Rough cuts from "Revelution in Georgia" radio show hosted by Larry Rubin; Correspondence to Bob Ayres in Monroe, NC, January 24-25, 1964; Mass meeting recording in Monroe, NC January 25-25, 1964
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- | [Man Being Interviewed] Give me that paper | 0:03 |
you know, for race. | 0:05 | |
And he said Uncle trims they | 0:06 | |
would think you would join hands or something like that. | 0:08 | |
So we've been mighty nice to you. | 0:10 | |
So I said I appreciate you too. | 0:12 | |
I say you don't mind us trying to learn how to rage | 0:15 | |
if we don't know how. | 0:18 | |
Now there aint nothing wrong with that! | 0:20 | |
That's not against the state laws. | 0:23 | |
But you don't look like you're gonna hafta | 0:27 | |
get them up there and whatever, you know I know | 0:28 | |
they read all the time but they even tell us. | 0:32 | |
They didn't tell us. | 0:36 | |
Larry Ruben | In Georgia I was working | 0:41 |
in south west Georgia, near Albany, | 0:42 | |
the voter registration laws were very good | 0:45 | |
and were very fair. | 0:50 | |
There was two tests, | 0:53 | |
one for literates and one for illiterates, | 0:55 | |
that means that in Georgia, | 0:57 | |
as opposed to most southern states, | 0:59 | |
illiterates could theoretically register to vote. | 1:00 | |
However, local registrars were not following the law | 1:03 | |
and were discriminating terribly against Negros. | 1:09 | |
Since the movement, since the | 1:13 | |
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in particular, | 1:16 | |
has moved into Georgia and uncovered the blanket | 1:19 | |
of silence that rested on discrimination on voting, | 1:23 | |
the federal government has stepped in and brought | 1:29 | |
many suits against local counties, | 1:31 | |
and more Negros are registered now. | 1:34 | |
In Albany for example, when Snick came in | 1:36 | |
there was only 2000 Negros registered, | 1:39 | |
there are now close to 6000 registered. | 1:41 | |
Furthermore I think that the, speaking about-- | 1:46 | |
Interviewer | Yes and what about the whites in the south? | 1:53 |
Now what is their feeling toward this? | 2:00 | |
Larry Ruben | Well it was my experience | 2:04 |
that the white working person, | 2:08 | |
the general white working person, | 2:12 | |
has the strongest hatred toward the negro. | 2:15 | |
For one thing his job is being threatened by the negro, | 2:18 | |
and unemployment is so high. | 2:21 | |
I will say however that there is a rising | 2:28 | |
moderate white voice in the south. | 2:30 | |
This is especially true among those southern states | 2:32 | |
which are trying to attract industries. | 2:37 | |
Ross Barnett found that it was very hard | 2:40 | |
to attract industries to Mississippi | 2:43 | |
during the Oxford crisis for instance. | 2:45 | |
I think that if there is going to be | 2:47 | |
a white voice that is going to keep peace, | 2:48 | |
and is also going to forward negro rights, | 2:52 | |
it is going to be this moderate industrial voice | 2:54 | |
as exemplified by Ralph McGill in Georgia. | 2:57 | |
However on the other hand the white working people, | 3:01 | |
the white masses, | 3:05 | |
respond to Ross Barnett and Governor Wallace | 3:06 | |
much more than they respond to people like Ralph McGill. | 3:08 | |
Man | We are gonna work not just for the poor | 3:14 |
but to see that our children have | 3:17 | |
any of the opportunities and chances that any child has. | 3:19 | |
- | [Man Speaking To crowd] I think that the future | 3:29 |
of the negro depends upon the ballot box | 3:31 | |
and we mean to get this thing we call | 3:33 | |
freedom and our constitutional rights. | 3:35 | |
We must have it, we want it now. | 3:38 | |
Crowd Together | Now. | 3:39 |
- | [Man Speaking To crowd] And I think by | 3:42 |
showing that type of strength | 3:43 | |
there's no doubt in my mind | 3:45 | |
next election in Cornel county or city of Boston, | 3:46 | |
we should run a colored man to speak the mission. | 3:51 | |
Are we encouraging people to go there on elections | 3:54 | |
and we don't know how we gonna vote. | 3:57 | |
And the time we chose a party would be election day. | 4:00 | |
Then we all get together just before election | 4:03 | |
we gonna decide which man we will vote for. | 4:06 | |
Woman | We are not afraid. | 4:14 |
Choir Singing | We are not afraid. | 4:16 |
Announcer | Revolution in Georgia, | 4:22 |
the negro struggle for franchise. | 4:25 | |
This has been the first in a series of four programs | 4:28 | |
produced for radio by Larry Ruben | 4:31 | |
a white Antioch student who worked for | 4:34 | |
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 4:36 | |
in South west Georgia's voter registration movement. | 4:39 | |
