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 KING:  I accept this honor
 for our lost ones,

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 whose deaths pave our path.

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And for the 20 million
Negro men and women

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motivated by dignity

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and a disdain
for hopelessness.

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This isn't right.

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Corrie.

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This ain't right.

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CORETTA: What's that?

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This necktie.
It's not right.

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Well, it's not
a necktie, dear.

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It's an ascot.

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Yes, but generally
the same principles

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should apply,
shouldn't they?

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It's not right.

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It's not right,
or you don't like it?

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(SIGHS) I don't like
how this looks.

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Looks distinguished
and debonair to me.

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You know what I mean.

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Like we're living
high on the hog.

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Dressed like this
while folks back home
are... (SIGHS)

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It's not right.

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Wait till the brothers
back home see me like this.

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They'll have a good laugh.

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Let them laugh.

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It's not a crime to be away
for a few days, Martin.

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It's nice being away, huh?

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Yeah. It really is.

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Look here.

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I'm gonna be a pastor
somewhere small.

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College town.

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(CHUCKLING)

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Lead a little church.
Teach a class.

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(SIGHS)

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Maybe the occasional
speaking engagement.

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And I'll pay
all the bills for us,

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especially the mortgage
for our very own house.

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Perfect.

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You look handsome.

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JAHN:  Through it all,

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Martin Luther King
has spoken of his dream.

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One which we

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and many other people
around the world share.

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To this undeterred hero
for justice,

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the Nobel Committee
of Oslo, Norway,

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awards our 1964 Peace Prize.

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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

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 KING:  I accept this honor
 for our lost ones,

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 whose deaths pave our path.

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 I accept this honor for

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 the more than 20 million
 American Negroes

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 who are motivated
 by dignity.

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 Together we believe that
 what the illusion

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 of supremacy has destroyed,

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 the truth of equality
 can nourish.

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GIRL 1: I promise you.
It ain't nothing
to be scared of.

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It's quick. And the pastor
is right there next to you.

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Yeah,
but the biggest thing is
getting your hair wet up.

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I got my hair pressed
that same morning

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and it was wasted
as soon as I hit the water.

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I should have
worn a swim cap
like Mama said.

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(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

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GIRL 2: See,
I asked my mama

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could she make my hair like
Coretta Scott King had hers

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at the Washington March.

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But she said
that was too grown.

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Oh, I love her hair.

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I heard she don't
even put rollers in it.

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It's just like that.

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But I studied it.
I know how she do it.

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See, she parts
in the middle and then...

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(SIGHS)

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MAN: Annie Lee Cooper!

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(SIGHS)

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Get on up now.
I ain't got all day.

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You work for Mr. Dunn

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down at the rest home,
ain't that right?

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Yes.

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Wonder what old Dunn'll say
when I tell him

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one of his gals is down here
stirring a fuss.

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I ain't stirring no fuss.

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I'm just here trying
to register to vote.

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It's all right this time.

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It's right
when I say it's right.

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Recite the Constitution's
preamble.

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Know what a preamble is?

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"We the people
of the United States,

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"in order to form
a more perfect union,

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"establish justice,

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"ensure domestic
tranquility,

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"provide for
the common defense,

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"promote the
general welfare..."

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How many county judges
in Alabama?

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(BREATHES DEEPLY)

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Sixty-seven.

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Name them.

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JOHNSON:  Aren't we done?

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 Are we not done with this?

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Will this ever end?

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I don't know,
Mr. President.

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A comprehensive plan
is already in place.

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The act was only passed
six months ago.

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So hammer home that
impatience only hurts
the overall cause.

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We're...
We're getting there.

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Just... Just keep
reiterating the plan.

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No, he doesn't
want reiteration.

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He wants something
so he can say,

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"Look, I told you
I had a dream

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"and it's all coming
goddamn true,

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"whether you like it or not!"
That's what he wants.

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What he needs to do
is get on board
with what we're doing

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instead of the other
way around. For once!

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Mr. President, Dr. King.

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KING: Mr. President.

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Dr. King.

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(CHUCKLES)

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Well, I'll tell you.
I'm a tall son-of-a-bitch,

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but this close to
the new Nobel laureate

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and with all those
other trinkets

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you've been collecting lately,

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I feel tits-high
to a puppy dog.

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Well, thank you,
Mr. President.

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Mr. White.

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Dr. King.

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All right.

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I'll tell you,
ending segregation,

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proudest moment of my life
when I signed that '64 Act.

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Proudest moment of my life,
I tell you.

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Now civil rights
is a priority

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of this administration
as you know.

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Thank you.

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We're gonna face
the challenge,

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or this country is
storing up a heap
of trouble for itself.

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Now, seeing as I can't
convince you to

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work with
my administration

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in an official capacity
inside the White House,

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I feel damn fortunate

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to have someone
as statesmanlike as you

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leading the movement.

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And I want you to go on
leading it. No one else.

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Not one of these
militant Malcolm X types.

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(CHUCKLING)

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So... I wanna help.
Tell me how.

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Well, Mr. President,

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I'm here to speak
specifically
about the denial

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of a basic American right
for the Negro citizen.

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The right to vote.

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Well, uh...
Technically...

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Technically,
we already have it.

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Yes, Mr. President.

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But, we both know
in the South

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black voters are
kept off the rolls

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and out of
the voting booths

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by systematic intimidation
and fear, Mr. President.

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(CLEARS THROAT) Now,
you asked how you can help.

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We want
Federal legislation

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granting Negroes the right
to vote unencumbered.

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And we want Federal
protocol eliminating

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the decades-long dismissal

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and illegal denial of
blacks seeking to vote.

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And we want
robust enforcement
of that protocol.

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Well, um...
(CLEARS THROAT)
That's fine.

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But... Most of the South
is still not desegregating.

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Let's not start
another battle

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when we haven't
even won the first.

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And you know what
the next battle should be?

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The eradication of poverty.

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I'm calling it
"The War on Poverty."

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It's a matter
of political priorities.

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Poverty is going to be
my focus at home

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and I want you
to help me with this.

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We can make big changes
in these things

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for people of all colors.

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And I know that
matters to you,
doesn't it?

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This voting thing
is just gonna have to wait.

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(CLEARING THROAT)

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It...

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(STAMMERING)
It can't wait, Mr. President.

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Well, why not?

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Because there have
been thousands

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of racially motivated murders
in the South,

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including those four girls.

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Well, I know that...

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And you know
the astounding fact

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that not one
of these criminals

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who murder us when
and why they want

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has ever been convicted.

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Yeah, I know we have a lot
of work to do down there.

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Not one conviction

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because they are protected
by white officials

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chosen by
an all-white electorate.

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And on the rare occasions
that they face trial,

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they are freed
by all-white juries.

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All-white because
you can't serve on a jury

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unless you are
registered to vote.

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Well, Dr. King,
you've certainly given me

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something to think about.

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But this administration
is going to set this

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aside for a while.

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Just for a while,
you understand.

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Yes, Mr. President, I...
I understand.

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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

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Selma it is.

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Big speech lined up
for these folks tonight, Doc?

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We need to see
what's what first,
Big Fellow.

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We're just here
to test the waters.

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Oh, my Lord.
What you got us into, woman?

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We've got 128 miles

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to come to our senses,
gentlemen.

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NASH: Hush.

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This here is the place
we need to be.

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This right here
is the next great battle.

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I can only imagine.

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Hmm.

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Decent-looking place
to die though.

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(CHUCKLES WRYLY)

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Ms. Nash.

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Mr. Bevel.

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Doc? This here is it.
Selma's the place.

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A lot of groundwork
has already been laid

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by the people here.

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And they ready.

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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

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(DOOR OPENS)

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ORANGE: Sister Boynton.

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BOYNTON: Mr. Orange.

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Good afternoon.

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MAN 1: Dr. King?

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May I introduce myself?

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Yeah, of course.

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(GROANS)

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MAN 2: Hey!

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(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

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It's okay. It's okay.
I'm okay.

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This way, Dr. King.

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KING:
That white boy can hit.

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ABERNATHY:
This place is perfect.

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What's the FBI's
current information

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on Martin Luther King?

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I heard he was
assaulted in Selma.

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My information can be
summed up in a few words.

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King is a political
and moral degenerate.

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Well, you say that, J. Edgar.
I have to take it seriously.

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But if he's a degenerate,
what I do know is,

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he's a non-violent
degenerate.

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And I want him
to go on leading

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the civil rights movement,

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not one of these
bloodthirsty militants.

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What I need to know
right now is
what's he about to do next?

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Mr. President,

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you know we can shut men
with power down

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permanently
and unequivocally.

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I'm very aware of that,
Mr. Director.

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Well, if you prefer
a different approach,

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we can go with the wife.

257
00:17:10,528 --> 00:17:14,432
We know there's tension
in the home already.

258
00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,570
We can weaken the dynamic.

259
00:17:22,673 --> 00:17:24,242
Dismantle the family.

260
00:17:35,621 --> 00:17:37,288
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

261
00:17:45,864 --> 00:17:47,332
(PHONE RINGING)

262
00:17:54,705 --> 00:17:56,106
Hello.

263
00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:58,509
 MAN: (ON PHONE)
 You ain't got long.

264
00:17:58,542 --> 00:18:00,044
 When the hearts
 of those Pickaninnies

265
00:18:00,077 --> 00:18:01,712
 of yours stop beating...

266
00:18:06,484 --> 00:18:07,819
Same thing?

267
00:18:11,455 --> 00:18:12,423
CORETTA: When are
you all heading out?

268
00:18:14,224 --> 00:18:18,128
KING: We're heading back
to Selma at 5:00 a.m.

269
00:18:18,163 --> 00:18:20,833
It turned out to be
an ideal staging ground.

270
00:18:22,634 --> 00:18:27,138
There's a full
couple of weeks planned.

271
00:18:28,705 --> 00:18:29,875
Quite a bit to be done.

272
00:18:34,346 --> 00:18:35,646
I see.

273
00:18:41,452 --> 00:18:43,387
That highway is nice now.

274
00:18:43,421 --> 00:18:45,289
Get you there
in a couple of hours.

275
00:18:54,432 --> 00:18:56,868
Good people
in those parts though.

276
00:19:04,409 --> 00:19:05,477
Well...

277
00:19:08,513 --> 00:19:10,749
I'm worried about the ones
who ain't so good.

278
00:19:13,049 --> 00:19:15,686
This local Sheriff Jim Clark

279
00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,689
is supposed to be
bad business.

280
00:19:19,723 --> 00:19:21,460
Won't go down
without a fight,
they say.

281
00:19:24,328 --> 00:19:26,365
And since we don't fight...

282
00:19:27,030 --> 00:19:27,900
Well...

283
00:19:29,701 --> 00:19:31,670
As good a place to die
as any, I guess.

284
00:19:35,673 --> 00:19:37,509
I wish you wouldn't
talk like that.

285
00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:44,249
It just takes the edge off.

286
00:19:46,817 --> 00:19:48,787
You and your friends
can joke about that.

287
00:19:48,819 --> 00:19:50,355
I don't joke about that.

288
00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:57,429
You're right. I'm sorry.

289
00:20:00,298 --> 00:20:03,468
I'll, uh, put these things
away in your bag now.

290
00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:05,671
I didn't realize
you were leaving so early.

291
00:20:26,223 --> 00:20:27,558
(SIGHS)

292
00:20:41,873 --> 00:20:43,442
(PHONE RINGING)

293
00:20:53,151 --> 00:20:55,118
Hello?

294
00:20:55,152 --> 00:20:55,921
KING: (ON PHONE)  Halie?

295
00:20:56,887 --> 00:20:58,457
 Martin.

296
00:21:01,058 --> 00:21:02,728
I need to hear
the Lord's voice.

297
00:21:04,828 --> 00:21:05,797
Oh.

298
00:21:07,164 --> 00:21:10,402
Surely, Martin. Surely.

299
00:21:17,442 --> 00:21:18,876
(JACKSON CLEARS THROAT)

300
00:21:21,211 --> 00:21:27,786
 JACKSON:
 ♪ Precious Lord

301
00:21:28,786 --> 00:21:32,958
 ♪ Take my hand

302
00:21:34,726 --> 00:21:41,032
 ♪ Lead me home

303
00:21:41,932 --> 00:21:46,637
 ♪ Let me stand

304
00:21:47,204 --> 00:21:52,076
 ♪ I am tired

305
00:21:52,810 --> 00:21:54,313
(SIGHS)

306
00:21:55,814 --> 00:22:00,384
 ♪ I am weak

307
00:22:01,686 --> 00:22:08,492
 ♪ I am worn

308
00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:18,069
 ♪ Through the storm

309
00:22:19,036 --> 00:22:25,743
 ♪ Through the night

310
00:22:28,946 --> 00:22:35,554
 ♪ Lord, lead me on

311
00:22:36,153 --> 00:22:38,423
 ♪ To the light ♪

312
00:22:39,057 --> 00:22:40,692
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

313
00:22:41,226 --> 00:22:43,094
KING: Hey!

314
00:22:41,226 --> 00:22:43,094
Hey!

315
00:22:43,127 --> 00:22:44,628
Sully.

316
00:22:43,127 --> 00:22:44,628
Look at you.

317
00:22:44,662 --> 00:22:45,762
(LAUGHING)

318
00:22:45,797 --> 00:22:48,164
Morning, Doctor.

319
00:22:45,797 --> 00:22:48,164
Good morning, Doctor.

320
00:22:48,199 --> 00:22:49,432
SULLIVAN: Drive all right?

321
00:22:49,467 --> 00:22:50,801
KING: Good and long.

322
00:22:50,836 --> 00:22:53,637
Good news is
Richie Jean is in there.

323
00:22:53,671 --> 00:22:55,306
Oh, she's ready for you.

324
00:22:55,339 --> 00:22:56,874
(ALL LAUGHING)

325
00:22:56,907 --> 00:22:59,111
Negro, that's all
you had to say.

326
00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:02,513
Uncle Marty!

327
00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:04,516
There she is!
There's our girl!

328
00:23:05,349 --> 00:23:07,117
Hey, Richie Jean!

329
00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:09,653
RICHIE JEAN: Oh!

330
00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,388
KING: Looking
like her mom.

331
00:23:09,688 --> 00:23:11,388
You go play.

332
00:23:11,422 --> 00:23:13,125
Hey!

333
00:23:11,422 --> 00:23:13,125
Hey, Ralphy.

334
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,760
ABERNATHY: How you doing?

335
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:16,760
RICHIE JEAN: Hey!

336
00:23:16,794 --> 00:23:17,894
Good to see you,
sweetheart.

337
00:23:17,929 --> 00:23:19,029
Hey, come over here.

338
00:23:21,298 --> 00:23:22,700
ABERNATHY: Oh, Lord,
it's good to see this!

339
00:23:22,733 --> 00:23:24,734
Okay, now, I've got
the grits on the stove.

340
00:23:24,769 --> 00:23:26,703
Uh, how many
we expecting today?

341
00:23:26,737 --> 00:23:29,173
Well, now, Sister Jackson.

342
00:23:29,207 --> 00:23:31,875
You know about our group,
the SCLC, right?

343
00:23:31,910 --> 00:23:33,978
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference?

344
00:23:34,010 --> 00:23:36,681
A few of our top SCLC leaders
are with us this time

345
00:23:36,713 --> 00:23:40,417
since we're going to
be here a little longer
than expected.

346
00:23:40,451 --> 00:23:41,987
Now, this here's
Reverend C.T. Vivian.

347
00:23:42,019 --> 00:23:43,921
He coordinates all
the SCLC branches.

348
00:23:43,954 --> 00:23:46,523
Welcome.
Nice to meet you.
Welcome, welcome.

349
00:23:46,557 --> 00:23:48,593
This is
Reverend James Bevel.

350
00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:50,627
How you doing, ma'am?

351
00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:50,627
I'm well. Thank you.

352
00:23:50,662 --> 00:23:52,197
YOUNG: This here
is James Orange.

353
00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:53,830
Oh, this is a big one.

354
00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:55,432
I don't know if I've got
enough to feed you.

355
00:23:55,465 --> 00:23:56,834
Well, let's find out.
How about that?

356
00:23:56,866 --> 00:23:58,001
RICHIE JEAN: Hey!

357
00:23:56,866 --> 00:23:58,001
(ALL LAUGHING)

358
00:23:58,036 --> 00:24:00,238
Now, you got two of them
named James.

359
00:24:00,271 --> 00:24:01,439
Oh, you can
call me Jim, Sister.

360
00:24:01,471 --> 00:24:02,440
And Orange is
fine with me, ma'am.

361
00:24:02,473 --> 00:24:03,941
Or Big Fellow!

362
00:24:03,973 --> 00:24:06,044
All right. Well,
this is fine with me.

363
00:24:06,076 --> 00:24:09,047
Mrs. Jackson.
Hosea Williams.

364
00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:10,548
Or Castro!

365
00:24:10,582 --> 00:24:12,616
Oh, yeah,
that's a long story.

366
00:24:12,650 --> 00:24:16,453
Uh, those grits, they need
some stirring. Mind?

367
00:24:16,487 --> 00:24:17,989
ABERNATHY: You put
your foot in it now.

368
00:24:18,021 --> 00:24:20,057
Ain't you supposed
to be on a diet?

369
00:24:20,090 --> 00:24:21,291
(ALL LAUGHING)

370
00:24:21,326 --> 00:24:22,426
Somebody call Juanita.

371
00:24:22,460 --> 00:24:23,627
There's a phone!

372
00:24:23,661 --> 00:24:24,663
Hey, get off that phone.

373
00:24:25,930 --> 00:24:27,163
Juanita?

374
00:24:27,198 --> 00:24:29,034
 ABERNATHY:  Don't do it, Doc.
 Don't do it...

375
00:24:30,434 --> 00:24:31,936
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

376
00:24:33,337 --> 00:24:34,940
Turning in, Doc.
You okay?

377
00:24:36,173 --> 00:24:38,477
Yes, sir.
Good night to you.

378
00:24:41,311 --> 00:24:43,181
Uh...

379
00:24:43,213 --> 00:24:46,084
I wanted to tell you that
the students are in town.

380
00:24:48,987 --> 00:24:50,188
Local students?

381
00:24:50,221 --> 00:24:51,823
Oh, no.

382
00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:56,361
The Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee.

383
00:24:56,394 --> 00:25:00,498
Oh. Okay.
Our young friends at SNCC.

384
00:25:00,530 --> 00:25:01,833
Mmm-hmm.

385
00:25:02,532 --> 00:25:04,301
Good to know.

386
00:25:04,335 --> 00:25:05,836
You the one
told them to organize.

387
00:25:07,471 --> 00:25:09,440
Took it to heart.

388
00:25:09,473 --> 00:25:12,710
Don't be surprised
if they don't give us
grief tomorrow.

