Freedom Singers performance at Anticoh College and "Revolution in Georgia" radio show hosted by Larry Rubin
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| - | I'd like to tell you a little about these songs | 0:04 |
| we're gonna sing, before we go any further. | 0:07 | |
| Most of the songs that we see come out | 0:09 | |
| of the jails of the Delta South: Alabama, | 0:11 | |
| Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi. | 0:13 | |
| Well not only the South, but some parts of the North. | 0:17 | |
| In fact we still have some coming from every state | 0:21 | |
| in the North, but we just haven't gotten that far yet. | 0:24 | |
| Some of the songs are taken from Negro spirituals, | 0:28 | |
| some are from the labor movement, | 0:31 | |
| some are rock and roll even, some from the blues. | 0:33 | |
| From every phase of music, I think we have | 0:36 | |
| what we today call Freedom songs. | 0:38 | |
| These songs are not, not the type of songs | 0:41 | |
| that you can take a day or two out and write down on paper. | 0:44 | |
| Thinking up you know some poetic | 0:48 | |
| something just to write a song. | 0:52 | |
| These songs don't come about like that. | 0:54 | |
| The songs are more of a spontaneous | 0:58 | |
| inner expression of an individual. | 1:00 | |
| This is why most most of them are made up | 1:02 | |
| in the jails of the South because | 1:04 | |
| when you in jail down there you don't have | 1:07 | |
| anything to do but lay on a nasty bunk, | 1:08 | |
| day in and day out and think about how dirty the system is. | 1:11 | |
| Or think about how you can better | 1:15 | |
| the conditions down there. | 1:18 | |
| This is what these songs about. | 1:20 | |
| The conditions down there, the people down there, | 1:21 | |
| and what they're trying to do. | 1:24 | |
| Some of the songs, you'll notice, mention | 1:26 | |
| well this song in fact said you | 1:29 | |
| ain't going to let Chief Pritchett turn me around. | 1:31 | |
| Well, Chief Pritchett is the police chief | 1:34 | |
| of Albany, Georgia. | 1:35 | |
| And the way this song came about was that | 1:37 | |
| these court handed down the injunction, | 1:40 | |
| court order saying that the people | 1:43 | |
| could not have any more demonstrations, you see. | 1:44 | |
| But within ten days the order was withdrawn. | 1:48 | |
| But before they withdrew the order, this song came about. | 1:50 | |
| They had mass meetings. | 1:53 | |
| Somebody just stood up at a mass meeting, | 1:55 | |
| started singing, "ain't gonna let nobody turn me around." | 1:57 | |
| Then somebody else would have a verse, you see. | 2:00 | |
| They would stand up and just sing, | 2:04 | |
| they got Pritchett and segregation and injunction | 2:07 | |
| and you can go on for days. | 2:10 | |
| Sometimes down there you can imagine let's say 500 people | 2:11 | |
| sitting at a church, singing one song | 2:16 | |
| and everybody perhaps has a different verse. | 2:18 | |
| This is the way it goes sometimes. | 2:21 | |
| Sometimes a song goes on for hours, people just singing. | 2:22 | |
| Mass meeting would be started at eight o'clock | 2:26 | |
| the church would start filling at four, | 2:28 | |
| five o'clock in the afternoon. | 2:31 | |
| It would be full, I'd say by five o'clock it would be full. | 2:33 | |
| By eight o'clock there's no room for anybody, | 2:37 | |
| they just stand on the outside. | 2:39 | |
| And they're singing all this time, nothing but singing. | 2:41 | |
| So this is, I can go to the (inaudible) at this point. | 2:46 | |
| The songs and all. | 2:49 | |
| The songs I think pretty much make up a heck | 2:50 | |
| of a lot of the movement. | 2:53 | |
| So, what we're trying to do here is to relate | 2:56 | |
| to you in some way what the movement | 2:58 | |
| is about in the South and in some way make you part of it. | 3:00 | |
| So, we're going to ask you all to join in with us. | 3:05 | |
| So, don't sit there with your arms folded and everything, | 3:09 | |
| because we'd like to be a part of you | 3:13 | |
| and we'd like for you to be a part of us. | 3:15 | |
| - | This song comes from a national movement. | 3:23 |
| It's taken from a rhythm and blues | 3:25 | |
| number entitled Moving On. | 3:28 | |
| ♪ When you're just moving on down the track ♪ | 3:34 | |
| ♪ And the finest pleasure is walking back ♪ | 3:36 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:38 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:39 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:40 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:42 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:43 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on ♪ | 3:44 | |
| ♪ He's movin' on, movin' on, movin' on, ooh ♪ | 3:45 | |
| ♪ Never been to heaven, but I know I'm right ♪ | 3:48 | |
| ♪ There's folk up there, both black and white ♪ | 3:50 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:52 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:53 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:54 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:55 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:56 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 3:57 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on, movin' on, movin' on ♪ | 3:59 | |
| ♪ The only thing that I really want ♪ | 4:02 | |
| ♪ Is standing in the window there's (inaudible) ♪ | 4:04 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:06 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:07 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:08 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:09 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:11 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:12 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on, movin' on, movin' on ♪ | 4:13 | |
| ♪ Well the only thing that I could really find ♪ | 4:15 | |
| ♪ (Inaudible) black and white ♪ | 4:18 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:20 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:21 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:22 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:23 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:24 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:26 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on, movin' on, movin' on ♪ | 4:27 | |
