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The 40 days organization on the moon space by the combined forces of the integration movement under the leadership of Dr Martin Luther King culminated in the most significant turning point in the entire history of the struggle for racial justice in the United States that are actually know that turning remains in question after a period of demonstrations that saw small children face the force of fire O's that saw a total of $3200.00 negroes jailed nearly 2000 of them children of grammar school and high school ages the forces of integration reached an agreement with the leading citizens of Birmingham Alabama frequently termed the most segregated city in America an agreement which if followed and maintained could prove the major breakthrough to racial harmony in this decade and which if violated or ignored could break the dam of nonviolence and expose large portions of this nation to a flood of violence and bloodshed chief among the white citizens in the go she added the Birmingham agreement was said in the w. Smiler a wealthy businessman and member of the senior citizens' committee. On Monday May 13th 3 days after the agreement had been reached this is my or held a press conference to explain his understanding of the accord and the background and implications of the. Speaker I was looking for all 'd the microphones and so. I have been working. With a. Community the neighbors and a community for BUSY sound. The purpose stablish a. Better relationship. Yet our communities. As you perhaps know 'd we have 39 percent of our population and in this community. Our next. I think I'm number one problem here perhaps throughout the whole are owed is economics. What we are trying to work out is a climate. In this community. And which all people. Have an opportunity. A job. That are willing and able. To hold that job. Birmingham like other communities is. Employment is always a problem. I will say with a. Lot of occasions. That we have some of the finest Negril services of. Anywhere that no. One forced things come up that. Tend to. Create hate. Hate. And a property of problem. Hate destroys 'd reason. The one thing that we want to show. That we are sincere. And working out the problems of the citizens of this community. And that may. Be a sanction to the fact that the saying is status and the method. Is a group of citizens representing. I would say far in excess of 50 percent of the employers over labor. And far in excess of 50 percent of the. Monetary value of. The assets of the. Community. Through. We had. Greed to appoint 'd. A committee. To. Where the. Leadership of the local Negra leadership. Command. 9 a days after the Supreme Court decisions on the Birmingham setting months. Regardless of whether the new mayor and councils are seated. Whether the 3 commissioners retain their jobs even the 7 days in the stores will be desegregated on a trial or test basis. Within 30 days any remaining wired and cart 'd signs . All over drinking fountains and restrooms will be. Without the lady fitting rooms which always have been private for the use of one customer at a time of 'd the day segregated. And saw an opportunity as a negative will be great and within 60 days. At least one. Sales Person. Will be employed in one school. Not by the Negras but a voluntary resolution was passed by the same your services committee. At a permanent committee it will be named to mate with the Negril leaders of the far post working out. On Friday May 10th the day the negotiations were concluded Michael Luther King explained his understanding of the Birmingham accords to the Negro community I want to go over with you the specific I agree meant that I've been made with our view that we were dealing with point. Number one we said that we are tired of segregation. And that we would. Seek to break down the barriers of segregation in the places that we spend money. We ask for the segregation of the lands count of fitting rooms restrooms and water fountains. The green men call number around. The desegregation of lunch. Restroom. Sitting rooms and drinking found things in planned stages with then the next 90 days. Now you know Birmingham is doing something that even the so-called progressive Atlanta bureau didn't do when we made our agreement after that is a get and integration Alliance condos they were integrated after 6 months but he environmentalism is up to 90 days we're moving on the Freedom Land. Now this will be another 2 assurance will smooth transition over a planned stage. And to keep these mobs from getting arouse you know because I am a studio somewhere. We're not announcing the base right now we didn't do it for the Press this morning but each of these will be done not a fresh one I'm going to announce tonight the president has not announced the 1st one and I'm going to run along with Grab an appetite a lot of them out of it out such as Sunday but we'll be right back here Monday. Now the 1st. Development will be Monday it's supposed to be 3 days after the settlement now we sell the Bain on Monday would be 3 days the fitting rooms will be integrated by Monday so you will know now that the fitting rooms are integrated starting Monday now we will let you know the 2nd state and I will I'll let you know that the 2nd will be the water fountains and the restrooms and I will let you know exactly when that's going to be we're going to do this through the mass meet. So that number wrong is clear. And this is a great victory for justice and Birmingham they have agreed to desegregate owner of the facilities in the store was a Birmingham Alabama and I think this is a great and significant victory number 2. We made it clear that we were tired. Of getting poor