Tonight Ruben discussed the organization | 4:42 | |
and function of the movement. | 4:44 | |
Next week at this time the series continues | 4:47 | |
with the second program entitled "Roots of discontent" | 4:50 | |
in which Ruben traces the origins of the conflict. | 4:55 | |
The songs "Woke up this Morning" and "We shall overcome" | 4:59 | |
were sung by the freedom singers. | 5:05 | |
♪ The truth will make us free ♪ | 5:08 | |
♪ My lord. ♪ | 5:14 | |
♪ The truth will make us free. ♪ | 5:16 | |
♪ My lo-ord. ♪ | 5:22 | |
♪ The truth will make us free ♪ | 5:25 | |
♪ Someday. ♪ | 5:29 | |
♪ Oh deep in my heart ♪ | 5:36 | |
♪ I do believe. ♪ | 5:45 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 5:53 | |
(man yelling) | 6:02 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 6:08 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus ♪ | 6:10 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 6:17 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus ♪ | 6:19 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 6:24 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus. ♪ | 6:27 | |
♪ Hallelujah (Thank god) ♪ | 6:32 | |
♪ Hallelujah (my lord) ♪ | 6:35 | |
♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah. ♪ | 6:36 | |
Announcer | Revolution in Georgia: | 6:41 |
the Negro struggle for franchise. | 6:43 | |
This is the first in a series of four programs | 6:46 | |
produced for radio by Larry Ruben, | 6:48 | |
a white Antioch student who worked for | 6:51 | |
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 6:54 | |
in South west Georgia's voter registration movement. | 6:57 | |
Tonight Ruben discusses the organization | 7:00 | |
and function of the movement. | 7:03 | |
Parts of this program you are about to hear | 7:05 | |
were recorded in the field. | 7:08 | |
Woman | My mother, my grandmother and they-- | 7:11 |
(tape rewinding) | 7:13 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 7:19 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus ♪ | 7:21 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 7:27 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus ♪ | 7:29 | |
♪ I woke up this morning ♪ | 7:35 | |
♪ with my mind stayed on Jesus. ♪ | 7:38 | |
♪ Hallelujah (Thank god) ♪ | 7:42 | |
♪ Hallelujah (my lord) ♪ | 7:44 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 7:46 | |
Announcer | Revolution in Georgia: | 7:51 |
the Negro struggle for franchise. | 7:54 | |
This is the first in a series of four programs | 7:56 | |
produced for radio by Larry Ruben, | 7:59 | |
a white Antioch student who worked for | 8:02 | |
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | 8:04 | |
in South west Georgia's voter registration movement. | 8:06 | |
Tonight Ruben discusses the organization | 8:10 | |
and function of the movement. | 8:12 | |
Parts of this program you are about to hear | 8:16 | |
were recorded in the field. | 8:18 | |
Woman | My mother, my grandmother | 8:21 |
and all of them died in slaves. | 8:23 | |
Now I'm fighting for my rights. | 8:26 | |
Give me my rights please! | 8:27 | |
Larry Ruben | Southwest Georgia | 8:30 |
is peanuts, pecan, and cotton country. | 8:31 | |
Thousands of tourists drive through here every year | 8:34 | |
on their way to Florida. | 8:37 | |
Signs a long the highway invite them to retire in Georgia. | 8:39 | |
To enjoy the leisurely, friendly, southern way of life | 8:42 | |
and low taxes. | 8:46 | |
As the tourists drive along the highway | 8:49 | |
they notice the black people in the fields, | 8:51 | |
quietly bend over their baskets picking the crops. | 8:53 | |
To Negros seem to be part of the land itself. | 8:59 | |
When tourists stop to enjoy one of the many | 9:02 | |
motels and restaurants there are the Negros again, | 9:04 | |
lavishing them with smiles and fine services. | 9:08 | |
This is all the tourists can see of the negro, | 9:16 | |
but the frightening truth is | 9:19 | |
white people who have lived | 9:20 | |
all their lives in southwest Georgia | 9:23 | |
can see no more. | 9:24 | |
An elaborate economic, social, and political system, | 9:27 | |
the segregation system, | 9:30 | |
shields the whites from reality | 9:32 | |
and keeps the Negros silently in their place. | 9:35 | |
I was overwhelmed and frightened by southern reality | 9:42 | |
the first day I came to southwest Georgia | 9:45 | |
to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's | 9:48 | |
voter registration project. | 9:51 | |
Reverend Charles Sherrod the young negro | 9:54 | |
who heads the project, | 9:57 | |
drove me through the internal counties. | 9:58 | |
He showed me the churches that have been | 10:02 | |
burnt down by the whites | 10:04 | |
because the Negros were getting uppity. | 10:07 | |
