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>> we know they're going to say not guilty. no one saw them pull the trigger. i'm tired of that. don't bow down anymore. hold your heads up. we want our freedom now. i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of -- >> the arrests had started before dawn. in all, fbi men picked up 21 men. included in the group were the
Marchers were juveniles instead of adults. officers quickly moved in to make arrests under the direction of conner. police overflowed juvenile hall with the joyouthful demonstrato. all kinds of vehicles in service to house them. the sheriff's department estimated upwards of 400 had been arrested. >> instead of 14 adults, you had 600 teenagers and the next day a thousand and that's when the dogs and hoses came out. >> of course what he was doing
We want our freedom now. i don't want to have to go to another memorial. i'm tired of -- >> the arrests had started before dawn. in all, fbi men picked up 21 men. included in the group were the chief law officers sheriff lawrence rainy and cecil price, they were murdered by ku klux klansmen with conspiratorial help of the local sheriff. >> bond was set. but less than a week later the accused were set free, their bond lifted. for james chaney's mother it was a shock, a disappointment.
>> he's assuming he's going to provide the footage they needed to outrage the country. >> he uses mass aarrests, fire hoses, dogs to break up the demonstrations. >> let's bring in martin luther king iii. welcome. >> thank you. >> i assume you'll be on hand when your parents receive this congressional gold medal of honor. how will that feel? >> you know, any time my parents are honored, it's quite extraordinary, and particularly in this context with being the congressional medal of honor. you know, i'm sure my parents will be look down from heaven smiling, but what is probably most -- of greate...
Were very different back then. smith was a democrat and caro says smith's southern democrats were conservative and racist and powerful. >> the southerners controlled congress, and there was -- the civil rights was boiling up on the streets of the south, there were so many heroes there. 1964 is the summer when cheney and goodman and schwerner were killed. it's the summer where all the fire hoses were being turned on the little children. they're rolling that little girl down the street. it was horrible. but the civil rights bill was a movement. the civil rights democrats didn't care what the nat...