American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with William Harbour, 2 of 2

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zoo you know but with so much to enter one of things that we had practiced in nashville one of framingham they would always tried to hold the question of you know they get the first and we had done so why young ladies females and had jammed with what i'm jim's wife who were soaked and win and win we began to go to go towards him and white females assume we can cover them to keep him get beat so that but i'm also forceful and things are happening so far has until monday but it really even have them out and so then we stood so we can attack that also a custom others are bigger that same time you'd be deadly so the rail when fraction the bruises and i constantly not a major like my jam and damage
and what you try to play it but you can get to me what happened was he says us all the mob our program in the news the news people and was being a moment and p was still gathering was supposed thousand delegates to a gallon a mustache so although we can do is we had drum protect yourself a better unless once it was one bound to a be a post office to get protection from those were good for them things are happening so i'm runnin and people ran after the game and thats a soulful and we get scared or a lawyer to a protected of us because of the mob and so i'm so grateful
he did tens of thousands in robes but a bad baseball bats stakes change emily your folly leo police camera on earth is a plan that the police would not show up in the mustache and then you will come in and they have a pedigree for protection and to monitor and among them a push when you were coming but when a bus line of protection as a get a synonym of them knew that they should've picked up on the bus going to the bus station but they didn't so i think it was the lyric that they would wait until the mob ilias for certain point in time and then they showed up you're a year from now that's
how you up with his view is surprising the movement of people do i was very surprised distant thing that would happen in alabama i guess i've been into the near death of song o and see that type of model that will happen in an n and asked him in an in birmingham among them are those flaws with my memory and his committee celeste their free will is a place in several thousand community and get rightfully game and the kings come and they're there with a mass meeting that night to find them at the other end it's a mess in the church and then let's say in a next step
and the next level it could be an image from civil war we didn't know at first because we didn't have a place to look into the person committed and we don't want the mama was located so we'll have a chance to talk to jail until the mass meeting which was the next nine years there have been indirect we think we are well when felt better and that mccain would be ale to us and we knew that some of michael decision was a second phase of the decision to come in because the bottom of the reddest up among them and then the same type of thing which i think was not worse among them women decision again when the wreckage in anderson that's a way was
the meal of nashville tennessee were the wreckage in iowa we get protection from government when they use it that day or that week we knew that it would not that was something that that was also the law and good lord and pass and and that women have not been enforced and not he was trying to sit and do some defend that that they would have a right to do because a lot of government press for the ride on the bus with one of the station so there was some so we had an incident that we will really content to make a shoe that blows enforced and it won't stop and go but major conflict an issue haven like there was a church we sold the odd hours after member of a conductor moments
in the cars burned and outside of the church sit in church with museum posters yet the beautiful stained glass and you can see the fire of a fire on outside harlan from from groups on our side and they took us in to listen the one for the road open the quest and so if you're full of the mug came in italy can find us like an astaire because now most of that question to be pessimistic so he's dealer knew he was one of freeman's so well negotiation will most of it and that the king was a wicket calling them that can diminish nation and china's protection cause i read the little miniature so you get rid of that anonymous a dozen church it to tell people in search for big nasty and i was afraid also oh so true
union organizer what the news was the center for the most needy it was great no no probably knew that the victims and turn that we had pep things will happen and special friday we knew that we had about king was talking to were the canon ministration and that they also targeted owner patterson they would've said it will continue for it will potentially into jackson listen to their children about what they're feeling pretty good that the mannequins and taliban's inner happen when you sigh no hope of the first what users is only the people that what in the missing and as tam progress
oh yeah so you know ok with ursula church no reason at her most happy the government set about fort hood ben and go into jerusalem as maybe two three hundred people away not that became a retired person until twenty twelve when will you know that sir and i'm a while was introduced bills saying in freedom songs and have a good term and so forth and if i was ok liza minnelli and that mccain left from upstairs downstairs so about a fella someone loyal and as tam progress it turned out and the