The churches had been used for voter registration meetings. | 10:10 | |
He showed me the field where a negro body | 10:13 | |
had turned up last summer, | 10:16 | |
riddled with bullets and castrated. | 10:18 | |
Woman | He has had the weakness as a minister | 10:25 |
of accepting this system totally. | 10:29 | |
Sermons that were not concerned with | 10:35 | |
voter registration or civil rights, | 10:36 | |
with social justice. | 10:42 | |
Man | I began to go talking about voter registration | 10:51 |
so I told em about our church | 10:58 | |
his son at our church | 11:02 | |
he the head at our church before it got burned down. | 11:04 | |
We had headed there a time or two. | 11:07 | |
and so since our church has got burned down | 11:12 | |
and we was still holding it in this tent | 11:13 | |
I said to him it got kinda cold | 11:17 | |
I think a building would be better. | 11:21 | |
So I came over here today could we use this church | 11:23 | |
to hold our voter registration | 11:29 | |
While it's cold until it probably get a little warmer? | 11:34 | |
And so then the pasture said, well, | 11:39 | |
he got up and said well brother I'll tell ya | 11:41 | |
that that voter registration what the people've been, | 11:46 | |
the movement, different things like that he was sayin, | 11:50 | |
saying that done cause so much trouble around the country. | 11:53 | |
Said I know it's cold in that tent | 11:57 | |
and we don't have any insurance and we can't get none. | 11:59 | |
If the church gets burned down then | 12:03 | |
he won't have anywhere to have his service. | 12:04 | |
And another thing we don't have any dead to this church. | 12:07 | |
Man | They can come with all the shame in the world | 12:13 |
but if they had a meeting out of that church | 12:15 | |
as long as I can get up off the ground, | 12:18 | |
while I can go, I'm going. | 12:20 | |
Cause that church out there just like my house. | 12:22 | |
I said anybody go to my house | 12:25 | |
I'm gonna see what they're doing. | 12:27 | |
I said making moves and having meetings | 12:29 | |
I said that's a church house | 12:31 | |
that's supposed to have meetings. | 12:33 | |
So we go out there, we sing, we pray, | 12:34 | |
and have our meeting. | 12:36 | |
Pasture | We welcome you all to this tent | 12:43 |
since the church has been destroyed. | 12:47 | |
Since the colors of the church have been destroyed | 12:50 | |
and the congregation will do it for em | 12:53 | |
as they called em freedom riders. | 12:55 | |
(laughing) | 12:57 | |
Amen. | 12:58 | |
I've been pasture here this coming year | 13:00 | |
it'll be 30 years. | 13:05 | |
So we opened the door for them to come in | 13:08 | |
cause they cold and needed, that's why she's destroyed. | 13:10 | |
I heard that they were gonna burn it down | 13:15 | |
but I told them if they burned it down | 13:18 | |
we gonna build another one. | 13:20 | |
(audience applause) | 13:22 | |
So they burned down the building | 13:25 | |
but they didn't burn the church down. | 13:28 | |
(audience shouting in agreement) | 13:31 | |
(clapping and singing) | 13:39 | |
Man | His wife was just singing the way of the lord. | 14:20 |
She said I'll let the lord do my voting for me. | 14:23 | |
Woman | So maybe if the lord wouldn't fix this thing | 14:27 |
then you don't have to even be starvin. | 14:29 | |
Man | That's what she said. | 14:32 |
Woman | Guess that's probably what she meant. | 14:33 |
Man | Now I'm realizing that god gives us | 14:35 |
health, strength, and life | 14:36 | |
and that after he give you all these things | 14:38 | |
then you should be willing to get up | 14:41 | |
and fight for all these things. | 14:44 | |
Man | I had a bible with me | 14:46 |
and I showed her the lord helps he who helps himself. | 14:47 | |
Man | When I walked into this tent | 14:53 |
I thought about when I was a boy, | 14:55 | |
and this tent reminds me of the tent | 14:57 | |
that I used to attend when I was a boy | 14:59 | |
at what they called a sanctified church. | 15:01 | |
And those people there were praying and singing | 15:05 | |
as you are tonight. | 15:09 | |
They were praying and singing for freedom then, | 15:13 | |
and I said when I came into this tent | 15:16 | |
I said well Negros are still prayin and singing | 15:19 | |
in tents for freedom. | 15:23 | |
- | [Congregation Member] And it don't ensure | 15:26 |
that you is exercising your faith in God | 15:29 | |
when you just continue to keep and dread man, | 15:32 | |
rather than God. | 15:37 | |
You do things wrong that the lord said was wrong, | 15:39 | |
and saying was against your soul. | 15:44 | |
And you go ahead on and your God | 15:47 | |
got all the power in his hands. | 15:50 | |
He can take you off the face of the earth | 15:52 | |
anytime he judge ready. | 15:54 | |
