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| - | [Don Baumgardener] Hello, test, hello, test. | 0:03 |
| About 7:15 this evening, a group of black students | 0:07 | |
| from Duke along with the white supporters | 0:10 | |
| left the east campus gates. | 0:11 | |
| They marched down peacefully in about a | 0:15 | |
| two block long column to Five Points. | 0:17 | |
| They're assembling peacefully to wait for 20 minutes | 0:21 | |
| before the students from NCC approached from | 0:24 | |
| the other direction. | 0:27 | |
| The NCC students were chanting as the filed into | 0:31 | |
| the Five Points area, some of them armed with sticks. | 0:36 | |
| Approximately 2,000 NCC students approached the | 0:42 | |
| Five Points area. | 0:45 | |
| Immediately after the Duke students approached | 0:50 | |
| Five Points, the area was quickly surrounded by | 0:53 | |
| the Durham Police Force, armed with helmets and sticks. | 0:56 | |
| ♪Hallelujah Lord, I'm so sad, I'm so sad, I'm so sad. ♪ | 1:04 | |
| ♪ I'm so sad, I am not a pig, oink, oink, oink, ♪ | 1:13 | |
| ♪ I'm so sad that I am not a pig. ♪ | 1:18 | |
| ♪ Glory hallelujah, I'm so sad... ♪ | 1:22 | |
| ♪ Time to pick, revolution is gone, ♪ | 1:29 | |
| ♪ Time to pick up and go, time to pick, ♪ | 1:33 | |
| ♪ Revolution is gone, time to pick ♪ | 1:36 | |
| ♪ Time to pick up and go. ♪ | 1:39 | |
| Mike McBride | A lot of people are willing to fight | 1:43 |
| for the end of niggerhood and I don't mean just | 1:45 | |
| black niggerhood but white niggerhood too. | 1:48 | |
| (audience claps and cheers) | 1:50 | |
| You know, it's not just fighting for the end | 1:55 | |
| of black Duke niggerhood. | 1:59 | |
| But the end of your niggerhood too. | 2:01 | |
| And this is just the first step. | 2:04 | |
| When you start doing this then maybe next time | 2:05 | |
| you'll be willing to do a little more. | 2:08 | |
| Until after while it won't make any difference to | 2:09 | |
| you what you do to gain your humanity. | 2:11 | |
| Now, what would Danny Dead Duck, I don't know | 2:14 | |
| 'cause I'm southern, not a student. | 2:18 | |
| And ah, but this is what I got indirectly. | 2:21 | |
| Is that, ah, Faculty Committee met today to decide, | 2:26 | |
| well, to discuss, if we could have | 2:32 | |
| the kind of representation on this Committee that we wanted. | 2:34 | |
| And what finally filtered back to us was that | 2:39 | |
| the Meeting was inconclusive. | 2:44 | |
| So, ah, we are, you know, non-students. | 2:48 | |
| We don't know, ah, if they are able to decide anything | 2:56 | |
| when they do decide, then, maybe we'll have | 3:00 | |
| another decision to make. | 3:04 | |
| As it stands now, we don't do anymore negotiating, | 3:06 | |
| because they know what we want and we are not | 3:11 | |
| in the University, they are. | 3:15 | |
| It's up to them to decide whether they | 3:18 | |
| still want Duke to be lily white. | 3:20 | |
| If they want it to be a major force in the nation. | 3:23 | |
| They're always trying to copy the Ivy League schools | 3:26 | |
| and say Duke is a major University and you know, | 3:29 | |
| it's a great school and all this, so we giving them | 3:32 | |
| a chance now to prove that they want to make Duke | 3:34 | |
| a great University. | 3:38 | |
| And it ain't going to be great without black participation. | 3:39 | |
| Black students at Duke ain't going to be niggers | 3:47 | |
| for nobody no more. | 3:49 | |
| (audience cheers) | 3:51 | |
| We hope, that white Duke will decide that they | 3:53 | |
| ain't going to be niggers for nobody no more either. | 3:57 | |
| (audience cheers and claps) | 4:00 | |
| Nobody can make the decision for them but them. | 4:01 | |
| Now, we set an example and we try to set an example. | 4:05 | |
| We live what we believe. | 4:10 | |
| Everybody ought to live what he believes. | 4:12 | |
| If you believe that if people been messing up with you. | 4:14 | |
| And you believe that you all not be messed over no more | 4:19 | |
| then it's up to you to decide to do something | 4:22 | |
| about being messed over. | 4:24 | |
| And we decided to do somethin' about being messed over. | 4:26 | |
| And we can't stay out there and | 4:29 | |
| stop them from messing over us | 4:30 | |
| we going to leave to make sure they don't mess over us. | 4:32 | |
