01:00:02:20    01:00:06:29    [REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS] I JUST HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT IN EVERY PERSONALITY

01:00:07:00    01:00:10:07    THERE'S SOMETHING GOOD, THERE'S SOMETHING DECENT, THERE'S SOMETHING SACRED.

01:00:10:08    01:00:15:03    AND WE DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO GO AROUND DAMAGING ANOTHER PERSONALITY.

01:00:15:04    01:00:17:11    SO I BELIEVE IN NONVIOLENCE

01:00:17:12    01:00:20:08    AS A WAY OF LIFE, AS A WAY OF LIVING.

01:00:20:09    01:00:22:07    DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

01:00:22:08    01:00:24:05    ASSASSINATED MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE,

01:00:24:06    01:00:26:09    APRIL 4TH, 1968.

01:00:26:10    01:00:30:04    [LEWIS] TELL THE STORY. TELL THE STORY.

01:00:30:05    01:00:35:14    AND TELL IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

01:00:35:15    01:00:40:04    WE MUST FREE OURSELVES, THE WAY OF VIOLENCE, THE WAY OF DIVISION.

01:00:40:05    01:00:41:24    WE CAN LAY DOWN THIS HEAVY BURDEN.

01:00:41:25    01:00:45:08    HATE IS TOO HEAVY A BURDEN TO BEAR.

01:00:45:09    01:00:50:17    WITH MOST PEOPLE, THEY JUST DON'T SEE JOHN LEWIS GIVING A SPEECH,

01:00:50:18    01:00:53:02    THEY FEEL JOHN LEWIS IN TERMS OF WHAT HE'S DONE

01:00:53:03    01:00:56:15    AND THE IMPACT ON THIS COUNTRY, SO THEREFORE THEY LISTEN.

01:00:56:16    01:01:02:17    HERE IS SOMEBODY WHO WALKED INTO FIRE HOSES AND CATTLE PRODS

01:01:02:18    01:01:06:06    AND BEATINGS AND REMAINED ABSOLUTELY NONVIOLENT.

01:01:06:07    01:01:10:04    WHAT JOHN LEWIS DID, MOST AMERICANS COULD NEVER DO,

01:01:10:05    01:01:14:13    TO BE BEATEN AND NOT FIGHT BACK.

01:01:14:14    01:01:17:07    [PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA] IT IS A RARE HONOR IN THIS LIFE

01:01:17:08    01:01:20:14    TO FOLLOW ONE OF YOUR HEROES.

01:01:20:15    01:01:26:04    AND JOHN LEWIS IS ONE OF MY HEROES.

01:01:26:05    01:01:30:13    HIS EXPERIENCE IS SEARED INTO OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY.

01:01:30:14    01:01:32:11    PEOPLE DIED FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

01:01:32:12    01:01:35:01    FRIENDS OF MINE. COLLEAGUES OF MINE.

01:01:35:02    01:01:40:16    JOHN PUT HIS FORCE OF HIS SOUL AGAINST THE SYSTEM.

01:01:40:17    01:01:42:21    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

01:01:42:22    01:01:45:29    WE MUST BRING THIS WAR TO AN END.

01:01:46:00    01:01:49:10    AND HE HAS NOT, UM--

01:01:49:11    01:01:50:18    HE'S NOT WAVERED.

01:01:50:19    01:01:54:10    [APPLAUSE]

01:01:54:11    01:01:58:03    [LEWIS] THERE'S SOMETHING DEEP DOWN WITHIN ME, MOVING ME,

01:01:58:04    01:02:00:08    THAT I COULD NO LONGER BE SATISFIED

01:02:00:09    01:02:03:11    OR GO ALONG WITH AN EVIL SYSTEM.

01:02:03:12    01:02:07:03    [LEWIS] I WOULD ASK MY MOTHER, I WOULD ASK MY FATHER,

01:02:07:04    01:02:10:06    MY GRANDPARENTS, "WHY? WHY THIS? WHY THAT?"

01:02:10:07    01:02:13:11    THEY SAID "DON'T GET IN TROUBLE. DON'T GET IN THE WAY."

01:02:19:24    01:02:23:02    [ANNOUNCER] "JOHN LEWIS: GET IN THE WAY" WAS MADE POSSIBLE

01:02:23:03    01:02:24:16    IN PART BY...

01:02:45:29    01:02:49:26    THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY VIEWERS LIKE YOU.