jobs we are tired of being the last god of the 1st time. We made that very clear we made it clear that we wanted some jobs that are comparable to the jobs that any white person can get in Birmingham. Now this is the agreement. The upgrading and hiring of negroes on the nondiscriminatory basis throughout the industrial community of Birmingham this will include the hiring of Negroes Listen to this as clerks and salesman within the next 6 today and as me when you go out. And then our committee will be appointed within 2 weeks composed of business industrial and professional leaders to get Negroes and new positions that they've never been in before or throughout the total industrial complex above and I'm not about and I we does as far some cooks in the store negro cook so when you got on this is the negroes that money's come but we've got to get that but even more we've got more than we have on this point no other city in the south. I want you to listen to this has gone this far on the question of the promise this is a significant victory but the city of Birmingham Alabama. Now you going to jail that you feel that you went to jail in vain if it's gone to jail you don't get all these new jobs don't you think it was really wonderful about a day only. Now and the 3rd point. We made a. Negotiating sessions over the last 2 or 3 days. That this movement and these demonstrations. Would not stop that the movement would not bring a halt to the demonstrations unless all of the people in jail. That come out he would have already done a body day. We made it very clear that this had A to be done. With up in terms of the dropping of the charges. And then I'm happy to say is being worked on these cases are going to be handled. And something good is in the making on this point that's less than the city of Birmingham then want the burden of having to try some 30000 people every time these days weeks until my little 7 year old daughter is in college. So that things are going to be worked out bad but I'm happy to say to you this be. I'm happy to say to you that everybody is either out of jail own the way out of jail never been arrested and. You are listening to from the volved today featuring freedom now a radio documentary produced in 1963 by Chris Cox Dale miner and Robert Kramer for Pacifica Radio Monday afternoon Birmingham's Lehrer Haynes addressed himself to the negotiations and the negotiators. They see the situation and Birmingham is. Stable right now. It's calm. Thank goodness for the. Governor. This courageous stand. And sending it out Obama how we patrol in here under Colonel our lingo. I think now that we have some of. The forces of. The low end here. Perhaps with. The Battle Creek standing by courses with decades. Ago and here's what's happening you know. What it is now long. We have protected a Grolsch. Aided and abetted and fomented and stood up and agitated. By people who have come to Birmingham. People who on the past have been associated with. Organizations that were subversive. They have been a constant companion. Speaking engagements with known communists. And they've come into town and stood up which is nightmarish and it's ridiculous. If any of you I would all get out us bad and Buddha said it. And whatever the Cold War on the religion if it were a is sex I guess plain blackmail. And we made a shambles out of a city and we divided that city. People all over the world would say put those mad men in jail put him out of the way so they can continue doing this to this great land about yet this is exactly what happened in bugging you. We have protected those Negras. They've had their fun. And they should go straight to the got to porno. Was not the issue with them. They have you known track that the calmest of values. And appealing to the world. Just how mistreated they were. All the emotion the people using the churches under sanctity of religion to soul mass chaos and confusion and strife. Then to kids. Is ludicrous and ridiculous and. Should not have been tolerated. They contributed to 'd the legacy of these children . In great numbers. Use them sold them they went out worldwide and they said Look here just look at Assen children paraded in those main police arrested their. Job In the beginning now you should be in school. To get placards away we should go back to school where you belong you have no business down you yet those kids were just coerced into just begun this thing. To punch a lot of course was to raise money. And. For what purpose I don't know I've got a pretty good idea. What to point out I think can banning him that. The police and the white people have taken all of this mob action that they're going to take another budget try to go that yesterday on the television and ask him didn't just get distribution again and his henchmen made a shambles about it. But as usual you are you tolerate and they push you to push it push you to push you. And I say it's asking too much of the city to prove that it Tony. Well you see in him Birmingham. A political mom. A man of the mayor now goes to a bunch of highwaymen who ride up to the city and threaten. And say if you don't send us out $10000.00 in gold we're going to sack your city. And we save a bunch of weak kneed quislings in the city of Birmingham who are responsible. Breaks. Down and say oh please go away we'll give you whatever you want. Isn't this a great spirit of America. Great spirit of those who founded this country. You know what they've done they've adopted a philosophy strong and. Better read than did that a black and by saying. Well you don't make a stand this is a box that would appease the common to say oh we don't want to trouble them when given. As you referred to the biracial socialism I'm referring