But still you feel men rather than God. | 15:56 | |
So that's the only weak part it is | 16:00 | |
is our religion is the one that so weak. | 16:03 | |
Now I believe God will take care of me. | 16:06 | |
I've been laid off a second time | 16:10 | |
but I haven't got worried a bit yet. | 16:15 | |
Every time I'm laid off I have something important to do | 16:22 | |
and I still, I'm not worried. | 16:25 | |
Not about the job or about being freezed out | 16:30 | |
or anything like that. | 16:33 | |
God will make a way for me. | 16:35 | |
(audience applause) | 16:37 | |
Man | Coming here with you is a very warm, | 16:40 |
a very moving experience | 16:42 | |
one is almost moved to tears as one comes in | 16:44 | |
and listens to the people sing. | 16:46 | |
And it's a funny thing that our motivation, | 16:48 | |
the sincerity of em, the degree of it, | 16:50 | |
that our hearts and our minds | 16:53 | |
can't help but react to it. | 16:56 | |
In other words, when people sing a song, | 16:57 | |
and when they put all of their feeling | 16:59 | |
and all of their soul into it, | 17:01 | |
in some ways you know and you feel | 17:02 | |
that stick with you almost. | 17:04 | |
And this is how it feels in this tent tonight, | 17:06 | |
and it's a very warm and moving experience. | 17:08 | |
(crowd clapping and singing) | 17:14 | |
(rewinding) | 17:40 | |
(crowd singing "Lord Hold My Hand While I Run This Race") | 17:43 |
- | Well, the kids want to send this to Bob. | 0:03 |
And I think we're gonna sing we shall overcome. | 0:07 | |
- | Well amen then. | 0:10 |
- | Come on now. | |
- | Well alright. | 0:11 |
- | Really we're gonna sing it | 0:12 |
and I hope everybody wanna try it. | 0:13 | |
I'll try to sing the best I can. | 0:15 | |
But, I don't know all the words. | 0:16 | |
- | And Bob hurry up and come home. | 0:18 |
- | With your nappy head. | 0:20 |
- | Yeah with that hairy little chin. | 0:21 |
- | Okay | 0:24 |
- | You're like hairy, hairy. | |
- | We miss you Bob, we miss that beard. | 0:27 |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 0:31 | |
♪ My Lord ♪ | 0:36 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 0:37 | |
♪ My Lord ♪ | 0:43 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 0:44 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 0:48 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 0:53 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 0:55 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 0:59 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 1:00 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 1:04 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 1:06 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 1:10 | |
- | God is on our side. | 1:13 |
- | We are not afraid. | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 1:15 | |
♪ Bom, bom, bom ♪ | 1:19 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 1:21 | |
♪ Bom, bom, bom ♪ | 1:25 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 1:26 | |
♪ Today ♪ | 1:31 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 1:35 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 1:37 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 1:40 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 1:42 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 1:46 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 1:48 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 1:52 | |
- | God is on our side | 1:54 |
♪ God is on our side ♪ | 1:56 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 2:00 | |
♪ God is on our side ♪ | 2:02 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 2:06 | |
♪ God is on our side ♪ | 2:07 | |
♪ Today ♪ | 2:11 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 2:15 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 2:17 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 2:20 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 2:22 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 2:27 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 2:28 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 2:31 | |
- | One more time | 2:34 |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 2:35 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 2:39 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 2:40 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 2:44 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 2:45 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 2:49 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 2:54 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 2:56 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 2:59 | |
♪ I do ♪ | 3:00 | |
- | We hope you have enjoyed this song Bob. | 3:01 |
