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I'll give a brief sketch of our speaker for it is an illustrious one. He was born in the Caul dest of Georgia. He graduated from Paine College in Georgia. He did graduate work at the American University of it. And also at Yale University. He was assistant professor of law of the Georgia State College and he was a member of Mike Wallace's News that. Was a feature staff writer for the newspaper the Chicago America. He has written several books. One being the reluctant African. Which won the Saturday Review any spiel will award in 1916. And the negro revolt which. Has just. Been. Currently released from the press and is available. And he has a
forthcoming within the next month. Another book. Which to me is greatly interested. Interesting I have talked at length with him about this book. It isn't titled When the word is good. It's a commentary upon the Black Muslims. He is also a television producer. For the. American Broadcasting Company network. His award winning show in this role won the national acclaim and international acclaim and was in my shoes. He has also recently returned from a trip to Cuba and I might add that he's one of the very very few people in America to whom the government will issue or give the OK to go on and to Cuba at this time.
They let him go down there so that he would come back and write his impressions which believe you me are something worth looking for. It's a great honor. Great privilege for me to introduce to you. Ladies and gentleman. Mr. Lewis eat alone at thousand. Right. Now. If every negro. In San Francisco. Would do this we.
Give to the United San Francisco freedom movement. The price of one fifth of scotch. You would have two hundred and forty thousand dollars with which to fight discrimination too much for it. Right. With that kind of money. You could find out what's wrong in your school system when they skip over a community and transfer people and leave negroes in the ghetto. With that kind of money you could find out who goofed up in the building trades industry in San Francisco. With that kind of money you could come to some sensible and humanitarian solution to the problem of about 15000 or more people at Hunter's Point. With that kind of money you could find out why so many negroes in this area are working in jobs which are lower than their skills.
For you see. If only on next Saturday night. We Negroes decided that instead of buying a fifth of scotch. We're going to buy our quota of freedom by ten o'clock next Monday mornin San Francisco would be a swinging time. Right. Right. And once met Christopher found out that you had brains and guts enough to do that. He would be coming to see you rather than your having a go see you right. Because if there is one thing that I have observed in these freedom movements all over these nice. Ribbons you're going to have to excuse me if I get along here tonight. This is not a premie you know this is some opposed to a bad meeting really. I have found all of these freedom movements throughout the United States.
That these white people don't believe you. And when you tell them that you are tired they laugh. When you tell them that you're going to do something they chuckle and say well you can even get you 90. And when you tell them that you're going to upset the economy of the town they don't believe it because you see not only in the South but in San Francisco the white power structure is convinced that they know they're negroes. They're convinced that they have five or six key negroes upon whom. They can rely to keep you believing that everything is approximately All right and that one day by and by a charter it's going to swing on to the Golden Bridge and not. I. But I left everything I have seen in the past few days is erroneous and I don't believe it is.
I think we're going to have news for a lot of people in a lot of places before this battle is over. I. Know. I have come here as against OF THE UNITED San Francisco freedom movement to talk to you. There frankly. They can do it again. You don't need me to fly all the way from New York to lives you can get anybody to come to there. You don't need me to come out here and spend your money and my time. To smoove feather. And pretend all is well because they're always well we wouldn't be here in the first place. So let us then. My brothers and sisters. Dig in. And let's talk about. Your town. Our country.
And I would. You know we need rooms have been free that is to say we have been without chains for a hundred years. This is the 1 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. And despite. The fact. That we have had a century of some kind to freedom. We are still debating the right of a negro in Mississippi to vote. The right of a negro woman in Birmingham Alabama to trial an address before she buys it. The right. Of a Negro family in San Francisco to live wherever. Their incomes will allow them.
It's been a long century hasn't it. And we've fought. Long. We've fought Hobb. And the negro through this first century. On his side so-called approximated freedom. Had a faith. A faith that kept us from going crazy. I kept the fees that kept ups. From committing suicide while the oppressors were jumping off tall building so we had a fever that. Kept us somehow. Bound together. During our hundred years epitomized by the effort of all you need to make us hate ourselves.