389
00:25:12,742 --> 00:25:15,680
Town folk may be happy
to see us. But SNCC?

390
00:25:15,713 --> 00:25:17,682
They feel we're
in their territory.

391
00:25:19,616 --> 00:25:21,786
They're young
and full of spirit.

392
00:25:21,818 --> 00:25:23,054
Mmm.

393
00:25:23,086 --> 00:25:24,154
Not a bad thing.

394
00:25:26,357 --> 00:25:28,026
It'll sort out.

395
00:25:30,894 --> 00:25:32,130
Good night.

396
00:25:34,531 --> 00:25:35,866
Good night.

397
00:25:39,804 --> 00:25:44,342
"Boycotting the buses
in Montgomery.

398
00:25:44,375 --> 00:25:46,576
"Segregation in Birmingham."

399
00:25:44,375 --> 00:25:46,576
(APPLAUSE)

400
00:25:46,609 --> 00:25:49,280
 Boycotting the buses
 in Montgomery.

401
00:25:52,884 --> 00:25:55,619
 Segregation in Birmingham.

402
00:25:55,653 --> 00:25:57,255
(AUDIENCE AGREEING)

403
00:25:57,288 --> 00:26:00,858
 Now? Voting in Selma.

404
00:26:02,894 --> 00:26:04,994
 One struggle ends
 just to go

405
00:26:05,028 --> 00:26:06,932
 right to the next
 and the next.

406
00:26:09,267 --> 00:26:11,936
 If you think of it that way,
 it's a hard road.

407
00:26:13,904 --> 00:26:16,640
 But I don't think
 of it that way.

408
00:26:16,673 --> 00:26:19,576
 I think of these efforts
 as one effort.

409
00:26:19,611 --> 00:26:22,212
 And that one effort
 is for our life.

410
00:26:22,246 --> 00:26:24,115
(AUDIENCE AGREEING)

411
00:26:24,147 --> 00:26:28,319
 Our life as a community.
 Our life as a nation.

412
00:26:29,252 --> 00:26:31,021
 For our lives.

413
00:26:36,493 --> 00:26:37,561
 We can do this.

414
00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:38,663
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

415
00:26:40,597 --> 00:26:42,000
 We must do this!

416
00:26:44,469 --> 00:26:48,204
 We see children

417
00:26:48,239 --> 00:26:50,941
 become victims of one
 of the most vicious crimes

418
00:26:50,974 --> 00:26:53,243
 ever perpetrated
 against humanity

419
00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:55,079
 within the walls
 of their own church!

420
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,852
 They are sainted now.

421
00:27:00,884 --> 00:27:03,855
 They are the sainted ones
 in this quest for freedom.

422
00:27:03,887 --> 00:27:06,523
 And they speak to us still.

423
00:27:06,557 --> 00:27:08,291
 They say to us,

424
00:27:08,326 --> 00:27:10,694
 to all of us,
 all colors and creeds,

425
00:27:12,262 --> 00:27:14,332
 that we must do this.

426
00:27:14,365 --> 00:27:19,470
 They say to us
 that it is unacceptable

427
00:27:19,503 --> 00:27:22,906
 for more than 50% of Selma
 to be Negro

428
00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:25,175
 and yet less than 2%
 of Negroes here

429
00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:26,443
 being able to vote

430
00:27:26,477 --> 00:27:29,114
 and determine their own
 destiny as human beings.

431
00:27:32,549 --> 00:27:36,554
 They say to us that
 the local white leadership

432
00:27:36,586 --> 00:27:38,154
 use their power

433
00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:40,157
 to keep us away
 from the ballot box

434
00:27:40,191 --> 00:27:41,826
 and keep us voiceless.

435
00:27:41,858 --> 00:27:43,060
(APPLAUSE AND AGREEMENT
CONTINUE)

436
00:27:44,662 --> 00:27:47,632
 As long as I am unable
 to exercise

437
00:27:47,664 --> 00:27:49,299
 my constitutional
 right to vote,

438
00:27:49,333 --> 00:27:52,502
 I do not have command
 of my own life.

439
00:27:52,536 --> 00:27:54,538
 I cannot determine
 my own destiny

440
00:27:54,570 --> 00:27:56,205
 for it is determined for me

441
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,942
 by people who would rather
 see me suffer than succeed.

442
00:28:00,144 --> 00:28:03,446
 Those that have
 gone before us say,
 "No more!"

443
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,548
AUDIENCE: No more! No more!

444
00:28:04,580 --> 00:28:06,384
 No more!

445
00:28:06,416 --> 00:28:10,320
 That means protest,
 that means march,

446
00:28:10,354 --> 00:28:14,724
 that means disturb the peace,
 that means jail,

447
00:28:14,758 --> 00:28:16,894
 that means risk!
 And that is hard!

448
00:28:16,928 --> 00:28:18,462
(SHOUTS OF AGREEMENT)

449
00:28:19,596 --> 00:28:22,232
 We will not wait any longer.

450
00:28:22,267 --> 00:28:24,269
 Give us the vote!

451
00:28:24,301 --> 00:28:26,269
That's right! No more!

452
00:28:26,303 --> 00:28:28,506
 We're not asking.
 We're demanding.

453
00:28:28,538 --> 00:28:29,641
 Give us the vote!

454
00:28:29,673 --> 00:28:30,775
ALL: Give us the vote!

455
00:28:40,917 --> 00:28:44,688
Dr. King. Roy Reed
of  The New York Times.

456
00:28:44,721 --> 00:28:46,790
Yes. Hello to you.
How are you?

457
00:28:46,824 --> 00:28:49,126
I'm well, sir.
Thank you for asking.

458
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,628
Dr. King, are you
truly non-violent

459
00:28:51,662 --> 00:28:54,097
if you are
provoking violence, sir?

460
00:28:54,132 --> 00:28:57,201
We are here, using
our very bodies in protest

461
00:28:57,234 --> 00:28:58,802
to say to those
who deny us...

462
00:28:57,234 --> 00:28:58,802
Dr. King. Dr. King.

463
00:28:58,836 --> 00:29:00,104
Pleasure, sir.

464
00:29:00,137 --> 00:29:01,638
...that we will
no longer let them use

465
00:29:01,672 --> 00:29:02,973
their billy clubs

466
00:29:03,007 --> 00:29:06,109
in dark corners
and halls of power.

467
00:29:06,144 --> 00:29:08,846
We make them do it
in the glaring light
of day, Mr. Reed.

468
00:29:08,878 --> 00:29:10,815
Is SNCC standing with us
on this or not, gentlemen?

469
00:29:10,847 --> 00:29:12,016
You want us to
bring our people in,

470
00:29:12,048 --> 00:29:13,351
but you're not giving
anything in return.

471
00:29:13,384 --> 00:29:15,786
Now we are asking for
some kind of commitment here.

472
00:29:15,819 --> 00:29:17,887
Respectfully speaking,
of course,

473
00:29:17,921 --> 00:29:20,157
we've been handling
the voter registration

474
00:29:20,191 --> 00:29:21,825
in this town now
for two years.

475
00:29:21,858 --> 00:29:23,928
Well, you haven't gotten
very far, have you?

476
00:29:25,395 --> 00:29:27,832
Well, maybe not, Reverend.
But we're still here.

477
00:29:27,865 --> 00:29:29,199
WILLIAMS: Meaning what?

478
00:29:29,232 --> 00:29:30,667
FORMAN: This time next month,
you won't be!

479
00:29:30,701 --> 00:29:31,701
WILLIAMS: That's insanity!

480
00:29:31,736 --> 00:29:32,936
Just like you left Albany.

481
00:29:32,970 --> 00:29:34,371
Those people are pathetic
down there now.

482
00:29:34,404 --> 00:29:35,839
Like they daddy left home!

483
00:29:35,873 --> 00:29:38,076
What we're trying
to explain is that
in Albany you all...

484
00:29:38,108 --> 00:29:40,510
You know what I think?
Maybe we should
just leave Selma...

485
00:29:40,545 --> 00:29:41,712
Now!

486
00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:42,846
Leave it to these two.

487
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,980
Come back in
another two years

488
00:29:44,015 --> 00:29:45,249
and see how much
further you got!

489
00:29:45,281 --> 00:29:46,851
Sounds just fine to me.

490
00:29:45,281 --> 00:29:46,851
KING: That's enough.

491
00:29:49,019 --> 00:29:49,988
Enough of this now.

492
00:29:53,089 --> 00:29:54,291
I haven't the time for this.

493
00:29:54,325 --> 00:29:55,527
None of us
got the time for this.

494
00:29:58,328 --> 00:29:59,463
John.

495
00:30:00,498 --> 00:30:01,865
James.

496
00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:07,070
The way our organization
works is straightforward.

497
00:30:07,104 --> 00:30:11,709
We negotiate.
We demonstrate.
We resist.

498
00:30:11,742 --> 00:30:14,010
And on our best days,
our adversary

499
00:30:14,045 --> 00:30:15,946
helps the matter
by making a mistake.

500
00:30:16,913 --> 00:30:18,715
Now, we were in Albany
for nine months

501
00:30:18,749 --> 00:30:21,051
and we made
a lot of mistakes.

502
00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:24,189
But their sheriff,
Laurie Pritchett,

503
00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:26,891
he never made a mistake.

504
00:30:26,923 --> 00:30:30,361
Kept his cool,
kept arresting us
in a humane way,

505
00:30:30,394 --> 00:30:33,597
carried people to
the jail-wagons
on stretchers.

506
00:30:33,631 --> 00:30:35,532
Day in, day out.

507
00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:37,868
There was no drama.

508
00:30:37,902 --> 00:30:38,603
You mean
there was no cameras.

509
00:30:41,838 --> 00:30:42,941
Exactly.

510
00:30:44,708 --> 00:30:47,577
Now I know,
we all understand,
that you young people

511
00:30:47,612 --> 00:30:50,413
believe in working in
the community long-term.

512
00:30:50,447 --> 00:30:54,051
Doing the good work
to raise black
consciousness.

513
00:30:56,052 --> 00:30:58,088
It's good grassroots work.

514
00:30:58,122 --> 00:31:01,925
I can't tell you
how much we admire that.

515
00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:05,430
But what we do

516
00:31:05,462 --> 00:31:07,431
is negotiate,

517
00:31:07,464 --> 00:31:08,833
demonstrate,

518
00:31:08,865 --> 00:31:10,335
resist.

519
00:31:10,367 --> 00:31:12,369
And a big part of that

520
00:31:12,403 --> 00:31:15,772
is raising
white consciousness.

521
00:31:15,806 --> 00:31:17,273
And in particular
the consciousness

522
00:31:17,307 --> 00:31:18,808
of whichever white man
happens to be sitting

523
00:31:18,843 --> 00:31:19,611
in the Oval Office.

524
00:31:20,877 --> 00:31:22,846
Right now, Johnson
has other fish to fry

525
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,883
and he'll ignore us
if he can.

526
00:31:26,250 --> 00:31:28,919
The only way to
stop him doing that

527
00:31:28,952 --> 00:31:30,288
is by being on
the front page

528
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,388
of the national press
every morning

529
00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:35,992
and by being on the TV news
every night.

530
00:31:36,026 --> 00:31:38,061
And that requires

531
00:31:38,829 --> 00:31:40,064
drama.

532
00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:42,599
Now...

533
00:31:45,368 --> 00:31:46,371
John.

534
00:31:48,605 --> 00:31:50,107
James.

535
00:31:50,141 --> 00:31:51,643
Answer me one question.

536
00:31:53,376 --> 00:31:55,246
I've been told
the sheriff in this town

537
00:31:55,278 --> 00:31:57,981
isn't like Laurie Pritchett
in Albany.

538
00:31:58,015 --> 00:32:00,049
He's a big ignorant bully

539
00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:02,153
like Bull Connor
in Birmingham.

540
00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,757
Well, you tell me.
You know Selma.

541
00:32:06,790 --> 00:32:09,093
You know Sheriff Jim Clark.

542
00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,195
Is he Laurie Pritchett?

543
00:32:12,229 --> 00:32:14,398
Or is he Bull Connor?

544
00:32:24,342 --> 00:32:25,143
He's Bull Connor.

545
00:32:26,042 --> 00:32:27,612
ABERNATHY: Bingo!

546
00:32:26,042 --> 00:32:27,612
Good.

547
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:31,382
That's good.

548
00:32:34,919 --> 00:32:36,487
But it gets better.

549
00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,556
 See, Clark doesn't
 control the streets

550
00:32:38,588 --> 00:32:40,324
 like Connor did in Birmingham.

551
00:32:40,357 --> 00:32:41,826
 Clark's the County Sheriff,

552
00:32:41,858 --> 00:32:44,894
 and all he controls in Selma
 is the County Courthouse.

553
00:32:44,927 --> 00:32:46,395
 So relatively speaking,

554
00:32:46,430 --> 00:32:48,999
 we have clear avenues
 of approach

555
00:32:49,032 --> 00:32:51,067
 to a defined battle zone.

556
00:32:51,102 --> 00:32:52,569
(MUSIC PLAYING)

557
00:33:46,190 --> 00:33:49,259
 In the courthouse sits
 the heart of the matter,

558
00:33:49,291 --> 00:33:51,761
 the voter registration office.

559
00:33:51,796 --> 00:33:53,864
 Now this is
 an exceptional circumstance.

560
00:33:53,896 --> 00:33:57,834
 See, in Albany, there were no
 clearly defined battle zones.

561
00:33:57,867 --> 00:33:59,869
 The issue was segregation,

562
00:33:59,903 --> 00:34:02,472
 and segregation
 was everywhere.

563
00:34:02,506 --> 00:34:07,577
 In Selma, we can concentrate
 our actions on one building.

564
00:34:07,611 --> 00:34:09,780
 A citadel,
 defended by fanatics.

565
00:34:11,014 --> 00:34:12,315
 The Selma Courthouse.

566
00:34:13,684 --> 00:34:15,253
 A perfect stage.

567
00:34:17,420 --> 00:34:19,623
(WHITE PEOPLE
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

568
00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:33,237
CLARK: Y'all deliberately
causing an obstruction!

569
00:34:34,771 --> 00:34:36,840
You don't disperse,
you're gonna be arrested.

570
00:34:36,873 --> 00:34:38,007
I promise you!

571
00:34:38,041 --> 00:34:40,244
Sheriff Clark,

572
00:34:40,277 --> 00:34:42,880
we're trying to gain access
to the registration office.

573
00:34:42,913 --> 00:34:44,581
Which is our legal right.

574
00:34:44,614 --> 00:34:45,882
There's too many of you.

575
00:34:45,916 --> 00:34:47,416
And you know damn well
there is!

576
00:34:47,451 --> 00:34:49,286
Now, y'all just gonna have
to wait at the rear!

577
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,021
No, Sheriff Clark.

578
00:34:51,054 --> 00:34:52,456
We're going in the front

579
00:34:52,489 --> 00:34:54,759
and we're gonna
wait right here.

580
00:34:54,791 --> 00:34:58,094
Segregation is now illegal
in this country, sir.

581
00:34:58,128 --> 00:34:59,697
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING
CONTINUES)

582
00:35:00,364 --> 00:35:01,632
WOMAN: Get out, nigger.

583
00:35:01,666 --> 00:35:02,833
JIMMIE: Come on.

584
00:35:01,666 --> 00:35:02,833
CAGER: I'm trying.

585
00:35:02,865 --> 00:35:03,634
VIOLA: Kneel down, Daddy.

586
00:35:04,869 --> 00:35:06,603
CLARK: Come on.

587
00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:08,538
Keep this sidewalk clear.
Clear a path!

588
00:35:08,572 --> 00:35:11,240
Get out of the way!
Get out of the way!

589
00:35:11,273 --> 00:35:12,777
Get the hell out of the way!

590
00:35:12,809 --> 00:35:14,177
Keep the sidewalk clear!

591
00:35:14,945 --> 00:35:16,280
I said keep it clear!

592
00:35:16,313 --> 00:35:17,847
Okay. We about to sit
him down. He can't sit.

593
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,083
CLARK:
Then he needs to learn.

594
00:35:19,115 --> 00:35:20,818
He gonna sit.

595
00:35:19,115 --> 00:35:20,818
Sit down, God damn it!

596
00:35:20,851 --> 00:35:22,353
JIMMIE: Hey, hey! Pa? Pa?

597
00:35:22,853 --> 00:35:24,188
VIOLA: Daddy.

598
00:35:26,090 --> 00:35:27,657
JIMMIE: I just told you
he can't sit.

599
00:35:27,692 --> 00:35:28,826
CLARK: Oh,
what do we got here?

600
00:35:30,159 --> 00:35:31,362
What's going on here, boy?

601
00:35:31,394 --> 00:35:32,661
What we got here?
What we got here?

602
00:35:32,695 --> 00:35:34,431
Jimmie! Sit down!

603
00:35:32,695 --> 00:35:34,431
No, Mama, I'm sick of this.

604
00:35:34,463 --> 00:35:35,766
Jimmie!

605
00:35:34,463 --> 00:35:35,766
VIOLA: Don't do it.

606
00:35:35,798 --> 00:35:36,833
Do you have a problem, boy?

607
00:35:36,867 --> 00:35:38,601
JIMMIE: I'm sick of this!
I just told you...

608
00:35:38,635 --> 00:35:41,137
CLARK: What'd you think, boy?
What'd you think?

609
00:35:41,170 --> 00:35:42,672
What the fuck
are you thinking?

610
00:35:42,706 --> 00:35:43,608
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

611
00:35:47,043 --> 00:35:48,512
(BOTH GRUNTING)

612
00:35:47,043 --> 00:35:48,512
(PEOPLE GASP)

613
00:35:53,217 --> 00:35:54,751
Get that nigger woman!

614
00:35:54,784 --> 00:35:55,619
MAN: Kill that nigger bitch!

615
00:35:56,452 --> 00:35:57,521
Get your hands off of me!

616
00:35:59,456 --> 00:36:00,891
(GRUNTING)

617
00:35:59,456 --> 00:36:00,891
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)

618
00:36:01,891 --> 00:36:02,626
(SCREAMING INDISTINCTLY)

619
00:36:13,804 --> 00:36:17,375
 WALLACE:  We will not tolerate
 a bunch of nigra agitators

620
00:36:17,407 --> 00:36:20,943
 attempting to orchestrate
 a disturbance in this state.

621
00:36:20,978 --> 00:36:22,480
 Not as long as I'm governor.

622
00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:28,251
 Now, I stand here today

623
00:36:28,284 --> 00:36:29,552
(CAMERA CLICKING)

624
00:36:29,586 --> 00:36:31,588
 in the cradle
 of the Confederacy

625
00:36:31,621 --> 00:36:34,057
 to remind its people
 of our Founding Fathers'

626
00:36:34,090 --> 00:36:36,427
 goals of duty.

