	34:49
	and as long as he holds his head up high,	34:52
	he cannot be enslaved because you have to bend down	34:55
	and bow down to become a slave.	34:58
-	That's right.	34:59
-	This is a Negro who has a new sense of dignity	35:01
	and self respect.	35:03
	He's a Negro who conducts himself in a manner	35:05
	that will make you respect him!	35:08
	Zeke Matthews wouldn't dare darken this door.	35:10
	This would not have happened a year ago.	35:16
	We would not even be meeting in this tent a year ago.	35:19
	They can kick us out but they can't kick us down.	35:23
	They can burn the churches down, but where this one stood,	35:26
	a greater church will stand, because our cause is	35:30
	a righteous cause!	35:33
	And you can slow it down, but you can't stop it.	35:35
	You can cause it to take a more devious route	35:40
	and get it off that straight path,	35:43
	but you can't stop it.	35:45
	It's going.	35:46
	Because the Negroes have a dream.	35:47
-	Amen.	35:49
-	A dream of being an American citizen.	35:51
	A first-class citizen, with all of the rights	35:54
	and privileges of any other American citizen.	35:58
	And we are determined to see that day come	36:00
	in this present generation.	36:05
-	Amen.	36:07
-	It does my heart good to see	36:09
	the older people participating.	36:11
	Those who probably have most of their years behind them.	36:14
	And you would think that after being subjected	36:19
	to a virtual slavery for these past 100 years,	36:22
	they'd be ready to give up.	36:25
	But you can't help but have your heart warmed	36:28
	when you see that even they are determined to see freedom	36:30
	in their generation.	36:34
	When we get done over there in Dougherty County	36:37
	with our white folk, we gonna come over here	36:38
	and help you straighten out yours.	36:41
	(laughing and clapping)	36:42
	We feel as though as we make southwest Georgia better,	36:47
	the entire South will be better.	36:52
	The soul of the nation rests in the hands of the Negro.	36:55
	The salvation of the free world rests in the hands	37:01
	of the Negroes.	37:05
	As we make southwest Georgia better,	37:08
	we will make the world better.	37:10
	We will have to teach our brothers in the deep South	37:13
	that it is only through love can we win the hearts	37:16
	and minds of people throughout this world.	37:19
	If we are to maintain our image as a world leader	37:22
	in a democratic society, it will not be because we are	37:25
	a big nation.	37:28
	Bigness is imposing.	37:30
	It will be because we are a great nation.	37:32
	And great nations recognize the privileges	37:35
	of its minorities.	37:39
	Greatness is enduring.	37:41
	Thank you very much.	37:43
	(clapping)	37:44
	(chatting)	37:52
-	On Saturday night, while many of us that are here	37:55
	were away to the (inaudible) the Ku Klux Klan held a meeting	37:59
	on private property and (inaudible) of Dougherty County.	38:03
	And across from the Klan's meeting, a group of people	38:06
	from Albany, formed a target line, to keep the Klans	38:14
	from crossing over to burn a cross	38:18
	in front of Dr. Anderson's house.	38:21
	The Klan had asked to parade, and Pritchard refused	38:23
	to give them permission to parade.	38:27
	So they were calling him all kind of names,	38:30
	saying that he was a nigger lover.	38:32
	But he stood beside Negroes and told them	38:35
	that not to fire at them (mumbling).	38:37
	(cheering and clapping)	38:41
-	Freedom rights.	38:53
	(mumbling)	38:54
	To keep him enrolled, he told me, he says,	38:56
	he says, "Well, if I've gotta take it,"	38:58
	he says, "so we can be looking out."	39:00
	He said, "Chapel and South was told to me."	39:06
	He said, "Don't tell you all about it."	39:11
	He said, "But they're gonna arrest you and Sherrod	39:13
	"for tonight when they have the meeting out there."	39:16
	That's what he told me (mumbling).	39:23
	I said, "Well, okay."	39:25
	I said, "I thank you for telling me."	39:26
	(mumbling)	39:28
	They can come with all the sheriffs in the world they want,	39:31
	but to have me locked to that chair (inaudible)	39:34
	(inaudible) why I can't go.	39:38
	I'm wanted, just like I told them people	39:40
	at the All-American thing.	39:42