| ♪ Well I've never been to heaven, but since I know ♪ | 4:29 | |
| ♪ That folk up there don't have to grow ♪ | 4:32 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:34 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:35 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:37 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:38 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:39 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on ♪ | 4:40 | |
| ♪ We're movin' on, movin' on, movin' on ♪ | 4:41 | |
| (clapping) | 4:45 | |
| - | This next song is called "We'll Never Turn Back" | 5:06 |
| and it originally was a memorial for a man | 5:11 | |
| named Herbert Lee, who lived in Mississippi | 5:14 | |
| down around Liberty, in Amite County, near McComb. | 5:16 | |
| Magnolia, (inaudible) those towns right around there. | 5:20 | |
| Herbert Lee was a 58 year old farmer. | 5:25 | |
| The only way he got paid, he'd grow cotton, | 5:29 | |
| and this is the only way he got his money | 5:31 | |
| and when we went into McComb to work on voter registration | 5:35 | |
| he got involved and he became a registered voter luckily. | 5:39 | |
| He went on to try and get other people registered, | 5:42 | |
| but he had a neighbor who lived across the highway | 5:46 | |
| who happens to be white and who didn't particularly | 5:50 | |
| like what he was doing. | 5:53 | |
| Who one morning followed him to the cotton gin | 5:55 | |
| to the cotton gin, he was taking his cotton to the gin | 5:59 | |
| and his neighbor followed him to the cotton gin | 6:03 | |
| and there he shot and killed him in cold blood | 6:06 | |
| and right there at the cotton gin they cleared the man | 6:10 | |
| of the charge. | 6:12 | |
| They called it self defense | 6:13 | |
| And we had a man who was going to testify | 6:16 | |
| who witnessed the shooting and everything, | 6:19 | |
| who was going to testify that here he's killed a man | 6:22 | |
| in cold blood, but he wanted protection | 6:24 | |
| and he asked the federal government who would protect him | 6:28 | |
| The federal government said "you can't send anybody | 6:31 | |
| "down there just to protect one man." | 6:33 | |
| So this is why we're not getting any protection | 6:36 | |
| protecting too either from the federal government | 6:40 | |
| or any help period. | 6:42 | |
| It's nothing like what it should be. | 6:44 | |
| But this song is called "We'll Never Turn Back." | 6:46 | |
| ♪ We've been 'buked ♪ | 6:55 | |
| ♪ We've been scorned ♪ | 7:01 | |
| ♪ We've been talked about ♪ | 7:07 | |
| ♪ Sure as you born ♪ | 7:12 | |
| ♪ But we'll never ♪ | 7:17 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 7:24 | |
| ♪ No we'll never ♪ | 7:28 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 7:33 | |
| ♪ Until we've all ♪ | 7:38 | |
| ♪ Been freed ♪ | 7:45 | |
| ♪ And we have ♪ | 7:48 | |
| ♪ Equality ♪ | 7:52 | |
| ♪ We have walked ♪ | 7:58 | |
| ♪ Through the shadows of death ♪ | 8:02 | |
| ♪ We had to walk ♪ | 8:07 | |
| ♪ All by ourselves ♪ | 8:11 | |
| ♪ But we'll never ♪ | 8:17 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 8:23 | |
| ♪ No we'll never ♪ | 8:27 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 8:32 | |
| ♪ Until we've all ♪ | 8:36 | |
| ♪ Been freed ♪ | 8:42 | |
| ♪ And we have ♪ | 8:46 | |
| ♪ Equality ♪ | 8:50 | |
| ♪ We have hung our ♪ | 8:56 | |
| ♪ Heads and cried ♪ | 9:00 | |
| ♪ For those like ♪ | 9:05 | |
| ♪ Lee who died ♪ | 9:09 | |
| ♪ Died for you ♪ | 9:14 | |
| ♪ And died for me ♪ | 9:18 | |
| ♪ Died for the cause ♪ | 9:23 | |
| ♪ Of equality ♪ | 9:27 | |
| ♪ But we'll never ♪ | 9:32 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 9:38 | |
| ♪ No we'll never ♪ | 9:41 | |
| ♪ Turn back ♪ | 9:46 | |
| ♪ Until we have all ♪ | 9:51 | |
| ♪ Been freed ♪ | 9:56 | |
| ♪ And we have ♪ | 9:59 | |
| ♪ Equality ♪ | 10:03 | |
| ♪ And we have ♪ | 10:10 | |
| ♪ Equality ♪ | 10:14 | |
| (clapping) | 10:21 | |
| The next song came out (inaudible) Jackson, Mississippi | 10:40 | |
| during the Freedom Rides. | 10:44 | |
| When they put us in jail in Jackson | 10:46 | |
| or when they put us in jail then | 10:48 | |
| in Mississippi they separate the Negros from the whites. | 10:50 | |
| They put the white on one side | 10:53 | |
| and they put the Negro on one side | 10:55 | |
| in case you don't know how it is when they put you in jail | 10:57 | |
| down south, they separate you. | 11:00 | |
| So, the only thing we had to do | 11:02 | |
| when we were in jail was to sing. | 11:05 | |
| We sang sometimes all night long. | 11:08 | |
| We got kind of bored because the white guys | 11:11 | |
| were way over there and we were way over here and | 11:13 | |
| we could hear each other this is all. | 11:16 | |
| So we would sing together and so we thought | 11:17 | |
| we would do something to make it interesting, | 11:20 | |
| so we had talent contests. | 11:21 | |
| (laughs) | 11:24 | |
| The white side would sing a song | 11:25 | |
| and then the Negro side would. | 11:26 | |
| (laughing) | 11:28 | |
| So we always teased the white guys about | 11:30 | |
| not being able to sing. | 11:32 | |
| (laughs) | 11:34 | |
| So early one morning one of the fellas hollered | 11:36 | |
| over to our side and he said "hey Charlie, | 11:39 | |
| "I woke up with it this morning." | 11:42 | |
| Nobody knew what he was talking about | 11:44 | |
| until he started singing this song. | 11:47 | |
| "Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Set On Freedom" | 11:50 | |
| ♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 11:57 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:02 | |
| ♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 12:06 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:10 | |
| ♪ Well I woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 12:14 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:19 | |
| ♪ Halleluh, halleluh, halleluh ♪ | 12:22 | |
| ♪ Halleluh ♪ | 12:25 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 12:27 | |
| (clapping) | 12:30 | |
| ♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 12:31 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:35 | |
| ♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 12:39 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:43 | |
| ♪ Well I woke up this morning with my mind ♪ | 12:47 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 12:51 | |
| ♪ Halleluh, halleluh, halleluh ♪ | 12:54 | |
| ♪ Halleluh ♪ | 12:57 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 12:58 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:03 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:04 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:06 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:08 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:10 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:12 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:14 | |
| ♪ Come on and walk walk ♪ | 13:16 | |
| ♪ Walk ♪ | 13:18 | |
| ♪ Walk walk ♪ | 13:22 | |
| ♪ Walk walk ♪ | 13:24 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:26 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:27 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:29 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:31 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:33 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:35 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:37 | |
| ♪ You've got to talk talk ♪ | 13:39 | |
| ♪ Talk ♪ | 13:42 | |
| ♪ Talk talk ♪ | 13:46 | |
| ♪ Talk talk ♪ | 13:48 | |
| ♪ Oh well it ain't real hard to keep my mind ♪ | 13:49 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 13:53 | |
| ♪ No it ain't real hard to keep your mind, Lord ♪ | 13:57 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 14:01 | |
| ♪ Well it ain't real hard to keep your mind ♪ | 14:05 | |
| ♪ Set on freedom ♪ | 14:09 | |
| ♪ Halleluh, halleluh, halleluh, ♪ | 14:12 | |
| ♪ Halleluh, ♪ | 14:15 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 14:16 | |
| (clapping) | 14:21 | |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 14:48 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 14:55 | |
| ♪ To make ♪ | 15:02 | |
| ♪ The wounded ♪ | 15:06 | |
| ♪ Whole ♪ | 15:09 | |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 15:15 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 15:22 | |
| ♪ To heal ♪ | 15:28 | |
| ♪ The sin-sick soul ♪ | 15:32 | |
| ♪ Sometimes ♪ | 15:39 | |
| ♪ I feel discouraged ♪ | 15:42 | |
| ♪ And think ♪ | 15:49 | |
| ♪ My work's ♪ | 15:52 | |
| ♪ In vain ♪ | 15:53 | |
| ♪ But then ♪ | 15:58 | |
| ♪ The Holy Spirit ♪ | 16:00 | |
| ♪ Revives ♪ | 16:07 | |
| ♪ My soul ♪ | 16:11 | |
| ♪ Again ♪ | 16:12 | |
| - | You can sing it | 16:19 |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 16:21 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 16:27 | |
| ♪ To make ♪ | 16:33 | |
| ♪ The wounded ♪ | 16:37 | |
| ♪ Whole ♪ | 16:40 | |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 16:46 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 16:51 | |
| ♪ To heal ♪ | 16:58 | |
| ♪ The sin-sick ♪ | 17:01 | |
| ♪ Soul ♪ | 17:04 | |
| ♪ If you cannot ♪ | 17:08 | |
| ♪ Sing ♪ | 17:12 | |
| ♪ Like angels ♪ | 17:14 | |
| ♪ If you cannot ♪ | 17:18 | |
| ♪ Preach ♪ | 17:21 | |
| ♪ Like Paul ♪ | 17:22 | |
| ♪ You can pledge ♪ | 17:26 | |
| ♪ To love ♪ | 17:28 | |
| ♪ Our Jesus ♪ | 17:30 | |
| ♪ And say ♪ | 17:34 | |
| ♪ He died ♪ | 17:37 | |
| ♪ For all ♪ | 17:38 | |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 17:46 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 17:52 | |
| ♪ To make ♪ | 17:59 | |
| ♪ The wounded ♪ | 18:01 | |
| ♪ Whole ♪ | 18:05 | |
| ♪ There is a balm ♪ | 18:10 | |
| ♪ In Gilead ♪ | 18:16 | |
| ♪ To heal ♪ | 18:22 | |
| ♪ The sin-sick ♪ | 18:25 | |
| ♪ Soul ♪ | 18:29 | |
| (clapping) | 18:34 | |
| - | You know, | 18:49 |
| when I introduce this song | 18:50 | |
| I generally say | 18:52 | |
| living in the South | 18:53 | |
| you can find a method there | 18:54 | |
| in most of the time | 18:55 | |
| for sitting in at lunch counters | 18:57 | |
| and things to this effect. | 18:58 | |
| But I understand that | 19:00 | |
| you all are gonna have a sit-in here at the barbershop | 19:02 | |
| (laughs) | 19:05 | |
| So you still look good everywhere if you flip. | 19:07 | |
| But we do find it necessary a lot of times | 19:11 | |
| to sit-in in various places. | 19:14 | |
| And when we sit-in the first thing we see | 19:16 | |
| is the police coming | 19:18 | |
| and the first thing that they say is "move on." | 19:20 | |
| Some of you are familiar with it, I'm sure | 19:22 | |
| some of you have participated in sit-ins and things | 19:25 | |
| And they are honestly expecting you to move, you know? | 19:28 | |
| Walk right out like you, | 19:31 | |
| you were never there. | 19:33 | |
| But there's a song that we sing, | 19:35 | |
| which I think answers them very nicely. | 19:37 | |
| The song will be, "We Shall Not Be Moved." | 19:39 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 19:46 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 19:49 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 19:51 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 19:55 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 19:57 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 19:59 | |
| ♪ Just like a tree ♪ | 20:03 | |
| ♪ That's standing ♪ | 20:05 | |
| ♪ By the water ♪ | 20:06 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 20:11 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 20:13 | |
| ♪ Be moved ♪ | 20:15 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 20:16 | |
| ♪ We are not slaves to bigotry ♪ | 20:20 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 20:24 | |
| ♪ We are not slaves to bigotry ♪ | 20:27 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 20:32 | |
| ♪ Just like a tree ♪ | 20:35 | |
| ♪ That's standing ♪ | 20:37 | |
| ♪ By the water ♪ | 20:39 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 20:44 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 20:46 | |
| ♪ Be moved ♪ | 20:48 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 20:49 | |
| ♪ Oh we pray to Jesus king of peace ♪ | 20:52 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 20:56 | |
| ♪ When we gave to him ♪ | 21:00 | |
| ♪ Cause he loves me ♪ | 21:02 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 21:04 | |