627
00:36:36,460 --> 00:36:39,664
 Goals long since forgotten
 by progressives and liberals

628
00:36:39,697 --> 00:36:43,199
 in favor of what they call
 a changing world.

629
00:36:43,233 --> 00:36:47,170
 They seek to make us
 one mongrel unit.

630
00:36:47,204 --> 00:36:49,373
 Instead of allowing
 each race to flourish

631
00:36:49,407 --> 00:36:51,375
 from its separate
 racial station

632
00:36:51,409 --> 00:36:53,643
 as has been the standard
 for generations now.

633
00:36:53,677 --> 00:36:54,878
Good morning,
Mr. President.

634
00:36:54,911 --> 00:36:57,114
 Their changing world

635
00:36:57,146 --> 00:36:58,682
 is sickening the balance
 of the Southland.

636
00:37:00,851 --> 00:37:02,485
 Now...

637
00:37:02,518 --> 00:37:05,856
 I pledged to stand up
 for Alabama when I campaigned

638
00:37:05,889 --> 00:37:07,958
 and the people elected me
 on that pledge,

639
00:37:07,992 --> 00:37:09,994
 and that is exactly
 what I intend to do.

640
00:37:22,072 --> 00:37:23,306
(WOMAN SIGHS)

641
00:37:36,253 --> 00:37:38,255
ABERNATHY: Johnson'll flinch.

642
00:37:38,989 --> 00:37:40,724
KING: I'm tired, Ralphy.

643
00:37:42,893 --> 00:37:44,594
Tiring of this.

644
00:37:45,396 --> 00:37:48,032
Eyes on the prize, Martin.

645
00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:50,534
Yeah, but what is
the prize, friend?

646
00:37:51,601 --> 00:37:54,704
We fight to have a seat
at whatever table we want.

647
00:37:56,106 --> 00:37:57,541
How does it help
a black man

648
00:37:57,574 --> 00:37:59,275
to be able to eat
at a lunch counter

649
00:37:59,309 --> 00:38:01,411
if he doesn't earn enough
to buy the burger?

650
00:38:03,179 --> 00:38:04,849
Or worse yet,
can't even...

651
00:38:07,617 --> 00:38:09,552
Can't even read the menu

652
00:38:09,586 --> 00:38:12,657
'cause there was no Negro
school where he's from.

653
00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:14,757
What is that?

654
00:38:14,791 --> 00:38:15,659
That equality?

655
00:38:18,027 --> 00:38:19,329
Amen.

656
00:38:19,362 --> 00:38:21,032
And what about
in our minds?

657
00:38:22,365 --> 00:38:25,603
Equality in the black psyche.
Look at these men.

658
00:38:27,237 --> 00:38:30,340
Beaten and broken down
for generations.

659
00:38:30,373 --> 00:38:32,610
Deciding to demand more?

660
00:38:34,978 --> 00:38:37,380
What happens when
a man stands up and
says enough is enough?

661
00:38:37,414 --> 00:38:39,615
Look at Medgar.

662
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:42,753
Murdered the man
in his own driveway.

663
00:38:42,786 --> 00:38:44,688
Kids and wife right there
inside the house.

664
00:38:44,721 --> 00:38:47,690
George and Herbert Lee,
Lamar Smith.

665
00:38:47,724 --> 00:38:50,628
A man stands up,
only to be struck down.

666
00:38:53,630 --> 00:38:55,900
And what happens
to the people he led?

667
00:38:59,869 --> 00:39:01,137
(SIGHS)

668
00:39:01,170 --> 00:39:02,806
What are we doing, Ralphy?

669
00:39:05,108 --> 00:39:07,411
We take it
piece by piece.

670
00:39:08,045 --> 00:39:09,512
Like we been doing.

671
00:39:10,347 --> 00:39:12,483
We build the path as we can.

672
00:39:13,217 --> 00:39:14,952
Rock by rock.

673
00:39:22,358 --> 00:39:24,362
This cell
is probably bugged.

674
00:39:25,762 --> 00:39:27,097
(LAUGHING)

675
00:39:27,130 --> 00:39:28,565
It probably is.

676
00:39:32,302 --> 00:39:33,771
Oh, Lord.

677
00:39:40,043 --> 00:39:44,581
They're gonna ruin me so they
can ruin this movement.

678
00:39:46,148 --> 00:39:47,451
They are.

679
00:39:53,690 --> 00:39:55,559
"Look at the birds
of the air,

680
00:39:58,262 --> 00:40:00,163
"that they do not sow,
nor reap,

681
00:40:00,195 --> 00:40:01,731
"nor gather into barns,

682
00:40:03,467 --> 00:40:05,802
"and yet your Heavenly Father
doth feed them.

683
00:40:08,472 --> 00:40:10,474
"Are you not worth
much more than they?

684
00:40:12,442 --> 00:40:15,311
"And who of you
by being worried

685
00:40:15,344 --> 00:40:17,547
"can add a single hour
to his life?"

686
00:40:18,181 --> 00:40:20,083
Matthew 6, verse 27.

687
00:40:20,117 --> 00:40:21,418
All right.

688
00:40:22,418 --> 00:40:23,653
Yes, sir.

689
00:40:28,057 --> 00:40:28,958
(SIGHS)

690
00:40:30,728 --> 00:40:31,862
VIVIAN: What?
Where did you hear that?

691
00:40:31,894 --> 00:40:33,262
ORANGE: I overhead
them talking

692
00:40:33,297 --> 00:40:34,197
about him coming in
this evening.

693
00:40:34,231 --> 00:40:35,664
LEWIS: Overhead us?

694
00:40:35,699 --> 00:40:37,733
I'm learning about this
just like you.
We didn't do this.

695
00:40:37,768 --> 00:40:39,170
WILLIAMS: That Negro
can't be talking about that

696
00:40:39,202 --> 00:40:41,538
"by any means necessary"
madness with these people.

697
00:40:41,572 --> 00:40:43,139
They about to bust as it is.

698
00:40:43,172 --> 00:40:44,440
He's on his way here,
right?

699
00:40:44,474 --> 00:40:45,909
So we gotta
figure this out.
Right and fast.

700
00:40:45,943 --> 00:40:47,644
Oh, he ain't on his way.
He here.

701
00:40:50,179 --> 00:40:51,581
Holy shit.

702
00:40:51,614 --> 00:40:53,184
(CAR DOORS CLOSING)

703
00:41:02,592 --> 00:41:03,661
Are you all right?

704
00:41:02,592 --> 00:41:03,661
(EXHALES)

705
00:41:04,961 --> 00:41:08,164
I wish I had more time
to prepare is all.

706
00:41:09,599 --> 00:41:12,869
I want to do this kind of
thing whenever possible.

707
00:41:12,902 --> 00:41:14,471
But I don't get to
do it enough

708
00:41:14,503 --> 00:41:15,806
to feel entirely
comfortable.

709
00:41:18,375 --> 00:41:19,610
I prefer to be prepared.

710
00:41:20,309 --> 00:41:22,112
Yes, I understand that.

711
00:41:23,213 --> 00:41:25,748
I admire you. I do.

712
00:41:27,416 --> 00:41:30,621
Sometimes I wish
I were more out there
in the trenches.

713
00:41:30,653 --> 00:41:32,789
You do more than
you know, Mrs. King.

714
00:41:32,822 --> 00:41:33,690
(EXHALES)

715
00:41:35,692 --> 00:41:38,561
I'll tell you what
I know to be true.

716
00:41:38,594 --> 00:41:41,130
It helps me in times
when I'm feeling unsure.

717
00:41:41,164 --> 00:41:41,965
If you'd like.

718
00:41:42,967 --> 00:41:44,668
Oh, please do,
Mrs. Boynton.

719
00:41:47,271 --> 00:41:50,907
I know that
we are descendants
of a mighty people,

720
00:41:50,940 --> 00:41:53,110
who gave civilization
to the world.

721
00:41:54,610 --> 00:41:57,347
People who survived
the hulls of slave ships

722
00:41:57,380 --> 00:41:59,516
across vast oceans.

723
00:41:59,548 --> 00:42:03,952
People who innovate
and create and love

724
00:42:03,987 --> 00:42:07,891
despite pressures
and tortures unimaginable.

725
00:42:09,226 --> 00:42:11,228
They are in our bloodstream.

726
00:42:11,262 --> 00:42:13,597
Pumping our hearts
every second.

727
00:42:15,231 --> 00:42:16,800
They've prepared you.

728
00:42:18,268 --> 00:42:21,070
You are already prepared.

729
00:42:21,103 --> 00:42:23,706
Mrs. King, I mean
no disrespect.

730
00:42:25,175 --> 00:42:27,978
I come with great respect
for your husband.

731
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,181
I have no army
behind me anymore.

732
00:42:32,516 --> 00:42:35,052
I have myself and the truth.

733
00:42:36,286 --> 00:42:38,887
That is all I stand on today.

734
00:42:38,922 --> 00:42:42,291
You've said disrespectful
things in the past, Minister.

735
00:42:42,324 --> 00:42:44,661
So you'll understand
why there is some
alarm here tonight.

736
00:42:44,693 --> 00:42:46,829
I do. I understand that.

737
00:42:47,963 --> 00:42:49,699
Your husband and I,
we do not see

738
00:42:49,733 --> 00:42:51,201
exactly eye-to-eye

739
00:42:51,235 --> 00:42:53,469
on how to achieve progress
for the black man.

740
00:42:53,503 --> 00:42:54,838
And yes,
I have been piercing

741
00:42:54,871 --> 00:42:57,440
in my critiques
of non-violence.

742
00:42:57,474 --> 00:42:59,476
But because we don't agree,
Mrs. King,

743
00:42:59,509 --> 00:43:01,811
does not mean
that I'm the enemy.

744
00:43:01,844 --> 00:43:04,947
What do you intend to say
to these people then, sir?

745
00:43:04,981 --> 00:43:06,583
A lot of work
has been done here,

746
00:43:06,617 --> 00:43:08,152
and I don't intend to
see it undone tonight.

747
00:43:10,653 --> 00:43:13,791
Let's just say,
my eyes see in a new way.

748
00:43:15,192 --> 00:43:17,293
But your local sheriff here?
He doesn't know that.

749
00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:20,697
So allow me to be the
alternative to your husband.

750
00:43:22,032 --> 00:43:23,900
The alternative that
scares them so much

751
00:43:23,934 --> 00:43:25,969
they turn to
Dr. King in refuge.

752
00:43:26,001 --> 00:43:28,338
Let my being here, Mrs. King,
represent the factions

753
00:43:28,371 --> 00:43:30,907
that will come if they don't
give the good reverend

754
00:43:30,940 --> 00:43:33,443
what he's asking for and soon.

755
00:43:33,476 --> 00:43:36,213
Do you know what he has said
about us in the past, Coretta?

756
00:43:36,246 --> 00:43:39,083
He called us
"ignorant Negro preachers."

757
00:43:39,115 --> 00:43:41,251
Called me
a modern day Uncle Tom.

758
00:43:41,284 --> 00:43:44,288
Said on national television
that the white man pays me

759
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,391
to keep Negroes defenseless.

760
00:43:47,423 --> 00:43:50,094
The white man pays me!

761
00:43:52,362 --> 00:43:54,764
How could you allow it?

762
00:43:54,797 --> 00:43:58,268
It wasn't like that
this time, Martin.
I'm telling you...

763
00:43:58,300 --> 00:44:00,670
He spoke with some of
the words he's used before,

764
00:44:00,704 --> 00:44:02,338
but it wasn't aimed at you.

765
00:44:03,106 --> 00:44:04,307
It was...

766
00:44:05,175 --> 00:44:06,342
It had more to do
with helping us.

767
00:44:08,911 --> 00:44:10,547
Not that you need his help.

768
00:44:10,579 --> 00:44:11,780
I'm just telling you
how it was.

769
00:44:11,815 --> 00:44:14,784
This movement, our movement,

770
00:44:14,818 --> 00:44:16,820
has been the one that
has moved the needle.

771
00:44:16,853 --> 00:44:18,954
Our movement changes laws

772
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:20,590
and day-to-day life
for our people.

773
00:44:20,623 --> 00:44:22,626
But what has he changed?

774
00:44:22,659 --> 00:44:24,961
Actually changed?

775
00:44:27,831 --> 00:44:30,432
You don't sound like yourself.
You sound tired.

776
00:44:30,465 --> 00:44:32,135
And you sound enamored.

777
00:44:38,074 --> 00:44:39,876
(CORETTA SIGHS)

778
00:44:39,909 --> 00:44:41,144
I didn't mean that.

779
00:44:42,244 --> 00:44:43,414
Corrie.

780
00:44:46,048 --> 00:44:47,384
Coretta.

781
00:44:48,751 --> 00:44:50,153
I didn't mean that.

782
00:45:01,197 --> 00:45:02,231
(SIGHS)

783
00:45:05,068 --> 00:45:06,202
I'm tired.

784
00:45:08,170 --> 00:45:09,472
You're right.

785
00:45:17,213 --> 00:45:18,414
Rest then.

786
00:45:20,416 --> 00:45:21,284
Rest tonight, Martin.

787
00:45:24,186 --> 00:45:27,389
 WALLACE:  This is not
 what I want to hear.

788
00:45:27,423 --> 00:45:31,193
How in Christ's sake does
Malcolm X slip into my state,

789
00:45:31,226 --> 00:45:34,130
meet with the wife
of the other one,

790
00:45:34,164 --> 00:45:36,132
and give an actual speech
to these nigras

791
00:45:36,166 --> 00:45:37,766
who are already
riled up enough?

792
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:38,668
I mean, how does that happen,
Colonel Lingo?

793
00:45:38,702 --> 00:45:40,637
Governor...

794
00:45:40,670 --> 00:45:42,438
Is every spook militant
in existence

795
00:45:42,472 --> 00:45:43,407
gonna pay us a visit?

796
00:45:45,007 --> 00:45:47,143
Huh?

797
00:45:45,007 --> 00:45:47,143
(SIGHS)

798
00:45:47,177 --> 00:45:49,079
Do you know what this means?

799
00:45:49,112 --> 00:45:50,880
Johnson is going to
get jumpy.

800
00:45:52,114 --> 00:45:54,351
King and X together
is sending him

801
00:45:54,384 --> 00:45:56,085
through the cotton-pickin'
stratosphere.

802
00:45:56,119 --> 00:45:58,822
And pictures of nigras
getting beat in the street

803
00:45:58,855 --> 00:46:00,088
doesn't help the matter.

804
00:45:58,855 --> 00:46:00,088
Governor...

805
00:46:00,123 --> 00:46:03,092
Now I can't make a move
against that backwoods,

806
00:46:03,126 --> 00:46:04,827
white trash Sheriff Clark

807
00:46:04,860 --> 00:46:06,496
'cause that'll be seen
as I'm helping King.

808
00:46:06,528 --> 00:46:10,199
But somebody got to
get Jim Clark under control.

809
00:46:11,367 --> 00:46:12,969
Election year is coming up

810
00:46:13,003 --> 00:46:16,106
and this black voting
business won't abide.

811
00:46:16,139 --> 00:46:17,840
I mean, what's not
clear about that?

812
00:46:17,873 --> 00:46:20,143
Look, George,
I'm telling you,

813
00:46:20,175 --> 00:46:22,846
if the Lord Jesus
and Elvis Presley

814
00:46:22,878 --> 00:46:25,181
come visiting and they said,

815
00:46:25,215 --> 00:46:29,286
"Jim, now, we need you to
treat them niggers nice."

816
00:46:29,318 --> 00:46:31,722
Jim Clark would beat the shit
out of the pair of them,

817
00:46:31,755 --> 00:46:32,789
then throw them in jail.

818
00:46:34,324 --> 00:46:35,791
Jesus H. Christ.

819
00:46:35,824 --> 00:46:38,661
Jim's a good old boy,
he's a friend of mine.

820
00:46:38,695 --> 00:46:39,963
Jim Clark just ain't
that scary.

821
00:46:41,797 --> 00:46:43,500
Now he's playing
into their hands.

822
00:46:44,666 --> 00:46:46,402
Now...

823
00:46:46,436 --> 00:46:48,806
If you want fear,

824
00:46:49,873 --> 00:46:52,275
you need dominance in Selma.

825
00:46:53,943 --> 00:46:59,048
Hoover picked up some intel
about a night march.

826
00:46:59,081 --> 00:47:00,550
Wasn't announced.

827
00:47:00,583 --> 00:47:02,452
It's some locals
outside of King's group.

828
00:47:02,485 --> 00:47:05,054
Unofficial, they called it.

829
00:47:05,088 --> 00:47:09,358
Supposed to happen
tomorrow night
once King leaves jail.

830
00:47:09,393 --> 00:47:11,527
Going to some bleeding heart
fundraiser in California.

831
00:47:17,233 --> 00:47:18,434
WALLACE:  So...

832
00:47:19,568 --> 00:47:21,304
King's out of town.

833
00:47:22,505 --> 00:47:23,440
Fewer cameras.

834
00:47:25,507 --> 00:47:26,876
And at night.

835
00:47:26,909 --> 00:47:29,579
 LINGO:  Find a reason to
 send us in there.

836
00:47:29,612 --> 00:47:33,250
 Let's scare some real sense
 into them black bastards.

837
00:47:33,282 --> 00:47:34,684
 OFFICER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
 Y'all move back.

838
00:47:34,717 --> 00:47:36,152
 Move back now. Get back.

839
00:47:37,152 --> 00:47:38,855
 Go back to your homes now.

840
00:47:38,887 --> 00:47:40,289
(OFFICER BLOWING WHISTLE)

841
00:47:38,887 --> 00:47:40,289
(ALL SCREAMING)

842
00:47:54,070 --> 00:47:55,371
Stop!
Leave him be!

843
00:47:55,405 --> 00:47:56,239
Mama, come on!

844
00:47:57,039 --> 00:47:58,507
Mama, come on!

845
00:47:59,842 --> 00:48:01,378
We gotta keep moving.
Come on.

846
00:48:04,847 --> 00:48:06,048
This way, this way.

847
00:48:06,081 --> 00:48:07,117
WOMAN: Leave him alone.

848
00:48:08,550 --> 00:48:09,452
(WOMAN SCREAMING)

849
00:48:14,958 --> 00:48:16,293
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

850
00:48:18,262 --> 00:48:19,396
(ALL PANTING)

851
00:48:23,833 --> 00:48:25,001
It's all right.

852
00:48:29,271 --> 00:48:31,041
It's gonna be all right.
Okay?

853
00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:32,275
Act like you're...

854
00:48:32,307 --> 00:48:33,242
Act like you're
reading your menu. Okay?

855
00:48:34,677 --> 00:48:35,545
It's okay.

