April 8, 1968-April 10, 1968
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- | We can hardly imagine (mumbles). | 0:06 |
I think some of the members of the group | 0:09 | |
have to have been in touch with him. | 0:11 | |
Not with Baez, not with Baez. | 0:13 | |
(mumbles) | 0:17 | |
- | Unless curfew in other cities or other problems arise, | 0:28 |
as far as we know. | 0:32 | |
(mumbles) | 0:34 | |
- | Well, certainly any strike which is taken | 0:39 |
would be taken only in support | 0:43 | |
of a strike called by a local 77, | 0:47 | |
and to my knowledge, no decision has been made. | 0:50 | |
In fact, I know that no decision has been made yet | 0:53 | |
as to whether or not a strike will be called. | 0:55 | |
If one were called, | 0:58 | |
and if they called for the support of students, | 1:00 | |
I imagine that the students involved here | 1:03 | |
and other students on the campus would be asked to | 1:06 | |
and would participate in that. | 1:09 | |
- | (mumbles) | 1:14 |
not succeed tonight or even tomorrow. | 1:18 | |
(mumbles) | 1:22 | |
- | Well, it's nice that this is well-organized. | 1:27 |
- | It's really funny, the way it's happened. | 1:34 |
Sort of, the organization has emerged, not... | 1:39 | |
Been planned out beforehand. | 1:45 | |
In fact, everything has just occurred, | 1:48 | |
and it's occurred in an organized way. | 1:51 | |
And it's been a spontaneous organization | 1:54 | |
that has really done it. | 1:56 | |
And the decisions as to what to do have evolved | 1:58 | |
that way, also. | 2:02 | |
And there have been reassessments at many, many points | 2:04 | |
along the way as to what tactics to use now, | 2:07 | |
what do you do now, where do you go, et cetera. | 2:11 | |
And I think this process will be followed. | 2:13 | |
There are no long range plans. | 2:16 | |
The only plans are, right now, to remain on the quad until | 2:19 | |
a positive response occurs | 2:24 | |
from the university, | 2:27 | |
and Dr. Knight said that he would have a statement | 2:29 | |
within 72 hours yesterday. | 2:32 | |
(static) | 2:34 | |
At that time, we should expect some response | 2:40 | |
from the university. | 2:44 | |
(static) | 2:49 | |
- | Well, the group has asked | 2:59 |
that all conversations (static). | 3:01 | |
They have been in touch with us. | 3:07 | |
(static) | 3:09 | |
The first conversations that they had | 3:15 | |
when they first arrived at this house | 3:18 | |
have been through three spokesmen. | 3:20 | |
I personally was not involved in that. | 3:22 | |
I've only been involved with the discussions | 3:24 | |
since Saturday morning, | 3:27 | |
but Jon and Bunny and another student were involved. | 3:28 | |
(applause) | 3:34 | |
- | Some still remain there. | 3:41 |
I think there were six that (mumbles) | 3:44 | |
that were there this morning. | 3:48 | |
They're planning it out, | 3:50 | |
polishing it from top to bottom, sweeping down the runway, | 3:52 | |
scrubbing the garbage cans, | 3:55 | |
vacuuming all of the floors. | 3:58 | |
A few scuff marks on walls, which they're getting off, | 4:02 | |
and I understand they're making pretty good progress. | 4:06 | |
- | I think they would rather be out here on the quadrangle | 4:09 |
than scrubbing the floors, the tile. | 4:12 | |
They're not used to pushing the broom. | 4:14 | |
(static) | 4:19 | |
(mumbles) | 4:31 | |
- | Past president, and also is a member | 4:36 |
of the student faculty administration committee, | 4:39 | |
which is supposedly the highest committee | 4:42 | |
that students are on at the university, | 4:44 | |
as I myself, both of us are. | 4:47 | |
(mumbles) | 4:51 | |
- | How much sleep? | 4:54 |
Well, I think Friday night I had... | 4:56 | |
About what? | 5:01 | |
- | Don't ask me. | 5:02 |
(laughter) | 5:03 | |
(static) | 5:06 | |
- | Well, I don't think so. | 5:18 |
I think I had about, a little less | 5:20 | |
(static) before we left Dr. Knight's, | 5:22 | |
and I had about (static). | 5:25 | |
I got a good night's sleep last night. | 5:31 | |
(static) | 5:33 | |
- | We certainly can appreciate Dr. Knight's (mumbles). | 5:38 |
(laughter) | 5:41 | |
- | How many faculty members were out there? | 5:44 |
(mumbles) | 5:47 | |
- | There was almost 30 last night | 5:50 |
that spent the night, yeah. | 5:52 | |
There are about 12 that spent both nights | 5:54 | |
at Dr. Knight's house. | 5:57 | |
- | A lot of concern about this $1.60 minimum wage. | 6:03 |