To make the needlewoman disrespect the negro man. To make the negro man heat the negro woman. To make the negro child hate the sight of his mother and his father of. 400 years we have been the victim says all the Count Killie need. Educational system. Desire. To perpetuate the notion. That our boys and girls would grow up and shine shoes and be mean be cool and be buttoned up for 100 years. We have been living in a nation the cold itself Christer. But a nation whose. White kids. Acquiesced. Not only in discrimination and in segregation but a nation whose white Paty often preached deep Christian doctrine.
Which said that you and I are the offshoots of him who was cursed by no up and therefore it is the will of God that I shine his shoes and clean up. We have. Had to cut our moral and religious itas only Kristen doctrine. Perpetrated by. White clergymen and white churches which not only taught us that being black was being inferior and being to the left of morality. But by Christianity which even projected the picture of God as being a white man. And I can remember you see I'm the son and the grandson the Baptist preachers on both sides so I know what I'm talking about. I can remember year after year of my childhood life going to Sunday school and
every Sunday. And yes most of you seen this you pick up your Sunday school called you remember the Sunday school and there was a picture of Jesus with the woman at the well. And you take a good look at Jesus and you had sandals on his feet. You had on a flowing robe and his golden locks were waving in the breeze and his blue eyes shining into the sun. And I used to look at this picture of Jesus and he looked just like some of the members of the Ku Klux Klan who used to. Come up. And I asked my father and I asked my grandfather I said could it be that not only is the governor of my state who called me a nigger and a coon white. Not only is the president of the United States who refused to lift a finger to free me from bondage white. Not only is the mayor of the town which would even let me
go to the washroom white Not only is the superintendent of schools who keeps me in inferior schools white but could it be that even my God he is white and he's turning against me. And my father took me by the hand and he said Come son let us reason and study together. And we begin to turn the page with everything. And we found out. That whoever pictured Jesus as being white was having a white man's nightmare. Because there is only one description of Jesus anyway out in the Bible. And it says Jesus's hair. Was like sheep's wool which means he looks more like red and he means that he does like Norman Vincent Peale. Thank you. And it was during this century of mishmash
Christianity calculated to make me hate myself and to think that even God was allied against it. It was during this Cintra of mis education. Where no less a man than WB Dubourg following to make the Indian line of inheritance and the faults of the Linnaean wept even W.B. Dubois for a while came to the conclusion that perhaps the black man by nature was incapable of learning quite as much as a white man. It was in doing this since you're in it you and I are talking about that we were not able to get to steal. He's not able to get the learning not able to quit our hopes and sharpen our minds on the finest mental exercises our nation has to offer. But through all of this century you see we had a face. We sent. Swing Low Sweet Chariot. We didn't really think the church was going to pull into Union Station.
But we were cooking something. You know how you ladies cook something on the back burner. We say. Go down most of us we down in Egypt land. Tell a little Pharaoh to let my people go. Now we weren't really talking about anybody going into Egypt and we talked about Pharaoh we weren't really talking about in Egypt Jordan King. In fact if you had opened the negro's head and looked at his image of Pharaoh Pharaoh would have come out looking just like James Eastland because that is what the liberal secular. And we came to church on Sunday morning and fangs to a long line of men some of whom I'm glad to say are behind me here tonight. We held ourselves together. Getting ready making men. Making
women. Make a negro who would one day stand up. And be somebody. During that century we believe to many of us in our own inferiority doing that century. We had to take the low road. We key was steeped in humility self-effacement. And as Dr. Abernathy has described sometimes we shuffled our feet when we were really going anywhere. Sometimes we laughed. When nothing was really funny but we will make it. You see he had on some on the back of the bus. He couldn't see us because we were behind him but we could see him and we will study Him day by day night by night and I can remember and I'm sure many of you were with me if you've ever been in the south and seen if you were born and reared there. We spent all of our US getting ready thinking
planning scheming wheaten for the day when we could meet him on the plains like David met Goliath. Waiting for the day when we could get ourselves a slingshot. Get ourselves all right. I. We do truly believe. We can for a day when some Black Moses some brown skinned ate some inspired. Black Ball. Would come running out of the bullrushes and say the party is over. Freedom. And although I have the deepest respect. For all of the Negro leaders who occupied the top seats I say to you that we've had a long line of them. And because of all of them we are where we are today. But it was inducted Bennett's cheer when Rosa Parks feet began to hurt.