	gonna give me that paper, with the (inaudible)?	39:44
	She brought it up.	39:48
	And said, "Arthur Clems, I didn't think you would,	39:51
	"but we've been mighty nice to you and sympathized."	39:54
	So well, I said, "I appreciate it, too."	39:57
	He said, "I didn't think you'd join hands	40:00
	"with something like that."	40:02
	I said, "Well," I said, "It's just like this.	40:03
	"That church out there is just like my house."	40:05
	I says, "Anybody go to my house, I'm going to see	40:07
	"what they do."	40:11
	I say, "And they came over to have a meeting,"	40:12
	"That's the church house, where they hold the meeting."	40:14
	I say, "We go out there, we sing, we pray,	40:17
	"and have our meeting."	40:20
	I say, "You don't mind us trying to learn how to register	40:23
	"if we don't know how."	40:27
	No, ain't nothing wrong with that.	40:29
	That's not against the state laws.	40:31
	But you didn't look like you all had to get them with that.	40:33
	What I mean, no, I know.	40:38
	They here all the time, but they didn't tell us.	40:40
	They didn't tell us.	40:45
	(clapping)	40:49
-	Have you ever told about your (mumbling)?	40:58
-	Oh, did I tell you people about seeing Mr. Lightfoot?	41:03
	(laughing)	41:06
	Well, Mr. Lightfoot is the principal	41:08
	of Lee County Training School.	41:10
	A fine man, fine man.	41:13
	A gentleman.	41:17
	A real gentleman.	41:18
	(laughing)	41:20
-	A gentleman (mumbling).	41:22
-	Doctor.	41:23
	(laughing)	41:24
	Dr. Tom.	41:26
	I walked in with it.	41:27
	Ed Hebron, during the tournament.	41:30
	Larry was going back up to Ohio to make some arrangements	41:35
	at his school.	41:40
	Eddie was out in Lee County with me,	41:41
	and we went over to see Mr. Lightfoot to ask him	41:43
	if he had a list of the names of the kids	41:46
	in Lee County School who were old enough to vote,	41:49
	or if we could walk around and talk to some	41:53
	of the kids that are in school and try to get	41:57
	'em to go down and register, since this was a place	41:59
	where most of 'em came together.	42:02
	So, well, we didn't expect to get a good answer from him.	42:03
	A positive answer.	42:07
	But we thought we'd go and see, anyway.	42:08
	And it took him about 20 minutes to say no.	42:11
	And he said it in five or 10 different ways.	42:16
	And he stopped every few minutes, every time	42:20
	somebody's footsteps were heard in the hall,	42:21
	he'd stop and peep around the corner and say,	42:24
	"Wait a minute, I wanna see if that's Mr. Charlie."	42:26
	"Never can tell when he's gonna come through here."	42:31
	And so, soon as Larry got back from Ohio,	42:34
	I told him about this and said that next time we go,	42:40
	Mr. Charlie will go with us (laughing)	42:43
	and see how he reacts then.	42:45
-	Well, things are coming along.	42:58
	There's a rumor out that tomorrow night at the meeting	43:01
	in Sumter County that a Mr. Trim Porter,	43:06
	who's the eldest deacon at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church	43:10
	and who was also responsible for our being there,	43:14
	this man is to be arrested.	43:18
	If he comes to our meeting.	43:21
-	Yeah, I know it.	43:23
-	Along with me.	43:25
	(laughing)	43:27
-	Yeah.	43:28
-	Tomorrow night, this is?	43:29
-	Yeah.	43:31
-	I'd said as well.	43:37
	I received a little telephone call from my mother	43:38
	to say that my grandmother was ill.	43:43
	I would've gone Tuesday.	43:46
	My grandmother's near death.	43:49
	If they just hadn't gotten out that rumor	43:54
	that if I came to that church that I'd be arrested,	43:58
	I would've gone Tuesday.	44:01
	But since that's what, since they said that,	44:04
	I feel compelled to go to that meeting.	44:06
	'Cause I don't believe they are doing anything like that.	44:11
	They are too nice of marching men over there to do that.	44:14
	(laughing)	44:19
	See there's Chapel and this GBI friend.	44:22
	What's his name?	44:26
	(mumbling)	44:28
	Mr. South.	44:29
	Mr South.	44:31
	Say that he stops off everywhere we are.	44:33
	He was over here in Terrell investigating us.	44:35
	(speakers drowning each other out) investigate for you.	44:38
	He's just gotta go everywhere.	44:40
	(mumbling)	44:41
-	Trouble.	44:42
-	Trouble.