The university, when they worked (mumbles) out here | 6:08 | |
a couple of weeks ago (static). | 6:11 | |
(static) | 6:19 | |
- | Yes, we're not asking that they institute | 6:33 |
$1.60 minimum wage tomorrow, | 6:36 | |
that's not what the request was. | 6:38 | |
It's that Dr. Knight press for $1.60 minimum. | 6:40 | |
(static) | 6:43 | |
The wage for (mumbles) employees, set in 1965, | 6:55 | |
under the Economic Opportunity Act | 6:58 | |
was a dollar and a quarter. | 7:01 | |
And the university has had, | 7:03 | |
it's been impossible for this. | 7:05 | |
As a matter of fact, it's been impossible for them. | 7:08 | |
(static) | 7:11 | |
(static) | 7:15 | |
In 20 years, and that situation is just intolerable. | 7:21 | |
So there are a number of factors | 7:27 | |
which are bringing pressure on the university | 7:29 | |
to change the wage structure. | 7:32 | |
What we ask is that it be made a top priority | 7:34 | |
for the university, | 7:37 | |
and that reexamination be made, | 7:39 | |
careful reexamination be made of both | 7:41 | |
the sources of support and at the expenditure level | 7:44 | |
so that the $1.60 minimum wage can be attained | 7:48 | |
as rapidly as possible, and certainly before 1971. | 7:53 | |
I think that it'll have to be anyone. | 7:57 | |
We'd like to see it done immediately, but-- | 8:01 | |
- | Dr. Brandon, how many people are under this | 8:04 |
$1.60 minimum at the present time on the Duke payroll? | 8:07 | |
- | I do not know. | 8:10 |
- | Is it 500, 2000, 60, 150? | 8:13 |
- | I know a guy who's been here 23 years, | 8:19 |
he's making $1.20 an hour. | 8:21 | |
- | He's been here 23 years? | 8:22 |
- | Something like that. | 8:24 |
- | Are these people participating in the vigil? | 8:26 |
- | No. | 8:28 |
(mumbles) | 8:31 | |
- | Some of them have come out to rallies | 8:34 |
and to express their support to us. | 8:37 | |
I've spoken briefly with some employees | 8:42 | |
who, you know, are very thrilled over the expression | 8:44 | |
from the White students, | 8:48 | |
their commitment and concern. | 8:49 | |
But they are not participating in the actual vigil. | 8:51 | |
(mumbles) | 8:56 | |
- | Yes sir, 4 o'clock. | 8:57 |
- | Are there any other questions? | 9:03 |
All right, thank you. | 9:08 | |
- | The following is tape recording of a speech | 9:15 |
given by the late Dr. Martin Luther King | 9:18 | |
at the March on Washington in 1963. | 9:21 | |
This is the speech which contains the famous vision | 9:25 | |
of Dr. King, "I Have a Dream." | 9:28 | |
This speech was played over the loudspeakers | 9:30 | |
for the vigil demonstration several times | 9:34 | |
throughout the three or four days | 9:36 | |
when the demonstrators were on the main quad. | 9:38 | |
- | I am happy to join with you today | 9:45 |
in what will go down in history | 9:50 | |
as the greatest demonstration for freedom | 9:53 | |
in the history of our nation. | 9:58 | |
Five score years ago, a great American, | 10:01 | |
in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, | 10:06 | |
signed the Emancipation Proclamation. | 10:11 | |
This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope | 10:14 | |
to millions of Negro slaves | 10:17 | |
who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. | 10:21 | |
It came as a joyous daybreak | 10:26 | |
to end the long night of their captivity. | 10:28 | |
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. | 10:32 | |
One hundred years later, | 10:40 | |
the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty | 10:41 | |
in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. | 10:45 | |
One hundred years later, | 10:51 | |
the Negro finds himself an exile in his own land. | 10:55 | |
And so we've come here today | 11:02 | |
to dramatize a shameful condition. | 11:03 | |
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital | 11:09 | |
to cash a check. | 11:12 | |
When the architects of our republic | 11:14 | |
wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution | 11:17 | |
and the Declaration of Independence, | 11:20 | |
they were signing a promissory note | 11:23 | |
to which every American was to fall heir. | 11:25 | |
This note was a promise that all men, | 11:29 | |
yes, black men as well as white men, | 11:32 | |
would be guaranteed the unalienable rights | 11:35 | |
of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | 11:38 | |
It is obvious today | 11:44 | |
that America has defaulted on this promissory note, | 11:47 | |
insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. | 11:50 | |
Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, | 11:56 | |
America has given the Negro people a bad check, | 12:01 | |
a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." | 12:05 | |
But we refuse to believe | 12:09 | |
that the bank of justice is bankrupt. | 12:11 | |
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds | 12:14 | |
in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. | 12:17 | |
And so, we've come to cash this check, | 12:21 | |
a check that will give us upon demand | 12:23 | |
the riches of freedom and the security of justice. | 12:26 | |
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook | 12:31 | |
the urgency of the moment. | 12:33 | |
This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent | 12:35 | |
will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn | 12:39 | |
of freedom and equality. | 12:44 | |
1963 is not an end, but a beginning. | 12:47 | |
There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America | 12:51 | |
until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. | 12:54 | |
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake | 12:58 | |
the foundations of our nation | 13:01 | |
until the bright day of justice emerges. | 13:03 | |
But there is something that I must say to my people, | 13:09 | |
In the process of gaining our rightful place, | 13:12 | |
we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. | 13:16 | |
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom | 13:21 | |
by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. | 13:24 | |
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane | 13:29 | |
of dignity and discipline. | 13:32 | |
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate | 13:34 | |
into physical violence. | 13:39 | |
Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights | 13:41 | |
of meeting physical force with soul force. | 13:45 | |
The marvelous new militancy | 13:50 | |
which has engulfed the Negro community | 13:52 | |
must not lead us to a distrust of all White people, | 13:55 | |
for many of our White brothers, | 14:00 | |
as evidenced by their presence here today, | 14:02 | |
have come to realize that their destiny | 14:04 | |
is tied up with our destiny. | 14:07 | |
They have come to realize that their freedom | 14:11 | |
is inextricably bound to our freedom. | 14:13 | |
We cannot walk alone. | 14:17 | |
And as we walk, | 14:20 | |
we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. | 14:22 | |
We cannot turn back. | 14:28 | |
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, | 14:31 | |
"When will you be satisfied?" | 14:35 | |
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim | 14:38 | |
of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. | 14:41 | |
We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, | 14:46 | |
heavy with the fatigue of travel, | 14:49 | |
cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways | 14:51 | |
and the hotels of the cities. | 14:55 | |
We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility | 14:58 | |
is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. | 15:03 | |
We can never be satisfied as long as our children | 15:06 | |
are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity | 15:10 | |
by signs stating "For Whites Only." | 15:14 | |
We cannot be satisfied | 15:17 | |
as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote | 15:19 | |
and a Negro in New York | 15:22 | |
believes he has nothing for which to vote. | 15:24 | |
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here | 15:27 | |
out of great trials and tribulations. | 15:31 | |
Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. | 15:35 | |
And some of you have come from areas | 15:38 | |
where your quest for freedom left you battered | 15:40 | |
by the storms of persecution | 15:44 | |
and staggered by the winds of police brutality. | 15:46 | |
You have been the veterans of creative suffering. | 15:49 | |
Continue to work with the faith | 15:52 | |
that unearned suffering is redemptive. | 15:54 | |
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, | 15:57 | |
go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, | 16:01 | |
go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos | 16:03 | |
of our northern cities, | 16:07 | |
knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. | 16:09 | |