01:03:03:18    01:03:05:16    [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:03:09:15    01:03:12:14    [MICHAEL COLLINS] THE CONGRESSMAN AND I HAVE THIS RUNNING JOKE

01:03:12:15    01:03:15:02    ABOUT HOW I THINK HE'S A NICER PERSON IN ATLANTA

01:03:15:03    01:03:16:13    THAN HE IS IN WASHINGTON.

01:03:16:14    01:03:18:20    -I'M GOING BACK TO ATLANTA. -ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

01:03:18:21    01:03:20:07    HE'S MORE FUN-LOVING

01:03:20:08    01:03:24:13    AND GOING, GOING, GOING, GOING, ALL THE TIME.

01:03:27:08    01:03:29:14    [LEWIS] IF WE CAN WORK IT OUT, IT'D BE GOOD TO GO THERE.

01:03:29:15    01:03:32:13    TRY TO SAVE THOSE TWO SEATS.

01:03:32:14    01:03:34:13    YEAH, BUT YOU GO TO LAS VEGAS.

01:03:34:14    01:03:35:18    THIS THURSDAY?

01:03:35:19    01:03:39:00    -NO, THURSDAY THE 21ST. -RIGHT.

01:03:39:01    01:03:43:09    ♪ WE CAN LEAVE OUR SORROW BEHIND ♪

01:03:43:10    01:03:47:13    ♪ EVERYBODY NEEDS A LITTLE TIME TO SHINE... ♪

01:03:47:14    01:03:49:11    YOU DON'T HAVE ANY INSURANCE.

01:03:49:12    01:03:52:29    THERE'S A LOT OF HOT DOGS, EAT THE HOT DOGS.

01:03:53:00    01:03:56:04    [LEWIS] ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS DISTRICT,

01:03:56:05    01:03:59:01    THEY CALL ME THEIR SON, THEIR BABY.

01:03:59:02    01:04:01:22    -HEY, NICE SEEING YOU. -GOOD TO SEE YOU NOW,  TAKE IT EASY.

01:04:01:23    01:04:03:16    JERRY, YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THE BLACKBERRY, DON'T YOU?

01:04:03:17    01:04:05:14    YEAH, I KNOW HOW TO DO BLACKBERRY.

01:04:05:15    01:04:08:16    THEY WALK UP AND THEY SAY, "I'M SO PROUD OF YOU."

01:04:08:17    01:04:10:10    I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE I WALKED WITH DR. KING

01:04:10:11    01:04:12:20    -JUST IF I CAN  STAND NEXT TO YOU. -THANK YOU.

01:04:12:21    01:04:14:21    [LEWIS] AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, REALLY.

01:04:14:22    01:04:19:09    SO THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO COME HOME TO THAT RESERVOIR

01:04:19:10    01:04:22:04    AND COME BACK TO GET A LITTLE STRENGTH.

01:04:28:08    01:04:33:05    I COME FROM SOUTHEAST ALABAMA.

01:04:33:06    01:04:36:10    I GREW UP ON A FARM.

01:04:36:11    01:04:39:11    MY FATHER WAS A SHARECROPPER.

01:04:39:12    01:04:43:04    BUT THAT WAS LIFE GROWING UP

01:04:43:05    01:04:47:04    IN RURAL ALABAMA IN THE '50S.

01:04:47:05    01:04:52:03    GROWING UP THERE, I SAW THOSE SIGNS THAT SAID, "WHITE MEN."

01:04:52:04    01:04:56:23    I SAW THOSE SIGNS THAT SAID, "COLORED MEN."

01:04:56:24    01:05:02:17    WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, I WAS BUSSED LONG DISTANCES OVER UNPAVED ROADS,

01:05:02:18    01:05:05:12    DUSTY IN SUMMER AND MUDDY IN WINTER,

01:05:05:13    01:05:09:03    TO ATTEND OVERCROWDED, POORLY STAFFED,

01:05:09:04    01:05:11:03    SEGREGATED SCHOOLS.

01:05:11:04    01:05:13:28    THE EVIL SYSTEM OF SEGREGATION

01:05:13:29    01:05:17:15    HAVE BEEN BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF RACISM,

01:05:17:16    01:05:21:12    GREED, HATRED, AND THE DENIAL OF HUMAN NEEDS.

01:05:21:13    01:05:26:00    IT WAS A CLOSED SOCIETY, AND EVERYWHERE I TURNED...