| Okay now, white Duke, you know, it's a lot of white Duke | 4:35 | |
| a whole lotta white Duke. | 4:39 | |
| And you know, it wouldn't take much for all that white Duke | 4:41 | |
| to do to get something done out there, to end the niggerhood | 4:43 | |
| of all the students out there. | 4:48 | |
| So it's up to them, each one of them can just, | 4:50 | |
| all them get together, and they can just do a little bit. | 4:52 | |
| They can just do a little bit, you know, by our standards. | 4:56 | |
| They can do a little bit. | 4:58 | |
| And there's so many of 'em that they can | 5:00 | |
| turn that place upside down and get | 5:02 | |
| anything they want out of it. | 5:04 | |
| They can shake it to its foundations | 5:06 | |
| even make that Chapel fall in the hole. | 5:07 | |
| (audience cheers agreement) | 5:10 | |
| See you know we such a small number out there. | 5:11 | |
| So, you know, each one of us has to do a whole lot. | 5:14 | |
| You have to do a whole lot of stuff, you know, | 5:18 | |
| and risk going to jail and all kinds of jah like that | 5:19 | |
| you know, to get something, you know. | 5:22 | |
| But the way we feel is that we ain't living no way. | 5:24 | |
| And that we ain't got nothin' to lose. | 5:28 | |
| So you know, I'm not really putting anything on the line. | 5:30 | |
| I'm not putting anything on the line | 5:33 | |
| by withdrawing from Duke. | 5:34 | |
| What did I put on the line? | 5:35 | |
| Oh yeah, I graduate you know, and I get a degree | 5:36 | |
| in whatever it was I was going to get a degree in. | 5:38 | |
| And fall into the system and all that jive you know. | 5:40 | |
| And make a whole lot of money, you know, | 5:43 | |
| and be a token, you know, I can rise as high | 5:45 | |
| as a black man can rise in this society. | 5:47 | |
| Which ain't very far. | 5:49 | |
| So I'd rather be a poor black man than be a rich nigger. | 5:52 | |
| (audience cheers) | 5:56 | |
| And you can't possibly believe in what they believe in. | 6:00 | |
| 'Cause they don't even believe in what they believe in. | 6:04 | |
| They just robots, they just robots, they've been programmed | 6:06 | |
| and all they want to do is make money see. | 6:08 | |
| And they in this money bag and that's all it is. | 6:11 | |
| And have, not have, just 'bout every student out there, | 6:14 | |
| just about every damn student out there at Duke | 6:17 | |
| and everybody there's robots. | 6:19 | |
| They ain't nothin' but robots and they do what the Man | 6:21 | |
| tells them to do. | 6:23 | |
| And as soon as they throw out all that electronic | 6:24 | |
| stuff in they chest. | 6:27 | |
| When they throw out all them circuits outta their heads | 6:29 | |
| and you that matter, that livin' stuff up there, | 6:32 | |
| and start thinkin'. | 6:35 | |
| They they'll realize they been messed over. | 6:36 | |
| (audience cheers) | 6:39 | |
| They don't get to have me now. | 6:41 | |
| How mean I gonna have me, not them. | 6:43 | |
| None of them, so they that's no down crushes with them. | 6:44 | |
| (audience laughs) | 6:47 | |
| So what we here to say is that the struggle continues. | 6:51 | |
| The struggle for the humanity for all black people. | 6:56 | |
| And all other people who happen to get messed over | 7:00 | |
| well they know how to not, the struggle still goes on. | 7:02 | |
| We might not be all campus fame, | 7:05 | |
| but we going to be fame just the same. | 7:08 | |
| It's up to you to fight for your humanity. | 7:10 | |
| And we fight for ours. | 7:14 | |
| We hope that you all come here and say, | 7:16 | |
| where we going to help the poor niggers outta Duke. | 7:18 | |
| We don't want that. | 7:22 | |
| We want you to say, well, I'm going to stand up | 7:23 | |
| for my humanity. | 7:26 | |
| I'm going to be a person. | 7:28 | |
| I'm going to be a human being. | 7:30 | |
| No more a robot. No more niggerhood. | 7:31 | |
| (audience cheers) | 7:35 | |
| Don Baumgardner | Address by Mr. Mike McBride, | 7:37 |
| President of the Afro-American Society at Duke University. | 7:39 | |
| Thomas Rainey | ...President Hayakawa of a, | 7:45 |
| San Francisco State University, | 7:48 | |
| I would like to talk tonight about semantics. | 7:50 | |
| Three or four weeks ago a colleague of mine said, | 7:57 | |
| 'You know Tom, this participation bit, | 7:59 | |
| ain't going to work.' | 8:01 | |
