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If he waved them down, and that we had a car that looked like theirs. - [catherine] you know, i was a kid, but i knew that there was a reputation of violence. in my home, we had guns in every corner. my father taught all of my brothers how to shoot. and that was common in every home in lowndes county. - [john] a lot of black people came up missing. that's why it was called bloody lowndes. - [hasan] lowndes county was 80% african american. then at the start of 1965, had zero registered black voters. and that's not hyperbole, right? i'm not saying that there were a couple and we're just saying z...

- [hasan] stokley was arrested in greenwood. and he's hot, he's pissed, right? he's like, "i mean, how many times are we gonna do this?" - [mukasa] stokely came back out of jail. i told stoke, "we gotta talk about black power." and stoke said, "oh man, be cool on that." - [hasan] he heads out that night to the mass meeting that's happening outside. and so he gets up and he's talking about you know, "i've been arrested 27 times or so. i'm not gonna be arrested anymore." and off in the distance is willie ricks saying, "hit 'em with the black power, hit 'em with the black power." - the fact is th...

- [john] the majority community was positive about sncc, but they were afraid. some of 'em didn't want to get caught up in they didn't know what was gonna happen. - [judy] we know that there's a reason why it's called bloody lowndes. it is called that because of the absolute unrelenting violence, if you're trying to get black rights. if you're trying to register to vote, if you're trying to get more land, i mean, some of it is just random violence. (siren) i'm amazed that black folks, somehow knowing the violence they've been experiencing all this time before we ever get there, and they still ...

Bob mants, is one of the key people who did that and he got married and settled in lowndes county, and continued until his death to work there. - [john hulett] and after this long struggle, we still have people who come out here on this sunday night and listen to us talk who have waited faithfully with us in this county, are still sending their children to these overcrowded schools. - [person in crowd] yeah. - let me say this, the elected officials of this county will do everything possible to keep your children out of the best schools. - [person in crowd] that's right. - [hasan] african ameri...

Such a dangerous place. - [courtland] freedom summer was about bringing the country to mississippi and creating the mississippi freedom democratic party that eventually made the challenge in atlantic city. (ominous piano music) - [ella] the message that the freedom democratic party believes, that a political party should be open to all of the people who wish to suscribe to its principle. - [hasan] the democratic national convention, which occurs in atlantic city in august of 1964 is really a pivotal moment in the evolution of sncc organizing in particular. sncc activists, just like local peopl...