| ♪ Just like a tree ♪ | 21:07 | |
| ♪ That's standing ♪ | 21:10 | |
| ♪ By the water ♪ | 21:12 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 21:16 | |
| ♪ Shall not be ♪ | 21:18 | |
| ♪ Moved ♪ | 21:20 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 21:21 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 21:24 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 21:26 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 21:29 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 21:33 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 21:35 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 21:37 | |
| ♪ Just like a tree ♪ | 21:39 | |
| ♪ That's standing ♪ | 21:42 | |
| ♪ By the water ♪ | 21:44 | |
| ♪ We ♪ | 21:49 | |
| ♪ Shall not ♪ | 21:50 | |
| ♪ Be moved ♪ | 21:52 | |
| ♪ We shall not be moved ♪ | 21:53 | |
| (clapping) | 21:57 | |
| - | You know I was just thinking | 22:13 |
| we've been to a lot of colleges | 22:15 | |
| and most of the colleges that we've been to | 22:18 | |
| we see students walking around campus you know, | 22:20 | |
| and tired and | 22:24 | |
| (laughs) | 22:25 | |
| sometimes when we're singing | 22:29 | |
| we sing like what we've got here today | 22:31 | |
| it became a little closec to home. | 22:34 | |
| (laughs) | 22:36 | |
| So we said | 22:38 | |
| we thought we weren't going to be here today either. | 22:40 | |
| (laughs) | 22:41 | |
| (clapping) | 22:43 | |
| I'm very serious about this you know. | 22:53 | |
| It makes me kind of homesick when you're singing. | 22:55 | |
| (laughing) | 22:57 | |
| It's all so familiar | 23:01 | |
| and a lot of times we, we've talked a lot | 23:04 | |
| especially some of the New England colleges, | 23:07 | |
| you run into these people, you know, who ask you | 23:10 | |
| "is it really that bad down there?" | 23:14 | |
| (laughing) | 23:16 | |
| And feel like this you say | 23:18 | |
| "I think we feel, | 23:19 | |
| "well at least I know I'm at home." | 23:21 | |
| (laughing) | 23:24 | |
| This song | 23:27 | |
| this next song comes out of Mississippi also | 23:27 | |
| we got it started down there. | 23:30 | |
| During the Freedom Rides | 23:32 | |
| You probably know it as Day-Oh, or the Banana Boat Song | 23:33 | |
| We call it Live So Free. | 23:37 | |
| If you like what you're enjoying then you can sing it | 23:39 | |
| with me. | 23:40 | |
| Basic chords part is "freedom's coming | 23:41 | |
| "and it won't be long." | 23:43 | |
| And I see some of you back there, | 23:45 | |
| with your arms still folded. | 23:47 | |
| (laughs) | 23:49 | |
| And we're still one big happy family. | 23:50 | |
| So let's everybody | 23:52 | |
| join in. | 23:54 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 23:57 | |
| ♪ Give us freedom ♪ | 23:59 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:02 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 24:06 | |
| ♪ Give us freedom ♪ | 24:08 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:11 | |
| ♪ Well I took a trip on a Greyhound bus ♪ | 24:15 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:20 | |
| ♪ To fight segregation and this we must ♪ | 24:24 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:28 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 24:33 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 24:35 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:38 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 24:42 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 24:44 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:46 | |
| ♪ Well I took a trip down the Alabama way ♪ | 24:50 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 24:55 | |
| ♪ Met with much violence on Mother's Day ♪ | 24:59 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:03 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:08 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:10 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:12 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:16 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:19 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:21 | |
| ♪ Well over the Mississippi with speed we go ♪ | 25:25 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:29 | |
| ♪ The blue shirt policemen, we meet at the door ♪ | 25:33 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:38 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:42 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:44 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:47 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:51 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 25:53 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 25:55 | |
| ♪ Oh come Mr. Kennedy, take me out of misery ♪ | 25:59 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 26:04 | |
| ♪ This evil segregation, see what it has done to me ♪ | 26:08 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 26:13 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 26:17 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 26:19 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 26:21 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 26:26 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 26:28 | |
| ♪ Freedom's coming and it won't be long ♪ | 26:30 | |
| (clapping) | 26:36 | |
| - | This next song calls for audience participation. | 26:52 |
| (laughing) | 26:55 | |
| It was first a Baptist hymn called Old Ship of Zion | 26:58 | |
| During the labor movement in was changed to | 27:04 | |
| That Union Train, it is now called Freedom Train. | 27:08 | |
| All you have to remember are three words. | 27:12 | |
| Coming, freedom, and thousand. | 27:16 | |
| There are three verses. | 27:19 | |
| So for each verse you sing one word. | 27:21 | |
| And | 27:23 | |
| We're going to do the first verse so that you | 27:25 | |
| will get a good idea how it is. | 27:28 | |
| ♪ Is that a ♪ | 27:31 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 27:33 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 27:39 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 27:40 | |
| ♪ Is that a ♪ | 27:46 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 27:48 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 27:52 | |