856
00:48:36,811 --> 00:48:37,947
Pops...

857
00:48:39,315 --> 00:48:42,217
It's all right, Mama.
It's gonna be cool.

858
00:48:42,251 --> 00:48:43,653
It's okay, it's okay.

859
00:48:49,659 --> 00:48:50,693
JIMMIE: Hey! Hey...

860
00:48:50,726 --> 00:48:52,061
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

861
00:48:55,565 --> 00:48:58,101
No, get off of him!
Just get off of him!

862
00:48:58,135 --> 00:49:00,436
Get off of him! No!

863
00:49:01,503 --> 00:49:03,139
No! Get off of him!

864
00:49:03,172 --> 00:49:04,173
(GROANS)

865
00:49:03,172 --> 00:49:04,173
(VIOLA SCREAMING)

866
00:49:06,943 --> 00:49:08,144
VIOLA: Stop it! No, no, no!

867
00:49:10,246 --> 00:49:11,248
(COCKING GUN)

868
00:49:10,246 --> 00:49:11,248
Stop it!

869
00:49:33,869 --> 00:49:35,172
(VIOLA WAILING)

870
00:49:38,208 --> 00:49:39,608
Help me.

871
00:49:39,641 --> 00:49:41,445
(SIRENS BLARING IN DISTANCE)

872
00:49:41,911 --> 00:49:43,179
(CRYING)

873
00:49:52,021 --> 00:49:53,222
Help me.

874
00:49:54,489 --> 00:49:55,525
Jimmie.

875
00:49:57,126 --> 00:49:59,829
Jimmie. Jimmie. Jimmie.

876
00:49:59,862 --> 00:50:00,998
Help me.

877
00:50:20,382 --> 00:50:21,617
Sir?

878
00:50:27,456 --> 00:50:29,492
Oh. Dr. King.

879
00:50:47,177 --> 00:50:50,780
There are no words
to soothe you, Mr. Lee.

880
00:50:53,548 --> 00:50:55,217
There are no words.

881
00:50:58,922 --> 00:51:01,324
But I can tell you
one thing for certain.

882
00:51:04,927 --> 00:51:06,329
God was the first to cry.

883
00:51:06,362 --> 00:51:07,597
Yes.

884
00:51:09,398 --> 00:51:11,000
He was the first
to cry for your boy.

885
00:51:11,032 --> 00:51:12,668
Yes. I believe that.

886
00:51:16,739 --> 00:51:18,340
Is your daughter...

887
00:51:19,942 --> 00:51:22,478
Is Jimmie Lee's mother
here, Mr. Lee?

888
00:51:24,347 --> 00:51:27,550
No, she...
She couldn't make it.

889
00:51:34,791 --> 00:51:36,326
May I ask your age, sir?

890
00:51:38,226 --> 00:51:40,429
Well, I...
I got 82 years.

891
00:51:41,364 --> 00:51:42,797
1883.

892
00:51:42,831 --> 00:51:44,266
Right.

893
00:51:44,300 --> 00:51:46,168
(STAMMERING) Yeah.
Jimmie...

894
00:51:49,940 --> 00:51:51,708
He born in '38.

895
00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:55,244
He a Army man.

896
00:51:55,277 --> 00:51:57,813
I mean, he was...
Was an Army man.

897
00:51:57,847 --> 00:51:59,849
In the Army a spell.

898
00:52:02,018 --> 00:52:06,489
He say, "Pa, you gonna vote
before you done."

899
00:52:06,523 --> 00:52:08,324
Mmm-hmm.
That's what he said.

900
00:52:10,626 --> 00:52:11,728
He tell me.

901
00:52:14,931 --> 00:52:16,632
He was a good boy.

902
00:52:14,931 --> 00:52:16,632
Yes.

903
00:52:16,666 --> 00:52:17,601
Always good.

904
00:52:18,768 --> 00:52:20,369
Always good.

905
00:52:27,876 --> 00:52:29,411
Jimmie gone.

906
00:52:34,951 --> 00:52:36,585
I'm so sorry.

907
00:52:42,659 --> 00:52:43,626
Yeah.

908
00:52:59,842 --> 00:53:04,813
 KING:  Who murdered
 Jimmie Lee Jackson?

909
00:53:09,485 --> 00:53:12,856
 Who murdered
 Jimmie Lee Jackson?

910
00:53:15,490 --> 00:53:18,327
 We know a state trooper

911
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,563
 acting under the orders
 of George Wallace

912
00:53:20,596 --> 00:53:22,565
 pointed the gun
 and pulled the trigger.

913
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:27,903
 But how many other fingers
 were on that trigger?

914
00:53:31,507 --> 00:53:33,443
 Who murdered
 Jimmie Lee Jackson?

915
00:53:36,144 --> 00:53:40,516
 Every white lawman who
 abuses the law to terrorize.

916
00:53:43,885 --> 00:53:45,655
 Every white politician

917
00:53:46,755 --> 00:53:49,824
 who feeds on
 prejudice and hatred.

918
00:53:49,858 --> 00:53:52,327
(ALL AGREEING)

919
00:53:52,362 --> 00:53:55,965
 Every white preacher
 who preaches the Bible

920
00:53:55,998 --> 00:53:58,668
 and stays silent before
 his white congregation.

921
00:53:58,702 --> 00:54:00,269
(ALL AGREEING)

922
00:54:03,106 --> 00:54:05,541
 Who murdered
 Jimmie Lee Jackson?

923
00:54:07,043 --> 00:54:09,811
 Every Negro man and woman

924
00:54:09,844 --> 00:54:12,916
 who stands by
 without joining this fight

925
00:54:12,949 --> 00:54:15,851
 as their brothers and sisters
 are humiliated,

926
00:54:15,885 --> 00:54:18,753
 brutalized, and ripped
 from this earth!

927
00:54:18,788 --> 00:54:20,690
(APPLAUSE)

928
00:54:26,061 --> 00:54:28,130
 When I heard

929
00:54:28,164 --> 00:54:31,268
 President Kennedy
 had been shot and killed...

930
00:54:32,869 --> 00:54:35,371
 And when I heard
 just yesterday

931
00:54:35,403 --> 00:54:37,606
 that Malcolm X,

932
00:54:37,639 --> 00:54:40,610
 who stood in this very church
 just three weeks ago,

933
00:54:40,643 --> 00:54:42,545
 had been shot and killed,

934
00:54:44,512 --> 00:54:46,949
 I turned to my wife Coretta

935
00:54:46,983 --> 00:54:49,052
 and said the same thing
 I often say

936
00:54:49,085 --> 00:54:51,454
 when one of our leaders
 is struck down,

937
00:54:53,523 --> 00:54:56,759
 "Our lives
 are not fully lived

938
00:54:56,793 --> 00:54:59,496
 "if we're not willing to die
 for those we love

939
00:55:00,295 --> 00:55:01,764
 "and for what we believe."

940
00:55:01,797 --> 00:55:02,865
(ALL AGREEING)

941
00:55:05,934 --> 00:55:07,369
 But today, Jimmie,

942
00:55:08,336 --> 00:55:09,639
 we're doing the living

943
00:55:09,672 --> 00:55:11,907
 and you've done the dying,
 dear brother.

944
00:55:13,476 --> 00:55:17,347
 We will not let your sacrifice
 pass in vain, dear brother.

945
00:55:17,380 --> 00:55:19,581
 We will not let it go!

946
00:55:19,614 --> 00:55:21,784
 We will finish
 what you were after!

947
00:55:21,818 --> 00:55:24,552
 We will get
 what you were denied!

948
00:55:24,586 --> 00:55:27,956
 We will vote and we will
 put these men out of office!

949
00:55:27,990 --> 00:55:30,025
 We will take their power!

950
00:55:30,059 --> 00:55:32,327
 We will win what
 you were slaughtered for!

951
00:55:32,362 --> 00:55:33,663
PEOPLE: Yeah!

952
00:55:37,333 --> 00:55:39,335
 We're going back
 to Washington.

953
00:55:40,402 --> 00:55:42,172
 We're going to demand to
 see the President.

954
00:55:42,204 --> 00:55:43,606
 And I'm gonna tell him

955
00:55:44,739 --> 00:55:47,909
 that Jimmie was murdered
 by an administration

956
00:55:47,943 --> 00:55:50,947
 that spends millions
 of dollars every day

957
00:55:50,980 --> 00:55:54,717
 to sacrifice life
 in the name of liberty
 in Vietnam,

958
00:55:54,751 --> 00:55:57,519
 yet lacks the moral will
 and the moral courage

959
00:55:57,552 --> 00:56:01,157
 to defend the lives
 of its own people
 here in America!

960
00:56:01,190 --> 00:56:02,692
(APPLAUSE)

961
00:56:03,525 --> 00:56:05,394
 We will not let it go!

962
00:56:06,829 --> 00:56:10,666
 And if he does not act,
 we will act. We will act!

963
00:56:10,699 --> 00:56:12,934
 We will do it
 for all of our lost ones.

964
00:56:12,969 --> 00:56:15,338
 All of those,
 like Jimmie Lee Jackson,

965
00:56:15,371 --> 00:56:17,005
 who have gone too soon,

966
00:56:17,039 --> 00:56:19,108
 taken by hate!

967
00:56:19,141 --> 00:56:20,610
(APPLAUSE)

968
00:56:27,382 --> 00:56:29,117
Let me hear
the top-tier issues

969
00:56:29,150 --> 00:56:33,021
that have to be evident
in the overall
legislation we demand.

970
00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:34,456
Let's break it down.

971
00:56:34,489 --> 00:56:36,559
But let's root
this discussion
in what we know.

972
00:56:37,659 --> 00:56:40,128
We know Johnson
can't see the full picture.

973
00:56:40,161 --> 00:56:41,996
So, let's paint it for him.

974
00:56:42,030 --> 00:56:46,235
What are the specific
hardships and humiliations

975
00:56:46,268 --> 00:56:49,838
we can address
within the larger
context of legislation?

976
00:56:51,773 --> 00:56:55,177
Doc, we gotta start with
banning these laws that

977
00:56:55,210 --> 00:56:57,313
if a Negro tries
to register,

978
00:56:57,346 --> 00:56:58,748
I mean,
actually musters up

979
00:56:58,780 --> 00:56:59,815
the courage to go
in that courthouse,

980
00:57:00,882 --> 00:57:03,985
that their name and address
is published in the paper.

981
00:57:04,018 --> 00:57:06,621
It gives anybody who wants
to do them any harm

982
00:57:06,655 --> 00:57:09,192
their exact location,
and we know how the Klan is.

983
00:57:09,224 --> 00:57:10,458
I hear that.
But the poll taxes

984
00:57:10,492 --> 00:57:12,061
got to be our focus first.

985
00:57:12,094 --> 00:57:13,295
'Cause black people are poor!

986
00:57:13,329 --> 00:57:14,864
Black people
are poor down here.

987
00:57:14,898 --> 00:57:16,398
Yep.

988
00:57:14,898 --> 00:57:16,398
BEVEL: And they expected
to pay for every year

989
00:57:16,431 --> 00:57:17,432
they weren't
legally registered

990
00:57:17,465 --> 00:57:18,768
before they can register.

991
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,170
Now, what the hell is that?
Who got that kind of money?

992
00:57:21,204 --> 00:57:23,505
(ALL CLAMORING)

993
00:57:23,539 --> 00:57:24,907
VIVIAN: Come on now!
Listen now!

994
00:57:24,940 --> 00:57:27,342
The big issue is
voting vouchers.

995
00:57:27,376 --> 00:57:28,643
Is that the number one issue?

996
00:57:28,677 --> 00:57:29,777
VIVIAN: Now hold on.
Let me finish.

997
00:57:29,811 --> 00:57:31,514
'Cause everybody'll forget
about this part.

998
00:57:31,547 --> 00:57:34,349
But if you're Negro,
the only way you can vote

999
00:57:34,382 --> 00:57:37,219
is if an approved registered
voter vouches for you.

1000
00:57:37,253 --> 00:57:40,155
Right? So, let's say,
you take some place
like Lowndes County,

1001
00:57:40,188 --> 00:57:42,557
where there are no Negroes
who are registered

1002
00:57:42,592 --> 00:57:44,460
and you've got to have
someone who is registered

1003
00:57:44,494 --> 00:57:46,327
to vouch for you.

1004
00:57:46,362 --> 00:57:47,496
What are you supposed to do?

1005
00:57:47,530 --> 00:57:48,898
Hmm?

1006
00:57:47,530 --> 00:57:48,898
Mmm.

1007
00:57:48,931 --> 00:57:50,833
Nobody you know,

1008
00:57:50,865 --> 00:57:54,971
not a single black person
for 100 miles is registered.

1009
00:57:55,003 --> 00:57:58,541
So how do you
get the voucher, right?

1010
00:57:58,574 --> 00:58:00,976
To get you into
the courthouse door

1011
00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:03,378
to pay the poll tax

1012
00:58:03,413 --> 00:58:05,614
to get your name published

1013
00:58:06,181 --> 00:58:07,115
and get yourself dead.

1014
00:58:08,952 --> 00:58:10,152
That's true.

1015
00:58:10,186 --> 00:58:11,719
We need a new plan!

1016
00:58:11,753 --> 00:58:13,655
I can't take him
back to Washington

1017
00:58:13,690 --> 00:58:16,192
and waltz into the White House
with a list of empty demands.

1018
00:58:16,224 --> 00:58:18,293
Tactics, my friends!

1019
00:58:18,327 --> 00:58:21,096
We must break down
this institution

1020
00:58:21,130 --> 00:58:23,599
into the tangible
tactics that it takes
to dismantle it.

1021
00:58:26,335 --> 00:58:27,469
 JOHNSON:
 What's your next move?

1022
00:58:27,503 --> 00:58:29,572
A march from Selma
to Montgomery

1023
00:58:29,605 --> 00:58:31,539
to protest and amplify.

1024
00:58:31,572 --> 00:58:33,775
Well, I'll be damned.

1025
00:58:33,809 --> 00:58:36,311
This was always
part of the plan,
wasn't it?

1026
00:58:36,344 --> 00:58:39,782
Provoke some tragedy
in little old Selma,
then go big.

1027
00:58:39,815 --> 00:58:43,585
Get someone killed and
march on the State Capitol!

1028
00:58:43,619 --> 00:58:46,288
Selma to Montgomery's
gotta be 50 miles!

1029
00:58:46,322 --> 00:58:49,125
You march those people into
rural Alabama unprotected,

1030
00:58:49,157 --> 00:58:50,391
it's gonna be open season.

1031
00:58:50,425 --> 00:58:52,795
It's too damn far
and too damn dangerous!

1032
00:58:52,827 --> 00:58:54,864
Then propose
new legislation, sir.

1033
00:58:54,896 --> 00:58:58,032
I can't do that this year.
I won't! I told you.

1034
00:58:58,067 --> 00:59:00,135
We need your
involvement here,
Mr. President.

1035
00:59:00,168 --> 00:59:02,605
We deserve your help
as citizens of this country.

1036
00:59:02,637 --> 00:59:04,005
Citizens under attack.

1037
00:59:04,039 --> 00:59:07,010
Now, you listen to me.
You listen to me.

1038
00:59:07,043 --> 00:59:09,177
You're an activist.
I'm a politician.

1039
00:59:09,211 --> 00:59:11,614
You got one big issue.
I got a hundred and one.

1040
00:59:11,646 --> 00:59:13,981
Now, you demanding more

1041
00:59:14,016 --> 00:59:16,318
and putting me on the spot
with this visit, that's okay.

1042
00:59:16,351 --> 00:59:18,054
That's your job.
That's what you do.

1043
00:59:18,086 --> 00:59:20,655
But I am sick and tired

1044
00:59:20,688 --> 00:59:23,025
of you demanding
and telling me

1045
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:25,594
what I can
and what I can't do.

1046
00:59:25,628 --> 00:59:27,429
If you want my support
on this voting thing,

1047
00:59:27,463 --> 00:59:29,798
I need some quid pro quo
from you.

1048
00:59:29,831 --> 00:59:30,900
What do you want,
Mr. President?

1049
00:59:31,900 --> 00:59:34,903
We have a line on
some threats that are, uh,

1050
00:59:36,105 --> 00:59:37,505
particularly troubling.

1051
00:59:37,539 --> 00:59:39,641
Well, what's new?

1052
00:59:39,675 --> 00:59:44,347
No, no. This is serious.
Credible threats with detail.

1053
00:59:44,380 --> 00:59:46,615
RUSTIN: This information,
coming from the FBI,
I assume?

1054
00:59:47,617 --> 00:59:49,818
High-level?

1055
00:59:49,851 --> 00:59:52,989
The same high-level
that's been tracking us
like animals?

1056
00:59:53,021 --> 00:59:55,992
Bugging our homes
and our hotel rooms.

1057
00:59:57,358 --> 01:00:00,663
Digging for things that
simply are not there, Lee?

1058
01:00:01,998 --> 01:00:04,132
This all feels
very convenient.

1059
01:00:05,467 --> 01:00:07,536
WHITE: Okay.

1060
01:00:07,570 --> 01:00:09,838
This is coming from
Lowndes County, Alabama.

1061
01:00:09,871 --> 01:00:11,807
Between Selma and Montgomery.

1062
01:00:13,842 --> 01:00:17,045
I'm telling you,
if he were my guy,

1063
01:00:17,079 --> 01:00:19,215
I'd keep him
off the frontlines.

1064
01:00:20,282 --> 01:00:21,250
Just for a while.

1065
01:00:24,552 --> 01:00:26,621
Not gonna happen, Lee.

1066
01:00:26,655 --> 01:00:28,324
Meet me halfway
on this, Martin.

1067
01:00:28,356 --> 01:00:30,358
I can't, Mr. President.

1068
01:00:30,393 --> 01:00:32,327
Can't or won't?

1069
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:36,199
I came here hoping
to talk to you
about people.

1070
01:00:37,565 --> 01:00:39,869
People are dying
in the street for this.

1071
01:00:39,902 --> 01:00:42,237
It cannot wait, sir.

1072
01:00:43,539 --> 01:00:44,974
Mr. President,
how did it go?

1073
01:00:50,813 --> 01:00:52,280
What can I do to help?

1074
01:00:55,451 --> 01:00:57,119
Get me J. Edgar Hoover.

1075
01:00:58,788 --> 01:00:59,956
MAN 1: (ON TAPE)  King,

1076
01:01:01,023 --> 01:01:03,092
 you know
 you are a complete fraud

1077
01:01:03,125 --> 01:01:06,262
 and a liability
 to all nigras.

1078
01:01:06,295 --> 01:01:09,164
 Like all frauds,
 your end is approaching.

1079
01:01:10,298 --> 01:01:12,934
 You are done.