to that biracial Council this is a bodge acting without authority. Took it upon themselves last year. To meet with a neg oes and guarantee them a certain saying without the knowledge without the consent of your city commission . Now when they approached the city commission and told us what we had done they had done we said of course we don't intend to live up there has been that this is wrong. And then the merchant and the Negroes set the boycott and the margins then said Oh 'd my gosh we've got to do something we've got to live up to these things that if we don't and they go to like that and so then what they were acting in concert with the local newspapers of course they started a. Campaign to discredit to city commission to change just all the government BUSY to get us out of here to get some people in here that would do that is the negligent. A dead man's in the piece and that would be so little while until next month and they get made up their mind if they want except else then likely a bad show and they form a mob and they demand it to Mayor Mr Meyer just told us that is the spokesman of the biracial council and they told us the police bargained him well by this stage evasion deal with the maid What is your reaction. Also I don't know you tell me that's what makes my sad but I can assure you right now that said it will not bother me I'm not saying that they had to balance on saying they will show the display you actually end up in a book someday that they will or going to. Show you that to much as. They might find out that if I have a medical set quite trade is more important to them than the negative trade if I have a 6 to 10 percent make it safe. We talked with Charles Morgan of Birmingham attorney and the sole representative of the American Civil Liberties Union in that city we asked him about some of the points mayor hands raised everybody in the south always been sure the white community would boycott and for about a week not very well organized I think it's been a boycott but who cares. They're not very well organized they can't keep a boycott go. They can't. Bamidele to any place else and I'm sure Birmingham since we're originality is no greater than the land as are some I mean they're. Why they're not cohesive with bound together because our nigrosin a movement fighting for the right so consequently I wouldn't worry about that more than a week or 2 besides that who cares what you. Say other than off 40 to 50 percent of that is maybe if there are 400 percent across the store that would say they operate it. What do you think What's your impression of the. Feeling of the white community in general toward the demonstrations and or the agreement how I think toward the demonstrations there were probably shades of feeling of course as a large group to pose any demonstration opposed any concessions and those anything . And they would be another group. I guess it's a more moderate folks who would say we are willing to make the changes but we would have made them ourselves had been anyway had there not been demonstrations that's roughly the difference between. Myra and pain Well that's part of the difference between mining and of course there's a greater difference in that between them. And then there's another group which would say that which fell probably the Negras were unfair on the timing of the demonstrations in the Roman Amazon the position of the Congo we had 2 governments one was we couldn't tell who was. The number who was cast of the most more the show and they we got 2 mayors and at the same time we and the real rate of the prosperous citizens in town live in a section called Mountain Brook which is not a settlement but with a sort of the tank a province I guess in that sort of circumstance you had to have a justified and they had to at least act like the un and mediated the just that. The timing of it came in for a considerable bit of criticism from folks who say that they would make the concessions Anyway now. Of course is always an objection timing there's no right time ever and who knows that I do you think the time was to come to that. Well I think we've been a lot worse had it in the day before or the day before that which was election day . And that's. And of course the demonstrations were held off until after the election but they've been held off until after other elections prior to this last pose a demonstrator said Well you always got election going in Alabama. Mr Smart. Mentioned 3 quarters that. Birmingham had I forgotten exactly what term he used but a very happy relationship between the races Friday April 2nd event through in Europe then you know. It would seem to be true in the opinion of at least one part of the well I don't think conflict. I don't think it's true and. Certain I'm through with Negras But you see. When the community itself doesn't know how people feel a man an employee has a constitutional right to live to his employer at least he does it I don't I'm not saying you do or someone else but most folks say what they want to hear very rarely do you interview somebody in tell him that they're pop a school or something of that nature in when you think it was God That's right well maybe going to say the same thing to our employer and says What am I going to say No we're happy Marse Tom everything's fine. What problems we've got now that those other fellows Shuttlesworth thinking those agitators and they're gonna take after a pittance of a sour. Contributor to the movement. Also had his own opinion conditions of life in the Negro community. And don't know if you relax or not it's a nigger site and I like to tell you a little bit if you like I could you not go put it on the stand that but I doubt. That some of it better just