Power starts right now. Enjoy that. static Static Continues Car Engine Humming intense wind its such a such a sort of, satisfying thing, i guess, to be in power. And they usually, the great persons usually told you to do. If you looked around, they werent there when the showdown came. Whistle Blowing [officer] go home or go to your church, this march will not continue. [ella] what i do, [officer] see that they disperse. [ella] is supposed to speak louder than what i say. Marching Footfalls siren sound screaming Whistle Blowing screaming Horns Honking Hooves Beating On Pavement drum sounds siren drum sounds screaming Overlapping Shouting shouting continues [speaker] last sunday, a group of Negro Americans in selma, alabama attempted peacefully to protest the denial of the most basic political right of all. The right to vote. People have to have faith in themselves and they can only gain that faith by being given the opportunity to grow. And when people value what they can do, they dont
- we re sitting there saying, we ll do the platform. we ll do the nominee. and still the democratic party would not allow for us to take those seats because lyndon johnson is afraid he s gonna lose all of those racist white democratic senators, democratic congress people. you know, because at that point, the racists hadn t gone into republican party. they were all democrats. they were southern democrats. there s a big meeting with martin luther king and a lot of the heads of the civil rights movement. some of them try and convince the mississippi freedom, democratic party delegates that they should go for what is called the compromise. two seats at large, not representing mississippi, but at large. so they won t be the official mississippi democratic delegation. and the mfdp delegates say, no. you know, as miss hamer says, we didn t go - come all this way for no two seats. you know, when all of us are hurting. - and it is considered a massive betrayal,
they canvassing all the time, day and night. - [carl] we don t anticipate any of em being elected on november the eighth. not any that are running i don t think would are qualified to hold office for which they seek. - [john hulett] they don t have the experience because this is their first opportunity to be running for public office, but the job in which they re running for, they ve had several workshops and they re studying, they re keeping it up. i feel like if these people are elected, that they would be able to go into the office and do as decent a job as anybody who has ever, here in this county. - you tell these people, just what i ve been telling them right here. hadn t we been your friends for years? - yes sir. sure. - had we worked more of them than anybody in this country? - yeah, sir. sure have. - right. so, if you got in trouble. who did you go to? the white or the black? (laughing) - tell the truth now. - all right. - (laughing) (person heckling indistinctly)
and know how to sort of navigate this treacherous terrain to help them do the things that they need to do to get to freedom on their own terms. but dr. king, with the southern christian leadership conference, wouldn t establish a presence. you know, king was like, yeah, y all need to, don t mess with lowndes county. you can t do anything down there. it s too dangerous, right? it s too crazy. bloody lowndes you don t fool with that. we don t even know where to begin. - [lillian] we d been out here a hundred years, nobody had come, and we were able to put enough together to a massive meeting. and the church would be flowing over till we had to get a second crowd. without their help, so - [hasan] while participating in the selma to montgomery march, sncc, which stands for the student nonviolent coordinating committee, they re talking to local people