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, | 16:15 | |
I say to you today, my friends, | 16:20 | |
though we face the difficulties | 16:22 | |
of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. | 16:24 | |
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. | 16:29 | |
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up | 16:33 | |
and live out the true meaning of its creed: | 16:38 | |
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, | 16:41 | |
that all men are created equal." | 16:44 | |
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, | 16:47 | |
the sons of former slaves | 16:51 | |
and the sons of former slave owners | 16:53 | |
will be able to sit down together | 16:56 | |
at the table of brotherhood. | 16:58 | |
I have a dream | 17:00 | |
that one day | 17:03 | |
even the state of Mississippi, | 17:05 | |
a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, | 17:08 | |
sweltering with the heat of oppression, | 17:14 | |
will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. | 17:17 | |
I have a dream that my four little children will one day | 17:21 | |
live in a nation where they will not be judged | 17:25 | |
by the color of their skin | 17:28 | |
but by the content of their character. | 17:30 | |
I have a dream today! | 17:33 | |
(applause) | 17:34 | |
I have a dream that one day, | 17:40 | |
one day right there in Alabama | 17:43 | |
little black boys and black girls | 17:45 | |
will be able to join hands | 17:48 | |
with little white boys and white girls | 17:50 | |
as sisters and brothers. | 17:52 | |
I have a dream today! | 17:53 | |
This is our hope, and this is the faith | 17:56 | |
that I go back to the South with. | 17:59 | |
With this faith, we will be able | 18:02 | |
to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. | 18:04 | |
With this faith, we will be able to transform | 18:09 | |
the jangling discords of our nation | 18:12 | |
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. | 18:14 | |
With this faith, we will be able to work together, | 18:17 | |
to pray together, to struggle together, | 18:20 | |
to go to jail together, | 18:23 | |
to stand up for freedom together, | 18:25 | |
knowing that we will be free one day. | 18:27 | |
And this will be the day, | 18:33 | |
this will be the day when all of God's children | 18:36 | |
will be able to sing with new meaning: | 18:39 | |
My country 'tis of thee, | 18:42 | |
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. | 18:44 | |
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, | 18:47 | |
From every mountainside, let freedom ring! | 18:51 | |
And if America is to be a great nation, | 18:55 | |
this must become true. | 18:58 | |
And so let freedom ring | 19:01 | |
from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. | 19:02 | |
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. | 19:06 | |
Let freedom ring | 19:11 | |
from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. | 19:12 | |
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. | 19:16 | |
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. | 19:20 | |
But not only that: | 19:24 | |
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. | 19:25 | |
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. | 19:31 | |
Let freedom ring | 19:36 | |
from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. | 19:37 | |
From every mountainside, let freedom ring. | 19:41 | |
And when this happens, | 19:45 | |
(cheering) | 19:47 | |
when we allow freedom ring, | 19:50 | |
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, | 19:53 | |
from every state and every city, | 19:57 | |
we will be able to speed up that day | 20:01 | |
when all of God's children, black men and white men, | 20:03 | |
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, | 20:07 | |
will be able to join hands and sing | 20:11 | |
in the words of the old Negro spiritual: | 20:14 | |
Free at last, free at last! | 20:17 | |
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! | 20:19 | |
(cheering) | 20:29 | |
- | The following is a transcription of the events | 20:44 |
as they took place | 20:47 | |
on Monday afternoon, April the 10th, | 20:51 | |
when Wright Tisdale, | 20:53 | |
chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees, | 20:55 | |
addressed the assembled Duke University vigil | 20:57 | |
on the main quad. | 21:00 | |
The first speaker is Dr. John Strange, | 21:01 | |