	(laughing)	44:53
	That's a good one.	44:55
	(mumbling)	44:56
	They had this story.	44:58
	This is the story.	44:59
	Two or three stories.	45:02
	The GBI story is that the kids playing around	45:05
	with the matches or the paper, or the coals	45:09
	in the stove and burned the house down.	45:12
	They said the kids did it.	45:16
	With no explanation given to the whites.	45:18
	Second story is a story	45:21
	of Mr. Porter, Mr. Trim Porter, who was a deacon	45:28
	out of Pleasant Grove who says that after he had gone	45:32
	to the store, about a quarter to 11,	45:37
	upon coming back, he was in driving his truck.	45:40
	He swung back to buy some fish.	45:45
	Some fish somewhere, somewhere.	45:49
	What did he say?	45:51
	(mumbling)	45:52
	Mullet fish.	45:53
	What?	45:54
-	Mullet fish.	45:55
-	Yeah, mullet, it's a mullet.	45:56
	Why you laugh?	45:57
	That's a good kinda fish.	45:58
	(laughing)	46:00
	Now, another man stopped him and told him	46:01
	that his house was on fire.	46:06
	So they sped toward his house and found	46:08
	that the fire had been started.	46:12
	That the house was burning and collapsed within this,	46:16
	he saw his house was falling down to pieces.	46:20
	And he also found his kids in the ditch.	46:24
	They were scared, they were cold, and so he couldn't get	46:30
	anything out of them then.	46:34
	Took them to a friend's home.	46:35
	Where after they had thawed out.	46:38
	Get 'em warm and everything.	46:43
	He questioned them.	46:45
	They said that a white man came to the house	46:47
	and told them to go down to the road.	46:51
	And they went down to the road.	46:59
	They said this white man came in a blue car.	47:01
	And this is what Mr. Porter said that his kids said	47:04
	to him, and his wife also says that,	47:07
	his wife also said that the kids said this.	47:13
	The kids were questioned and everything	47:18
	by both the GBI and FBI, and some of them came	47:21
	up with the rumor that the kids burned the house down.	47:27
	But we also questioned these kids.	47:34
	About five years old, little girl, thinking about,	47:36
	she had probably some of that while run around	47:44
	and hit you and play with you, jump on you	47:48
	and all that.	47:51

-	Uh and the other little girls	0:02
	were kinda in-going and they	0:04
	you know, don't make friends too easy.	0:06
	Well that's the kinda girl they was.	0:08
	And uh, one question that we found that we	0:11
	couldn't get her to say anything.	0:13
	She wouldn't say anything.	0:16
	She's say, uh, and I'd say, uh	0:18
	did you burn the house down?	0:24
	She'd say yeah.	0:26
	Or did you, uh, did your daddy burn the house down?	0:28
	And they say yeah.	0:31
	Did you mother burn the house down?	0:33
	And she might say yeah.	0:34
	Or she might say no to all those questions.	0:35
	That kind of a kid.	0:38
	Or at least asking those questions.	0:41
	Now on the other hand, I have an opinion.	0:43
	Some others of us have opinions.	0:47
	You probably have your own personal opinion too.	0:50
	My opinion is, I find it difficult to understand	0:53
	why a little girl, the nature of that little girl,	0:59
	finds a need to create a white man that wasn't there	1:05
	or a blue car that wasn't there.	1:12
	And there's another possibility too.	1:18
	There's a possibility somebody's got another view of this	1:20
	is that the white man who came could've come to	1:24
	get the kids out of the house.	1:28
	Maybe he told the kids to get out of the house	1:31
	when the house was burning.	1:33
	But why would they leave?	1:37
	Why is it Mr. Porter knows nothin' about these whites?	1:38
	What happened to them?	1:41
	Did they get burnt up in the fire along with the car?	1:42
	Why is it that we have no record	1:47
	of this white man that was seen?	1:49
	Now these are the questions in my mind	1:52
	which leads me to believe	1:55
	that those kids didn't set fire to the house.	1:59
	You know, this man, the same man, was uh,	2:03
	had his house fired upon a couple weeks ago	2:07
	had his mailbox shot through, torn down,	2:10
	and uh, he also, as he was driving along the road one day,	2:15
	had two white men in a car drive up, you know,	2:23
	side by side him, and point their gun from their car	2:27
	to his and then they drove on.	2:32
	They didn't shoot anything.	2:34
	They just pointed it at him like that.	2:36
-	Did he know them?	2:38
-	What?