1080
01:01:12,967 --> 01:01:16,806
 Your degrees and your fancy
 awards will not save you.

1081
01:01:18,306 --> 01:01:22,844
 The American public
 will soon know you
 for what you are,

1082
01:01:22,878 --> 01:01:26,349
 an evil, abnormal beast.

1083
01:01:26,382 --> 01:01:28,851
(MAN 2 GRUNTING ON TAPE)

1084
01:01:28,884 --> 01:01:31,019
(WOMAN MOANING ON TAPE)

1085
01:01:35,324 --> 01:01:36,693
(TAPE STOPS)

1086
01:01:44,432 --> 01:01:45,867
That wasn't me.

1087
01:01:48,971 --> 01:01:50,440
That isn't me, Corrie.

1088
01:01:55,210 --> 01:01:56,278
I know.

1089
01:01:59,014 --> 01:02:01,384
I know what
you sound like.

1090
01:02:11,726 --> 01:02:13,496
I've gotten used to a lot.

1091
01:02:16,965 --> 01:02:20,335
All the hours
wondering after your safety,

1092
01:02:21,971 --> 01:02:24,206
worried about how you are.

1093
01:02:29,378 --> 01:02:30,278
This house.

1094
01:02:32,648 --> 01:02:33,815
Renting here.

1095
01:02:36,184 --> 01:02:37,487
No foundation.

1096
01:02:43,192 --> 01:02:45,927
Without the things
the children should have,

1097
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:47,929
all because of
how it would look.

1098
01:02:53,601 --> 01:02:55,103
I have gotten used to it,

1099
01:02:56,739 --> 01:02:58,173
for better or worse.

1100
01:03:01,443 --> 01:03:02,844
(SIGHS)

1101
01:03:03,878 --> 01:03:06,248
But what I have
never gotten used to

1102
01:03:07,382 --> 01:03:08,784
is the death.

1103
01:03:11,286 --> 01:03:15,458
The constant closeness
of death.

1104
01:03:18,626 --> 01:03:20,628
(SIGHS)

1105
01:03:20,661 --> 01:03:23,132
It's become like
a thick fog to me.

1106
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:28,670
I can't see life sometimes

1107
01:03:28,704 --> 01:03:32,541
because of the fog of death
constantly hanging over.

1108
01:03:36,545 --> 01:03:40,215
People actually say that
they will stop the blood

1109
01:03:40,248 --> 01:03:43,719
running through the hearts
of our children.

1110
01:03:43,751 --> 01:03:46,322
That's what they said on the
other end of that phone line.

1111
01:03:50,259 --> 01:03:52,561
How they're going to
kill my children.

1112
01:03:53,929 --> 01:03:56,231
And what they'll do to you
and how they'll do it.

1113
01:03:56,264 --> 01:03:58,500
How many years have I
had to listen to this?

1114
01:03:58,534 --> 01:04:00,202
The filth,

1115
01:04:00,235 --> 01:04:05,273
deranged and twisted
and just ignorant enough
to be serious.

1116
01:04:12,614 --> 01:04:14,217
If I ask you something,

1117
01:04:16,217 --> 01:04:19,288
will you answer me
with the truth?

1118
01:04:21,389 --> 01:04:22,358
Yes.

1119
01:04:24,226 --> 01:04:25,827
Good,

1120
01:04:25,860 --> 01:04:28,331
because I am not a fool.

1121
01:04:37,539 --> 01:04:39,175
Do you love me?

1122
01:04:46,215 --> 01:04:48,384
Yes, I love you, Coretta.

1123
01:04:58,827 --> 01:05:00,161
(SNIFFLES)

1124
01:05:00,195 --> 01:05:02,231
Do you love
any of the others?

1125
01:05:24,219 --> 01:05:25,186
No.

1126
01:05:43,572 --> 01:05:45,708
I need to put the march
back a day.

1127
01:05:46,507 --> 01:05:47,309
YOUNG:  Why?

1128
01:05:49,043 --> 01:05:51,012
 I have to be
 home right now.

1129
01:05:51,746 --> 01:05:52,547
YOUNG:  Oh.

1130
01:05:54,782 --> 01:05:57,320
 Yes. Okay. I understand.

1131
01:06:00,889 --> 01:06:04,659
 But I have to tell you
 the organization looks good.

1132
01:06:04,693 --> 01:06:06,528
 Real good.

1133
01:06:06,561 --> 01:06:09,797
 The mood is strong.
 And the locals are prepared.

1134
01:06:09,831 --> 01:06:11,567
 The SNCC kids are ready to go.

1135
01:06:11,599 --> 01:06:14,536
 We can start it off
 from Selma,

1136
01:06:14,568 --> 01:06:17,373
 and you can join in
 on the second day.

1137
01:06:30,219 --> 01:06:32,554
 I just think it'd be a mistake
 to hold people back

1138
01:06:32,586 --> 01:06:33,722
 when their blood is up.

1139
01:06:35,523 --> 01:06:37,492
KING:  I hear you,

1140
01:06:37,525 --> 01:06:39,094
 but we need to be out there
 full throttle.

1141
01:06:39,126 --> 01:06:40,362
 This ain't a test run.

1142
01:06:41,864 --> 01:06:43,532
 We need to get to Montgomery.

1143
01:06:43,565 --> 01:06:46,068
 I warned Johnson that
 we were going to the Capitol.

1144
01:06:46,101 --> 01:06:47,670
 We need to do just that.

1145
01:06:49,103 --> 01:06:52,041
 YOUNG:  And I believe we will.
 We'll get there.

1146
01:06:56,177 --> 01:06:58,480
 And when we do the real deal,
 the finale,

1147
01:06:58,514 --> 01:07:00,648
 when you make the big speech
 at the end,

1148
01:07:00,682 --> 01:07:02,518
 right on Wallace's doorstep.

1149
01:07:17,699 --> 01:07:19,668
KING:  I don't know, Andy.

1150
01:07:21,268 --> 01:07:23,838
YOUNG:  It'll be just fine.

1151
01:07:23,871 --> 01:07:27,242
 We'll get it started strong.
 And you'll finish strong.

1152
01:07:27,809 --> 01:07:28,777
Mmm.

1153
01:07:33,849 --> 01:07:35,751
Okay. Uh... Let's proceed.

1154
01:07:36,784 --> 01:07:38,753
 But only one of us
 walks to start.

1155
01:07:38,786 --> 01:07:40,389
 I don't want to
 get back on Monday

1156
01:07:40,422 --> 01:07:42,458
 and find all
 our leadership in jail.

1157
01:07:43,592 --> 01:07:44,559
 One of us walks.

1158
01:07:45,327 --> 01:07:46,661
YOUNG:  Understood.

1159
01:07:49,864 --> 01:07:54,402
 There will be no march
 from Selma to Montgomery.

1160
01:07:54,436 --> 01:07:57,873
 It is not conducive to
 traffic flow on Route 80.

1161
01:07:57,905 --> 01:07:59,373
 Or to public safety.

1162
01:07:59,407 --> 01:08:01,277
Your lives could
be in danger,

1163
01:08:01,309 --> 01:08:03,512
but we're going to be strong
if we stick together.

1164
01:08:03,545 --> 01:08:07,282
Don't fight back.
It's a non-violent movement.

1165
01:08:07,315 --> 01:08:09,818
Non-violence is not passive.
It's actually very strong.

1166
01:08:10,784 --> 01:08:12,221
We shouldn't
do this, John.

1167
01:08:12,253 --> 01:08:13,989
This is not us.
This is not SNCC.

1168
01:08:14,023 --> 01:08:15,557
It's some bullshit.

1169
01:08:15,590 --> 01:08:18,426
It's gonna do more for King
and the SCLC than for Selma.

1170
01:08:18,961 --> 01:08:20,395
This is Alabama.

1171
01:08:20,429 --> 01:08:22,698
They can keep their asses
in Washington, D.C.

1172
01:08:22,730 --> 01:08:25,301
You don't tell us
how to live our lives.

1173
01:08:25,333 --> 01:08:27,670
This is an example of what
you might deal with out there.

1174
01:08:27,703 --> 01:08:30,238
What you might experience.
Here we go. Let's show them.

1175
01:08:30,271 --> 01:08:32,640
We don't want
your kind here.

1176
01:08:32,673 --> 01:08:34,443
Go to the bottom
of the river, black boy.

1177
01:08:34,475 --> 01:08:36,011
 We're going to put you down
 in Alabama River!

1178
01:08:36,043 --> 01:08:37,078
LEWIS:  He's not even here.

1179
01:08:37,112 --> 01:08:38,313
 How's it gonna
 do more for him?

1180
01:08:38,345 --> 01:08:40,180
 FORMAN:  Well, why ain't
 he here, then, man?

1181
01:08:40,215 --> 01:08:42,250
Are you listening
to yourself?

1182
01:08:42,283 --> 01:08:43,185
First, it's gonna
do more for him.

1183
01:08:43,217 --> 01:08:44,685
Now, it's why
he ain't here?

1184
01:08:44,719 --> 01:08:46,121
Do you want him here,
or do you not want him here?

1185
01:08:46,154 --> 01:08:47,322
Honestly, I don't
give a rat's ass

1186
01:08:47,354 --> 01:08:48,856
about that man.
That's your hero.

1187
01:08:48,890 --> 01:08:50,091
Let's take these bastards

1188
01:08:50,125 --> 01:08:51,859
and stick them down
into Alabama River

1189
01:08:51,893 --> 01:08:53,194
and never see them again.

1190
01:08:53,228 --> 01:08:54,829
James, you are
so off-base with this.

1191
01:08:54,863 --> 01:08:56,564
All this nonsense.
This ain't what
SNCC is about.

1192
01:08:56,599 --> 01:08:57,631
Don't make me out to be
the bad guy here, John.

1193
01:08:57,666 --> 01:08:59,501
I'm not! You're the one
playing me small.

1194
01:08:59,533 --> 01:09:01,470
Don't demonize me...

1195
01:08:59,533 --> 01:09:01,470
(OVERLAPPING ARGUMENT)

1196
01:09:01,502 --> 01:09:03,404
You're mad because
they called him in.

1197
01:09:05,106 --> 01:09:07,108
We were here first.
And they called him in.

1198
01:09:07,141 --> 01:09:09,712
I get it. I understand that.

1199
01:09:09,744 --> 01:09:13,247
But if we are really
and truly for the people,

1200
01:09:13,282 --> 01:09:15,350
and the people of Selma
chose him,

1201
01:09:17,086 --> 01:09:18,654
well, then the people
have spoken.

1202
01:09:21,055 --> 01:09:23,425
And if they want to march,
then I'm marching with them.

1203
01:09:27,162 --> 01:09:28,596
Then, brother,

1204
01:09:30,064 --> 01:09:32,234
you're marching
as John Lewis.

1205
01:09:33,100 --> 01:09:34,636
Not as part of SNCC.

1206
01:09:36,938 --> 01:09:38,606
It's been voted on
and decided.

1207
01:09:39,774 --> 01:09:41,509
For this march,
you're on your own

1208
01:09:41,542 --> 01:09:43,546
with De Lawd
and his disciples.

1209
01:10:10,572 --> 01:10:12,507
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

1210
01:10:15,042 --> 01:10:16,545
VIVIAN: Short man wins.
Short man wins.

1211
01:10:17,246 --> 01:10:18,613
Short man wins.

1212
01:10:20,247 --> 01:10:21,483
All right.

1213
01:10:23,784 --> 01:10:25,654
All right. Who got it?

1214
01:10:27,421 --> 01:10:29,323
It's on you, Hosea.

1215
01:10:29,358 --> 01:10:30,658
WILLIAMS: You ready,
young blood? You ready?

1216
01:10:31,926 --> 01:10:32,927
All right. Let's do this.

1217
01:10:32,962 --> 01:10:33,828
All right.

1218
01:10:39,001 --> 01:10:41,802
 REED:  About 525 Negroes
 had left Brown's Chapel

1219
01:10:41,837 --> 01:10:43,371
 and walked six blocks to cross
 Pettus Bridge

1220
01:10:43,404 --> 01:10:44,974
 and the Alabama River.

1221
01:11:01,021 --> 01:11:03,125
There were young and old,

1222
01:11:03,158 --> 01:11:04,993
and they carried
an assortment of packs,

1223
01:11:05,027 --> 01:11:06,729
bed rolls
and lunch sacks.

1224
01:12:20,301 --> 01:12:21,603
 The troopers were waiting

1225
01:12:21,636 --> 01:12:24,006
 300 yards beyond
 the end of the bridge.

1226
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,609
 Behind the troopers
 were dozens of possemen,

1227
01:12:28,408 --> 01:12:30,645
 15 of them on horses,

1228
01:12:30,679 --> 01:12:33,582
 and perhaps
 100 white spectators.

1229
01:12:43,891 --> 01:12:45,426
Can you swim?

1230
01:12:47,095 --> 01:12:50,131
Not many swimming pools for
black folk where I come from.

1231
01:12:51,265 --> 01:12:52,868
Yeah.

1232
01:13:10,251 --> 01:13:12,054
(REPORTERS CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY)

1233
01:13:12,087 --> 01:13:13,087
(CAMERAS CLICKING)

1234
01:13:20,862 --> 01:13:22,730
 Andy, it's Bayard.
 Everybody there?

1235
01:13:22,997 --> 01:13:24,432
Yes.

1236
01:13:24,466 --> 01:13:25,567
 BAYARD:  Turn on CBS
 right now, Andy.

1237
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:27,068
Right now.
You have a TV there?

1238
01:13:27,100 --> 01:13:29,237
Yes. Now?

1239
01:13:27,100 --> 01:13:29,237
Right now!

1240
01:13:29,270 --> 01:13:30,773
Turn on the television set.

1241
01:13:32,140 --> 01:13:33,841
 ANNOUNCER ON TV:  We interrupt
 this program to bring you

1242
01:13:33,875 --> 01:13:35,877
 a special bulletin
 from CBS News.

1243
01:13:51,893 --> 01:13:54,229
Give 'em two minutes.
Stand right there.

1244
01:13:54,261 --> 01:13:55,596
We're ready.

1245
01:14:09,144 --> 01:14:11,313
 This is an unlawful assembly.

1246
01:14:11,345 --> 01:14:13,514
 You have two minutes
 to disperse.

1247
01:14:13,547 --> 01:14:16,484
 Go home or go to your church.

1248
01:14:16,518 --> 01:14:19,220
 This march will not continue.

1249
01:14:20,055 --> 01:14:21,689
Two minutes.

1250
01:14:25,327 --> 01:14:27,695
May I have
a word with the Major?

1251
01:14:30,332 --> 01:14:31,934
 There's no word to be had.

1252
01:14:34,569 --> 01:14:36,137
Major Cloud,
may we speak with you?

1253
01:14:49,449 --> 01:14:50,953
 Troopers, advance!

1254
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,020
(GUNSHOT)

1255
01:14:53,054 --> 01:14:54,155
(TROOPERS YELLING)

1256
01:15:00,729 --> 01:15:01,896
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)

1257
01:15:04,465 --> 01:15:05,501
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

1258
01:15:06,935 --> 01:15:09,570
Seventy million people
are watching this.

1259
01:15:09,604 --> 01:15:11,573
 REED:  The first
 10 or 20 Negroes

1260
01:15:11,605 --> 01:15:13,240
 were swept to the ground
 screaming,

1261
01:15:13,274 --> 01:15:14,810
 arms and legs flying,

1262
01:15:14,842 --> 01:15:17,179
 packs and bags went skittering
 across the grassy divider.

1263
01:15:18,279 --> 01:15:19,581
(GUNFIRE)

1264
01:15:20,882 --> 01:15:22,251
(ALL SCREAMING)

1265
01:15:27,890 --> 01:15:28,890
(GROANING)

1266
01:15:32,627 --> 01:15:35,063
 REED:  Those still
 on their feet retreated.

1267
01:15:35,096 --> 01:15:37,064
 A cheer went up
 from the white spectators

1268
01:15:37,097 --> 01:15:38,800
 lining the south side
 of the highway.

1269
01:15:38,832 --> 01:15:40,068
(ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

1270
01:15:44,137 --> 01:15:45,172
(COUGHING)

1271
01:15:44,137 --> 01:15:45,172
Come on.

1272
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,109
You gotta come on.

1273
01:15:48,141 --> 01:15:49,043
Please, don't...

1274
01:15:51,046 --> 01:15:52,579
 REED:  The troopers
 continued pushing,

1275
01:15:52,613 --> 01:15:54,114
 using both the force
 of their bodies

1276
01:15:54,148 --> 01:15:55,283
 and the prodding
 of their nightsticks.

1277
01:15:59,386 --> 01:16:00,288
(GROANS)

1278
01:16:02,189 --> 01:16:04,760
(ALL CLAMORING)

1279
01:16:08,195 --> 01:16:09,096
(GUNSHOT)

1280
01:16:10,297 --> 01:16:14,136
 REED:  Suddenly, there was
 a sharp sound, like a gunshot,

1281
01:16:14,168 --> 01:16:18,140
 and a gray cloud spewed over
 the troopers and the Negroes.

1282
01:16:18,172 --> 01:16:20,908
 But before the cloud
 hid it all,

1283
01:16:20,943 --> 01:16:24,945
there were several seconds
of unobstructed view.

1284
01:16:24,979 --> 01:16:25,846
(CLEARS THROAT)

1285
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:39,094
(YELLING)

1286
01:16:45,500 --> 01:16:47,335
 REED:  Fifteen or 20
 nightsticks

1287
01:16:47,368 --> 01:16:49,604
 could be seen through the gas,

1288
01:16:49,636 --> 01:16:52,006
 flailing at the heads
 of the marchers.

1289
01:16:52,372 --> 01:16:53,640
Ahhh!

1290
01:16:53,675 --> 01:16:55,143
REED:  The Negroes cried out

1291
01:16:55,176 --> 01:16:57,045
 as they crowded together
 for protection,

1292
01:16:57,078 --> 01:16:58,880
 and the whites on the
 sidelines whooped and cheered.

1293
01:17:11,958 --> 01:17:14,895
 From the hospital
 came reports of victims

1294
01:17:14,929 --> 01:17:18,932
 suffering fractures of ribs,
 heads, arms and legs.

1295
01:17:18,966 --> 01:17:21,202
 And Negro leader John Lewis,

1296
01:17:21,234 --> 01:17:23,270
 despite injury from
 a possible skull fracture,

1297
01:17:23,304 --> 01:17:25,506
 led the marchers
 back to the chapel

1298
01:17:25,539 --> 01:17:27,141
 after the encounter
 with officers.

1299
01:17:28,243 --> 01:17:29,645
Help!

1300
01:17:30,176 --> 01:17:31,046
Help!