| ♪ A-coming, coming, coming ♪ | 27:54 | |
| ♪ Is that a ♪ | 27:59 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 28:00 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 28:04 | |
| ♪ A-coming, coming, coming ♪ | 28:06 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 28:10 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 28:12 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 28:15 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 28:17 | |
| - | Alright. | 28:19 |
| - | Yeah, yeah. | 28:20 |
| (clapping) | 28:22 | |
| - | Now we going to lower it a little bit | 28:28 |
| ♪ Is that the ♪ | 28:32 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 28:34 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 28:39 | |
| ♪ A-coming, coming, coming ♪ | 28:41 | |
| ♪ Is that the ♪ | 28:46 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 28:48 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 28:52 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 28:54 | |
| ♪ Is that a ♪ | 28:58 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 29:00 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 29:04 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 29:05 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 29:09 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 29:11 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 29:15 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 29:16 | |
| - | Alright, now everybody say "freedom" now | 29:18 |
| and I can't hear you at all. | 29:20 | |
| (laughs) | 29:21 | |
| You can clap your | 29:22 | |
| hands along with it. | 29:23 | |
| ♪ Give me that ♪ | 29:27 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 29:28 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 29:32 | |
| ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ | 29:33 | |
| ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ | 29:38 | |
| ♪ Down in the valley ♪ | 29:40 | |
| ♪ Of freedom ♪ | 29:42 | |
| ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ | 29:44 | |
| ♪ That ♪ | 29:48 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 29:49 | |
| ♪ Train ♪ | 29:53 | |
| ♪ Of freedom ♪ | 29:55 | |
| ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ | 29:56 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 29:59 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 30:00 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 30:04 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 30:05 | |
| - | Everybody sing down a little now! | 30:07 |
| (clapping) | 30:09 | |
| ♪ Is that there ♪ | 30:10 | |
| ♪ The freedom train ♪ | 30:14 | |
| ♪ That's coming ♪ | 30:20 | |
| ♪ The freedom train ♪ | 30:24 | |
| ♪ The train ♪ | 30:30 | |
| ♪ Of freedom ♪ | 30:32 | |
| ♪ Coming ♪ | 30:35 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 30:37 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 30:40 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 30:41 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 30:45 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 30:46 | |
| ♪ Is that the ♪ | 30:50 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 30:52 | |
| ♪ Train that's ♪ | 30:55 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 30:56 | |
| ♪ Is that the ♪ | 31:00 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 31:02 | |
| ♪ Train that's ♪ | 31:05 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 31:06 | |
| ♪ Is that the ♪ | 31:10 | |
| ♪ Freedom ♪ | 31:11 | |
| ♪ Train that's ♪ | 31:15 | |
| ♪ Coming, coming, coming ♪ | 31:16 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 31:20 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 31:21 | |
| ♪ Get on ♪ | 31:24 | |
| ♪ Board ♪ | 31:26 | |
| (clapping) | 31:28 | |
| (microphone adjusting) | 31:44 | |
| (coughing) | 31:47 | |
| - | This next song, | 31:50 |
| I think we sing a little bit more than any other song | 31:52 | |
| when we in jail. | 31:56 | |
| It's called Hold On. | 31:58 | |
| We changed it, it used to be | 32:00 | |
| "keep your hands on the plow holder." | 32:00 | |
| We've changed it around a little bit. | 32:03 | |
| It's "keep your eyes on the prize." | 32:05 | |
| Hold On. | 32:08 | |
| (coughing) | 32:09 | |
| ♪ Paul and Silas ♪ | 32:11 | |
| ♪ Bound in jail ♪ | 32:13 | |
| ♪ We had no money ♪ | 32:15 | |
| ♪ For to go their bail ♪ | 32:16 | |
| ♪ But keep your eyes ♪ | 32:18 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 32:21 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 32:22 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 32:26 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 32:30 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes ♪ | 32:34 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 32:36 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 32:38 | |
| ♪ But you can talk about me ♪ | 32:42 | |
| ♪ Just as much as you please ♪ | 32:44 | |
| ♪ The more you talk ♪ | 32:45 | |
| ♪ I'm going to bring my needs ♪ | 32:47 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 32:49 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 32:53 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 32:57 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 33:01 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 33:04 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 33:08 | |
| ♪ I've never been to heaven ♪ | 33:12 | |
| ♪ But I think I am right ♪ | 33:14 | |
| ♪ The people in the heavens ♪ | 33:16 | |
| ♪ Are black and white ♪ | 33:18 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes ♪ | 33:20 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 33:22 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 33:24 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 33:27 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 33:31 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes ♪ | 33:35 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 33:37 | |
| ♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 33:39 | |
| ♪ We will not go now go to heaven ♪ | 33:42 | |
| ♪ Because our (choir singing over lead singer) ♪ | 33:44 | |
| ♪ I want to go to heaven ♪ | 33:46 | |
| ♪ Because I'll sleep alright ♪ | 33:47 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes ♪ | 33:50 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 33:52 | |