We want you to come home. | 3:05 | |
Not home but to Monroe | 3:08 | |
and help us here. | 3:10 | |
(mumbles) | 3:13 | |
Harold speaking. | 3:15 | |
- | No, no let him first, then we'll go all around. | 3:33 |
- | Bob | 3:36 |
you cussed me out one day | 3:38 | |
talking to that | 3:41 | |
you old ugly rascal. | 3:42 | |
- | Tell her, say your name. | 3:44 |
- | Huh? | 3:46 |
- | Say your name. | |
- | My name is Vance Johnson Massey. | 3:48 |
- | Well, actually I don't talk to you. | 3:53 |
I ain't saying nothing on this damn thing. | 3:55 | |
(laughter) | 3:58 | |
- | Where she at, New York? (inaudible) | 4:03 |
(chuckles) | 4:10 | |
- | Bobie, they just told me that you was in New York. | 4:13 |
Well, before I say anything else, | 4:16 | |
I want you to tell Bill I said hello. | 4:17 | |
And (laughs) | 4:20 | |
- | You still got his picture up. | 4:22 |
- | Yeah and I still have his picture beside. | 4:24 |
Oh come off it Eddie. | 4:26 | |
And we all do miss you here at Monroe | 4:28 | |
and we do hope you will come back soon. | 4:30 | |
For myself, I do miss you. | 4:32 | |
So, I'll let somebody else talk. | 4:34 | |
- | Try and talk proper. | 4:36 |
- | I'm beginning to wish I knew you. | 4:37 |
Bobara, Martha | 4:40 | |
- | Hello there son. (laughs) | 4:42 |
This is... (laughs) | 4:45 | |
Bob. (laughs) | 4:46 | |
Well, that's all I got to say for today Bob. | 4:49 | |
My name is Wilbur Earline Huff. | 4:52 | |
- | Is this your cousin? | 4:58 |
- | Bobara, Eddie, Jake and I | 5:02 |
was at the SNCC conference during the Thanksgiving holiday. | 5:09 | |
And I really enjoyed myself. | 5:13 | |
And... | 5:15 | |
John and Elaine still talking junk about you. | 5:20 | |
You remember the day I kicked your, you know? | 5:22 | |
Well, that's all I got to say. | 5:26 | |
This is Ira Jean, your kickin' buddy. | 5:28 | |
(laughter) | 5:32 | |
- | This is Larry Ruben, | 5:36 |
I haven't seen you since Cuba, since you went to Cuba. | 5:37 | |
But the people down here miss you a lot. | 5:41 | |
And... | 5:44 | |
You better get your ass down here from New York. | 5:46 | |
- | Go head on then fella. (laughter) | 5:53 |
- | Your breath smells like canker don't you? | 5:56 |
Roll a (inaudible) in with it. | 5:59 | |
(inaudible) | 6:00 | |
Boo boo boo booty. | 6:01 | |
- | Your breath smells like ass | 6:03 |
when you get up in the morning. | 6:04 | |
- | Well alright go ahead kid. | 6:07 |
- | You know Dick Tracy called and (inaudible) | 6:11 |
- | You remember when Richard use to say | 6:16 |
the apes are just arising? | 6:18 | |
- | That's all folks. | 6:22 |
You look like Buckwheat- | 6:23 | |
- | Just shut up and let him play it back. | 6:25 |
♪ My baby done left me ♪ | 6:34 | |
- | Just stop it. | 6:38 |
- | Just say something, testing one, two, three, four, five. | 6:41 |
- | Finish talking. | 6:44 |
♪ Come back home to me baby ♪ | 6:47 | |
♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪ | 6:50 | |
♪ You are sweet ♪ | 6:54 | |
♪ You are good ♪ | 6:55 | |
♪ You are my only love baby ♪ | 6:58 | |
- | Is it very active here or is it just people working? | 7:02 |
- | Just people working | 7:05 |
- | Is that what you want to do? | 7:07 |
♪ Harold Jean that didn't hurt ♪ | 7:10 | |
♪ I'm gonna bust his brain wide open ♪ | 7:12 | |
♪ You better not do that junk no more Harold Jean ♪ | 7:15 | |
- | Shut up boy. | 7:17 |
♪ Harold Jean that didn't hurt. ♪ | 7:18 | |
(laughs) | 7:20 | |
- | I'll whoop your butt, shut up. | 7:23 |
(laughter) | 7:25 | |
(inaudible) | 7:29 | |
- | Good evening my brothers and sisters. | 7:39 |
Hey what time are you guys supposed to be home? | 7:42 | |
- | I'm going home at 12 o'clock. | 7:45 |
- | Come on, don't tell me no lies. | 7:48 |
What time are you supposed to get home? | 7:50 | |
- | I get home when I want to get home. | 7:52 |
- | I said don't tell me no lies. | 7:53 |
(laughter) | 7:55 | |
- | I aint telling no story. | 7:57 |
(inaudible) | 7:58 | |
- | What time is it now? | 8:02 |
- | 12:30. | 8:05 |
- | Look around, he's sitting over there. | 8:08 |
- | Around by what time though? | 8:11 |
- | Whenever I get ready. | 8:14 |
- | I ain't got no time to go home then. | 8:17 |
- | You got time to make hell. | 8:19 |
We ain't gonna stay past 10:30. | 8:21 | |
- | That's what time I'm going to school. | 8:25 |
(inaudible) | 8:27 | |
- | It's Friday night. | 8:31 |
- | Oh, it is. | |
♪ It's early Friday night ♪ | 8:34 | |
♪ And I ain't got nobody ♪ | 8:36 | |
♪ I got no money 'cause I ain't been paid ♪ | 8:40 | |
♪ I wish I had some chick to talk to ♪ | 8:43 | |
(inaudible) | 8:49 | |
- | This whole conversation, about slavery riots. | 8:57 |
- | About slavery riots, | 9:02 |
you know there was one in this county? | 9:03 | |
That's right, about 1851. | 9:06 | |