You know God does move in a mysterious way. He started a revolution because the woman was tired of Bunyan's Wilberger and she sat down on the bus and went by the time she sat down on that bus. Newspaper headlines broke loose from Calcutta the capital and a man nobody had heard of before named Martin Luther King began to walk the streets of this land. And whether you like him or whether you go with him all the way the part of the wing or half of the weight. One thing must be said. He was the man of the hour and with respect to everybody else it's my duty. Thank you. Thank. You America. Bowl fit to say. Rise up. Thank God he had a long line of distinguished men behind him and with you. And so with all of. The first century.
Of our freedom comes to a close. But no I'm saying to you tonight my friends that this. Is another center. And the fever that brought us safe thus fall was a feast full of that century. But with your indulgence tonight I'm going to establish the thesis that this is another century and we need another things we've got to shift good times or. Things have changed. Things are not like they used to be and they never will be that way anymore. And we've got to adapt. Our methods. And I would techniques to suit the needs of the oil. First of all. We've got to adopt. A new faith. Concerning the dignity. Of being black. Our eye.
The day is over now for bleaching cream in history. God made me just like I am. He made my hail just like Indians. And he made you children just as they all. Are. And I'm saying the time has come for you to worry less about what's only his head and worry about what's in his head. Oh one symphony no let's let the. America needs rule. Quit being the C of B and barrack. Because despite. What you've been told this spite what you been taught.
I don't know about you but I'm somebody. I was somebody even before I got here. If you go into a new unit back to my African heritage. I won't weep kings and wood princes are held in civilisation I'm going. On the west coast of Africa. And I talk to a man from Europe how to think I taught him in Egypt how to count. I called him into my. Book touring and meeting people up and figured out that the world wasn't flat. I'm somebody. Who even as I came to America. I moved even before he got here with the French into the Mississippi that. I was a black man are marked with coat tails into Mexico thank of when this country was ready to cut loose the shackles of colonialism. I know a black man in Crispus Attucks. Was the first man to die in Boston is coming.
To see you thank you thank you. Think it was merely trying to figure out. How to keep time. Owing in Benjamin Banneker came up with a principle that makes the clockwork of what America was doing clowning around in the eighteen hundreds divided against itself. Are you a black man in Phillis Wheatley and poets Dunbar and soldier in the truth and Fred Douglas. I taught him how to sing I taught him how to write poetry and I taught him the meaning of eloquence because I'm somebody. Like I do books. I taught him how to think. In Booker T Washington. Whether you like it or not. I came up with one of the first plans of industrial education in this nation in World War Two. I bet you don't know when we're alone. I beat on the door and made him let me go off and die in Flanders in World War Two I would often fall tonight later and I'd die. I was down in Korea and I stood up.
Like a black man and I stood up like an American I'm somebody take the stigma of being consequent to me. On the front back. The broken man must learn to be proud of his race to be proud of his accomplishments. To be willing to get out and compete. We have nothing to fear will be them fighting in Toulouse in Willie Mays will be them playing baseball. In Bojangles will be them dancing in Marian Anderson will be them singing in Jesse Owens will be them runnin around in Ralph Bunche will run the world of they will move and get out. Thank. You there are no men Beren my brothers and sisters. Put the stigma of in consequent coldness across you when you walk down the streets of San Francisco let me define everybody else know you are somebody.