| ♪ Hold on why don't you hold on ♪ | 33:54 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 33:57 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 34:01 | |
| ♪ Keep your eyes ♪ | 34:05 | |
| ♪ On the prize ♪ | 34:07 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 34:09 | |
| ♪ Hold on ♪ | 34:12 | |
| (clapping) | 34:17 | |
| - | We'll take about a | 34:31 |
| 10 minute break. | 34:32 | |
| (laughing) | 34:34 | |
| - | Now we get right down to it. | 34:38 |
| Yeah. | 34:41 | |
| (laughing) | 34:43 | |
| You know, | 34:45 | |
| Amen | 34:46 | |
| yeah. | 34:47 | |
| The Freedom Singers | 34:48 | |
| all work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 34:50 | |
| SNCC has no fancy | 34:53 | |
| foundation to support it. | 34:56 | |
| No nothing. | 34:57 | |
| All we have is The Freedom Singers. | 34:59 | |
| All proceeds go to SNCC. | 35:01 | |
| The Freedom Singers are treated just like anybody else | 35:04 | |
| in SNCC they get a $10 subsistence a week. | 35:07 | |
| Out of this has to come everything. | 35:10 | |
| Food, gas, | 35:13 | |
| all sorts of incidentals. | 35:16 | |
| I don't know if you've ever been hungry, | 35:18 | |
| but, | 35:21 | |
| when that $10 is gone, | 35:22 | |
| it's gone | 35:24 | |
| and there's nothing there. | 35:25 | |
| Now I don't see anybody going around, passing around a hat. | 35:26 | |
| Where are they? | 35:28 | |
| (audience mumbling) | 35:29 | |
| - | Okay. | 35:33 |
| (microphone static) | 35:36 |
| - | Down there in Southwest Georgia. | 0:02 |
| We just decided we wasn't gonna take it anymore. | 0:04 | |
| We's decided we were gonna stop going to the back door. | 0:06 | |
| - | Amen. | 0:09 |
| - | Gonna stop bowin' and scrapin' and | 0:10 |
| scratchin' where we don't itch and | 0:12 | |
| laughing when it don't tickle | 0:13 | |
| - | (laughing) Amen. | 0:16 |
| - | This is a Negro who is not afraid any longer, | 0:17 |
| and as we sing that song "We Are Not Afraid", | 0:19 | |
| we sing it from the bottom of our hearts | 0:21 | |
| because we really mean it. | 0:23 | |
| - | Amen. | 0:24 |
| - | It's a Negro who walks and holds his head up high, | 0:25 |
| and as long as he holds his head up high | 0:29 | |
| he cannot be enslaved, because you have to bend down | 0:31 | |
| and bow down to become a slave. | 0:34 | |
| - | That's right. | 0:36 |
| - | But we as Negroes have a dream. | 0:37 |
| - | A dream of being a first class citizen. | 0:40 |
| And his dream has been filled with nightmares | 0:44 | |
| for many years past. | 0:47 | |
| Many of us can remember with horror | 0:50 | |
| the infliction of bodily harm and pain | 0:52 | |
| that has come to Negroes down through the generations. | 0:56 | |
| I can yet remember so vividly, | 1:00 | |
| and it hasn't been too long ago, | 1:01 | |
| the Negro who was shot down | 1:04 | |
| on the courthouse steps in Baker County, | 1:05 | |
| and was tied to a back of an automobile and dragged around. | 1:08 | |
| In this day and generation, I can remember very vividly, | 1:12 | |
| as early as last year, | 1:18 | |
| a Negro who was in jail in Bainbridge, Georgia | 1:19 | |
| because he said | 1:23 | |
| that he would vote against Marvin Griffin | 1:24 | |
| if he was out of jail and could vote, | 1:26 | |
| was beaten and died. | 1:28 | |
| Yes, these nightmares are in our dreams, | 1:32 | |
| but we have at the end of the dream | 1:35 | |
| a shining light that says on it, "Freedom". | 1:38 | |
| - | Amen. | 1:41 |
| - | And we know that that road to freedom | 1:42 |
| is a long and narrow road. | 1:44 | |
| We know that on one side of it | 1:47 | |
| there are briars and bramble bushes, | 1:49 | |
| and we know the other side | 1:51 | |
| there are cotton mouth moccasins | 1:52 | |
| and diamond back rattlesnakes. | 1:54 | |
| - | We know that segregation and discrimination | 1:55 |
| will be above our heads every inch of the way. | 1:58 | |
| But we'll keep our eyes set on that good light | 2:00 | |
| at the end of the road that shines to freedom. | 2:02 | |
| This is the dream of the American Negro. | 2:06 | |
| You here in Terrell County, | 2:09 | |
| and the Negroes over in Dougherty County, | 2:11 | |
| and the Negroes in Lee County, | 2:12 | |
| and the Negroes in Baker County, | 2:14 | |
| have decided that they aren't going to take it any longer. | 2:15 | |
| They decided they will not have their backs bent | 2:19 | |
| and be enslaved anymore. | 2:21 | |
| They are determined to be free | 2:24 | |
| and nothing can turn them around. | 2:25 | |
| Because the change has come from within. | 2:27 | |
| And once the change has started from within | 2:31 | |
| there is no turning back. | 2:33 | |
| The martyr has already martyred the cross. | 2:35 | |
| He has felt the pierce of the spear | 2:39 | |
| in his side. | 2:41 | |
| He cannot come down off the cross. | 2:44 | |
| He will stay there. | 2:46 | |
| He will suffer, bleed, and die | 2:48 | |
| until he is free. | 2:52 | |
| I look forward to the day | 2:54 | |
| when I can exert myself as a man downtown | 2:55 | |
| and demand what is rightfully mine and get it, | 2:58 | |
| without fear of any retaliation, | 3:01 | |
| without fear of my life being lost and my body being harmed. | 3:03 | |
| I look forward to the day | 3:07 | |
| when I will not have to go around | 3:08 | |
| to the backdoor anymore. | 3:10 | |
| I will not have to be subjected | 3:13 | |
| to the humiliations and embarrassments | 3:14 | |
| of being called a boy, | 3:16 | |
| and for why I can't go into the zoo | 3:18 | |
| because my face is black. | 3:20 | |
| They can kick us out, but they can't kick us down. | 3:24 | |
| They can burn the churches down, | 3:28 | |
| but where this one stood a greater church will stand, | 3:29 | |
| because our cause is a righteous cause, | 3:33 | |
| and you can slow it down, | 3:37 | |
| but you can't stop it. | 3:38 | |
| You can cause it to take a more devious route | 3:41 | |
| and get if off that straight path, | 3:44 | |
| but you but you can't stop it, it's going. | 3:45 | |
| Because the Negroes have a dream. | 3:48 | |
| - | Amen. | 3:50 |
| - | A dream of being an American citizen. | 3:51 |
| - | What's your name? | 3:57 |
| - | Stanton. | 3:58 |