the niggers Birmingham Alabama and what they've had. To talk about economics and every. Standard of living and betting Hamish and Maddow 100 percent of the black people throughout the world I said United States and I say had an 80 percent of the white people that said United States average household learning we have 1100 Negro school teachers in the city of Birmingham Alabama student system alone 1100000000 just but just more Negra school gauges and you have an entire state of oh how. They did New Jersey and all the New England combined right hand but it cam let me tell you want to think. That their average pay as higher than the average white school just paid at all you know that and. The curriculum taught in our schools as a saint construction was dollar for dollar it's the same. So how can you say the do is just going to nation we had to learn and police were fighting for for the. For the good for Excel. Or for system a nation. Or for. Post-attack they had $22000.00 a year to subsidize it to the niggas that they don't. Know what is so Rome. Go with the Jesus saying these are the ones like the. School. And the same type schools same architecture same structure. Same correcting the same books and the teachers making more money and the white teachers identify bad. And want to. Every. 2 or 3 or 96 percent. We have a spare having Friday. 3. Point 8 hours of. Free. Food. Free medical program. Welfare. And we have to. Work. Very. Very very rare that a factory worker a little fact. Believe you have. 'd 'd who you are listening to from the vault today featuring freedom now a radio documentary produced in 1963 by Chris Kyle. And Robert Kramer for Pacifica Radio. In the one. Imagine life without a choice is all given up what out of this is all this really the problems that we face I'm talking poverty in the face but no matter what the case we got. The 1st candidate to have all the charm to kill. Wells to come to the capitated if you put the free people and if you change. The 3 you probably get the I'm heated. To complete and so when the freedoms and stuff but for the something it has to be famous to be made the slave people still keep the benefits of free and. Fair. Yes. And when they are without health care by walking. By walk without fear and this is marrying out of your own real representative of the Congress of Racial Equality one of the last people to be released from jail for . War They have been. Getting organized around a can it get you. So I had been ordered by the face to stay off the sidewalk I had really stepped on a ledge as the demonstrators are walking towards us and I lost my balance it was really RINGBACK that simple I lost my balance and stepped down to regain my balance in the middle I stepped on the sidewalk I was met and. Placed in the same car I was arrested. That time about 80 people were arrested 2 groups were placed and in 2 different buses and were taken to the city jail. These demonstrators were the average age range I would say was about. 17 although the ages range from $77.00 to $35.00 or 40 Now this was a demonstration which Dick Gregory was arrested. We were taken to the city jail and loaded. We just we left that in the place had their clubs out they had clubs these big burly clubs in their hands and these leather recording blackjacks and not just because their hands. Pardon. I don't know I don't know what you call there to carry Let let the with a birdie and brought the strike in and I know this is a 1st in this struck me that there were these little children there were none was myself Gregory and so it was with Gregory we were the only 3 adults there and the rest of these were just high school kids and some 70 year old children and this is the 1st thing that struck me was how outrageous it was at this place and had to have hugs and this other object and rather with Lisa telling the children to step to move back to move out of the drive where to move to a different area they would take their clubs and push against the children and shun the children back and so I stopped at 2 in the season and I I said to him it's not necessary for you to push these children around your club push them you know if you just tell them to step back they will quickly step back Well the policeman proceeded to to to use much profanity against me and he took his club and he he pushed it into my stomach and he did it twice he Gedney in the stomach in the jammy again made me fall back. Sure we were taking it magnificently and that they weren't frightened they were they were very very bright I mean they were lert they could see that no eyes were shocked they're looking all around them but they were like children everyplace except that they were very brave as you could and there was no fear on any of their faces there was anger on the faces of myself I'm sure and Dick Gregory and his assistant because we were seen was having these children and we felt helpless to do anything but the children were really magnificent. So all of all the girls. We're placed in the downstairs cell block which was. Divided in half. One section. Was. Composed of individual compartments which are the isolation compartment of the girls and for the 1st section where the where the isolation cells were had no toilet facilities and no wonder they were in there say from 3 o'clock and tell about 6 o'clock with no Wilder no toilet facilities for 3 hours for 3 hours I may be confused on my time but they were there a good 2 or 3 hours. And. It then began to rain it's really a point to look out the window and here were these children. A good 200 children out in the rain just been drenched the religious community torrent. And. People were milling about in the place were out trying to drive people away