one of the leaders of the demonstration | 21:03 | |
from the very beginning. | 21:05 | |
- | (mumbles) | 21:10 |
- | The conversation with Mr. Tisdale. | 21:19 |
- | The (mumbles) will be on its way quite shortly. | 21:24 |
We want (mumbles), | 21:29 | |
and he'll join us there | 21:33 | |
approximately 20 minutes after the time we left. | 21:35 | |
We have the expanded group, | 21:39 | |
please come forward. | 21:43 | |
Again, | 21:46 | |
again, I think the instructions were given | 21:49 | |
as to hours of sleep. | 21:53 | |
The instructions, if you remember, | 21:57 | |
is that this is a silent vigil. | 22:00 | |
It will remain that way. | 22:02 | |
And upon the completion of Mr. Tisdale's statement, | 22:04 | |
we shall stand and sing "We Shall Overcome," | 22:08 | |
and then, if at all possible, | 22:11 | |
I'm not sure whether-- | 22:13 | |
(mumbles) | 22:15 | |
That either I won't have a station or we will have a station | 22:19 | |
for the group at some point. | 22:22 | |
And then any further discussions | 22:26 | |
that might be necessary will take place | 22:29 | |
at a time, a time and place will be worked out | 22:32 | |
after the statement is read and we have sung | 22:39 | |
"We Shall Overcome," and either my statement | 22:45 | |
or another (mumbles) try and get. | 22:49 | |
Thank you. | 22:55 | |
From now on, we will be in a period of silent vigil. | 22:56 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, (mumbles). | 23:01 | |
(mumbles) | 23:11 | |
This opportunity to introduce to the assembled vigil | 23:24 | |
Mr. Wright Tisdale, | 23:28 | |
who is the chairman of the Board of Trustees | 23:32 | |
of Duke University. | 23:34 | |
And we introduce Mr. Tisdale | 23:36 | |
to the assembled students of Duke University | 23:41 | |
and their peaceful vigil for racial equality and justice | 23:43 | |
(mumbles) in our state and in our nation. | 23:48 | |
Mr. Tisdale. | 23:54 | |
- | Thank you very much. | 23:58 |
Before I say more, is it coming through clearly to all? | 24:01 | |
All right. | 24:07 | |
I have not had an opportunity | 24:09 | |
to meet with or address as many Duke students | 24:11 | |
in the entire period that I have been a trustee | 24:15 | |
or associated with the university. | 24:18 | |
I am delighted to be here. | 24:22 | |
It's a privilege and an honor to be with you. | 24:23 | |
I have prepared a statement which I shall read. | 24:26 | |
I've given copies of it to your leadership. | 24:29 | |
There will be additional copies available | 24:34 | |
as soon as they can be run off. | 24:36 | |
As you know, I am here because Doug Knight's health | 24:40 | |
is such that it makes it inadvisable | 24:44 | |
for him to be present himself. | 24:47 | |
He, as you may recall, suffered a severe case | 24:51 | |
of hepatitis last fall. | 24:54 | |
His schedule in the recent weeks has exceeded | 24:57 | |
any reasonable limit for someone recovering | 25:00 | |
from that illness. | 25:03 | |
I understand that the normal recovery period | 25:06 | |
continues for at least a year | 25:09 | |
and sometimes a great deal longer. | 25:11 | |
During that period, both fatigue and stress must be avoided. | 25:15 | |
Failure to do this involves serious risks. | 25:19 | |
Dr. Knight is crucially important to this university. | 25:22 | |
He is now in the Duke hospital, | 25:27 | |
having been brought there today. | 25:29 | |
His condition is a matter of deep concern to his doctors | 25:32 | |
as well as to ourselves. | 25:35 | |
I am sure that you, too, must share this feeling. | 25:38 | |
This is a time of great national concern | 25:43 | |
over many long existing problems in our society. | 25:46 | |
A time of real national turmoil. | 25:51 | |
I realize your deep concern | 25:55 | |
with respect to the human issues | 25:58 | |
which have now so intensely been brought into focus, | 26:00 | |
both here and elsewhere. | 26:04 | |
I personally share this concern with you. | 26:08 | |
Our nation is in the throes of great trouble, | 26:12 | |
and we who care must work, | 26:15 | |
must work much harder than we have in the past | 26:17 | |
to solve the problems that face us. | 26:22 | |
Duke University has its own responsibilities in this effort. | 26:26 | |
Now, let me comment on the requests you have made | 26:32 | |
of President Knight. | 26:35 | |
I think the crucial, central, most important issue | 26:38 | |
with which we are faced and one to which we must respond | 26:41 | |
