Remembers that taish da terrible day in selma. He finally hit me in the back of the neck then the second hit fell me. Good evening thanks for joining us, im adam may sitting in for joie chen. Tonight the nation mourns the loss of a civil rights pioneer. Amelia boynton. She became the face of bloody sunday 50 years ago, in selma alabama. America tonight sat down with her in one of her last interviews before her passing. Ordinary people like boynton who finally made their dream of change, a reality. Come by here lord come by here you can never remember selma and forget the bridge. Here, where the Jefferson Davis highway leads town and heads north to montgomery is where the first steps of the last long journey in the fight against jim crow began. Come by here my lord come by here and here, a local woman barrel known outside her alabama home town became the image of bloody sunday, seen around the world. Oh lord come by here amelia bitcoin clearly recalls the terror that day. As officers tr
Of the neck then the second hit fell me. Good evening thanks for joining us, im adam may sitting in for joie chen. Tonight the nation mourns the loss of a civil rights pioneer. Amelia boynton. She became the face of bloody sunday 50 years ago, in selma alabama. America tonight sat down with her in one of her last interviews before her passing. Ordinary people like boynton who finally made their dream of change, a reality. Come by here lord come by here you can never remember selma and forget the bridge. Here, where the Jefferson Davis highway leads town and heads north to montgomery is where the first steps of the last long journey in the fight against jim crow began. Come by here my lord come by here and here, a local woman barrel known outside her alabama home town became the image of bloody sunday, seen around the world. Oh lord come by here amelia bitcoin clearly recalls the terror that day. As officers tried stop the marchers demanding the right to vote. Beating them with sticks,
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As we would say in the south bronx, all that and a bag of chips. Hinojosa so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, 70s, when you were growing up. Right, right, right. Hinojosa . Their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. Right, right. Hinojosa but for you, it was a totally different reality. Well, there was that element to it. But i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and African American culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously African American culture, were in full force in the streets, particularly in the summertime, because we had rumbas in the park all the time. Thats when youd hear people playing drums, conga drums, and playing this beautiful rhythm. Hinojosa now, im going to stop you right there, because i bet some people are saying, they had what in the park . Rumbas. Right, rumbas. Hinojosa okay, so
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