there was plenty of room in the cell block which I was in to put these children but instead of prefer to leave them out in that rain on those terms for 2 hours when the meantime we had become angry we decided that we had to do something to protest let me. Break them or the children were off in the rain. For more than 2 hours it rained for 2 hours they were not only on the range or 2 are that they were left out there even after the stock rating. This is important I got because in the meantime I had been put in solitary but for the time it began writing to the time that 1st the whole group of solitary It must have been say 20 or 30 minutes later reports I got because that he's part of this group that was on the right did not get into our cell but we were removed until about 3 o'clock in the morning and they were they said that they had not been inside the building until that time at any rate to the rain was coming on a tour torrents and within a very few minutes everybody were just soaking wet with standing outside so we need banging on the they they were still doors with bars into their 2 still doors and then of course there were the doors on the in the isolation cells so every all the girls again open and shut in these doors banging the door they were just banging as loud as we could possibly bang so mom a policeman came in and they want to know what was going on so I told them that there was plenty of room in the cell block of those children no necessity laid them out in the rain so they then pulled me into an office which was filled full place and in plain clothes and and I reiterated the same thing I was across very I was very upset very angry and the thing that struck me was that they. The men just stood there look very she persuades me they didn't strike me at that time. They just they just looked at me they'd better say things like that they couldn't understand why why but I was so upset about these little children being left out in the rain and so one of them said well we know what to do with the whole group because they heard an assault into. Into Sally's solitary confinement cells which which were about 2 by 2 you could take 2 steps 2 short step from both directions had nothing in them but a little steel see that came out from the wall they were from $12.00 to $15.00 of each of us in the seventy's in each cell. We were left in there. We were left in there a good 2 hours. To 3 could have been 3 hours 3 mind you that the girls who were previously in the section had been in the 2 hours before that without toilet facilities or was big enough to hunker fillet we were very uncomfortable still and so after about 3 hours we start banging again I said to the girl I said Look I said that the girls were were very miserable and I said look this can't go on we can't ruin our health so we we began banging on the wall at the sound of course the big noise and invoke crowd in again something that is a true this in their characteristic about these cops they can never be alone by themselves and they always must come with their guns their clubs and their helmets and where they all herded into the cell and when I was out and I told I said the girls have been in here for 5 hours without bathroom facilities in the water and education treat people this way and I'm just going on like this so they took all the girls out except me. And left me there by myself well I was in there for about 2 hours then finally I had. My Again banging and they all came. There again Well they say cussed me out they just call me everything the child of God and one of them came in and said I will think this guy wanting to do it I will make a stop the noise and so I was want to do it and he opened a gate he came in and he I thought they had said we'll take your shoes off or so I have thought that they were just going to ask you for my shoes Well no he just came and he just snatched me and he just encircled my body with his his arm and he he took my shoes off while. I was pretty angry and and I guess I was trying to get get out of his grasp and so he got I was very just cut my he was numb I could do I assert my shoes out and he walked out and then he must thought of and he walked back and then he snatched me right in the front and he was me with his fist up side my head so hard I was just and he would you know if you could just see on his face and you are down once again and I told him I said you you want to be ashamed of yourself here you can come in here where 185 pounds you can strike a woman who weighs 105 pounds I was laying have it I thought and then they were all back in again laughing and really ready to me an answer anyway anyway so they left me in there couple of hours later they heard us all out and took us. To the 3rd floor. On the way up I was the last one that they took out on the way out. Pacing badge number 12 used his billy club to push me in the back in my kidneys up the steps into the hallway that was walking fast enough for here you learned it's a defense mechanism in order not to if it's over natural protests and you know move as fast as they want you to do so yes I know I've managed to walk slowly and what I was doing and so he took his club and he was just pushing me in my kidneys and he would jab me the releases made possible by parties to the Birmingham accord who posted bond to free the demonstrators from jail was slow even on Saturday parents and friends stood outside the city jail at the demonstrators were free singly and in small groups throughout the day. a road and you can think. With Would you mind giving me a lame mayor back and you just got out of Birmingham City as you do you along with you and say. We arrested. Made a step for your for our picking at Christmas your picketing