01:05:26:01    01:05:28:23    HI, LOLA, HOW YOU DOING? HOW YA DOING?

01:05:28:24    01:05:32:00    -GOOD TO SEE YOU.  YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED ONE BIT. -NEITHER HAVE YOU.

01:05:32:01    01:05:34:08    BABY, YOU MAY HAVE PUT ON A POUND OR TWO.

01:05:34:09    01:05:35:28    [LAUGHS]

01:05:35:29    01:05:37:11    [LOLA FELTON] HE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A PREACHER.

01:05:37:12    01:05:40:10    AND HE WOULD CARRY HIS BIBLE ALL AROUND WITH HIM.

01:05:40:11    01:05:44:01    AND WE'D HAVE HIM PREACHIN', AND COURSE HE WAS SINCERE,

01:05:44:02    01:05:46:19    BUT WE WERE NOT, YOU KNOW. WE WOULD JUST LAUGH.

01:05:46:20    01:05:48:29    AND I'M GONNA TELL THE CHICKEN STORY TODAY.

01:05:49:00    01:05:52:07    I FELL IN LOVE WITH RAISIN' CHICKENS.

01:05:52:08    01:05:56:20    AND I RAISED THOSE CHICKENS LIKE NO ONE ELSE COULD RAISE CHICKENS.

01:05:56:21    01:05:59:08    SEE, I GREW UP WITH THE IDEA OF BECOMING A PREACHER.

01:05:59:09    01:06:01:03    -THAT'S RIGHT. -I WAS GONNA BE A MINISTER.

01:06:01:04    01:06:03:16    AND I USED TO RAISE CHICKENS.

01:06:03:17    01:06:06:03    I USED TO PREACH TO THE CHICKENS.

01:06:06:04    01:06:08:05    HE DID. IT WAS GREAT.

01:06:08:06    01:06:10:09    ONE OCCASION, I TRIED TO BAPTIZE A CHICKEN.

01:06:10:10    01:06:13:20    I TRIED TO SAVE THE SOUL OF A CHICKEN.

01:06:13:21    01:06:15:02    SO WHAT YA ALL FEED THESE CHICKENS?

01:06:15:03    01:06:18:14    [WOMAN] WE FEED THEM CORN. CRACKED CORN.

01:06:18:15    01:06:21:09    AND ON OCCASION, A CHICKEN WOULD GET SICK

01:06:21:10    01:06:23:16    AND A CHICKEN WOULD DIE.

01:06:23:17    01:06:25:00    WE BURIED THEM.

01:06:25:01    01:06:28:02    WE BURIED THEM. WE HAD A CHICKEN CEMETERY.

01:06:28:03    01:06:31:10    -I DELIVERED A EULOGY  AT THE FUNERAL. -RIGHT.

01:06:31:11    01:06:36:09    AND HE WOULD PREACH SO, AND HE'D MAKE US FEEL LIKE WE WERE AT AN ACTUAL FUNERAL.

01:06:36:10    01:06:39:29    WE'D BE CRYING AT SOME CHICKEN'S FUNERAL.

01:06:40:00    01:06:42:06    HE WAS A SLOW BUILD.

01:06:42:07    01:06:45:01    THIS IS MY UNCLE, JAMES CARTER.

01:06:45:02    01:06:46:18    THIS IS MY MOTHER'S BROTHER.

01:06:46:19    01:06:49:13    AND THIS IS A COUSIN, JAMES BOSWITH.

01:06:49:14    01:06:51:29    [LEWIS] I HAVE SIX BROTHERS

01:06:52:00    01:06:54:05    AND THREE SISTERS.

01:06:54:06    01:06:57:11    HAD MANY, MANY FIRST COUSINS THAT LIVED NEARBY.

01:06:57:12    01:06:58:11    MAKE IT LEVEL.

01:06:58:12    01:07:01:03    AND THIS IS SAM.

01:07:01:04    01:07:04:07    THIS IS-- TAKE YOUR HAT OFF, SAM.

01:07:04:08    01:07:06:13    YOU SEE? THIS IS JOHN'S IMAGE.

01:07:06:14    01:07:08:07    SOMETIMES SHE CALLS ME HIM AND CALLS HIM ME.

01:07:08:08    01:07:10:18    [TYNER LAUGHS]

01:07:10:19    01:07:13:19    [LEWIS] MANY OF THE VALUES THAT I ACQUIRED

01:07:13:20    01:07:16:18    CAME FROM MY MOTHER AND FROM MY FATHER.

