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- [john] those people knew what happened. they was ready to go again. was waiting on '68. that was '66. - [lillian] and every aspect of the political arena, you wanted some black person in there to plead our cause. see what's going on. - [courtland] there was no turning back. the concept that people who lived in that county who were black should not only vote, but they should be in power. - [ruby] lowndes county was moving on with its own rhythm. and it was time for us to begin to think about where we would go. - [hasan] sncc organizers were guided by this belief that "our job is to work ourselves out of a job." "if we do our job right then we won't be needed here." it's also one of snccs last major local organizing projects. (funky music)
which of y'all have the gall to challenge white power." they were literally putting their lives on the line. every single one of those folk who showed up, they put their names on a sheet of paper and they brought it back and they gave it to golson and said, this is who we are. and then two weeks later, a slightly larger group show up again, saying, "look, we're back, right? you have our names. you sent people to visit us. we lost some loans. we lost some business, but we're back." and then after that second meeting, they realize, "if we're gonna do this, then we need to be organized." (somber organ music) and so in late march they formed the lowndes county christian movement for human rights. - [lillian] we were lowndes county christians, and we wanted human rights. that's all we wanted. 27 local people came. we met there every sunday night and every wednesday night. and i became the secretary,