- | And who (inaudible) Joe? | 9:12 |
- | I got a whole book on that now. | 9:15 |
Did you see it? | 9:18 | |
Did I show it to you? | 9:18 | |
(inaudible) | 9:21 | |
He wrote that back during the war. | 9:30 | |
- | It did tell me somebody go home. | 9:33 |
- | Or it (inaudible) | 9:35 |
(inaudible) | 9:42 | |
- | I tell you, let me tell you something. | 9:50 |
He slept over here the night before | 9:53 | |
we went to the SNCC Conference. | 9:55 | |
I saw him, you see the walls are pretty bad now | 9:57 | |
and it was his snoring (inaudible) | 10:00 | |
I said (inaudible) | 10:03 | |
And too much. | 10:06 | |
And when we were up in DC | 10:07 | |
I would get drunk he woke me up with his snoring. | 10:09 | |
What a goddamn racket. | 10:14 | |
That was a brick house. | 10:15 | |
Bricks were falling out. | 10:17 | |
Really I never heard anybody snore so loud. | 10:19 | |
- | Hey, I been hearing my turn (inaudible) | 10:23 |
- | (inaudible) | 10:26 |
- | Mr. Jay, what am I gonna do with these bottles? | 10:32 |
Jay said I don't know leave them in the car. | 10:36 | |
So all this worry all they were was throwing them out. | 10:38 | |
Ding ding ding ding. | 10:41 | |
Then Jay said stop it Eddie you get all (inaudible) | 10:42 | |
He said I don't know- | 10:46 | |
- | Salt head. | 10:48 |
(laughing) | 10:49 | |
I don't remember but that's probably what I said. | 10:49 | |
- | They were throwin the rest of em out | 10:51 |
ding ding ding | 10:53 | |
then you got home. | 10:54 | |
- | There were two bottles in the car. | 10:56 |
Mind you he stretching this story out to about a case. | 10:57 | |
- | Yeah it was about a case | 10:59 |
after y'all keep breaking you know | 11:01 | |
we got lost in (inaudible). | 11:04 | |
(inaudible) | 11:08 | |
- | Is this North Carolina? | 11:10 |
- | No this is DC, the SNCC conference. | 11:11 |
Tony's father ran in the district? | 11:14 | |
- | Yep and I was so fucking drunk. | 11:16 |
Pretty girl (inaudible) | 11:18 | |
- | Somebody say something. | 11:21 |
Old Frank (inaudible) | 11:22 | |
- | Hallenburg killed me last night. | 11:26 |
(laughing) | 11:28 | |
- | I was telling John that. | 11:30 |
- | Ole pookie you know the other day | 11:31 |
he had red moccasin and pook goin Hallenburg | 11:32 | |
and so pookie and everybody kissed | 11:35 | |
pookie on the mouth and pookie said (howling) | 11:37 | |
- | Listen. | 11:41 |
- | Once upon a time you know we go get em | 11:42 |
and put em down you know safe and (inaudible) | 11:44 | |
Huh Josh you put him down and she asked | 11:46 | |
another boy for a changed chance. | 11:47 | |
(laughing) | 11:51 | |
Oh dear uh they say, ain't, ole (inaudible) | 11:55 | |
And old rum hawkin was up there | 12:01 | |
caught whoever and ole child looked up | 12:04 | |
puttin on his head saying poor taz you pokin me. | 12:05 | |
I said hey sir. | 12:09 | |
And pookie's ole girl she be combing his hair | 12:12 | |
when he comes from lunch making pookie look bad | 12:14 | |
and well folks that's all I got to say. | 12:18 | |
Let somebody else say a little bit of words. | 12:20 | |
- | This is Mel, fixing to speak my piece now ladies | 12:23 |
um Wilbur you know. | 12:26 | |
Honey child Wilbur break honey child | 12:28 | |
that's all I can say is honey child | 12:31 | |
Wilbur bring this honey child all (inaudible) | 12:33 | |
- | I don't. | 12:35 |
- | Now don't you believe that voice. | 12:37 |
And he bring all the candy and shoot em. | 12:39 | |
Put that blood down y'all know that's somethin. | 12:42 | |
Ain't that right, amen? | 12:44 | |
- | Now I got to show you my joke show and look at him. | 12:46 |
This where you holler like the dog. | 12:50 | |
(howling) | 12:51 | |
This is the way I holler | 12:53 | |
(howling) | 12:54 | |
(yelling) | 12:56 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 13:05 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 13:11 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 13:12 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 13:17 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 13:18 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 13:22 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 13:27 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 13:30 | |
♪ I know that ♪ | 13:33 | |
♪ I shall be free ♪ | 13:35 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 13:39 | |
♪ (inaudible) ♪ | 13:41 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 13:45 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 13:47 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 13:50 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 13:53 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 13:55 | |
♪ My Lordy ♪ | 13:59 | |
♪ We are not afraid ♪ | 14:01 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 14:04 | |