01:07:16:19    01:07:19:22    THEY BELIEVED THAT YOU SHOULD TREAT PEOPLE FAIR

01:07:19:23    01:07:22:18    AND YOU SHOULD BE KIND TO EVERYBODY.

01:07:22:19    01:07:26:17    IT'S A GOOD SEASON OF THE YEAR TO HAVE A GOOD MEAL TOGETHER.

01:07:26:18    01:07:32:16    EVERYBODY EAT, AND EAT ALL OF THIS FOOD.

01:07:32:17    01:07:37:02    ALL OF THAT WAS FIELD. WE GREW COTTON,

01:07:37:03    01:07:41:09    AND ON THE TERRACE, WE HAD TOMATOES AND PEAS.

01:07:42:19    01:07:45:26    IT'D BE SO HOT OUT THERE SOMETIMES, IN THE HOT SUN,

01:07:45:27    01:07:49:22    AND I WOULD JUST PRAY FOR IT TO RAIN OR A CLOUD TO COME OVER.

01:07:49:23    01:07:51:11    [TYNER] HE DIDN'T WANT TO WORK.

01:07:51:12    01:07:53:04    -IT'S NOT THAT I DIDN'T  WANT TO WORK, -ALL RIGHT.

01:07:53:05    01:07:56:11    IT WAS I DIDN'T LIKE THE WHOLE IDEA WORKING IN THE FIELD.

01:07:56:12    01:08:00:04    I USED TO ARGUE WITH FATHER AND WITH MY MOTHER,

01:08:00:05    01:08:01:29    SAYING THEY WAS JUST GAMBLING.

01:08:02:00    01:08:04:22    -REALLY, THAT THEY THEY WAS... -SLAVERY.

01:08:04:23    01:08:06:14    SLAVERY.

01:08:06:15    01:08:08:01    THEY WAS TAKING CHANCE.

01:08:08:02    01:08:11:16    THEY GO AND THEY BORROW HERE  AND BORROW THERE,

01:08:11:17    01:08:15:08    AND THEN AT THE END OF THE YEAR THEY DIDN'T MAKE ANYTHING.

01:08:17:04    01:08:22:00    IT WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY, AND MOST PEOPLE SORT OF ACCEPTED IT.

01:08:22:01    01:08:27:03    THEY DIDN'T WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT.

01:08:27:04    01:08:31:03    [MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.] WE, THE DISINHERITED OF THIS LAND.

01:08:31:04    01:08:34:00    WE, WHO HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED SO LONG

01:08:34:01    01:08:37:16    ARE TIRED OF GOING THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT OF CAPTIVITY.

01:08:37:17    01:08:41:29    [LEWIS] IN 1955, I HEARD MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

01:08:42:00    01:08:43:14    SPEAKIN' ON THE RADIO.

01:08:43:15    01:08:47:02    AND I FELT LIKE HE WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ME,

01:08:47:03    01:08:49:12    SAYING JOHN LEWIS, JOHN ROBERT LEWIS,

01:08:49:13    01:08:51:00    YOU TOO CAN DO SOMETHING.

01:08:51:01    01:08:55:14    [KING] AND WE, THE NEGRO CITIZENS OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA

01:08:55:15    01:08:59:25    DO NOW AND WILL CONTINUE TO CARRY ON OUR MASS PROTEST.

01:08:59:26    01:09:02:26    [CHEERING]

01:09:02:27    01:09:04:23    [ANDREW YOUNG] THE BUS BOYCOTT

01:09:04:24    01:09:09:02    WAS NOT A CONFRONTATION WITH SEGREGATION.

01:09:09:03    01:09:13:03    IT WAS A WITHDRAWAL OF SUPPORT FROM SEGREGATION.

01:09:13:04    01:09:15:05    AND BACK DURING THAT TIME,

01:09:15:06    01:09:18:01    BLACKS HAD TO SIT IN THE REAR OF THE BUS

01:09:18:02    01:09:22:11    AND WAS NOT ABLE TO RIDE AT FRONT SEAT OF THE BUS.

01:09:22:12    01:09:25:01    THEY WOULD PUT THEIR MONEY IN THE SLOT UP FRONT

01:09:25:02    01:09:27:28    AND WOULD HAVE TO WALK TO THE BACK OF THE BUS

01:09:27:29    01:09:30:25    TO BOARD AT THE BACK DOOR,

01:09:30:26    01:09:33:11    AND OFTEN BEFORE THEY COULD GET BACK THERE,

01:09:33:12    01:09:36:10    THE DRIVER WOULD PULL OFF.