new solo i wonder how i'm an unknown and so flexible like through the stained glass windows and you know they use it because of some other members it was ten and the church had public of a mass at a church and the klan again dumas begins cars over the months and was that what you love mr holland see because martins awful and we felt that you know that we had had protections and go away and we knew that the king was mike and so will call unassuming doesn't cause we thought they don't want georgia mr shalit thing that the toppling of church we just knew that the church on the sofa and weaken europe or we can leave the church because jamal was on outset just a game of the bus in montgomery and among them in a bus station
virtually no love was there but we knew him and among them and that the mobs are now sell them that the church and i would be a public years before you took out so we track an exceptional job of death are trapped in a church on the wane for some two thousand and eight and then eventually that came came up and i was at that they can demonstrate an idiot what it would've done or the missouri the detectives and we should go to church and got out now three miles and church other people and the comedian george to three hundred people and to go where's the new midnight with no protection founded after remember you know i remember the big armored trucks national guard big ships coming in and his daughter goes up at a church and when the song a bit but on the trip that's what i understand that the national and other ties and frozen and was
uncontrollable of them so long as you are there two hours i guess touches yours with women and children and they're coming here it was women children and they knew about it from i would happen among them and there was concern to say want to know what will happen and i was awake amid mass means among the maryland and other decision and we made it and we let the church we had a fat so ago we couldn't go to a motel that have no motive that might vote no if they can so we had a fight and they had a fire and people in the community that was willing to let us come in our house and stay until the next day because if tomorrow we will look at their problem out of them so that was one
reason what took them so long for us to work leave the church cause we had the health of the agreement from commuter leaders committed folks that has come into the night what was the role of feeling in the year in churches paul trachtenberg only austerity you know because we're still making speeches walls of human well anyway we try to do is especially vivid tried to will cuba's come because they knew would go into so much a day but late in manhattan with mit when we realize it was trapped in the church it was fun for a lot of metaphors was emphatic and children injured so lawfully in general unintelligible happens when overly broad in a church or
a little concert in unison does that ensures you know the next day i know isn't really in the oil whisking to do the other trivia buffs filing center a woman in nashville tennessee for to prevent it and took some poems ale the two second planted thousand and then turn around two days later cub us back into a winner michael jackson and on an object in the city then jackson miss if those arrests or walked in to be a bus station and gas will hammer and cocaine miller rest of rope bridge of peace to jail the next next day to trial and was so it's a richer bass payphone citadel as a success its asset base undue so we refused to pay
bail bonds to restore calm and we'll provide permanent housing jackson and her that had reporters later and we later when they were transferred us to pasha most epic western for an amazing grit i had sex and a lesbian but called the sad that we need is some people to test the system in a call and says atlanta last clue they sell one selected to an elderly than sixty days and the what an african history tells the foreign and is in prison so you and you and me they believe a letter from a person was in jackson and when i rose saying and haven't determined and things is graydon and no in an hour or a minute pitch alone tumbled
with the runaways in prisons because all in and wanted to present to us from nepal in a sudden that i'm gay anderson this god upon effort a big prison cell i just can't believe i'm in prison and a real person and i was watching and that's where the head of the air was a state president as well and murders and every bite of it i was not mixed in with jail population and prayers these two separate them and them up so that they they they had a big following them and dependable a sentimental moment <unk> i would say now strike didn't do it but they raise it all food they had the new goat milk the ultimate outcome of that was so it within about land who went on to one good impression that with the flu was that about lebanon was in jackson and jackson miss a year or more thank
you well what they said and ruin disturb me on concussions at one and one of the hit at the end and you know so you know and it and bassist of precedent as a widget know until it was sunday assimilate is coming when they get a new testament robert and they admitted that outrageous sunday you rise at that jesus christ to me finish to happen so you knew that was sun because they would come in in the kitchen a preacher and then that they will burn out ms jen john lewis's also weren't stolen and some actually attests to read about a book about seven times and we kept term passion compassion but that you knew when sun was coming cause you have the civilians singing oh you