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ | 14:08 | |
♪ Deep in my heart ♪ | 14:10 | |
♪ I know that I will be free ♪ | 14:14 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 14:21 | |
♪ Someday ♪ | 14:25 | |
- | I'm a man. | 14:26 |
- | That's all. | 14:27 |
- | Goodbye. | 14:28 |
- | Goodbye. | 14:29 |
♪ Oh beautiful ♪ | 14:30 | |
♪ For spacious skies ♪ | 14:32 | |
♪ For amber waves of grain ♪ | 14:35 | |
♪ For purple mountain's majesty ♪ | 14:40 | |
♪ Above the fruited plain ♪ | 14:46 | |
♪ America America ♪ | 14:50 | |
♪ God shed his grace on thee ♪ | 14:55 | |
♪ Bom bom bom bom bom bom ♪ | 14:59 | |
♪ And crown thy good with brotherhood ♪ | 15:01 | |
♪ From sea to shining sea ♪ | 15:05 | |
- | Alright! | 15:10 |
♪ It ain't no big thing baby. ♪ | 15:12 | |
♪ Dun dun dun dun dun ♪ | 15:14 | |
- | You keep doing the thing but they all (inaudible) | 15:16 |
my blue suede shoes | 15:19 | |
♪ One for the money ♪ | 15:23 | |
♪ Two for the show ♪ | 15:24 | |
♪ Three get ready ♪ | 15:25 | |
♪ And okay go ♪ | 15:26 | |
♪ But don't you step on my blue suede shoes ♪ | 15:28 | |
♪ Keep doin your thing ♪ | 15:33 | |
♪ But not on my blue suede shoes ♪ | 15:35 | |
(inaudible) | 15:37 | |
(whispering) | 15:55 | |
(inaudible) | 15:58 | |
- | Yeah. | 16:09 |
(inaudible) | 16:11 | |
- | Yeah. | 16:12 |
- | What about you raz? | 16:13 |
- | I changed my mind. | 16:14 |
- | You changed your mind? | 16:15 |
- | Yep. | 16:16 |
After this I thought Tubman would get killed tonight. | 16:18 | |
- | Would get killed tonight? | 16:20 |
- | A snake might get him. | 16:21 |
- | A snake coming for what raz? | 16:23 |
(inaudible) | 16:25 | |
(laughing) | 16:26 | |
- | A snake, man, can't you tell? | 16:30 |
- | Oh I know what that is. | 16:32 |
- | You're just too small. | 16:36 |
♪ Well well well well ♪ | 16:41 | |
♪ Let's get together ♪ | 16:44 | |
♪ And go for a walk in the park ♪ | 16:46 | |
♪ While we were walking ♪ | 16:52 | |
♪ We're gonna steal a little kiss in the dark ♪ | 16:53 | |
♪ Oh oh I want to walk with you ♪ | 16:58 | |
♪ I want to talk with you ♪ | 17:02 | |
♪ It's up to you to say ♪ | 17:06 | |
♪ C'mon baby if you don't hurry up ♪ | 17:08 | |
♪ I'll go crazy cause ♪ | 17:11 | |
♪ A walk in the park all alone ♪ | 17:13 | |
♪ Cause it's so hard ♪ | 17:16 | |
♪ Yeah ♪ | 17:19 | |
(cough) | 17:20 | |
(laughing) | 17:21 | |
- | Sing that song. | 17:23 |
♪ Well I got two lovers ♪ | 17:31 | |
♪ And I ain't ashamed ♪ | 17:34 | |
♪ Two lovers and I love them both the same ♪ | 17:36 | |
♪ Let me tell you about my first lover ♪ | 17:42 | |
♪ She's sweet and kind ♪ | 17:46 | |
♪ And she's mine all mine ♪ | 17:48 | |
♪ Treats me good like a lover should ♪ | 17:51 | |
♪ Makes me love her ♪ | 17:54 | |
♪ I really really love her ♪ | 17:58 | |
♪ Oh oh oh oh ♪ | 18:02 | |
♪ I love her so ♪ | 18:05 | |
♪ And I'll do everything I can ♪ | 18:07 | |
♪ To let her know ♪ | 18:11 | |
♪ Do do do do do do ♪ | 18:14 | |
(Laughing) | 18:19 | |
- | Let's see. | 18:24 |
- | Goodbye goodbye. | 18:25 |
♪ We are soldiers ♪ | 18:32 | |
♪ Oh yeah ♪ | 18:34 | |
♪ In the Army ♪ | 18:35 | |
♪ Oh yo ♪ | 18:36 | |
♪ We got to fight ♪ | 18:37 | |
♪ The more we get to run ♪ | 18:39 | |
♪ We get to oh ♪ | 18:41 | |
♪ We get to hold up the blood thing banners ♪ | 18:43 | |
♪ We got to hold them up until we die ♪ | 18:47 | |
♪ You know my brother was a soldier ♪ | 18:51 | |
♪ Oh yeah ♪ | 18:55 | |
♪ He lived in a (inaudible) ♪ | 18:56 | |
♪ Oh yeah ♪ | 18:59 | |
♪ One of these days he couldn't find anymore ♪ | 19:01 | |
♪ Since they are staying by (inaudible) ♪ | 19:04 | |
- | Well what was it? | 19:16 |
- | Let's start anything. | 19:17 |
- | Anything man C'mon. | 19:18 |
♪ Ain't gonna let- ♪ | 19:20 | |
( laughing) | 19:22 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:25 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:28 | |
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody Lordy ♪ | 19:31 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:35 | |
- | Eddie goin to the Army. | 19:38 |
♪ Keep on a talkin ♪ | 19:40 | |
- | Eddie going to the Army get his britches torn. | 19:44 |
♪ Ain't gonna let old morning Lordy ♪ | 19:48 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:51 | |
♪ Oh Lordy ♪ | 19:53 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:54 | |
♪ Oh Lordy ♪ | 19:56 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 19:57 | |
♪ Aint gonna let it old moody Lordy ♪ | 19:58 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 20:02 | |
♪ Keep on a walking Lordy ♪ | 20:04 | |
♪ Keep on a talking Lordy ♪ | 20:06 | |
♪ Marchin out to freedom land ♪ | 20:09 | |