01:09:36:11    01:09:41:03    SO WHEN ROSA DECIDED SHE WAS NOT GONNA GIVE UP HER SEAT

01:09:41:04    01:09:44:03    THAT SET OFF THE BOYCOTT.

01:09:44:04    01:09:47:29    NOBODY RODE THE BUSES.

01:09:48:00    01:09:52:06    50,000 PEOPLE STOOD TOGETHER.

01:09:52:07    01:09:56:18    WE WALKED IN THE RAIN, THE SNOW--

01:09:56:19    01:09:58:19    AND IT SNOWED IN MONTGOMERY--

01:09:58:20    01:10:02:16    THE SLEET, AND THE HEAT

01:10:02:17    01:10:06:23    FOR 381 DAYS.

01:10:09:05    01:10:12:11    [LEWIS] ROSA PARKS, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.,

01:10:12:12    01:10:14:03    THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT,

01:10:14:04    01:10:16:18    HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON ME.

01:10:16:19    01:10:20:07    IT GAVE ME A WAY OUT.

01:10:20:08    01:10:24:18    IT INSPIRED ME TO FIND A WAY TO GET IN THE WAY.

01:10:24:19    01:10:29:20    JOHN LEWIS LIT UP, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE'D BEEN WAITING TO HEAR.

01:10:29:21    01:10:35:19    SOMEBODY TO MAKE A DIRECT REFERENCE TO THE PROBLEMS OF HIS LIFE.

01:10:35:20    01:10:38:06    [LEWIS] AND WHEN I LEFT AND TOOK THAT GREYHOUND BUS

01:10:38:07    01:10:40:07    TO NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, AS A STUDENT,

01:10:40:08    01:10:43:17    MY MOTHER SAID, "BE PARTICULAR."

01:10:43:18    01:10:47:02    I WOULD TELL HIM JUST LIKE I TELL HIM NOW,

01:10:47:03    01:10:50:07    I WOULD TELL HIM TO BE PARTICULAR

01:10:50:08    01:10:54:27    WHEREVER HE GO AND WHATEVER HE DO.

01:10:54:28    01:11:00:19    [LEWIS] SHE WAS SAYING, "BE WATCHFUL. BE MINDFUL. BE CAREFUL.

01:11:00:20    01:11:03:08    DON'T GET INTO ANY TROUBLE."

01:11:03:09    01:11:05:20    BUT I GOT IN TROUBLE.

01:11:05:21    01:11:08:04    GOOD TROUBLE.

01:11:08:05    01:11:11:06    NECESSARY TROUBLE.

01:11:17:03    01:11:18:15    TO GO TO NASHVILLE TO SCHOOL,

01:11:18:16    01:11:21:02    IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD, IT WAS A NEW WORLD.

01:11:23:15    01:11:28:00    TO BE IN A INTEGRATED SETTING, DESEGREGATED SETTING,

01:11:28:01    01:11:29:22    FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE,

01:11:29:23    01:11:33:03    REALLY, IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD.

01:11:33:04    01:11:34:25    [REVEREND C.T. VIVIAN] WE WERE IN SEMINARY

01:11:34:26    01:11:37:21    AND I FIRST KNEW JOHN THERE.

01:11:37:22    01:11:39:25    JOHN CAME TO SEMINARY

01:11:39:26    01:11:44:02    AND JOHN WAS NOT ABLE TO TALK WELL.

01:11:44:03    01:11:46:05    AND YOU EXPECTED THAT FROM MINISTRY.

01:11:46:06    01:11:50:18    YET, THERE WAS SOMETHING DEEPER THAN THAT ABOUT JOHN.

01:11:50:19    01:11:53:10    IT WAS NOT IN THE FINISH,

01:11:53:11    01:11:56:04    IT WAS NOT IN THE VOCABULARY, PER SAY,

01:11:56:05    01:11:59:24    IT WAS IN, IN FACT, THE FORCE OF THE PERSONALITY

01:11:59:25    01:12:01:12    THAT YOU WERE LISTENING TO.

01:12:03:14    01:12:07:00    [LEWIS] SEGREGATION, YOU JUST COULDN'T GO INTO A LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE

01:12:07:01    01:12:09:26    AND TAKE A SEAT AT A LUNCH COUNTER.

