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Transcripts for MSNBC Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 20240604 02:57:00

If i can help you get what you need done and you can help me get what i need done, and we both can help him get. everybody get it done. - [jennifer] ella baker, the statements that she made like, strong people don t need strong leaders. the emphasis was on the organizing. and if people are organized, the strength will come from the work together. - [judy] you never become hierarchical. you had to have everybody at least say that there was consensus that even if they didn t agree with the particular decision, they would at least not oppose it. that was the whole idea, because their lives were on the line. - [lyndon b johnson] the real hero of this struggle, is the american negro, his actions and protests, his courage to risk safety, and even to risk his life, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 20240604 03:22:00

Negro who was gunned down on the highways of mississippi. - [mukasa] james meredith was a young student that integrated to university of mississippi. - [bystander] go home nigger! - [mukasa] riots broke out, people got killed. james meredith felt that even though you passed the voter s right s bill, people still have fear. and he decided to walk from memphis, tennessee to jackson, mississippi 250 miles with a sign saying, register to vote, have no fear. and when he stepped out in mississippi, a white man stepped out the bush and shot him in the back. - [hasan] even though sncc activists and sncc organizers were opposed to these large scale demonstrations and marches, they say we have to get involved. because they were guided early on. this is freedom rise, diane nash. you never let violence stop a protest. you never let violence stop a local movement. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 20240604 02:05:00

- [reporter] carrying nap sacks, bed rolls, and air mattresses, they stream onto highway 80, walking briskly. their day s journey, 17 and a half miles. putting them halfway from selma to montgomery. the marchers then passed from dallas county into lowndes county, where until this month not a single negro was registered to vote. - [arthur] you always hear selma to montgomery. the most mileage of the march from selma to montgomery, took place in lowndes county. that dash in your life is, when you were born and when you die, but the dash will make the difference. (somber music) lowndes county, was one of the poorest counties in the country, and we was right next door to montgomery where the capital city sits. ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC The ReidOut 20240604 00:49:00

We came here to exclude the negro. nothing short of this will answer. oh and they did with devastating consequences that stretched far into the 20th century. enraged at the formerly enslaved voting mississippi installed a poll tax and literacy tests designed to exclude black voters that remained in place until 1965. the constitution adopted in 1890 by 133 white men put a nail in the coffin of reconstruction in mississippi and created the precedent for jim crow for the entire south. it is that history which informs why black citizens of mississippi s capital, jackson, are rightly furious about what white state lawmakers are trying to do now. after a super majority in the heavily gerrymandered state house voted to create an entirely separate court system and expand the police force within the city of jackson, the blackest city in america, ....

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Transcripts for CNN Obama In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union 20240604 03:12:00

Then trayvon martin is killed. w.e.b. dubois, in one of the classics of the black tradition called the souls of black folk defined the double consciousness of every african american. and debois said one ever feels his two-ness, an american, a negro, two warring ideals in one dark body. there never has been a more classic example of du bois dilemma than barack obama in the white house. bit by bit, he allows himself more sense of grief and outrage in the parameters of what he can see as possible as president. he is president of the united states. he is not a community activist. he s not the leader of a social movement to the frustration of many. he s the president of the united ....

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