Let him know. That the American Negro needs and his will and tell him that San Francisco is your Israel and you've come to clean it. First of all then this new phase of the negro. Be proud. With the machines of being black. Black women. Stand up behind you mean. I know it will get a roughneck. We need to get Rove. You know sometimes it's necessary to preach is sometimes necessary to teach. The day when Berk women went around ripping Negro men to spread is over. If I'm weak on yours. If I'm strong I mule. And instead of standing up before all the world. Seeing the black man is no good. Get behind him in making good. I by the same
token my fellow black men in the days when you and I can go out. And gamble our money away waste our substance in riotous living. Open up a whiskey bottle and try to crawl in and pull in the call. This is old enough to know. Although. We don't have a new. Home but what does freedom train for drugs and gambling to feed the. World. No. Phone. For you. Folks like me who aren't willing to take care of their wives. And their families and their children. Because it's just as important. To support your home as it is to carry a picket sign. This is why I'm saying I want you to him and. This is why I'm saying we need clothes don't have time to play here brother minister says.
We need your church or we need the basements of your churches every night in the week for school so we need to get these girls and get them away from bebop. And the twist. And jukeboxes and let them twist up to some typewriters and some calculating machines a. Single world when we get. Old. And you girls who already know how to take. Take shorthand operate office equipment. We need you at night to come on down into these crash programs and teach those who do not know. Thank us for what good. Will it do you in San Francisco. If you go down and picket a radio station to make a white man.
Agree to hire some negro secretaries and then you keep reducing the secretaries one night. You've got to work this thing with both hands. Who would want to break open the door. With the other hand reach back in get our little boys and girls and scrub them up train them up teach them make them learn make them apply themselves and then walk like men and say Here we are ready like David to stand Most public. So this new phase of ours not only for this new century must we. Get over this business of being ashamed of being black but we've got to accept the responsibility of being black. You know Negroes don't like this but the truth is the truth. And when you in trouble. You can do the things that a man can do who's not in trouble. If the white man wants to clown off let him go ahead because he's been free all his life. If he was to sit up and watch these idiot box called Television 12 hours a day let him go
ahead and mess around rise him self own this idiot box. He can afford to waste this kind of time. If he thinks he can before I'm done and I think he's going to have second thoughts. But we cannot afford it. And I'm telling you what I do with my own son who's 11 years ago. We sit down and we say you can watch this thing for one hour. But for every one hour of television I would five hours of book reading and study. When you come upstairs and I'll stop right and we will talk about what you've been reading. You see because I know. I know my son is a negro. And I live in New York which is the funniest liberal town got it with me. And he can't just walk out of my house tomorrow and be a smashing success like a white boy can. So I'm getting my son ready to run the ring. It's getting ready to move get him ready to stand up
and trained his mind and be shot in be ready and I know many who need know will say when we are free and if we are free we have the right to do what everybody else does yes you have the right but I advise you to exercise their right. Secondly with respect to the new faith. I want to come to grips with what is probably going to be the most troubling item. Of modern times. And that is the question of techniques. The question of tactics. I don't think there's any argument in a mole that segregation and discrimination laws go the argument now is whether to use some words I don't like and we work on them. We're going to be moderates extremists or have we between.
It seems to me that this matter deserves I think can phone. In of a prayerful consideration. If by moderation you mean to sit down. And weep for the thing to happen by itself. Then there is no room only. This freedom train for moderation. Is by moderation you me that not everybody wants to get on a picket line to fall down in front of a concrete truck. I will say fine. There's a job. For you moderates to do. I've already suggested that it's just as important to train Negro children as it is to picket and get them jobs. So those of you who are moderates and you don't believe in hell raisin as you call it on the streets then you list and teach Negro kids that
night. If you don't want a picket join up with a united freedom movement and become a clerical help. Work in the office. Answer the telephone. There are a lot of things you can do as a model. We need every hand we can get. We need apply. To the weak. But I want you to get one thing clearly in your mind. The American Negro. Did not get where he is today and particularly now am I talking about the current crop. We didn't get here by being moderators. I was at Birmingham with the dogs and the phials us and Dr. Bennett can certainly back me up because he was among them or and it goes back to what I said to you in the beginning of my talk.