1301
01:17:36,150 --> 01:17:39,953
 He said, "I don't see
 how President Johnson

1302
01:17:39,988 --> 01:17:41,788
 "can send troops to Vietnam

1303
01:17:41,822 --> 01:17:45,793
"and can't send troops
to Selma, Alabama."

1304
01:17:45,827 --> 01:17:49,331
To which the Negroes present
roared their approval.

1305
01:17:50,364 --> 01:17:52,266
(GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING)

1306
01:18:08,750 --> 01:18:10,685
(INAUDIBLE)

1307
01:18:31,939 --> 01:18:34,309
MAN: Gerry! Gerry,
come with us! Come with us!

1308
01:18:34,341 --> 01:18:35,609
We need your gun, man!

1309
01:18:35,644 --> 01:18:37,345
GERRY: I can't walk!

1310
01:18:37,378 --> 01:18:39,814
MAN: Come with us.
We know you got them
guns in the shed, Gerry.

1311
01:18:39,847 --> 01:18:42,283
Hey, hey, hey,
what you need guns for?

1312
01:18:42,315 --> 01:18:43,951
The Bible says,
"An eye for an eye," Reverend.

1313
01:18:43,984 --> 01:18:45,752
Yeah?

1314
01:18:43,984 --> 01:18:45,752
I'm sick of this shit!

1315
01:18:45,786 --> 01:18:47,854
How many guns
you think they
got down there?

1316
01:18:47,889 --> 01:18:49,823
That's an entire army
down there.

1317
01:18:49,858 --> 01:18:52,193
What you got? A couple
of .32s? A .38?

1318
01:18:52,226 --> 01:18:53,661
Maybe a couple
of old scatterguns? What?

1319
01:18:53,694 --> 01:18:54,929
I got enough
to kill a couple

1320
01:18:54,962 --> 01:18:56,063
of them crackers,
that's what I got!

1321
01:18:56,096 --> 01:18:57,564
And how many of us you think

1322
01:18:57,599 --> 01:18:59,567
they gonna kill
in retaliation?

1323
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:01,336
With their 12-gauge
pump-actions,

1324
01:19:01,368 --> 01:19:02,970
their Colt automatics,

1325
01:19:03,003 --> 01:19:04,872
their Remingtons, their
helicopters, their tanks!

1326
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,574
We won't win that way,

1327
01:19:07,608 --> 01:19:09,710
and I ain't talking
about the Bible.

1328
01:19:09,743 --> 01:19:11,246
I ain't talking
what's right by God.

1329
01:19:11,279 --> 01:19:14,082
I am talking facts.
Cold, hard facts!

1330
01:19:14,114 --> 01:19:18,452
Now, you take two of them,
and they take 10 of us.

1331
01:19:18,485 --> 01:19:21,823
No. We have
to win another way.

1332
01:19:23,591 --> 01:19:25,260
 ANNOUNCER: (ON TV)  ...to our
 regularly scheduled program.

1333
01:19:33,134 --> 01:19:35,036
We're going
back to the bridge.

1334
01:19:38,739 --> 01:19:40,073
We're going to finish this,

1335
01:19:40,106 --> 01:19:42,077
we promise you that,
Ms. Amelia.

1336
01:19:45,412 --> 01:19:47,114
We go again.

1337
01:19:49,582 --> 01:19:50,585
(REPORTERS CLAMORING)

1338
01:19:50,618 --> 01:19:51,386
(CAMERAS CLICKING)

1339
01:19:52,619 --> 01:19:55,088
MALE REPORTER: Dr. King!
Can we get a statement, sir?

1340
01:19:55,122 --> 01:19:56,690
Dr. King! Morning, Doctor.

1341
01:19:56,725 --> 01:19:57,993
Can we get
a statement, please?

1342
01:19:58,025 --> 01:19:59,261
Morning.

1343
01:19:58,025 --> 01:19:59,261
Morning.

1344
01:20:01,095 --> 01:20:03,863
While rageful violence
continues

1345
01:20:03,898 --> 01:20:06,868
towards the unarmed people
of Selma,

1346
01:20:06,900 --> 01:20:09,237
while they are assaulted
with tear gas

1347
01:20:09,270 --> 01:20:12,640
and batons
like an enemy in a war,

1348
01:20:12,673 --> 01:20:16,143
no citizen of this country
can call themselves blameless,

1349
01:20:16,176 --> 01:20:18,479
for we all bear
a responsibility

1350
01:20:18,512 --> 01:20:20,515
for our fellow man.

1351
01:20:20,547 --> 01:20:23,551
I am appealing to
men and women of God

1352
01:20:23,583 --> 01:20:25,685
and goodwill everywhere,

1353
01:20:25,719 --> 01:20:28,222
white, black and otherwise.

1354
01:20:28,256 --> 01:20:33,961
If you believe all are created
equal, come to Selma.

1355
01:20:33,994 --> 01:20:36,631
Join us. Join our march
against injustice

1356
01:20:36,664 --> 01:20:38,166
and inhumanity.

1357
01:20:39,234 --> 01:20:40,601
We need you to stand with us.

1358
01:20:43,771 --> 01:20:46,673
 GRAY:  Judge Johnson,
 Dr. King's call-to-action

1359
01:20:46,707 --> 01:20:48,176
 was nationally televised.

1360
01:20:50,078 --> 01:20:51,945
 We've seen hundreds of people
 travel across the country

1361
01:20:51,979 --> 01:20:53,981
 to attend tomorrow's march,

1362
01:20:54,015 --> 01:20:57,586
 mostly white,
 mostly clergy of some kind.

1363
01:20:59,453 --> 01:21:02,823
The SCLC is seeking
a federal court order

1364
01:21:02,856 --> 01:21:04,457
enjoining
the state authorities

1365
01:21:04,492 --> 01:21:05,926
from interfering
with the next march.

1366
01:21:07,395 --> 01:21:09,797
You're asking me to overturn
the Governor's mandate

1367
01:21:09,831 --> 01:21:11,832
and to do so
without a hearing,

1368
01:21:11,865 --> 01:21:12,934
but it's not
going to happen at all

1369
01:21:13,801 --> 01:21:15,435
without a proper proceeding.

1370
01:21:15,470 --> 01:21:18,139
Dr. King is in position to
lead tomorrow's march, Judge.

1371
01:21:18,171 --> 01:21:20,240
Understood, but you will have

1372
01:21:20,274 --> 01:21:22,309
your day in court
on Thursday, Mr. Gray.

1373
01:21:22,342 --> 01:21:25,380
Meanwhile, there will be
no march tomorrow.

1374
01:21:25,412 --> 01:21:27,481
I will not oppose Wallace
against protocol.

1375
01:21:29,182 --> 01:21:31,653
"Thousands head south
in moral crusade."

1376
01:21:35,823 --> 01:21:37,826
WHITE: The SCLC
already filed an appeal

1377
01:21:37,859 --> 01:21:39,895
against Wallace's orders
this morning.

1378
01:21:42,764 --> 01:21:44,365
You want my advice,
Mr. President?

1379
01:21:44,899 --> 01:21:46,900
You have to ask?

1380
01:21:46,934 --> 01:21:49,371
Give King
the march to Montgomery.

1381
01:21:51,605 --> 01:21:54,408
Do that, and
then Selma's over.

1382
01:21:56,109 --> 01:21:57,478
Then you're back in control.

1383
01:21:57,511 --> 01:21:59,480
In control of what?

1384
01:21:59,514 --> 01:22:01,349
Another civil war?

1385
01:22:01,381 --> 01:22:03,117
This ain't about
the goddamn march.

1386
01:22:03,149 --> 01:22:04,953
You think he cares
about the march?

1387
01:22:04,985 --> 01:22:07,322
He wants
the law changed, now.

1388
01:22:08,421 --> 01:22:09,791
I've got Congress
calling me by the dozens.

1389
01:22:09,823 --> 01:22:12,394
I've got picketing that gets
bigger and bigger every day.

1390
01:22:12,426 --> 01:22:15,328
He tugs on their goddamn
white liberal conscience.

1391
01:22:15,363 --> 01:22:16,831
Every march pulls 'em.
Especially when

1392
01:22:16,863 --> 01:22:18,632
people are getting
beat up in the streets.

1393
01:22:23,037 --> 01:22:25,738
These pictures are
going around the world, Lee.

1394
01:22:25,773 --> 01:22:27,740
I understand, Mr. President.

1395
01:22:27,774 --> 01:22:29,344
All the more reason
to act now.

1396
01:22:29,377 --> 01:22:30,211
I'm gonna act now.

1397
01:22:31,444 --> 01:22:34,215
You tell Wallace
and those backwater hicks

1398
01:22:34,248 --> 01:22:36,318
I don't want to see any more
of this horseshit.

1399
01:22:36,350 --> 01:22:39,420
And you tell King he best not
march, you hear me?

1400
01:22:39,453 --> 01:22:42,823
Either King stops
and Wallace stops,

1401
01:22:42,856 --> 01:22:45,091
or I'll stop 'em both.

1402
01:22:45,126 --> 01:22:46,659
I'm here on
the President's order

1403
01:22:46,694 --> 01:22:48,296
to try and make this work.

1404
01:22:49,762 --> 01:22:51,166
Please work with me.

1405
01:22:52,500 --> 01:22:54,202
So we give up the march
and you...

1406
01:22:55,403 --> 01:22:56,570
You give what?

1407
01:22:57,939 --> 01:22:59,207
We asked
for federal protection.

1408
01:22:59,239 --> 01:23:01,007
And with no disrespect,

1409
01:23:01,042 --> 01:23:02,576
but when the
Assistant Attorney General

1410
01:23:02,609 --> 01:23:04,645
is the highest-ranking
federal official in Selma,

1411
01:23:04,679 --> 01:23:06,913
we have our answer.

1412
01:23:06,947 --> 01:23:08,381
And it's not the one we want.

1413
01:23:08,416 --> 01:23:13,253
Might I suggest that you
speak with Governor Wallace

1414
01:23:13,287 --> 01:23:15,923
and Sheriff Clark
and urge them
against violence

1415
01:23:15,957 --> 01:23:17,757
instead of trying to
persuade us

1416
01:23:17,792 --> 01:23:19,260
not to have
a peaceful protest?

1417
01:23:25,265 --> 01:23:27,101
Maybe we can make a deal.

1418
01:23:28,502 --> 01:23:30,070
What if I

1419
01:23:31,037 --> 01:23:33,073
could assure you
that the administration

1420
01:23:33,106 --> 01:23:35,076
would endorse a later march

1421
01:23:36,176 --> 01:23:37,378
if tomorrow is called off?

1422
01:23:39,413 --> 01:23:43,784
You know what?
He's closer than you may think

1423
01:23:43,818 --> 01:23:45,653
to coming around
on this issue.

1424
01:23:47,354 --> 01:23:49,791
I believe this compromise
might be agreeable.

1425
01:23:49,823 --> 01:23:50,759
KING: Mr. Doar?

1426
01:23:52,393 --> 01:23:56,430
Thousands have gathered here
to demonstrate their dignity.

1427
01:23:58,466 --> 01:24:00,301
I don't want to
challenge Judge Johnson.

1428
01:24:00,333 --> 01:24:02,103
I don't want to go
against the President.

1429
01:24:02,136 --> 01:24:03,238
I don't want any of this.

1430
01:24:04,538 --> 01:24:07,041
The President could stop this
with a stroke of his pen.

1431
01:24:07,074 --> 01:24:09,376
He chooses not to.

1432
01:24:09,409 --> 01:24:11,578
The decision
is with your side, sir,

1433
01:24:12,813 --> 01:24:13,782
not ours.

1434
01:24:16,016 --> 01:24:17,652
(BLUES MUSIC PLAYING)

1435
01:24:23,557 --> 01:24:25,426
Good to see you, Father.
Good to see you.

1436
01:24:25,458 --> 01:24:26,661
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for coming out.

1437
01:24:26,694 --> 01:24:28,262
Hello, sister. Good to
see you this afternoon.

1438
01:24:29,063 --> 01:24:32,266
Oh. Oh... You came.

1439
01:24:32,300 --> 01:24:34,668
You called
and we came, my friend.

1440
01:24:34,702 --> 01:24:35,904
You are not alone, my friend.

1441
01:24:35,936 --> 01:24:37,203
Welcome, welcome.

1442
01:24:37,237 --> 01:24:38,838
Hi, what's your name?

1443
01:24:37,237 --> 01:24:38,838
Susan.

1444
01:24:38,872 --> 01:24:40,307
Hi, I'm Viola.
Welcome to Selma.

1445
01:24:41,175 --> 01:24:42,176
Yes, ma'am, I'm good.
How are you?

1446
01:24:42,210 --> 01:24:43,578
Fine, thank you.

1447
01:24:43,610 --> 01:24:45,279
What is your name
and where are you from, sir?

1448
01:24:45,313 --> 01:24:48,248
My name is James Reeb.
I've come from Boston.

1449
01:24:48,283 --> 01:24:52,186
Tell me, why have you
traveled here, Mr. Reeb?

1450
01:24:52,220 --> 01:24:55,855
I heard about the attack
of innocent people

1451
01:24:55,890 --> 01:24:57,490
who just want their rights,

1452
01:24:57,524 --> 01:25:00,060
and I couldn't
just stand by

1453
01:25:00,094 --> 01:25:01,829
when Dr. King put out
that call to clergy.

1454
01:25:02,630 --> 01:25:04,164
I couldn't.

1455
01:25:04,198 --> 01:25:06,000
 The President doesn't
 want us to march today.

1456
01:25:06,033 --> 01:25:07,400
(CROWD CHEERS)

1457
01:25:07,435 --> 01:25:09,203
 The courts don't want
 us to march.

1458
01:25:09,802 --> 01:25:10,837
 But we must march.

1459
01:25:10,872 --> 01:25:12,105
ALL: Yeah!

1460
01:25:12,140 --> 01:25:14,007
 We must stand up.

1461
01:25:12,140 --> 01:25:14,007
ALL: Yeah!

1462
01:25:14,041 --> 01:25:15,842
 We must make
 a massive demonstration

1463
01:25:15,876 --> 01:25:17,479
 of our moral certainty.

1464
01:25:18,046 --> 01:25:19,514
(CROWD CHEERING)

1465
01:25:21,548 --> 01:25:25,351
 I'm so glad
 we're here together today.

1466
01:25:25,386 --> 01:25:28,189
 I thank you for standing up.

1467
01:25:28,222 --> 01:25:31,324
 For we shall be victorious
 in our quest.

1468
01:25:31,359 --> 01:25:33,862
 We shall cross the finish line
 hand in hand.

1469
01:25:35,662 --> 01:25:37,832
 For we shall overcome.

1470
01:25:38,666 --> 01:25:39,733
 All right.

1471
01:25:39,766 --> 01:25:40,868
(APPLAUSE)

1472
01:26:01,655 --> 01:26:03,490
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)

1473
01:27:16,930 --> 01:27:19,434
 Troopers, withdraw!

1474
01:27:39,753 --> 01:27:41,756
(APPLAUSE)

1475
01:29:45,779 --> 01:29:47,914
My point is, after
what happened the last time,

1476
01:29:47,948 --> 01:29:50,016
if it don't feel right, we
don't do it. That's my point.

1477
01:29:50,050 --> 01:29:51,918
We've been going round
and round on this for hours,

1478
01:29:51,952 --> 01:29:53,621
and nothing's gonna
change the fact that

1479
01:29:53,654 --> 01:29:55,523
it was Doc's decision
and we have to support him.

1480
01:29:55,555 --> 01:29:57,158
NASH: This is a movement
of many, not of one.

1481
01:29:57,190 --> 01:29:58,692
So any choice we make
has to be right for many.

1482
01:29:58,725 --> 01:30:00,293
Come on, Diane.
Now, you know

1483
01:30:00,328 --> 01:30:01,261
that's not what I meant
by that, all right?

1484
01:30:01,295 --> 01:30:04,230
People are angry, Dr. King.

1485
01:30:04,264 --> 01:30:06,667
Angry. They went
back to that bridge

1486
01:30:06,699 --> 01:30:09,002
because they were
hot about Sunday.

1487
01:30:09,036 --> 01:30:11,005
That was our moment
out there today.

1488
01:30:11,037 --> 01:30:12,038
And you threw it away.

1489
01:30:13,006 --> 01:30:15,643
They could've sealed off
the road behind us.

1490
01:30:15,676 --> 01:30:18,945
No food, water, no kind of
support allowed through.

1491
01:30:20,314 --> 01:30:21,648
We wouldn't
have made 10 miles.

1492
01:30:21,681 --> 01:30:22,884
You saying this was a trap?

1493
01:30:23,250 --> 01:30:24,719
(SIGHS)

1494
01:30:26,487 --> 01:30:27,688
I don't know what it was.

1495
01:30:28,488 --> 01:30:30,957
That was no trap!

1496
01:30:30,992 --> 01:30:33,394
You know why they
opened up the road to us?

1497
01:30:33,426 --> 01:30:36,029
Because all them nice,
respectable white folks

1498
01:30:36,063 --> 01:30:38,164
was with us, and we
should've capitalized on that.

1499
01:30:38,198 --> 01:30:39,367
Because they're not gonna be

1500
01:30:39,399 --> 01:30:40,501
around here for long.
They never are!

1501
01:30:40,534 --> 01:30:42,769
It was Martin's call.
It's done.

1502
01:30:42,802 --> 01:30:44,637
He made the wrong
goddamn call!

1503
01:30:44,671 --> 01:30:46,038
Hey, watch your mouth,
young man!

1504
01:30:46,073 --> 01:30:48,307
Two days ago,
you didn't wanna
march at all.

1505
01:30:48,341 --> 01:30:49,643
And now you're mad because

1506
01:30:49,676 --> 01:30:51,145
it didn't go the way
you planned?

1507
01:30:51,177 --> 01:30:52,747
Calm down, brother.

1508
01:30:56,951 --> 01:30:58,586
Now, what happened
out there today?

1509
01:30:58,618 --> 01:31:00,188
You gotta tell us something.
Please.

1510
01:31:08,328 --> 01:31:11,030
I'd rather people be upset
and hate me

1511
01:31:11,064 --> 01:31:13,801
than be bleeding or dead.

1512
01:31:40,159 --> 01:31:41,561
(SIGHS)

1513
01:32:08,822 --> 01:32:11,292
KING:  My dearest Corrie,

1514
01:32:13,627 --> 01:32:15,595
 at a time when I need you,

1515
01:32:16,662 --> 01:32:18,533
 I cannot call you.

1516
01:32:20,199 --> 01:32:24,738
 And I have done this
 to myself, to us.

1517
01:32:28,475 --> 01:32:30,278
 At this late hour,

1518
01:32:31,677 --> 01:32:34,648
 my thoughts are of you

1519
01:32:34,681 --> 01:32:37,618
 and all you have sacrificed
 for this struggle.