| I got a sister. | 3:59 | |
| - | Got a sister? | 4:01 |
| - | Yeah. | |
| - | How about that. | 4:03 |
| - | Well. | 4:06 |
| - | You treat her nice, huh? | 4:07 |
| - | Yeah. | 4:09 |
| - | Sure he does. | |
| - | Alright, you gonna treat her nice? | 4:10 |
| - | Uh huh. | 4:11 |
| - | That's good. | |
| That's my boy, alright. | 4:13 | |
| - | Do you ever throw anything at her? | 4:15 |
| - | Yeah. | 4:17 |
| (group laughing) | 4:18 | |
| - | Uh oh. | 4:19 |
| (group laughing) | 4:21 | |
| - | We're gettin' somewhere, uh? | 4:23 |
| - | Say my sister named Terry. | 4:24 |
| - | My sister named Terry. | 4:26 |
| - | Have a little brother named Derrick. | 4:28 |
| - | Have a little brother named Derrick. | 4:30 |
| - | Yeah? | 4:32 |
| - | Yeah. | |
| - | And his dad's name Jessie (mumbles). | 4:33 |
| - | And my dad's named Jessie (mumbles). | 4:35 |
| - | Tell him your mother's name. | 4:38 |
| - | (mumbles). | 4:40 |
| - | Today, I was able to spend some time in Terrell County. | 4:44 |
| It was really like a real homecoming, | 4:50 | |
| and it's the most wonderful thing | 4:53 | |
| that has happened to me in two months | 4:54 | |
| because you are really my family | 4:56 | |
| and this is our struggle together. | 4:59 | |
| And so, to know that you are well | 5:03 | |
| and that your spirit is high | 5:06 | |
| and that even though yourbodies may be tired | 5:08 | |
| your spirits aren't | 5:11 | |
| It means an awful lot. | 5:13 | |
| - | (mumbles) | 5:17 |
| - | After he had gone to the store at about quarter to 11, | 5:20 |
| upon coming back he wasn't driving his truck. | 5:25 | |
| And another man stopped him and told him | 5:29 | |
| that his house was on fire. | 5:33 | |
| So, he sped toward his house | 5:34 | |
| and found that the fire had been started | 5:37 | |
| but that the house was ready to fall down to pieces. | 5:43 | |
| And he also found his kids in the ditch. | 5:47 | |
| They were scared, they were cold, | 5:53 | |
| and so he couldn't get anything out of them then. | 5:55 | |
| Took them to a friend's home. | 5:59 | |
| Well, after they had thawed out, | 6:02 | |
| you know, | 6:05 | |
| got 'em warm and everything, he questioned them. | 6:06 | |
| They said that a white man came to the house | 6:09 | |
| and told them | 6:14 | |
| to go down to the road, | 6:17 | |
| and they went down to the road. | 6:21 | |
| Said this white man came in a blue car. | 6:22 | |
| The kids were questioned and everything, | 6:25 | |
| by both the GBI and the FBI, | 6:28 | |
| and the GBI story is that the kids did it. | 6:32 | |
| This man (mumbles) the same man, Mr. Puller, | 6:37 | |
| had his house fired upon a couple of weeks ago | 6:40 | |
| and as he was driving along the road one day, | 6:44 | |
| had two white men in a car drive up beside him | 6:50 | |
| and point that gun from their car to his. | 6:56 | |
| All of this happened before the house burned. | 7:01 | |
| So, I mean, you can put one and one together. | 7:04 | |
| - | There was a rumor out that tomorrow night | 7:10 |
| at the meeting in Sumter County, | 7:14 | |
| that Mr. Trim Porter, | 7:17 | |
| who's the oldest deacon | 7:19 | |
| at that Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, | 7:21 | |
| is to be arrested if he comes to our meeting. | 7:23 | |
| Along with me. | 7:28 | |
| I received a letter--or, a telephone call from my mother, | 7:29 | |
| said that my grandmother was ill | 7:33 | |
| and I would have gone Tuesday. | 7:36 | |
| My grandmother is near death. | 7:40 | |
| if they just hadn't gotten out that rumor | 7:43 | |
| that if I came to that church that I'd be arrested, | 7:48 | |
| I would have gone Tuesday. | 7:52 | |
| And since they said that I feel compelled to go. | 7:53 | |
| - | How did police act on the night of the shooting? | 8:01 |
| - | They thought it was my fault. | 8:03 |
| (laughing) | 8:05 | |
| - | (mumbles) with a child like that? | 8:07 |
| - | They stuck Ralph in prison to deal (mumbles), | 8:08 |
| the funny thing was, you know, | 8:10 | |
| when they stopped us, they frisked us for weapons. | 8:11 | |
| - | We're a dangerous character (mumbles). | 8:17 |
| - | You worried about the creek (mumbles)? | 8:27 |
| I don't think I have met a more dedicated group | 8:30 | |
| since I have been here these 30 years. | 8:34 | |
| (mumbles) They came into Albany | 8:37 | |
| and I think my husband and I | 8:39 | |
| went to the first or second meeting | 8:40 | |
| and I knew then that I was going to stick with them. | 8:43 | |
| I haven't regretted it. | 8:47 | |
| - | I've been in here for awhile. | 8:51 |
| I've been in here (mumbles). | 8:54 | |
| And I've been asking people about freedom. | 8:56 | |
| Everybody in Terrell County's afraid | 8:59 | |
| to talk about freedom. | 9:01 | |
| I talked with some of the people (mumbles). | 9:03 | |
| I went up to some of the peoples' houses | 9:05 | |
| and I asked them. | 9:06 | |
| They said, "You one of them freedom rider!" (mumbles) | 9:07 | |
| "If you come here" they said, "we gotta move". | 9:11 | |
| I said, "No, I'm not a freedom rider." | 9:13 | |
| I said, "I'm in here trying to do the word of God. | 9:15 | |
| "Trying to work for the Lord. | 9:17 | |
| "I'm not a (mumbles) . | 9:18 | |
| "I'm trying to hold up and get freedom for myself." | 9:20 | |
| The people in Terrell County should wake up! | 9:24 | |
| - | Somethin' keep telling me that our only hope | 9:28 |
| is to get these people down to the polls | 9:34 | |
| one by one or two by two. | 9:37 | |
| Our hope rests in these people (mumbles). | 9:41 | |
| Believe it or not. | 9:51 | |
| I know that you can say that it's hard, almost impossible, | 9:53 | |
| but in the face of all of that it must be-- | 10:00 | |
| (group clapping and humming) | 10:12 | |
| (mumbles) | ||
| ♪ I'm gonna tell them how you treat me ♪ | 10:18 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna tell them how you treat me one of these days ♪ | 10:24 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 10:28 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna tell them how you treat me ♪ | 10:29 | |