♪ Ain't gonna let no toto Lordy ♪ | 20:12 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 20:16 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 20:18 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 20:20 | |
♪ Ain't gonna let no toto Lordy ♪ | 20:23 | |
♪ Turn me round ♪ | 20:25 | |
♪ Keep on a walkin Lordy ♪ | 20:28 | |
♪ Keep on a talkin Lordy ♪ | 20:30 | |
♪ Marchin up to freedom land ♪ | 20:33 | |
- | Goodbye, goodbye. | 20:36 |
- | How about you Ty? | 20:39 |
- | Thank you, thank you. | 20:40 |
(inaudible) | 20:42 | |
♪ Dog dog dog ♪ | 20:46 | |
♪ My dog over your dog ♪ | 20:50 | |
♪ And your dog over my dog ♪ | 20:53 | |
♪ Why can't we ♪ | 20:56 | |
♪ Sit under the apple tree ♪ | 21:00 | |
♪ My little dog done died in a ditch ♪ | 21:03 | |
♪ Dog dog dog dog ♪ | 21:05 | |
♪ Down in the field half past day ♪ | 21:08 | |
♪ Dog dog dog dog ♪ | 21:11 | |
♪ Then another doggie came along ♪ | 21:14 | |
♪ Dog dog dog dog dog dog ♪ | 21:17 | |
♪ Let's get together and eat this bone ♪ | 21:19 | |
♪ Dog dog dog dog dog dog ♪ | 21:22 | |
♪ Why can't we sit under the apple tree ♪ | 21:25 | |
- | Hot diggity dog. | 21:33 |
♪ Paul and Silas ♪ | 21:36 | |
♪ Bound in jail ♪ | 21:39 | |
♪ Got nobody ♪ | 21:41 | |
♪ For to go their bail ♪ | 21:43 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 21:45 | |
♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ | 21:50 | |
♪ Oh lord ♪ | 21:55 | |
♪ Oh lord ♪ | 21:58 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 22:02 | |
♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ | 22:07 | |
♪ Paul and Silas ♪ | 22:11 | |
♪ Begin to shout ♪ | 22:13 | |
♪ Till (inaudible) they won't doubt ♪ | 22:15 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 22:19 | |
♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ | 22:24 | |
♪ Oh lord ♪ | 22:28 | |
♪ Oh lord ♪ | 22:32 | |
♪ Bum bum bum bum bum bum ♪ | 22:34 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 22:36 | |
♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ | 22:40 | |
♪ The only thing that we did wrong ♪ | 22:44 | |
♪ Is stayed in the wilderness a little too long ♪ | 22:48 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 22:52 | |
♪ Oh lord oh lord ♪ | 22:56 | |
♪ Oh lord ♪ | 23:00 | |
♪ Hold on ♪ | 23:04 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 23:08 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 23:12 | |
♪ The only thing we did right ♪ | 23:16 | |
♪ The day we decided we were going to fight ♪ | 23:20 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 23:24 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 23:28 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 23:32 | |
♪ Hold on ♪ | 23:40 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 23:40 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 23:42 | |
♪ The only change that a man can stand ♪ | 23:46 | |
♪ Is the change of a helping hand ♪ | 23:50 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 23:54 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 23:57 | |
♪ Hold on ♪ | 24:01 | |
♪ Hold on ♪ | 24:05 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 24:09 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 24:13 | |
♪ I never been to heaven but I think I'm alright ♪ | 24:17 | |
♪ The people in heaven are black and white ♪ | 24:20 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 24:24 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 24:28 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 24:32 | |
♪ Hold on ♪ | 24:36 | |
♪ Keep your eyes on the prize ♪ | 24:39 | |
♪ Hold on hold on ♪ | 24:43 | |
♪ Before I be a slave I be buried in my grave ♪ | 24:47 | |
(laughing) | 24:51 | |
♪ Seek seek seek ♪ | 25:06 | |
♪ And you shall find ♪ | 25:07 | |
♪ Oh na na na na ♪ | 25:09 | |
♪ Can a door shed open ♪ | 25:12 | |
♪ As a favor when it shall be given ♪ | 25:13 | |
♪ When the Lord comes breakin it down ♪ | 25:17 | |
♪ My (inaudible) ♪ | 25:22 | |
(laughing) | 25:27 | |
♪ Mother you ought to have been there ♪ | 25:30 | |
♪ When the lord comes breaken it down ♪ | 25:33 | |
♪ Oh seek seek seek ♪ | 25:37 | |
♪ And you shall find ♪ | 25:39 | |
♪ Oh na na na ♪ | 25:41 | |
♪ Could a door shed open ♪ | 25:43 | |
♪ As a favor ♪ | 25:45 | |
♪ As a favor when it shall be given ♪ | 25:46 | |
♪ When the lord comes breakin' it down ♪ | 25:48 | |
♪ Father you ought've of been there ♪ | 25:53 | |
♪ Father you ought've been there ♪ | 25:56 | |
♪ Father you ought of been there ♪ | 26:00 | |
♪ When the lord comes breakin' it down ♪ | 26:03 | |
♪ Well seek seek seek ♪ | 26:07 | |
♪ And you shall find ♪ | 26:09 | |
♪ Oh na na na na ♪ | 26:11 | |
♪ Can a door shed open ♪ | 26:13 | |
♪ As a favor ♪ | 26:14 | |
♪ As a favor when it shall be given ♪ | 26:16 | |
♪ When the lord comes breakin' it down ♪ | 26:18 |
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