1520
01:32:39,418 --> 01:32:42,155
 So many have sacrificed.

1521
01:32:43,457 --> 01:32:45,760
 So many have been lost.

1522
01:32:47,261 --> 01:32:50,664
 I wonder how many
 must we lose.

1523
01:32:55,068 --> 01:32:59,673
 I pray for discernment and
 guidance as we journey on.

1524
01:33:01,608 --> 01:33:03,609
 I pray, too,
 that I can justify

1525
01:33:03,644 --> 01:33:05,813
 the faith you once had in me.

1526
01:33:08,948 --> 01:33:15,088
 I, too, often feel that heavy
 fog you spoke of, Corrie.

1527
01:33:17,925 --> 01:33:22,697
 Only you and our family
 clears the haze.

1528
01:33:25,198 --> 01:33:27,935
 Love, Martin.

1529
01:33:30,871 --> 01:33:32,939
MAN:  He betrayed trust.

1530
01:33:32,972 --> 01:33:36,042
He called, we came, and he
didn't fulfill his own call.

1531
01:33:36,076 --> 01:33:38,212
Yeah, but sometimes
it's not that clear-cut.

1532
01:33:38,244 --> 01:33:40,213
Sometimes it's instinctual.

1533
01:33:41,448 --> 01:33:42,882
Like when you're preaching,

1534
01:33:43,684 --> 01:33:45,219
and you're just flying.

1535
01:33:47,121 --> 01:33:50,023
You know,
you're not on the notes.
You're not on memory.

1536
01:33:50,055 --> 01:33:54,228
You're tapped into
what's higher, what's true.

1537
01:33:55,395 --> 01:33:56,363
God is guiding you.

1538
01:33:58,398 --> 01:34:00,333
I've known that feeling.

1539
01:34:00,367 --> 01:34:02,770
It's rare,
but I've known it.

1540
01:34:00,367 --> 01:34:02,770
(BOTH CHUCKLE)

1541
01:34:05,104 --> 01:34:06,640
I think that's
what happened to Dr. King

1542
01:34:06,672 --> 01:34:09,109
up there on the bridge today.

1543
01:34:09,141 --> 01:34:11,679
He kneeled down,
prayed to God
and got an answer.

1544
01:34:11,712 --> 01:34:14,648
And he was brave enough
to follow that answer,

1545
01:34:14,681 --> 01:34:17,551
and I, for one,
don't fault him for it.

1546
01:34:17,583 --> 01:34:19,118
Except he owes me
a bus ticket home.

1547
01:34:19,153 --> 01:34:20,420
(CHUCKLES)

1548
01:34:20,453 --> 01:34:21,721
MAN 1: You know what
I hate more than niggers?

1549
01:34:21,755 --> 01:34:22,989
MAN 2: What's that?

1550
01:34:23,657 --> 01:34:24,759
White niggers.

1551
01:34:25,893 --> 01:34:27,627
Look, we don't
want trouble, okay?

1552
01:34:27,661 --> 01:34:28,996
MAN 1: No, you came here
stirrin' trouble.

1553
01:34:37,805 --> 01:34:39,206
(GROANING)

1554
01:34:39,238 --> 01:34:40,173
(GRUNTS)

1555
01:34:46,412 --> 01:34:47,381
Doc,

1556
01:34:49,516 --> 01:34:50,784
someone's been hurt.

1557
01:34:53,386 --> 01:34:54,889
(GROANING)

1558
01:34:55,655 --> 01:34:58,426
A priest, from Boston.

1559
01:35:00,193 --> 01:35:01,194
 White.

1560
01:35:02,962 --> 01:35:05,398
Now you know what
being a nigger
around here

1561
01:35:05,431 --> 01:35:07,033
feels like, boy.

1562
01:35:07,567 --> 01:35:09,837
Hurt? How?

1563
01:35:16,676 --> 01:35:18,045
Dead.

1564
01:35:18,078 --> 01:35:19,145
(GASPS)

1565
01:35:33,694 --> 01:35:35,162
I need a phone!

1566
01:35:36,896 --> 01:35:40,867
Chicago, Detroit, Boston,
I don't care.

1567
01:35:40,900 --> 01:35:42,769
Hell, you got 2,000 people
marching up in Harlem.

1568
01:35:42,801 --> 01:35:44,436
Well, good for you.

1569
01:35:44,470 --> 01:35:47,106
 But when you have people
 come inside the White House?

1570
01:35:47,140 --> 01:35:50,109
Inside the White House!
On a tour?

1571
01:35:50,144 --> 01:35:51,712
 They just sat down, Martin.

1572
01:35:51,744 --> 01:35:53,380
They sat down
in the main corridor,

1573
01:35:53,412 --> 01:35:55,815
started singin' and shoutin'.
Well, I won't have it!

1574
01:35:55,850 --> 01:35:57,016
I cannot stop
people from expressing...

1575
01:35:57,050 --> 01:35:58,952
You can! You can stop them.

1576
01:35:58,984 --> 01:36:02,822
No, you can stop it.
You, sir, can do more.

1577
01:36:02,855 --> 01:36:04,591
 Now I'm glad to hear that you

1578
01:36:04,625 --> 01:36:06,158
called Reverend Reeb's
widow, sir.

1579
01:36:06,192 --> 01:36:08,261
That is very fine,
and it is right.

1580
01:36:08,295 --> 01:36:10,229
 I only wish that
 Jimmie Lee Jackson's family

1581
01:36:10,262 --> 01:36:11,731
would have received
the same consideration

1582
01:36:11,765 --> 01:36:12,932
from their President.

1583
01:36:12,966 --> 01:36:14,900
Don't you lay your guilt
at my door.

1584
01:36:14,934 --> 01:36:16,569
You're the one
choosing to send

1585
01:36:16,603 --> 01:36:19,006
people out to slaughter when
we told you there was trouble.

1586
01:36:19,038 --> 01:36:20,541
 We won't sit idle

1587
01:36:20,573 --> 01:36:21,908
while you wait
another year or two

1588
01:36:21,942 --> 01:36:23,143
to send this bill up
at your leisure.

1589
01:36:23,176 --> 01:36:25,712
 That should be clear by now.

1590
01:36:25,744 --> 01:36:27,579
 We will continue
 to demonstrate

1591
01:36:27,613 --> 01:36:29,949
 until you take action, sir.

1592
01:36:29,983 --> 01:36:31,752
 And if our President
 won't protect our rights,

1593
01:36:31,784 --> 01:36:32,853
 we will take
 this fight to court.

1594
01:36:34,087 --> 01:36:36,488
You know, I'm...
I'm trying here.

1595
01:36:36,523 --> 01:36:38,391
We're getting close
to figuring something out

1596
01:36:38,425 --> 01:36:40,895
on this voting thing,
but I will not have this!

1597
01:36:42,529 --> 01:36:44,698
 This bill has been
 almost impossible to craft,

1598
01:36:44,730 --> 01:36:46,432
 you hear me?

1599
01:36:46,466 --> 01:36:49,336
 You think you're jugglin',
 Martin? I'm jugglin', too.

1600
01:36:51,438 --> 01:36:53,908
I am a preacher from Atlanta.

1601
01:36:53,940 --> 01:36:56,010
You are the man
who won the presidency

1602
01:36:56,042 --> 01:36:58,045
of the world's
most powerful nation

1603
01:36:58,078 --> 01:37:00,914
 by the greatest landslide
 in history four months ago.

1604
01:37:01,480 --> 01:37:02,949
 And you are the man

1605
01:37:02,983 --> 01:37:06,487
dismantling your own legacy
with each passing day.

1606
01:37:08,421 --> 01:37:11,056
 No one will remember
 the Civil Rights Act.

1607
01:37:11,091 --> 01:37:13,827
But they will remember
the standoff in Selma

1608
01:37:13,859 --> 01:37:16,529
when you never even
set foot in this state.

1609
01:37:16,563 --> 01:37:19,932
 They will remember you saying,
 "Wait," and "I can't,"

1610
01:37:19,966 --> 01:37:23,237
unless you act, sir.

1611
01:37:35,181 --> 01:37:37,051
KING: Evenin'.

1612
01:37:35,181 --> 01:37:37,051
Evenin'.

1613
01:37:38,417 --> 01:37:40,386
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

1614
01:37:53,500 --> 01:37:55,402
I wanted to speak privately.

1615
01:37:56,837 --> 01:37:59,707
I know there's been trouble
with the group,

1616
01:37:59,739 --> 01:38:01,707
and I apologize
that our efforts

1617
01:38:01,742 --> 01:38:03,577
have caused a rift
between y'all.

1618
01:38:05,645 --> 01:38:07,213
That's a painful thing,
I know,

1619
01:38:07,247 --> 01:38:09,015
and I'm truly sorry
it's happened.

1620
01:38:10,583 --> 01:38:13,386
Yeah, painful.

1621
01:38:15,788 --> 01:38:16,957
(SIGHS)

1622
01:38:19,525 --> 01:38:21,228
LBJ is not moving, John.

1623
01:38:23,563 --> 01:38:26,233
I thought he would, but
our efforts are not working,

1624
01:38:26,265 --> 01:38:28,435
and I can't risk another march
with people getting killed

1625
01:38:28,467 --> 01:38:30,104
when it's not working.
I won't do it.

1626
01:38:31,471 --> 01:38:34,240
We need voting,
not marching.
You know that.

1627
01:38:35,309 --> 01:38:37,511
We have to move
beyond these protests

1628
01:38:37,543 --> 01:38:39,846
to some real political power.

1629
01:38:39,880 --> 01:38:41,981
This can't go on forever
like this.

1630
01:38:43,783 --> 01:38:45,485
I can't go on like this.

1631
01:38:55,795 --> 01:38:56,997
(SIGHS)

1632
01:39:01,533 --> 01:39:03,002
When I was...

1633
01:39:05,305 --> 01:39:08,676
When I was working with SNCC
on the Freedom Rides,

1634
01:39:11,744 --> 01:39:15,015
the Montgomery bus
reached the city limits.

1635
01:39:16,882 --> 01:39:19,153
We got off.
And out of nowhere,

1636
01:39:20,787 --> 01:39:24,425
from all directions,
they came.

1637
01:39:27,260 --> 01:39:30,430
There was men, women.

1638
01:39:32,666 --> 01:39:34,068
Kids, too.

1639
01:39:37,403 --> 01:39:40,006
They had just about
every makeshift weapon

1640
01:39:40,038 --> 01:39:41,740
you could think of.

1641
01:39:41,774 --> 01:39:44,110
I mean, bats, bricks,

1642
01:39:45,712 --> 01:39:49,182
tire irons, pipes.

1643
01:39:52,985 --> 01:39:54,587
I remember...

1644
01:39:56,389 --> 01:40:00,527
I remember this little girl
just clawing her nails

1645
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:04,730
into the side
of my friend Jessie's face

1646
01:40:04,764 --> 01:40:08,435
while her daddy... Her daddy
beat him with an ax handle.

1647
01:40:11,738 --> 01:40:13,707
Jessie was unconscious,

1648
01:40:13,739 --> 01:40:16,342
and they just kept beating
on him and beating on him.

1649
01:40:21,314 --> 01:40:23,649
I must've passed out
on the asphalt somewhere.

1650
01:40:28,186 --> 01:40:31,658
Next day, I found myself
patched up

1651
01:40:31,690 --> 01:40:34,894
and sitting in a church.

1652
01:40:34,927 --> 01:40:37,663
I could barely
hold my head up,
but I needed to be there.

1653
01:40:40,100 --> 01:40:42,101
You were gonna be speaking.

1654
01:40:43,103 --> 01:40:45,139
And I needed to hear you.

1655
01:40:48,106 --> 01:40:50,644
And I was feeling down,
but you got up there.

1656
01:40:53,412 --> 01:40:54,782
You remember that day at all?

1657
01:40:55,547 --> 01:40:56,917
(SIGHS)

1658
01:40:56,949 --> 01:40:59,386
I don't think we remember it
the same way.

1659
01:41:01,020 --> 01:41:02,456
What'd I say, John?

1660
01:41:04,189 --> 01:41:06,225
I'm about to tell you
right now.

1661
01:41:07,694 --> 01:41:09,395
And I hope you hear me.

1662
01:41:11,997 --> 01:41:15,368
You said
that we would triumph.

1663
01:41:15,402 --> 01:41:18,538
That we would triumph
because there could be
no other way.

1664
01:41:22,876 --> 01:41:24,478
And you know
what else you said?

1665
01:41:29,716 --> 01:41:30,551
You said,

1666
01:41:31,717 --> 01:41:33,153
"Fear not.

1667
01:41:34,654 --> 01:41:37,423
"We've come too far
to turn back now."

1668
01:41:49,502 --> 01:41:51,305
KING: I feel good
about where we are.

1669
01:41:51,337 --> 01:41:53,172
We have a strong case.

1670
01:41:53,206 --> 01:41:55,375
We can do this.

1671
01:41:53,206 --> 01:41:55,375
Right.

1672
01:41:55,408 --> 01:41:59,177
KING: Now, Ms. Cooper
and Ms. Boynton are here,

1673
01:41:59,212 --> 01:42:00,581
and they need to be ready.

1674
01:41:59,212 --> 01:42:00,581
LEWIS: Mmm-hmm.

1675
01:42:02,815 --> 01:42:05,018
KING: A lot depends on
what they have to say. Okay?

1676
01:42:05,051 --> 01:42:06,854
YOUNG: Mmm. I hear
what you're saying, but...

1677
01:42:29,074 --> 01:42:30,444
You're here.

1678
01:42:32,945 --> 01:42:34,648
Yes, I'm here.

1679
01:42:40,554 --> 01:42:41,555
I'm glad.

1680
01:42:55,734 --> 01:42:58,471
Just in time.

1681
01:42:58,505 --> 01:43:00,405
In the matter of
the  Southern Christian
 Leadership Conference

1682
01:43:00,439 --> 01:43:02,309
 v. the state of Alabama,

1683
01:43:02,341 --> 01:43:05,412
I will now hear testimony
from the plaintiffs. Mr. Gray.

1684
01:43:06,878 --> 01:43:09,448
Your Honor, you will hear
testimony from the victims

1685
01:43:09,481 --> 01:43:11,652
who were beaten and bludgeoned
in their quest for freedom.

1686
01:43:12,918 --> 01:43:15,421
For their right to vote
and to self-determine.

1687
01:43:16,322 --> 01:43:17,556
The fact of the matter,
Your Honor,

1688
01:43:17,591 --> 01:43:20,859
is that the incidents that
occurred cannot be disputed.

1689
01:43:20,893 --> 01:43:22,930
These particular circumstances

1690
01:43:23,863 --> 01:43:25,731
will paint
a thorough picture

1691
01:43:25,765 --> 01:43:28,868
of the horrific events
endured in Selma.

1692
01:43:29,869 --> 01:43:32,204
Very well, you may proceed.

1693
01:43:32,238 --> 01:43:34,474
Mr. King, you went out
on that bridge

1694
01:43:34,506 --> 01:43:35,943
in direct violation
of that judge's orders.

1695
01:43:37,176 --> 01:43:39,011
You deliberately
disobeyed this judge

1696
01:43:39,045 --> 01:43:40,279
and the Governor,
did you not?

1697
01:43:41,613 --> 01:43:44,951
Thousands of people
came to Selma,

1698
01:43:44,984 --> 01:43:48,421
aroused by Sunday's
brutal acts

1699
01:43:48,454 --> 01:43:52,024
exacted by officials
of the city of Selma

1700
01:43:52,057 --> 01:43:53,993
and the state of Alabama.

1701
01:43:54,027 --> 01:43:57,130
I felt if I had not
led the march,

1702
01:43:57,162 --> 01:43:59,231
pent-up emotions
and inner tensions

1703
01:43:59,265 --> 01:44:01,268
would have led to
an uncontrollable

1704
01:44:01,301 --> 01:44:03,302
retaliatory situation,

1705
01:44:04,938 --> 01:44:07,940
a violent situation
on both sides.

1706
01:44:07,975 --> 01:44:09,274
I don't need any of your
preaching and prancing
in here,

1707
01:44:09,309 --> 01:44:10,542
you hear?
I want an answer.

1708
01:44:10,576 --> 01:44:11,944
Objection.

1709
01:44:11,978 --> 01:44:12,845
Watch it, counselor.

1710
01:44:13,579 --> 01:44:14,648
I'm trying very hard, Judge.

1711
01:44:15,215 --> 01:44:16,449
Try harder, counselor.

1712
01:44:22,521 --> 01:44:25,625
 It seems basic to
 our constitutional principles

1713
01:44:25,658 --> 01:44:28,595
 that the extent of
 the right to assemble,

1714
01:44:29,529 --> 01:44:31,497
 and demonstrate and march

1715
01:44:31,530 --> 01:44:33,399
 along the highway
 in a peaceful manner

1716
01:44:33,431 --> 01:44:34,900
 ought to be commensurate

1717
01:44:34,935 --> 01:44:37,604
 with the enormity
 of the wrongs

1718
01:44:37,637 --> 01:44:39,605
 that are being protested
 and petitioned against.

1719
01:44:40,739 --> 01:44:44,944
 In this case,
 the wrongs are enormous.

1720
01:44:47,747 --> 01:44:48,614
 Therefore,

1721
01:44:49,783 --> 01:44:53,386
the extent of the right
to demonstrate

1722
01:44:53,420 --> 01:44:56,489
in an estimated five-day march
from Selma to Montgomery

1723
01:44:57,323 --> 01:44:59,525
has been approved accordingly.

1724
01:44:59,559 --> 01:45:01,094
MAN: Yes!

1725
01:44:59,559 --> 01:45:01,094
WOMAN: Thank God!

1726
01:45:01,127 --> 01:45:03,195
(CROWD MURMURING)

1727
01:45:03,229 --> 01:45:05,032
JUDGE: There's no further
business with this court.

1728
01:45:05,931 --> 01:45:07,667
These proceedings
are concluded,

1729
01:45:07,699 --> 01:45:09,502
with our thanks
to the litigants.

1730
01:45:11,003 --> 01:45:12,572
Good day, gentlemen.

1731
01:45:23,817 --> 01:45:26,453
(INDISTINCT)

1732
01:45:28,154 --> 01:45:29,555
MAN: Yeah, that's right.

1733
01:45:29,588 --> 01:45:31,625
Well, now, we don't like
to have no mistakes, if you...

1734
01:45:31,658 --> 01:45:32,693
If you're sure about it.

1735
01:45:34,627 --> 01:45:38,465
Bayard says that Harry says
he can get Nina Simone,

1736
01:45:38,497 --> 01:45:42,435
Dick Gregory, Joan Baez,
Peter, Paul and Mary in.