They don't believe you. They don't believe you. Deep down in your heart sometimes you don't believe yourself. And it's not going to be until thousands. Of you negroes in San Francisco. Joining in on an um with the white brother in who are with you. And walk the streets. You mark my words then and only then are you going to get what is rightfully yours. But you do if you were going to get it. But doing nothing you would have had it a hundred years ago. I. Did it was only. After we took to the streets in Montgomery in South Carolina. In North Carolina in Birmingham and now. All over the North it was then and only then did something begin to
happen. You see my son when he grows Listen to this. You've got to learn what is coal power. You are locked in the greatest power struggle in modern history. My friend Burbage was right. The thing that we're working on now can upset the economy not only in San Francisco but the economy of the world. I know. The feeling that you will work you know now is so deeply embedded in American life that the entirety of American economy turns around the fact that you're going to remain exactly where you all. So when you stand up and start moving you digging into people's pocketbooks and they're not going to give this up without a struggle. And don't you let anybody illusion you one minute into believing that all you have to do is saying and praying and shout and this thing is going to
be fixed. It is not going to be fixed. I. It's good to be fixed. Only when you fix it. And when these men go down and sit at the bargaining table with Matt Christopher. That should be 15 or 20000 of you ready to move on behind him in case Christopher doesn't want to straighten up and fly right. I. Doubt a lot of people see through those of us who advocate marching in moving that this isn't Christian. This is more of I wonder if they are talking about the same Christ. I know they couldn't be the cause of the craze. I know in whom I learned about as a child. Was the most revolutionary man ever to hit the face of the year is.
He was a revolutionary birth. When he was told the whole he walked into the temple and confounded the elders with a revolutionary interpretation of the test. He took out the word vengeance and with a revolutionary sweep of his hand he substituted the word groups. He lived a revolutionary life. He walked with the forbidden women to the well. And drank Revolutionary War. He wound up. Only a mountain of Olive's and preached a revolutionary cause he wouldn't get similar. And on his last night's Preta revolutionary prayer. He got up. And walked to the top of the Mount of Olives and he died a revolutionary death. They buried him in a revolutionary groove. Only Still he had a revolutionary ascension and with whom to a revolutionary heaven
to live with a revolutionary gold. Medal. The whole Christian tradition is steeped in direct action. You gentlemen up and down in front of the big groups picketing. You look like Jesus when he went into the teeth into the temple and found the money changed. So let me tell you that you are not being ethical. Let no man tell you that you cannot be and what's happening to this country of ours is that these people are trying to reduce Jesus to white suburbanite. He never was and he's not now. A white suburbanite middle class promise to consider it. Never was. And the sooner. You minister. Hoon I don't increase to the beat. Tell them that their God demand that they stand up and be somebody.