-	Did he know who?	2:39
-	No, he didn't know them but
	he could describe the car somewhat.	2:41
-	Now all this happened before the house burned.	2:46
	All that happened before so you can put two	2:50
	you can put one and one together if you want to.	2:55
	And you can put them together any kind of way that you want	3:00
	to put them together.	3:03
	That's the deal, situation on that	3:05
	on that house.	3:12
	(recording ends)	3:14
-	You may remember that we were all	3:19
	pretty exercised awhile back when seven people	3:22
	who had been picketing very peacefully	3:26
	in the middle of Albany in connection with asking people	3:28
	not to buy downtown or midtown before Christmas	3:31
	were arrested and thrown in jail.	3:39
	After they were bonded out, they went to Washington	3:41
	and picketed the Department of Justice.	3:46
	The point is, that it's provided in the Constitution	3:50
	that the people have a right to peaceable protest	3:55
	and petition for the redress of grievances	3:58
	and all that sort of thing,	4:00
	and picketing is part of it if you don't disturb	4:01
	the sidewalk or disturb the peace or anything like that.	4:03
	So that it is a breach of their constitutional rights	4:07
	to arrest people who are picketing in small numbers	4:12
	on charges like disorderly conduct, breach of the peace,	4:19
	failure to obey an officer, all the charges that are	4:22
	used now and again by police all over the country	4:25
	but constantly by police in Albany to get rid of pickets.	4:29
	The city of Washington is very used to pickets.	4:33
	The city of Washington is very public relations conscious.	4:36
	I don't know, it must be 30 or 40 years since	4:40
	a peaceful picket has been arrested in Washington.	4:43
	So, they were picketing the Justice Department	4:47
	with signs which read, among other things,	4:49
	"We can picket here, why not in Albany, Georgia?"	4:53
	which is a very good question.	4:56
	Inside the Justice Department, at the same time	4:59
	or within a day or two, attorney C.B. King	5:02
	and Mr. Marion Page of the Albany Movement	5:07
	were interviewing Burke Marshall who was	5:10
	the Assistant Attorney General,	5:13
	that is the assistant to Robert Kennedy directly in charge	5:16
	of civil rights matters.	5:19
	Protesting not only this particular incident	5:21
	but the pattern it shows of failure of	5:24
	the Federal Government to protect the rights of citizens	5:27
	of Albany when they are protesting and demonstrating.	5:30
	The Federal Government is perfectly OK when it's a matter	5:34
	of registering to vote in Albany.	5:36
	But this is another matter.	5:38
	This was not a totally satisfactory interview.	5:44
	But at least our feeling was registered.	5:48
	As you know there are several cases in the federal courts	5:52
	right now going on up from court to court	5:56
	to test	6:01
	the legality of what has been going on in Albany	6:03
	in the way of segregation and in the way of using	6:06
	other statutes than the segregation statutes	6:09
	to protect segregation.	6:12
	The Justice Department says once the courts have	6:14
	finally ruled as perfectly clear in the line of decisions	6:17
	the federal courts have been making over the last 10 years	6:21
	they're going to rule our way,	6:23
	once the courts have finally ruled we will step	6:25
	into this situation if they go on doing things	6:29
	like arresting your seven pickets last week.	6:31
	Some of our people feel that there are certain laws	6:36
	which even without this last court decision coming along	6:39
	could be used to bring the Justice Department	6:43
	into the situation right now but the Justice Department	6:46
	doesn't see it that way and that's where it is.	6:48
	At least the protest has been registered.	6:51
	(recording ends)	6:54
	♪ This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:08
	♪ Oh, this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:13
	♪ This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:20
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	7:26
	♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:33
	♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:40
	♪ Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:46
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	7:52
	♪ I've got the light of freedom, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	7:59
	♪ I've got the light of freedom, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:05
	♪ I've got the light of freedom, I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:11
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	8:16
	♪ All over Terrell County I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:23
	♪ All over Terrell County I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:29
	♪ All over Terrell County I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:35
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	8:40
	♪ Over in Terrell (inaudible) I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:46
	♪ Over in Terrell (inaudible) I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:52
	♪ Over in Terrell (inaudible) I'm gonna let it shine ♪	8:58
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	9:03
	♪ Down at Terrell High School I'm gonna let it shine ♪	9:09
	♪ Down at Terrell High School I'm gonna let it shine ♪	9:14