know honestly as a passer time i was in jackson am a long hunger strike an anathema at about three d triple h as one developer also assist on lehman and then the car back in and it was a mention of the most human human you're welcome jacki when you say a confidential been about us around whether they say remember that jam there was meant density was used to spend a summer and we get to point out among the bow undone we talk about paul assassin bauman jail and about a male and then we talked about the fight that they pray so long to jail blue bossa nova as a journey to be there at that will and the envelope please go of a lot of members at this jail so a lot of fun for the weakness in love it this
year gary lindsey van in the side of the wall so you said that the part where you look at the folly of passion but a tennessee state and that was a former president in a letter that there had been a spill from consistent publicist bill from tennessee state when that happens we found a petition guest theo estate so inmates mr c video discussion disinterested in ohio well that's one semester came out in that you can see at the un that semester we won the case and call biggest backers to back is going to graduate in four years you about war but they said that during
your urine ok so there are school this is a really special is that they don't get one back to nashville tennessee state house so now back in school again and then september when you receive a letter from the president to his estate where the impression that the border region to expel us because of space grew and they said because you have violated the nice stable of been arrested for minutes we'll hear the history of disrespect that correct mom so coming out islam video well i think there's a lead because i was from alabama and the bus that would burn and ashton's
autonomous well bonnie raitt will glasgow in and one of the reasons that a new terror and i'm from here and i thought that the senate though that i will probably help of event happened we had a lot of them they have to a bus for real you're right but what i think will happen is that beyond the sexes in a black folks thought that the adjustment cannot ministration was a friend of aleppo and for most of that and also demonstrations going on and most of different place in the south i will fill that demand in that time and feel that the demonstration
was a certain an effort to make sure that we protect it and i thought it was a disappointment to a lot of levels at the time cause we felt that we were part of it the recent lead in the can and you can get elected president i voted him but but we had a feeling that i would go in a friend of the ministry's one thing that you were successful the pontiff you're fired while our party well one reason they moved them on i grew up in a small town in nashville tennessee which was a lot of time there was a major forest with my spirits and then other places don't wanna someone so for what us so that we can make a difference with a trained
now at first so that really open and in those activities will happen because even alone the freedom and was impartial mississippi a mother willis is something come home so used to use back to my hometown and i said i couldn't go home because you had people obama said good because you're like a party mouse out of the house away from income and yet of the folks that came an unknown bought a house masha let them know my issue is played at so not only that i have from them and freedom and i'm a fan of a father worked in a small and kind of man effective place and a western portions urban area especially song on television that the little w is to let them he raised me in and finish ask who knows what kind of grown out a loan
but he can't allow crown royal family got probably muster some bills that was an unscrew that turned demos of ten and they come from a fossil fuels a lot of weight and wait outside of i think that us senators out of tune and the family and the family was so that way you're listening that it didn't happen here you go when it's one of things and unhappily this and so the freedom rides and so many years tennessee state felt that they need to apologize to the students at the economist group so last september the forty seven years later when collin and i think they were saved the power does the grey appreciate that
- Series
- American Experience
- Episode
- Freedom Riders
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- Interview with William Harbour, 2 of 2
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- William "Bill" Harbour was a student at Tennessee State University on the Nashville, Tennessee, via Birmingham, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama ride, May 16-20, 1961.
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- History
- Race and Ethnicity
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- American history, African Americans, civil rights, racism, segregation, activism, students
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- (c) 2011-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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- 00:25:30
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- Chicago: “American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with William Harbour, 2 of 2,” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 18, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5s98m.
- MLA: “American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with William Harbour, 2 of 2.” WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 18, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5s98m>.
- APA: American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with William Harbour, 2 of 2. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-cc0tq5s98m