Tell them that their religion says Whatsoever you buy and own earth I will buy it in heaven and I don't plan to carry a segregation home I have been doing better clean it up right. And I think Dr. Haynes and Dr. Bennett you other members of the clergy and I speak this way because. I've been so close to the ministry all my life. You meet him stand on the threshold of glory. The group this of the founder is in your hand San Francisco. I've been around the country a bit around the world and I can tell you from what I've seen you on the threshold of great if you just keep good hearts and strong miners and determination and if you lose does will linger with the leadership. Let's everybody get together. We don't have to be of one
mind. Just be of one basic agreement that segregation has got to go. Thank you. I. Do can do your job in the pulpit. You can do your job in the classroom. Others can do their job in the cook room. Some can do that job from the night club stink. Others of us who know him pick it but we're all black men working for the good old black man combine and you quit calling press conferences talking about meat and I'll quit calling them talking about you. Rightly. I. See. What we have in this new leadership thing we've got a number of cardinals all of them in Mascot row in their red robes and hats. See this one leads over here. That's all right and this will lead the way here and this one is in charge of this little holy
see over here and this one is in charge of something over here and everybody is mad. You sing because he can't get his picture on the front page of The Chronicle every morning. We know you see there is a way out of all of this and the way out of it is they're simple. For all of you to come together and decide on the various things you're going to do. You preach him both this week and we're going to tackle the big Negroes to cook burger you Chairman next week broke a bit and we'll go down to a radio station and make him hire some negro announcers or you could go over there in the next week. Will revolve around him you will be too. And will go out and pick in a construction site. It's the same organization. We can rotate the chairmanship. You fall in front of a truck let him get your picture today. Thank
you. But basically what I'm seeing is this. Basically what I'm seeing is this that you need new leaders who have led us well. And only asking you keep only. Don't let your ego get in the way of Mansong Freberg. Thank you. And so I'm seeing two older new groom leaders in San Francisco and I've said to new group leaders we're having the same kind of problem elsewhere. All of you call them those who have. This. And I and them committing you into the hands of the people and you cardinals
go in conclave and we're going to wait. For the smoke. To come out the chimney. But if you still go to Rome. We the People are going to hold a conclave. And when you come down you will be too late because the revolution will be go. Now this does not mean in terms of leadership in the new generation that we need to all unify. Behind one man. Don't ever do that. Have you self Tweedie leaders. That way you can accomplish a number of the this even makes it impossible. For any one man to go down to city hall and get on a freight elevator and sell out everything. But when you've got 20 leaders all of them working under a big
umbrella then you the people will always know what's going on and not only will you always know what's going on. But as I said to the people out it Stanford University Friday night. You will keep the enemy fire have off balance and that's half of your back. And one of the reasons why I'm so glad that we have six or seven big Negro leaders not so it makes it impossible. For anybody to pull away anybody's up and the only thing that can satisfy us is freedom. You see they can go in they might try to get a deal would roll a loop and if they get a wrong then they've got to deal with Whitney Young. If they get better Whitney then they've got to deal with a full brand of it if they get Burfoot wind up then they've got to deal with John Lewis of the student movement. And if they get by him then they've got to deal with Martin Luther King. And if they get by everybody then they don't have to deal with Malcolm X and God help all of us. What I'm really seeing in terms of Negro leadership is.
They use the Negro people of San Francisco make you leaders do right. Tell them to quit fighting in public. Suddenly their problems on the plume. And let them know. That if they want to lead lead and if they don't move and you put somebody else up to me. Now I want to come to what will be my final point and then I would try to summarize all this. Finally I want to say to you native San Francisco that you're not alone. You are a part of something that's going home all over the world for the
negro's struggle is but. A poll. Of the struggle of the Have-Nots against the head. Men of the well. Tired. Of being hungry and their children filled with disease while a few people live up on the mountain top with plenty of the well attacked of having their limit is their dignity is their freedoms taken away from them. But do you my beloved brothers and sisters are the key. You were the key because. You the 20 million black people dead in the whole of the America. And America holds the end so. The future of Western civilization. And whether you know it or not. When these young men line up. And leave comes with the clergy. And lay leadership.
And issue the call for you to come. This is the call of history. Saying to black Americans the future of Western civilization. Is in your own lane for Western Civilization has become so filled with greed so filled with corruption so run over with the oppressing of peoples all over the world. The point Western civilization cannot save itself. We know we'll. Can put some of the love of God out and the concern for the dignity of man back. Into the spiritual fiber of the western civilization. You were a part of a great and a noble thing. I didn't see him do you. He not only of good courage not only do I see below good cheer. Not only do I see you stand fast but I see them to you.