| We tried it here at Duke before and students | 8:02 | |
| show interest for a couple of weeks and then they fall off. | 8:05 | |
| Well, there's a reason for that. | 8:08 | |
| It's because students ain't got any control out there. | 8:09 | |
| And people that don't have control don't give a damn | 8:12 | |
| what they say because it ain't going to make any difference. | 8:14 | |
| About two weeks ago he came up to me and he says, | 8:20 | |
| 'You know I believe that this a, this action, the black | 8:22 | |
| people are taking here on Campus is counter productive.' | 8:25 | |
| Counter productive, that's the word he used. | 8:30 | |
| That meant, man, you're stomping on my turf | 8:32 | |
| and I want you off of it. | 8:34 | |
| There's another word, there's another word | 8:40 | |
| that we've been casting about and one | 8:42 | |
| I'd like to talk about for a minute. | 8:44 | |
| The word's liberation. | 8:46 | |
| It seems to me that the, this should not be | 8:48 | |
| just one liberated school in Durham. | 8:50 | |
| That is the Malcolm X University, | 8:54 | |
| the Malcolm X Liberation University. | 8:56 | |
| There should be two, Duke University... | 8:58 | |
| (audience shouts protests) | 9:03 | |
| ...So I'd like to invite our black brothers out | 9:12 | |
| to what we hope will be soon a new liberated University. | 9:15 | |
| The Duke Liberation University, tomorrow night. | 9:19 | |
| (audience claps) | 9:22 | |
| Don Baumgardner | Preceding was Dr. Tom Rainey from the | 9:24 |
| History Department at Duke University. | 9:27 | |
| Howard Fuller | Well first of all I'd like to ah, | 9:30 |
| welcome you 200 people down here. | 9:32 | |
| Police say we only have 200 people. | 9:34 | |
| That shows the quality of the Police Force. | 9:37 | |
| (audience laughs) | 9:40 | |
| Don Baumgardner | Howard Fuller now addressing the | 9:42 |
| crowded Five Points. | 9:44 | |
| Howard Fuller | Let me say this. | 9:45 |
| I want to take a minute to say something to the | 9:46 | |
| Students from NCC. | 9:48 | |
| A lot of times I've uh, been on y'all, | 9:50 | |
| and I'm gonna stay on y'all, | 9:54 | |
| and I'm going to keep on y'all until you do | 9:55 | |
| some things that I think you can do. | 9:57 | |
| But I want to say tonight that I think | 9:59 | |
| that anyone who says that you don't have any | 10:01 | |
| kind of belief in your brothers and sisters | 10:04 | |
| they gotta look at the number of you who are here tonight. | 10:08 | |
| (audience cheers) | 10:11 | |
| I think that you ought to be very proud of the | 10:13 | |
| fact that this number's here. | 10:16 | |
| But you know what? | 10:18 | |
| We going to need more tomorrow night. | 10:20 | |
| And see, we going to have a rally tonight at Five Points. | 10:24 | |
| But tomorrow night, we going to go on over to Duke's. | 10:28 | |
| (audience cheers) | 10:32 | |
| So ah, if Bob Scott is getting a little worried. | 10:38 | |
| We know what he going to do, so just tell him, | 10:43 | |
| right on, 'cause we comin' tomorrow night, | 10:47 | |
| and we goin' over to Duke's. | 10:49 | |
| And when black people get over to Dukes you can't | 10:51 | |
| never tell, we get excited, you can't never tell. | 10:53 | |
| (audience deafening cheers) | 10:56 | |
| Now let me make a short report. | 11:01 | |
| Let me make a short report on | 11:04 | |
| Malcolm X Liberation University. | 11:06 | |
| A lot of people think that we are jivin' about | 11:09 | |
| opening up Malcolm X Liberation University. | 11:11 | |
| I would say to any of you who believe that we are jivin', | 11:14 | |
| Thursday morning at 10 o'clock | 11:18 | |
| we gonna have a news conference. | 11:19 | |
| At which time we will announce the curriculum | 11:21 | |
| that has already been set. | 11:24 | |
| We will announce the Faculty Members | 11:25 | |
| that are already ready. | 11:27 | |
| We will announce the place that we already have. | 11:28 | |
| We will announce the scholarships that we already got. | 11:31 | |
| And so we at work. | 11:34 | |
| And one thing that everybody here better understand | 11:40 | |
| is that when the black students at Duke say | 11:43 | |
| that they going to do somethin' | 11:47 | |
| that means that they going to do it. | 11:49 | |
| (audience cheers) | 11:51 | |
| And we said that we going to open up | 11:52 | |