is the financial situation of our non-academic employees. | 26:45 | |
We recognized this in 1965, | 26:53 | |
and felt that we then should start to move forward | 26:56 | |
with those employees. | 26:59 | |
Since 1966, we have increased wages | 27:02 | |
an average of nearly 20%, | 27:05 | |
shortened work weeks, improved fringe benefits, | 27:07 | |
liberalized overtime provisions, | 27:11 | |
and implemented training programs | 27:14 | |
to upgrade employee skills, | 27:16 | |
thereby increasing their individual opportunities. | 27:19 | |
I cite these as evidence of our own desire | 27:24 | |
to improve the wellbeing and financial status | 27:27 | |
of our non-academic employees. | 27:30 | |
One of your requests of Dr. Knight | 27:34 | |
was that he press for the $1.60 minimum wage | 27:36 | |
for Duke employees. | 27:38 | |
I know that he is just as interested in such a wage | 27:41 | |
as you are, and so am I. | 27:44 | |
The present federal minimum wage | 27:47 | |
for most business and commercial organizations is $1.60. | 27:49 | |
For universities and colleges, however, it is $1.15 | 27:55 | |
and will not go to the $1.60 figure until 1971, | 27:59 | |
about three years from now. | 28:05 | |
We will be at the $1.60 minimum rate by July 1, 1969, | 28:08 | |
and we shall make a significant step toward this | 28:14 | |
by July 1 of this year. | 28:18 | |
This is going to cost a great deal of money. | 28:21 | |
As a practical matter, it will require increased income | 28:24 | |
and a reexamination of many of the operations and activities | 28:28 | |
of this university. | 28:31 | |
President Knight, in his chapel address last Saturday, | 28:36 | |
spoke of the appointment of a committee | 28:40 | |
to consider, and I quote, | 28:43 | |
"those developments which will serve us best | 28:45 | |
"in this great university." | 28:48 | |
The membership and scope of that committee | 28:52 | |
will be determined by President Knight | 28:56 | |
upon his return to his office. | 28:58 | |
The other requests you've presented to Dr. Knight | 29:03 | |
are, as I'm sure you recognize, of a personal nature | 29:05 | |
and can be answered only by him. | 29:09 | |
And now, let me return briefly to my earlier comments. | 29:18 | |
I am sure, that at this time of personal anguish | 29:21 | |
and national turmoil, | 29:26 | |
Duke University has a special role to play. | 29:28 | |
I want it to fulfill this role | 29:33 | |
and to realize its capacities for leadership. | 29:36 | |
This, I am sure, is also your hope. | 29:40 | |
We cannot achieve this promise | 29:44 | |
divided among ourselves, | 29:46 | |
but we can together. | 29:49 | |
I am confident that we, together, | 29:52 | |
can find ways of working with mutual confidence and respect, | 29:55 | |
and thereby arrive at | 30:00 | |
the goals that we all are seeking. | 30:03 | |
Thank you very, very much | 30:06 | |
for letting me be here with you. | 30:08 | |
- | Mr. Tisdale would like to all stand | 30:12 |
and have you join with us in, if you will, | 30:14 | |
a song which has come to mean much to all of us | 30:17 | |
in the years past. | 30:22 | |
A song which has been sung many times | 30:25 | |
in the last week, | 30:28 | |
"We Shall Overcome." | 30:29 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 30:38 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 30:44 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 30:50 | |
♪ Some day ♪ | 30:55 | |
♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪ | 31:00 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 31:07 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 31:13 | |
♪ Some day ♪ | 31:17 | |
♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪ | 31:21 | |
♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪ | 31:26 | |
♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪ | 31:32 | |
♪ Some day ♪ | 31:36 | |
♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪ | 31:41 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 31:48 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 31:53 | |
♪ Some day ♪ | 31:57 | |
♪ Black and White together ♪ | 32:01 | |
♪ Black and White together ♪ | 32:06 | |
♪ Black and White together ♪ | 32:11 | |
♪ Now ♪ | 32:17 | |
♪ Oh deep in my heart ♪ | 32:20 | |
♪ I do believe ♪ | 32:27 | |
♪ We shall overcome ♪ | 32:32 | |
♪ Some day ♪ | 32:36 |
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