| ♪ Tell them how you treat me one of these days ♪ | 10:35 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna get my freedom (hums) ♪ | 10:42 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna get my freedom (mumbles) one of these days ♪ | 10:47 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 10:52 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna get my freedom (hums) ♪ | 10:53 | |
| ♪ I'm gonna get my freedom one of these days ♪ | 10:58 | |
| ♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table ♪ | 11:04 | |
| ♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table one of these days ♪ | 11:10 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah. ♪ | 11:14 | |
| ♪ We're gonna eat at the freedom table ♪ | 11:16 | |
| ♪ Eat at the freedom table one of these days ♪ | 11:21 | |
| ♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 11:25 | |
| ♪ Guide my feet, Lord ♪ | 11:29 | |
| ♪ While I run this race ♪ | 11:33 | |
| ♪ Guide my feet ♪ | 11:36 | |
| ♪ While I run this race ♪ | 11:40 | |
| ♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪ | 11:46 | |
| - | This is a mass meeting in Terrell County. | 11:54 |
| - | It is in a tent | 11:57 |
| on the same site where a church once stood. | 11:59 | |
| The church was burned down last summer. | 12:02 | |
| The people of the county | 12:06 | |
| are huddled around a small kerosene stove. | 12:07 | |
| They look nervously at the tent opening | 12:10 | |
| every time there's a noise outside. | 12:13 | |
| Twice the county sheriff has broken up the meeting. | 12:15 | |
| But they have faith that they shall overcome. | 12:20 | |
| ♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪ | 12:22 | |
| ♪ Guide my tongue ♪ | 12:26 | |
| ♪ While I run this race ♪ | 12:29 | |
| ♪ Guide my tongue ♪ | 12:32 | |
| ♪ While I run this race ♪ | 12:37 | |
| ♪ Guide my tongue ♪ | 12:41 | |
| ♪ While I run this race ♪ | 12:45 | |
| ♪ For I don't want to run this race in vain ♪ | 12:49 | |
| - | Let us bow our heads in a word of prayer. | 12:56 |
| Oh Gracious King as we come together. | 12:59 | |
| We pray that thou would bless our coming together. | 13:02 | |
| Bless this people. | 13:05 | |
| We pray that (mumbles) give us strength, give us courage, | 13:07 | |
| to carry on, to fight on and on until the victory is won. | 13:10 | |
| This we ask in the name of thy son Christ Jesus. | 13:15 | |
| Amen. | 13:19 | |
| Congregation | Amen. | 13:20 |
| - | At this time I'd like to say welcome everybody | 13:23 |
| to the home of the brave. | 13:25 | |
| I think I use that name because of | 13:27 | |
| what we people in Terrell County have went through | 13:29 | |
| in order to get the few people that we have got | 13:32 | |
| registered to vote. | 13:34 | |
| Congregation | Amen. | 13:35 |
| Because that valor (mumbles) your objective, | 13:36 | |
| it's a very hard one, although it shouldn't be, | 13:39 | |
| but it's a very hard one. | 13:42 | |
| - | (mumbles) outgrowth from the Albany Movement | 13:43 |
| but a lady was fired there because her child | 13:46 | |
| was one of the children who attempted | 13:49 | |
| to integrate the white high school in Albany. | 13:50 | |
| And all of them walked out. | 13:54 | |
| And it was just wonderful to see that sort of spirit | 13:57 | |
| and that sort of unanimity. | 13:59 | |
| - | And it proved to me, when you really want something | 14:01 |
| and you believe in it you gotta give up everything | 14:04 | |
| to try and get it. | 14:06 | |
| So I walk away filled with that kind of spirit. | 14:08 | |
| - | I tell you what we need to do, | 14:11 |
| we need to go on over here to Dawson | 14:12 | |
| and fall down on our knees | 14:14 | |
| and ask God to have mercy like he did in Albany. | 14:15 | |
| That same God in Albany is over here | 14:18 | |
| - | You may remember that we were all pretty exercised | 14:23 |
| awhile back. | 14:26 | |
| When seven people who had been picketing very peacefully | 14:28 | |
| in the middle of Albany, | 14:31 | |
| in connection with asking people | 14:32 | |
| not to buy Downtown or Midtown before Christmas, | 14:34 | |
| were arrested and thrown in jail. | 14:41 | |
| After they were bonded out, they went to Washington | 14:43 | |
| and picketed the Department of Justice | 14:48 | |
| with signs which read, among other things, | 14:51 | |
| "We can picket here, why not in Albany, Georgia?", | 14:55 | |
| which was a very good question. | 14:57 | |
| - | We shall overcome. | 14:59 |
| We shall overcome someday. | 15:01 | |
| How deep in my heart I do believe | 15:03 | |
| that we shall overcome someday. | 15:06 | |
| Would you stand, join hands right over left, | 15:08 | |
| and sing with us "We Shall Overcome". | 15:10 | |
| ♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 15:16 | |
| ♪ My Lord ♪ | 15:22 | |
| ♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 15:23 | |
| ♪ My Lord ♪ | 15:29 | |
| ♪ We shall overcome someday ♪ | 15:30 | |
| ♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪ | 15:43 | |
| ♪ I do believe ♪ | 15:52 | |
| ♪ Lord, we shall overcome someday ♪ | 15:57 | |
| - | We are not afraid. | 16:07 |
| ♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 16:09 | |
| ♪ My Lord ♪ | 16:15 | |
| - | "Revolution in Georgia: The Negro Struggle for Franchise". | 16:17 |
| This has been the first | 16:22 | |
| in a series of four programs produced for radio | 16:23 | |
| by Larry Rubin, a white Antioch student | 16:26 | |
| who worked for the | 16:29 | |
| Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee | 16:30 | |
| in Southwest Georgia's voter registration movement. | 16:32 | |
| Tonight, Rubin discussed the organization | 16:36 | |
| and function of the movement. | 16:39 | |
| Next week at this time, | 16:42 | |
| the series continues with the second program entitled: | 16:43 | |
| "Roots of Discontent", | 16:47 | |
| in which Rubin traces the origins of the conflict. | 16:49 | |
| These songs "Woke Up This Morning" and "We Shall Overcome" | 16:54 | |
| were sung by the Freedom Singers. | 16:59 | |
| ♪ The truth will make us free ♪ | 17:03 | |
| ♪ My Lord ♪ | 17:09 | |
| ♪ The truth will make us free ♪ | 17:10 | |
| ♪ My Lord ♪ | 17:16 | |
| ♪ The truth will make us free someday ♪ | 17:18 | |
| ♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪ | 17:30 | |
| ♪ I know that ♪ | 17:37 | |
| ♪ I do believe ♪ | 17:40 | |
| ♪ Lord, we shall overcome ♪ | 17:45 |
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