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,