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it's called your unnatural garden, and it starts when you first come into the garden and winds you up to the gallery and the house. descanso gardens is an 80 acre garden open to the public, and there's really something here for everyone. schwerner: i've come to botanical gardens my entire life, and when you come to descanso gardens, there's a lot of path networks, and you don't know which way to necessarily go. you find your way. i wanted to make it clear how people could find their way to the gallery in the boddy house, and so i made these little guideposts along the way that we call them snakeways, because the path is kind of like a snake, and they're all made out of recycled material. so, this exhibition has a lot of different parts to it, and one of them is the bells room. [bells tolling] so, in the bells room, it's about twinkling bells and sort of a celebration of the hatred that my mother and father had for one another my entire growing up. so, i've had them in the same room, and they have to get along.
no one had come there. we had not been let out on bail. we were just suddenly released. and we had understood what had happened with goodman, schwerner, and chaney, when that happened with them. (ominous piano music) that day we were released, it just didn't feel right. and the sheriff says, if we didn't leave, he'd blow our brains out. so we left against our will. and it was one of those hot, hot southern summers where you could literally see the heat palpitating from the cement. jonathan daniels, who was a seminarian who had joined the lowndes county struggle. we would drag race together in his volkswagen,
[speaking non-english] in the image of god. and if you are not given to that kind of religious language, that's fine, our tent is big. >> [crowd cheering] [applause] >> simply put it this way. each of us has value. and if we have value we -- to determine the direction of your country and your destiny within it. and so, we stand here tonight on broad shoulders. our ballot is a bloodstained ballot. we stand here on the shoulders of the marchers -- marchers. schwerner, chaney and goodman.
we cannot give in to that kind of religious language. that's fine. >> our tent is being relief now from simply put this way, each of us has doubts and if we have value, we ought to have a voice . and the way to have a voice is to have a vote to determine the direction of your country and your destiny within it. and so we stand here tonight all ranchos three unbalances the bloodstained ballot. we stand here on the shoulders of the martyrs, schwerner, chaney and goodman, two. and it sounds like sunday morning there with van horn, a baptist preacher at his corner. >> just freedom of half sermon, halfy right, rachel .
it was the marshalling of the power of the federal government that played the most important role in pushing back white supremacist violence and terror. you describe the enforcement acts and the ku klux klan acts and these were all passed during reconstruction and the first civil rights statute passed since reconstruction was the civil rights act of 1957 which created the department of justice, and the department of justice played a vital role in the late 1950s and in the early 1960s in addressing the role of white supremacist violence, if we think about the bombing of the birmingham church, if we think about the goodman, cheney and schwerner and all of these acts of white supremacist violence were investigated by people like john dore and the justice department and the civil rights commission, it was the creation of the civil rights division that focussed this attention, remember, for decades before that congress refused to pass an anti-lynching statute so we had no civil rights
have been killed in this movement over time to someone who they have left behind close to them. we've seen people step into that role before. >> well, the goal of repression, the goal of efforts to silence and incite fear in those who would stand up for social justice is to make sure that people feel that they do not have the freedom to be able to stand up for what they believe is right. and when you rightly made reference to goodman, cheney, and schwarner, who were the unsung, unrecognized heroes who laid down their lives for the freedoms we have today, she now joins that pan thee on, and it continues forth. i would hope what we saw over the weekend would inspire all of us to recognize that in some ways, words come easy. the words of condemnation of what was really over the top representation of white
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>> the civil rights act of 1964 is not going to create instant brotherhood. no one pretends that. but the attorney general gets new power to bring suits against racial discrimination in voting, in public accommodations, in education, in employment. if a court finds you guilty of violating some part of the civil rights law, and if you continue violating the law, you can be fined or put in jail until you stop violating the law. >> three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. our search has thus far produced only one clue, the burned-out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding. there is little hope they still alive. >> schwerner, chaney and goodman were found shot to death in a grave at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and
>> three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. our search has thus far produced only one clue, the burned-out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding. there is little hope that they are still alive. >> schwerner, chaney and goodman were found shot to death in a grave at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and three were taken to the state medical center in jackson for identification and examination. >> the two white boys were shot once each through the heart. james chaney, the black youth, had been beaten with chains until every bone in his body was broken, then he was shot three times.
in public accommodations, in education, in employment. if a court finds you guilty of violating some part of the civil rights law, and if you continue violating the law, you can be fined or put in jail until you stop violating the law. >> three civil rights workers have disappeared in mississippi. they have not been heard from. our search has thus far produced only one clue, the burned-out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding. there is little hope they still alive. >> schwerner, chaney and goodman were found shot to death in a grave at the base of a recently built dam just six miles from the city of philadelphia. their bodies wrapped in plastic bags numbered one, two, and three were taken to the state medical center in jackson for identification and examination. >> the two white boys were shot once each through the heart. james chaney, the black youth,