in front of breasts. But are you treated. Well I was. Treated when treated So I mean we sat down and the. Mantra. For fad days and being in they come in and you have to manage everything we were nixed that they put them on out of the box and we put them out and have them back up in the corner so data so yesterday they come in with them oh master they was kind of cooling but we refused that we told them we didn't want them to miss a. Come to the but the bottom only in a way is paramount in the middle of the flow and so he said he said. They're going to mean we stepped over the mansion we were yelling we didn't want to we didn't want to know the police were coming in and say if ya want to. Have taken him they've taken him at the room. And now you're here waiting for somebody to come when. You're ready for your daughter to. My seat. And how long she'd been and. Holding me. And what were you in jail. Along with I was in. Mileage on the ground. I was 16. When I went to jail and. On the day I was in a daze. The name is Andrew Marr. 20 years ago I was able to read it after I mean that Monday I. Read it. Bad day. Well the sensation was out there on the 1st day we had it was about 365 of this in one cell and we were sleeping 3 abreast maybe 3. But. After Monday. The Monday we suffered the Monday we were taken to a new section of jail he's also modern so. The food chain because we was. Ripped. From a store in town we were arrested with a group or by our through. Battle. Now with the group. And they care and. Took out pictures and they sang a panda and they put in. The rest of them and. I mean really having a big shout. To watch our face and people can take a shout. Out in any way to sleep on the floor tables and benches. I mean if you would allow 'd. What you had. Anywhere you. Well I was arrested. March operating without a permit it was 97 of this in my group on the day and I was leaving. We were arrested we were put on arrested before we will actually go to jail. And they would stop the album by another group with the policeman would get in the Russian drug at the other group and we would go on. My life was threatened so they band together your life was threatened. By a police not policemen who was and was in a position right then to. Go with the night. The agreement had been reached but it was in fact only a decision to begin a host of variables remained and a heavy warning hovered over the Negro community ignored by none except apparently the Birmingham police Birmingham had already seen the ushering in of a new phase in the integration movement the movement had begun to utilize the power of its numbers it had begun to act. And for the 1st time it involved actively and embraced large numbers of working class the poor the less well educated mothers and fathers the strangers to direct action before saw their children leave school and stand up to the hated and feared white cops. They were enraged at the hosing and jailing of their children they learned they did not have to be afraid they were however timid and 1st proud and impressed with the strength and courage of their own the nonviolent movement had broadened its base and in so doing based itself on new and unknown factors some of them not only unknown but highly volatile. The effect of this demonstration of power on the more extreme white segregationists of Birmingham could be expected because trouble and was all day Saturday the unnamed threat sat on the Negro community like a dark fog the questions Negroes asked themselves were less if than when Where was some expected trouble to come from official quarters perhaps the police for the city administration under Mary Haynes had volubly expressed its disgust with the agreement and it indicated it would oppose its implementation this reporter tried to speak with police commissioner Connor Bull Connor as he is known in Birmingham whom most Negroes blame for the violence that marked the last 2 days of the demonstration. Commissioner Connor however had been too often burned by the North impress me is going to Connor. Got a new economy they want to have with. William and I know New York newspaper. Well can you just give us a few words and not play anything in you know we just want to talk about the whole thing but at that we start with I wouldn't don't know New York. We already. Know the problems that we've been talking to the Negroes you know all the while you can bet I don't know when I get no break. Yet I'm always got a bad rap what the hell suppress. It barely know what I did was go. You got Dead them and. I think you got it don't got. No 3rd it's not even connected here. Oh boy go find somebody that. You know it's got a really good trick the author of nominalism socialism in general it's. Saturday afternoon at a youth rally held in the 16th Street Baptist Church to begin the next item on the movement's agenda the voter registration drive the Reverend James Bevel read aloud a circular widely publicized that morning and broadcast want over a local radio station. By. Now the. You know the the. The the yes. But it went to. The. Head of the the. United Clans of America. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan the knights and co-operated present of public speaking white citizens know your rights. The city of Birmingham and the entire United States of America which was created by your ancestors when your personal benefit is under attack. It is under attack by Jews a negro Communist citizens to low races of mankind that you a negro are trying and succeeding in their efforts to take over the country that your abscesses fought and died for. Your leaders have said we shall destroy and for doctrine whether Americans like it or not. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rally will assemble on the grounds of the most lodges 730 Saturday evening most lodges located on the Bessemer highway Route 11. That is May 11th $163.00 there will be parking for automobiles. Mongrelized wispy where. Is writing again. 7 o'clock Saturday evening a threatening telephone calls received at the guest on motel warning that the motel would be bombed sometime that night commissioner Conner's police were immediately notified their reply was reportedly if you see anything call of. I talked to Reverend Bethel later Saturday night about possible trouble and its likely effect on the agreement that. They dispose of next and they say downtown Monday. And I think they'll make it a no. Name and I was it could all happen tonight but tonight Jav a plan to meet. This is the real problem the real dilemma but I'm not just in. This bombing thing that I've done and 18 and so now that I've been here this is a real dilemma for white people goodwill and I we have to recognize that. Our interview concluded about 11 30 pm we'll be able to after when they reporters out on the conference out of the gas on motel and quarters for Martin Luther King and the various elements of the movement. From 1130 till midnight we talked shop wondered aloud and waited. To be our approach midnight one of the 3 tired of waiting rose to go. The the. One way. That the president did. That we. Really. Had a bad September when I really got the better. Right to remember. That about 12 midnight we received word that the home of Reverend a.d. King brother of Martin Luther King had been bombed. It was a 10 minute drive from the gas a motel and like a suburb of army. By the time we arrived a crowd of some 1000 negroes had gathered at the scene of the bombing. Before we left the number had doubled. As we approached the scene of the bombing we were given a preview of the raid that was the Philly hours before dawn litter the streets with bricks broken glass and damaged police cars and flashed headlines around the world a tire on a nearby patrol car was flying. The same. Yet. They say that he was getting good at that we didn't. Want anyone hurt in the sand but that was the whole call in the plan to call them a paycheck back out. What you can get up in the. World. I entered the house by the side door glass and broken tempers were strewn about on the floor nearly every window in the building was broken but remained at the front and was lit only by police flashlight. There was a large crater 5 feet across and 3 feet deep. Well the court one that. You have been listening to part one of freedom now a 963 radio documentary produced for Pacifica Radio by Chris cottage they are minor and Robert Kramer thanks to a generous preservation grant from the Ford Foundation the program you just heard has been preserved and made available online to listen to or read at Pacifica Radio Archives dot org Look for the protests rallies and demonstrations icon and that does it for this week's from evolved from the vault the series was created by Brian to Shay's or Christopher sprinkle it is broadcast on Pacifica Radio network with over 110 stations and affiliates the series is produced by Brian to Shatzer and Mark Taurus and executive produced by the Pacifica Radio Archives and writing to Shay's or we are now streaming and podcasting online at from the Vault Radio dot org for more information call the archives at 187350230 from the vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives preservation and Access Project which is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the arts and grants from the Grammy Foundation the Ford Foundation the University of California Berkeley smog that library the Pacifica Foundation and from contributions from Pacifica station listeners I think music is by Kevin Drum holiday I'm dying to chase her and thanks for listening. Hi this is Alan Parsons You're listening to k.c. S b f.m. 91.0 in Santa Barbara. Hi I'm Howie. And this is from the Pacifica radio archive series that brings our history out of the vault and onto the radio. Today we'll hear excerpts from Pacifica Radio Archives sounds to change the world National Marathon broadcast on Nov 27th 2007. This particular hour hosted by. News journalist out of focuses on the feminist movement. In this hour Pacifica Radio Archives from the vault brings you the voices of every day women the driving force behind this movement the voices of . Greer And Bell Hooks women who inspired the feminist movement and as well the notable voices of Representative. And Senator Barbara Boxer. From the Pacifica Radio Archives historic collection ladies and gentlemen from the vault presents feminist journey. Good evening and thanks for tuning into sounds that change the world time out of all God the host of Free Speech Radio News coming to you live from Pacifica station k p f k and l.a. This hour we bring you feminist journeys it's not just girl talk in this hour we'll be bringing you some very rare recordings from the early days of the women's programming here at Pacifica and among my guests today are women who helped pioneer that phenomenon at the givens would you like to introduce yourself yeah I met a Givens and I was a long time volunteer in programmer at k.p.s. Bay in Berkeley and I am now the project coordinator of the preservation Access Project at the archives Let's move on to you I am Lucia Pell and I was one of the 1st women in the Women's Coalition here at k.p. F.k. Back in the mid seventy's I guess probably 75. And I was also one staff here is traffic and later became program director of k p f k for about 7 years now and money let's move on to you hi I'm home Donnie singer and I'm so glad to be with this wonderful women I produce.