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CNN We Were There March August 26, 2013 03:34:00

john lewis probably impressed me more than anybody. because he was a young guy who knew where he was going, knew what needed to be done. i received a note under my door from bayard rustin saying, in effect, that there was some concern about my speech. my speech was pretty strong. bayard came to us and said that archbishop o boyle was not going to participate in the march unless john changed his speech. he said that unless the text were altered, the archbishop would not give the invocation. near the end of the original text, i said something like, we may be forced to march to the south the way sherman did, nonviolently. we told bayard we were not going to change the speech. bayard left and came back with randolph. mr. randolph came and said, john, we ve come this far together. can you change this? can you delete that? ....

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CNN We Were There March August 26, 2013 06:15:00

Charge. the conviction was sex perversion. bayard had been attacked for his homosexuality and police call views because he was a socialist and a pacifist. it was just one of these facts of life. bayard is gay and he didn t hide it. the senator is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. he will not get away with this. i think bayard was relieved that it was out, it had happened. nobody thought that strom thurmond had anything good in mind by doing it. weeks before we were running out of buses and cars. i calculated there would be approximately 67,000 people on the march. and i immediately got depressed, because bayard had been ....

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CNN We Were There March August 26, 2013 06:35:00

To change the speech. bayard left and came back with randolph. mr. randolph came and said, john, we ve come this far together. can you change this? can you delete that? let s stay together. so we went to the back of the lincoln memorial and on a small typewriter, made the changes to john s speech. brother john lewis. [ applause ] where is my party? where is the political party that will make it unnecessary to march on washington, to make it unnecessary to march in the streets of birmingham? some people say it was a fiery speech. during the delivery of the speech, i saw hundreds and thousands of young people ....

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CNN We Were There March August 26, 2013 03:15:00

The conviction was sex perversion. bayard had been attacked for his homosexuality and police call views because he was a socialist and a pacifist. it was just one of these facts of life. bayard is gay and he didn t hide it. the senator is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. he will not get away with this. i think bayard was relieved that it was out, it had happened. nobody thought that strom thurmond had anything good in mind by doing it. weeks before we were running out of buses and cars. i calculated there would be approximately 67,000 people on ....

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CNN We Were There March August 26, 2013 03:22:00

we knew we were going to get there one way or another. we were going to the march, and we would have gotten there regardless if we had to walk. five, four, three, two, one. this is an audio test. bayard rustin and i got up very early. we went out to the mall. there was literally nobody, and bayard turned to me and said, do you think anybody is coming to this march? bayard took a walk on the mall just to check on the march facilities, and the press was surrounding, saying mr. rustin, what s happening? you said there were going to be 250,000, there s only half a dozen here. and bayard went into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper. i looked at my watch. and he looked at the piece of paper and looked at the watch. and i said, gentleman, everything is going according to schedule. they walked away and i said to bayard, what are you looking at? ....

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