	♪ Down at Terrell High School I'm gonna let it shine ♪	9:20
	♪ Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine ♪	9:25
	(recording ends)	9:32
-	He's always angry when a Negro come down to register.	9:41
	And his attitude was the same way towards me.	9:47
	You know, the times that I went down.	9:51
	You see that something was making him very uncomfortable,	9:54
	just the idea of you coming down there you know,	9:58
	he thought he wasn't supposed to	10:01
	register nobody--	10:02
-	That's the way it seemed today.	10:04
-	Yeah, and he'd look at you like you were guilty	10:05
	just wondering what it was, what are you doing in here	10:08
	and when you tell him you come to register,	10:12
	most times he'll ask you twice,	10:14
	"What you say? What you want, boy?"	10:17
	And I say I came down to register.	10:20
	"You came down to what?"	10:22
	Just the way he talk, you know?	10:23
	And he act like he's shocked when you tell you came	10:26
	down to register.	10:29
	And he said, "For what?"	10:31
	You know, I went down, I said, he said,	10:32
	"What you want boy?"	10:34
	I came down to register.	10:35
	"For what, the army?"	10:37
	You know, that's the first thing he said, the army.	10:38
	And I said no, I registered for the army already.	10:40
	I came down to register to vote today.	10:42
	(recording ends)	10:45
-	In the face of all of this though,	11:01
	something keeps telling me that our only hope	11:07
	is to get these people down to the polls	11:12
	one by one, or two by two.	11:16
	If it's one a week or if it's two.	11:22
	Our hope rests upon	11:34
	Geting these people down to register.	11:42
	Believe it or not.	11:47
	I know that you can say that's it's hard,	11:51
	it's almost impossible.	11:55
	But in the face of all of that, it must be done.	11:59
	We've got to keep going back and back and back.	12:04
	Got to just try this, that, and the other thing.	12:07
	This and that, until we get them down there.	12:10
	We've got to get them down there.	12:15
	Little by little I think we'll wear them down.	12:17
	And I think we'll get a number registered.	12:23
	But let us put our	12:29
	our efforts	12:35
	and every ounce of energy	12:37
	we got let us put it into getting the people registered.	12:39
	Those of you who do have a	12:46
	(tape scratching drowns out words)	12:48
	Stick.	12:51
	You can take it from me.	12:57
	You cannot win by running.	12:59
	You will not save your	13:04
	you will not save your skin by running.	13:07
	Generations to come will spit on your grave.	13:14
	Your children will spit on your grave.	13:18
	This is the trying hour. This is the trying day.	13:25
	The future	13:33
	is on trial in these 1961, 62, 63.	13:38
	The future.	13:45
	(applause)	13:53
	(recording ends)	13:58
-	I think everybody must be about to (inaudible)	14:09
	Uh, we gonna say in this--	14:13
	it's kinda cold in here	14:16
	I think people want to get out	14:18
	This thing is just missing something.	14:20
	We got somebody singing?	14:22
	(crowd murmurs)	14:24
	(laughs)	14:28
-	Reverend where you going?	14:32
-	Okay, somebody sing a song.	14:39
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	14:42
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	14:50
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	14:57
	♪ Someday ♪	15:02
	♪ Oh deep in my heart I know that ♪	15:08
	♪ I do believe ♪	15:17
	♪ Oh, we shall overcome ♪	15:22
	♪ Someday ♪	15:28
-	We are not afraid.	15:30
	♪ We are not afraid ♪	15:32
	♪ We are not afraid ♪	15:38
	♪ We are not afraid ♪	15:44
	♪ Today ♪	15:48
	♪ Oh deep in my heart I know that ♪	15:53
	♪ I do believe ♪	16:02
	♪ Oh we shall overcome ♪	16:06
	♪ Someday ♪	16:11
-	We'll walk hand in hand.	16:14
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪	16:16
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪	16:22
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪	16:28
	♪ Someday ♪	16:32
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart I know that ♪	16:37
	♪ I do believe ♪	16:44
	♪ Oh, we shall overcome ♪	16:49
	♪ Someday ♪	16:54
-	Black and white together.	16:57
	♪ Black and white together ♪	16:59
	♪ Black and white together ♪	17:04
	♪ Black and white together ♪	17:10
	♪ Someday ♪	17:16
	♪ Oh deep in my heart I know that ♪	17:20
	♪ I do believe ♪	17:27
	♪ Oh, we shall overcome ♪	17:31
	♪ Someday ♪	17:37
-	God is on our side.	17:39
	♪ God is on our side ♪	17:41
	♪ God is on our side ♪	17:46
	♪ God is on our side ♪	17:52
	♪ Today ♪	17:56
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart I know that ♪	18:01
	♪ I do believe ♪	18:09
	♪ Oh, we shall overcome ♪	18:13
	♪ Someday ♪	18:18
-	Let's bow our heads as the reverend closes.	18:21
	(humming continues in background)	18:24
-	Oh gracious God we pray that thou will keep us safe.	18:24
	Help us to accomplish our undertakings.	18:30
	We pray that Thou would bless and inspire	18:34
	those who are afraid.	18:36
	Encourage that they may move forward in Thy name.	18:42
	This we ask in the same of Thy son Christ Jesus, Amen.	18:48
	♪ Oh, we shall overcome someday ♪	18:55

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Leet County, GA mass meetings excerpts, no date, 1960s

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1960s

Creator:

Rubin, Larry, 1942-

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