1737
01:45:42,469 --> 01:45:43,636
(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING
IN SURPRISE)

1738
01:45:43,670 --> 01:45:45,537
Come on now.
We don't got
money for that.

1739
01:45:45,570 --> 01:45:47,407
Well, Harry is chartering
a plane himself.

1740
01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:50,344
 ♪ Day-O, day-O

1741
01:45:51,578 --> 01:45:55,414
ALL:
 ♪ Daylight come
 and me wan' go home ♪

1742
01:45:55,448 --> 01:45:58,217
President's angling
for your blocking

1743
01:45:58,251 --> 01:46:00,554
of the march
to be overturned.

1744
01:46:01,554 --> 01:46:03,622
Unfortunately, all my
maneuvers have been

1745
01:46:03,655 --> 01:46:05,992
put on hold
while the matter's
being adjudicated.

1746
01:46:15,635 --> 01:46:16,536
 JOHNSON:  Governor,
 you wanted to talk.

1747
01:46:17,537 --> 01:46:19,072
Well, Mr. President...

1748
01:46:20,539 --> 01:46:23,042
Malcontents are
disrupting Alabama,

1749
01:46:23,076 --> 01:46:26,078
and it's your responsibility
to stop them.

1750
01:46:27,146 --> 01:46:29,849
They're protesting about
the right to vote

1751
01:46:29,881 --> 01:46:33,386
and the way they're treated
in your state.

1752
01:46:33,418 --> 01:46:37,423
So that's your problem,
your responsibility,

1753
01:46:37,457 --> 01:46:39,426
and it's on your watch.

1754
01:46:40,193 --> 01:46:43,095
Mr. President, I disagree.

1755
01:46:43,128 --> 01:46:46,466
We have a certain way things
are done. It's the way it is.

1756
01:46:46,498 --> 01:46:48,435
And it's the way
the people want it to stay.

1757
01:46:50,770 --> 01:46:53,238
George, why
are you doing this?

1758
01:46:53,271 --> 01:46:55,041
Your whole career
has been working
for the poor.

1759
01:46:55,074 --> 01:46:56,542
Why are you off
on this black thing?

1760
01:46:57,443 --> 01:46:59,679
Well, 'cause you can't
ever satisfy them.

1761
01:47:00,947 --> 01:47:02,881
First, it's the front seat
of the bus.

1762
01:47:02,916 --> 01:47:05,618
Next, it's take over
the parks,

1763
01:47:05,652 --> 01:47:07,453
then it's the
public schools,

1764
01:47:07,487 --> 01:47:10,390
then it's voting,
then it's jobs,

1765
01:47:10,422 --> 01:47:13,092
then it's distribution
of wealth without work.

1766
01:47:16,295 --> 01:47:18,230
George, you seen
all those demonstrators

1767
01:47:18,264 --> 01:47:19,631
out front of
the White House

1768
01:47:19,666 --> 01:47:21,734
keeping my Lady Bird awake
the whole damn night?

1769
01:47:21,766 --> 01:47:23,837
Oh, yes, Mr. President.
I saw them.

1770
01:47:23,869 --> 01:47:26,805
Well, let's go out there,
you and I,

1771
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:28,474
and announce that
you've decided to let

1772
01:47:28,507 --> 01:47:29,876
the blacks vote undeterred,

1773
01:47:30,810 --> 01:47:32,811
and this whole mess
will go away.

1774
01:47:32,845 --> 01:47:35,481
And I don't have to draft
bills or force the issue.

1775
01:47:36,748 --> 01:47:39,018
Now, why don't
we do that, George?

1776
01:47:39,051 --> 01:47:41,621
Why don't you just
let the niggers vote?

1777
01:47:42,788 --> 01:47:44,789
You agree they got the right
to vote, don't you?

1778
01:47:44,823 --> 01:47:46,759
Oh, there's no quarrel
with that.

1779
01:47:46,792 --> 01:47:48,662
I know that.
That's the law.

1780
01:47:49,796 --> 01:47:51,465
Then why don't you
just let 'em vote?

1781
01:47:52,064 --> 01:47:53,699
I don't have that power.

1782
01:47:53,733 --> 01:47:55,635
It belongs to
the county registrars.

1783
01:47:55,668 --> 01:47:57,671
Now, don't shit me
about who runs Alabama.

1784
01:47:59,271 --> 01:48:00,840
I don't have
any legal power

1785
01:48:00,873 --> 01:48:03,743
over the county registrars,
Mr. President.

1786
01:48:03,775 --> 01:48:05,645
They have their regulations
and they adhere.

1787
01:48:06,612 --> 01:48:08,614
Are you trying to shit me,
George Wallace?

1788
01:48:09,515 --> 01:48:11,550
Are you trying
to fuck over
your President?

1789
01:48:11,583 --> 01:48:12,952
Mr. President...

1790
01:48:12,984 --> 01:48:15,354
We shouldn't even
be thinking about 1965.

1791
01:48:15,387 --> 01:48:17,823
We should be thinking
about 1985.

1792
01:48:18,824 --> 01:48:20,694
You and I'll be
both dead and gone by then.

1793
01:48:22,095 --> 01:48:24,564
In 1985, what do you
want looking back?

1794
01:48:24,597 --> 01:48:26,198
You want people
remembering you sayin',

1795
01:48:26,231 --> 01:48:30,237
"Wait," or "I can't,"
or, uh, "It's too hard"?

1796
01:48:33,538 --> 01:48:36,042
I don't right care
what they think,

1797
01:48:36,076 --> 01:48:38,110
and you shouldn't neither.

1798
01:48:43,750 --> 01:48:44,818
Well...

1799
01:48:46,551 --> 01:48:48,753
I'll be damned
if I'm gonna let history

1800
01:48:48,787 --> 01:48:51,757
put me in the same place
as the likes of you.

1801
01:48:55,961 --> 01:48:59,698
 I speak tonight
 for the dignity of man

1802
01:48:59,731 --> 01:49:02,668
 and the destiny of democracy.

1803
01:49:03,735 --> 01:49:07,139
 At times, history and fate

1804
01:49:07,172 --> 01:49:10,844
 meet at a single time
 in a single place.

1805
01:49:12,278 --> 01:49:16,983
 So it was last week
 in Selma, Alabama.

1806
01:49:18,618 --> 01:49:21,886
 There, long suffering
 men and women

1807
01:49:21,921 --> 01:49:24,789
 peacefully protested
 the denial

1808
01:49:24,823 --> 01:49:27,493
 of their rights as Americans.

1809
01:49:27,525 --> 01:49:29,828
 Rarely in any time

1810
01:49:29,862 --> 01:49:32,798
 does an issue lay bare
 the secret heart

1811
01:49:33,832 --> 01:49:35,769
 of America itself.

1812
01:49:37,136 --> 01:49:41,408
 The issue for equal rights
 for the American Negro

1813
01:49:41,440 --> 01:49:42,641
 is that issue.

1814
01:49:44,109 --> 01:49:44,978
 For this issue,

1815
01:49:46,078 --> 01:49:48,914
 many of them
 were brutally assaulted.

1816
01:49:53,853 --> 01:49:57,323
 There is no Negro problem.
 There is no Southern problem.

1817
01:49:58,823 --> 01:50:01,795
 There is only
 an American problem.

1818
01:50:01,828 --> 01:50:03,329
(POLITICIANS APPLAUDING)

1819
01:50:04,896 --> 01:50:07,833
 The Constitution says that

1820
01:50:07,867 --> 01:50:11,502
 no person shall be kept
 from voting

1821
01:50:11,537 --> 01:50:13,872
 because of his race or color.

1822
01:50:15,375 --> 01:50:19,613
 To correct the denial
 of this fundamental right,

1823
01:50:19,645 --> 01:50:24,050
 this Wednesday,
 I will send to Congress a law

1824
01:50:24,082 --> 01:50:27,886
 designed to eliminate
 these illegal barriers.

1825
01:50:28,654 --> 01:50:31,189
 The bill will strike down

1826
01:50:31,222 --> 01:50:34,894
 voting restrictions
 in all elections,

1827
01:50:34,926 --> 01:50:38,364
 federal, state and local.

1828
01:50:40,431 --> 01:50:42,135
 And we shall do this.

1829
01:50:44,502 --> 01:50:47,673
 We shall overcome.

1830
01:50:48,341 --> 01:50:50,076
(APPLAUSE)

1831
01:51:05,425 --> 01:51:07,726
We believe we can cover you
through Lowndes County,

1832
01:51:07,760 --> 01:51:09,694
but once we add
the final day's march

1833
01:51:09,728 --> 01:51:11,329
through Montgomery,

1834
01:51:11,363 --> 01:51:12,797
and you're passing through

1835
01:51:12,832 --> 01:51:13,932
all those tall buildings
and whatnot,

1836
01:51:13,966 --> 01:51:15,801
coverage becomes challenging.

1837
01:51:17,569 --> 01:51:19,872
So please consider

1838
01:51:21,341 --> 01:51:23,042
driving in on the final leg.

1839
01:51:23,074 --> 01:51:26,145
And please consider nixing
the speech at the Capitol.

1840
01:51:28,881 --> 01:51:30,884
Well, if Wallace
will see us
when we arrive,

1841
01:51:30,917 --> 01:51:32,851
there'll be no need
for a speech.

1842
01:51:33,418 --> 01:51:34,487
(CHUCKLES)

1843
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:35,320
Can you arrange that?

1844
01:51:41,661 --> 01:51:43,029
I can't hide.

1845
01:51:44,764 --> 01:51:47,132
We can't hide.
You understand.

1846
01:51:51,270 --> 01:51:53,773
I don't want to see this
go wrong for you.

1847
01:51:56,341 --> 01:51:58,377
Don't you want
to protect yourself, Doctor?

1848
01:52:00,412 --> 01:52:02,282
Let me try to do that.

1849
01:52:05,150 --> 01:52:06,985
You know, I know you
want to live to see

1850
01:52:07,019 --> 01:52:09,122
the fruits of all this work.
I know you do.

1851
01:52:12,358 --> 01:52:15,194
I'm just asking
you to allow us
to help you do that.

1852
01:52:23,735 --> 01:52:25,838
I'm no different
than anybody else.

1853
01:52:28,140 --> 01:52:30,076
I want to live long
and be happy.

1854
01:52:33,278 --> 01:52:36,082
But I'll not be focusing
on what I want today.

1855
01:52:38,117 --> 01:52:40,220
I'm focused on
what God wants.

1856
01:52:44,023 --> 01:52:48,027
We're here for a reason,
through many, many storms.

1857
01:52:52,664 --> 01:52:54,734
But, today,
the sun is shining,

1858
01:52:54,766 --> 01:52:56,668
and I'm about to
stand in its warmth

1859
01:52:56,702 --> 01:52:58,704
alongside a lot of
freedom-loving people

1860
01:52:58,738 --> 01:53:00,506
who worked hard
to get us here.

1861
01:53:02,041 --> 01:53:03,810
I may not be with them

1862
01:53:03,842 --> 01:53:06,078
for all the sunny days
to come,

1863
01:53:08,380 --> 01:53:10,850
but as long as there
is light ahead for them,

1864
01:53:13,319 --> 01:53:14,988
it's worth it to me.

1865
01:53:24,529 --> 01:53:26,064
Thank you, John.

1866
01:53:27,065 --> 01:53:30,302
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)

1867
01:53:36,676 --> 01:53:39,212
(INAUDIBLE)

1868
01:55:09,269 --> 01:55:10,536
(CROWD CHEERING)

1869
01:55:10,569 --> 01:55:13,972
 KING:  We heard them say
 we'd never make it here.

1870
01:55:16,442 --> 01:55:18,978
 We heard them say
 they'd stop us,

1871
01:55:19,011 --> 01:55:20,646
 if it was the
 last thing they did.

1872
01:55:23,181 --> 01:55:26,653
 We heard them say
 we don't deserve to be here.

1873
01:55:29,054 --> 01:55:32,658
 But today,
 we stand as Americans.

1874
01:55:33,926 --> 01:55:35,528
(CROWD CHEERING)

1875
01:55:36,662 --> 01:55:38,131
 We are here,

1876
01:55:39,297 --> 01:55:42,135
 and we ain't gonna let nobody
 turn us around.

1877
01:55:43,769 --> 01:55:46,139
 This mighty march,

1878
01:55:47,273 --> 01:55:49,440
 which will be counted as
 one of the greatest

1879
01:55:49,475 --> 01:55:53,445
 demonstrations
 of protest and progress,

1880
01:55:53,479 --> 01:55:56,748
 ends here in the
 Capitol of Alabama

1881
01:55:56,782 --> 01:55:58,551
 for a vital purpose.

1882
01:55:59,751 --> 01:56:01,386
 We have not fought only

1883
01:56:01,420 --> 01:56:04,088
 for the right to sit
 where we please

1884
01:56:04,122 --> 01:56:07,493
 and go to school
 where we please.

1885
01:56:07,525 --> 01:56:11,264
 We do not only strive here
 today to vote as we please.

1886
01:56:12,631 --> 01:56:14,432
 But with our commitment,

1887
01:56:14,466 --> 01:56:18,804
 we give birth each day
 to a new energy

1888
01:56:18,837 --> 01:56:22,073
 that is stronger than
 our strongest opposition.

1889
01:56:22,108 --> 01:56:24,542
(CROWD CHEERING)

1890
01:56:24,576 --> 01:56:27,846
 And we embrace
 this new energy so boldly,

1891
01:56:27,880 --> 01:56:30,515
 embody it so fervently,

1892
01:56:30,550 --> 01:56:33,353
 that its reflection
 illuminates a great darkness.

1893
01:56:33,886 --> 01:56:35,188
(CHEERING)

1894
01:56:36,588 --> 01:56:39,458
 Our society
 has distorted who we are.

1895
01:56:41,092 --> 01:56:43,796
 From slavery
 to the Reconstruction

1896
01:56:43,829 --> 01:56:47,567
 to the precipice
 at which we now stand,

1897
01:56:47,600 --> 01:56:53,838
 we have seen powerful
 white men rule the world

1898
01:56:53,872 --> 01:56:58,344
 while offering poor white men
 a vicious lie as placation.

1899
01:56:59,677 --> 01:57:02,680
 And when the poor
 white man's children

1900
01:57:02,715 --> 01:57:05,784
 wail with a hunger
 that cannot be satisfied,

1901
01:57:06,885 --> 01:57:10,155
 he feeds them
 that same vicious lie.

1902
01:57:10,622 --> 01:57:12,024
(CROWD AGREEING)

1903
01:57:12,056 --> 01:57:13,359
 A lie whispering to them

1904
01:57:14,426 --> 01:57:16,462
 that regardless
 of their lot in life,

1905
01:57:17,697 --> 01:57:21,500
 they can at least be
 triumphant in the knowledge

1906
01:57:21,533 --> 01:57:25,771
 that their whiteness makes
 them superior to blackness.

1907
01:57:26,637 --> 01:57:27,739
 But we know the truth.

1908
01:57:29,341 --> 01:57:31,377
 We know the truth, and we will

1909
01:57:31,409 --> 01:57:34,346
 go forward to that truth,
 to freedom.

1910
01:57:34,913 --> 01:57:36,248
(CHEERING)

1911
01:57:37,748 --> 01:57:39,385
 We will not be stopped.

1912
01:57:41,319 --> 01:57:43,622
 We will march for our rights.

1913
01:57:43,655 --> 01:57:47,960
 We will march to demand
 treatment as full citizens.

1914
01:57:47,993 --> 01:57:51,463
 We will march until the
 viciousness and the darkness

1915
01:57:51,497 --> 01:57:54,132
 gives way
 to the light of righteousness.

1916
01:57:54,167 --> 01:57:55,501
(CHEERING)

1917
01:57:55,533 --> 01:57:58,805
 No man, no myth,

1918
01:57:59,904 --> 01:58:04,377
 no malaise
 will stop this movement.

1919
01:58:04,409 --> 01:58:09,215
 We forbid it. For we know
 that it is this darkness

1920
01:58:09,247 --> 01:58:13,118
 that murders the best in us
 and the best of us.

1921
01:58:14,586 --> 01:58:18,091
 Whether Jimmie Lee Jackson
 or James Reeb,

1922
01:58:20,125 --> 01:58:23,694
 or four blameless little girls

1923
01:58:23,729 --> 01:58:28,167
 struck down
 before they had even begun.

1924
01:58:29,835 --> 01:58:34,538
 You may ask, when will we
 be free of this darkness?

1925
01:58:34,573 --> 01:58:37,509
 I say to you today,
 my brothers and sisters,

1926
01:58:37,542 --> 01:58:40,912
 despite the pain,
 despite the tears,

1927
01:58:40,947 --> 01:58:43,614
 our freedom will
 soon be upon us.

1928
01:58:43,649 --> 01:58:46,350
(CROWD CHEERING)

1929
01:58:46,385 --> 01:58:50,555
 For "truth crushed to earth
 will rise again."

1930
01:58:53,257 --> 01:58:55,461
 When will we be free?

1931
01:58:56,694 --> 01:58:59,198
 Soon, and very soon.

1932
01:58:59,230 --> 01:59:01,766
 Because you shall reap
 what you sow.

1933
01:59:06,137 --> 01:59:07,739
 When will we be free?

1934
01:59:08,707 --> 01:59:10,676
 Soon, and very soon.

1935
01:59:11,676 --> 01:59:14,713
 Because no lie
 can live forever.

1936
01:59:18,149 --> 01:59:20,719
 When will we be free?

1937
01:59:20,752 --> 01:59:22,820
 Soon, and very soon

1938
01:59:22,854 --> 01:59:25,490
 because "Mine eyes have seen

1939
01:59:25,524 --> 01:59:28,460
 "the glory of the coming
 of the Lord.

1940
01:59:28,493 --> 01:59:30,595
 "He is trampling out
 the vintage

1941
01:59:30,628 --> 01:59:33,164
 "where the grapes of wrath
 are stored.

1942
01:59:33,198 --> 01:59:35,065
 "He hath loosed
 the fateful lightning

1943
01:59:35,100 --> 01:59:37,301
 "of his terrible swift sword.

1944
01:59:37,336 --> 01:59:39,371
 "His truth is marching on.

1945
01:59:39,404 --> 01:59:41,640
 "Glory! Hallelujah!

1946
01:59:41,673 --> 01:59:44,009
 "Glory! Hallelujah!

1947
01:59:44,042 --> 01:59:46,145
 "Glory! Hallelujah!

1948
01:59:46,177 --> 01:59:49,215
 "His truth is marching on."

1949
01:59:52,951 --> 01:59:56,255
(INSPIRATIONAL SONG PLAYING)

1950
02:04:21,886 --> 02:04:24,689
(WORKERS IN SELMA SINGING
TRADITIONAL HYMNS)

1951
02:04:25,305 --> 02:05:25,506
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