Get ready for the road ahead. Is not going to be an easy road. The nation indeed your town. Is headed for trouble. Just issues God sits in glory because giving is not holding forth in high place. And he's not going to give up. You've got to go and move it. You're going to have to march. You're going to have to pick. You're going to have to sing. You're going to have to pray. You're going to have to will look. You're going to have to preach. You're going to have to struggle but deep in your heart seeing we're going to overcome because we're right. We can overcome because God himself walked the picket line.
Would we go to overcome because the very Spirit of Christ said that evil cannot be left alone to stand and to grow and hold the minyan over mankind. And so the time has come for every one of us to stand up. And be counted. What can you do. What can you do. Give you money give you time give you energy give you money give you a sit. Don't be alone because all of us don't do the same thing everybody. They can work each in his own way and as I talk about this I'm remembering it before they tore down that beautiful building a shopping center in Chicago shopping center where they had all kinds of departments men clothes women's books children's clothes toys hardware.
And families used to come in a group. To shop. And the men would go up to one place the women to another the children's toy land. But in the Rotunda in the center of the first floor of the building they had a huge fountain with water going almost up to the ceiling and around the fountain were inscribed with the words. When you finish shopping let's all meet at the fountain and go home together and I think that is the central thing to be remembered as we launch into the second century of our freedom as we launch to take over San Francisco and make it the town that it oughta be. You shop. In your own little civil rights way you shop in whatever department fits you with talent in your mind. You shop in the bargain basement you go and pick it up when we finish shopping. Let's all meet two at the fountain of freedom and go home together.
And you know when you meet around that fountain you find some illustrious people who believe. The lone way being in a rod in his hand and he says My name is Moses. I'm glad to meet you at the Freedom Front. I got here because God said Use what you have in your hand. And I smoked a lot. In the water pot. Here I am. At the front and right next to him will be a 33 year old country preacher with a crumpled phone still on is it. And he will say I'm glad to see you at the Freedom found I asked what could I do for freedom and the word came back from my father. You must give your life and I said so be it. And I'm glad to be here at the front. And if you go around the Philippine you will find the great name throughout history. Rousseau Voltaire bacon Locke the intellectual the moto giants
of all mankind who came to the fountain by using them on round one part of the fountain will be a black man humped over says My name is George Washington Carver. I made it to the fountain by doing things with a peanut. This is what I did. You moved on a little fired up. You know the man they're saying My name is WCB Dubourg and I said it's alright to train the negro's hand but you better train his head. And I'm glad to see you at the fountain. And as you move around the fountain the great man in black and white Jew and Gentile Catholic and Protestant regardless of creed regardless of faith regardless of religion but men who have a love that is linked to the heart of God. They are gathered at the fountain. It is coming from his own occupation but meeting at the fountain to go home and you shall meet us there and we can will of accord sing Glory glory hallelujah. God's troops goes marching home.
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Louis Lomax in San Francisco
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Louis E. Lomax addresses a rally in San Francisco in late August 1963 of the United San Francisco Freedom Movement, on Black Civil Rights, and the need for inter-racial cooperation.
Broadcast Date
1963-08-20
Created Date
1963-08-00
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Event Coverage
Topics
Social Issues
Race and Ethnicity
Public Affairs
Subjects
Lomax, Louis E., 1922-1970; African Americans--Civil rights--History
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Sound
Duration
00:52:59
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Credits
Producing Organization: KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
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Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: 10002_D01 (Pacifica Radio Archives)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: PRA_AAPP_BB0416_Louis_Lomax_in_San_Francisco (Filename)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Master
Duration: 0:52:55
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Citations
Chicago: “Louis Lomax in San Francisco,” 1963-08-20, Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 17, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-cn6xw4841p.
MLA: “Louis Lomax in San Francisco.” 1963-08-20. Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 17, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-cn6xw4841p>.
APA: Louis Lomax in San Francisco. Boston, MA: Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-cn6xw4841p