| the Liberation University and it is | 11:54 | |
| going to open up next Monday. | 11:55 | |
| It is going to open up next Monday. | 11:57 | |
| And the only thing that will stop the | 12:00 | |
| Malcolm X Liberation University from opening up | 12:02 | |
| next Monday is for the black students at Duke | 12:04 | |
| to get a power base within Duke. | 12:06 | |
| And the only way for them to get that power base is | 12:08 | |
| for them to have the racial on that Supervisory Committee | 12:11 | |
| that they've asked for. | 12:14 | |
| Other than that, Monday morning it opens. | 12:16 | |
| And if it should be that it will not open, | 12:18 | |
| rest assured that Malcolm X Liberation University | 12:21 | |
| is going to open at another time anyway. | 12:24 | |
| Because we think the idea is necessary and we | 12:27 | |
| going to pursue the idea 'cause later on | 12:31 | |
| some of y'all who is in some other schools | 12:33 | |
| might want to come to it. | 12:35 | |
| (audience cheers) | 12:37 | |
| So we know its cold and all the people standing | 12:40 | |
| out there waiting to see what we going to do. | 12:43 | |
| They got their clubs and stuff. | 12:46 | |
| Well let's tell 'em. | 12:48 | |
| What we going to do is, we gonna find out, | 12:49 | |
| you know, where we at as far as the Duke students. | 12:51 | |
| We know that we ain't nowhere, | 12:54 | |
| so therefore, we gotta escalate. | 12:56 | |
| So that means tomorrow night, we gonna escalate our walk | 12:58 | |
| and go a little bit further down Main Street. | 13:01 | |
| Now if the Police Intelligence will listen closely, | 13:03 | |
| (audience laughs) | 13:06 | |
| I'm about to give you the route. | 13:08 | |
| The route gonna be the same route it's always been | 13:09 | |
| except we ain't going to stop here, | 13:12 | |
| we going to keep on goin', going to keep on goin'. | 13:14 | |
| And so what all of us gotta do is go back tonight | 13:17 | |
| to the Dorms and everywhere else at NCC and | 13:20 | |
| talk to our brothers and sisters and let's come | 13:24 | |
| back tomorrow night, stronger than we were. | 13:26 | |
| And let this town know and let Duke know | 13:29 | |
| that until our people are treated fairly | 13:32 | |
| we gonna march, we gonna march. | 13:34 | |
| And since this is 1969, ain't no tellin'. | 13:37 | |
| (audience cheers) | 13:42 | |
| Right on. | ||
| Power to the people. | 13:44 | |
| Don Baumgardner | After our Howard Fuller speech, | 13:54 |
| Dr. Tom Rainey from the History Department | 13:55 | |
| at Duke University urged the crowd to sing | 13:57 | |
| the students back into their former lines of file | 14:00 | |
| and march away in their respective directions. | 14:04 | |
| NCC and Duke University. | 14:07 | |
| The students then marched, | 14:10 | |
| in a large crowd out of Five Points. | 14:12 | |
| The Police following them. | 14:18 | |
| Up the road from Five Points, | 14:25 | |
| up the road from Five Points, | 14:29 | |
| some threw rocks into some windows. | 14:31 | |
| The Police then ran into the mob, | 14:33 | |
| dispersing them in all directions down side streets. | 14:35 | |
| Police cars then moved in from all directions. | 14:41 | |
| The NCC students, the NCC students continued running. | 14:44 | |
| As the Police chase them down, chase them down Main Street. | 14:49 | |
| Several windows were broken in Belk-Leggett along | 15:00 | |
| with Freeman's Jewelers up Main Street. | 15:02 | |
| Freeman's Jewelers having the window broken, | 15:07 | |
| triggered off a siren. | 15:09 | |
| Freeman's Jewelers, the Young Men's Shop and | 15:14 | |
| several other shops along the Main Street of Durham | 15:16 | |
| were, windows, had their windows broken. | 15:20 | |
| Fuller then told the crowd to continue marching | 15:26 | |
| in an organized line. | 15:29 | |
| As most of the students who had done | 15:31 | |
| the damage had dispersed. | 15:32 | |
| The Durham Police Force chasing them up Main Street. | 15:35 | |
| The march then proceeded in an orderly manner | 15:42 | |
| down the rest of Main Street. | 15:44 | |
| The NCC students finally organizing into a line, | 15:46 | |
| singing as they returned to their College. | 15:49 | |
| For WDBS News, this has been Don Baumgardner reporting. | 15:51 | |
| Now back to much more music. | 15:55 |
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