01:12:09:27    01:12:13:05    YOU COULDN'T TRY ON CLOTHING.

01:12:13:06    01:12:15:23    YOU DIDN'T LIKE THE CONDITIONS

01:12:15:24    01:12:20:06    BUT YOU DID WHAT WAS REQUIRED.

01:12:20:07    01:12:25:02    AND WE FELT IT WAS A AFFRONT TO OUR OWN DIGNITY,

01:12:25:03    01:12:26:11    TO OUR OWN WORTH.

01:12:26:12    01:12:28:10    EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT,

01:12:28:11    01:12:31:05    I STARTED ATTENDING THESE NONVIOLENT WORKSHOPS,

01:12:31:06    01:12:34:09    AND IT WAS THERE THAT I MET JIM LAWSON.

01:12:34:10    01:12:37:21    WE SAW A WRONG, AND WITH OUR BODIES,

01:12:37:22    01:12:41:00    WE WENT INTO THE SITUATION TO CORRECT IT.

01:12:41:01    01:12:43:13    AND HE KEPT SAYING WHAT WE COULD DO AS STUDENTS,

01:12:43:14    01:12:44:21    AS YOUNG PEOPLE.

01:12:44:22    01:12:47:26    HE TOLD US ALL ABOUT WHAT GANDHI ATTEMPTED TO DO

01:12:47:27    01:12:49:19    IN SOUTH AFRICA.

01:12:49:20    01:12:53:10    WE WERE TRAINED IN NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION

01:12:53:11    01:12:55:20    FOCUSED ON THE LUNCH COUNTERS.

01:12:55:21    01:12:58:05    AND THAT'S WHAT OUR TRAINING WAS ABOUT.

01:12:58:06    01:13:01:22    -NIGGER! -NIGGER!

01:13:01:23    01:13:04:12    THE ROLE PLAYING WAS CONDITIONING US,

01:13:04:13    01:13:08:16    PREPARING US, 'CAUSE WE WERE GONNA FACE OPPOSITION.

01:13:08:17    01:13:11:05    POSSIBILITY OF US BEING BEATEN.

01:13:11:06    01:13:13:22    WE HAD TO BE PREPARED.

01:13:13:23    01:13:17:14    THE FIRST MORNING THAT WE WENT DOWNTOWN

01:13:17:15    01:13:20:03    TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SIT-INS,

01:13:20:04    01:13:23:18    I WAS ASSIGNED TO GO TO WOOLWORTH'S,

01:13:23:19    01:13:25:14    AND WE WOULD GO IN AND TAKE OUR SEAT.

01:13:25:15    01:13:29:00    ORDERLY, PEACEFUL, READING A BOOK,

01:13:29:01    01:13:30:26    WRITING A PAPER.

01:13:30:27    01:13:34:15    ALL DAY. AND THEN WE WOULD COME BACK THE NEXT DAY

01:13:34:16    01:13:36:01    WAITING TO BE SERVED.

01:13:36:02    01:13:39:20    THE WHITE PEOPLE IN NASHVILLE WERE STUNNED.

01:13:39:21    01:13:42:12    I MEAN, THEY WERE MORE THAN STUNNED.

01:13:42:13    01:13:47:10    THEIR WAY OF LIFE, THEY FELT, WAS BEING DISREGARDED.

01:13:47:11    01:13:49:12    THERE WAS SOMETHING DEEP DOWN WITHIN ME,

01:13:49:13    01:13:51:00    MOVING ME,

01:13:51:01    01:13:53:08    THAT I COULD NO LONGER BE SATISFIED

01:13:53:09    01:13:55:09    OR GO ALONG WITH AN EVIL SYSTEM--

01:13:55:10    01:13:58:11    THAT I HAD TO BE MALADJUSTED TO IT.

01:13:58:12    01:14:00:03    AND IN SPITE OF ALL OF THIS,

01:14:00:04    01:14:04:20    I HAD TO KEEP LOVING THE PEOPLE WHO DENIED ME SERVICE.

01:14:04:21    01:14:07:26    [LAFAYETTE] WE KNEW THAT WE WERE STICKING OUR NECKS OUT,

01:14:07:27    01:14:10:07    REALIZED THAT YOU COULD GET BLIND

01:14:10:08    01:14:12:26    OR YOUR TEETH COULD GET KNOCKED OUT.

01:14:12:27    01:14:15:02    [LEWIS] WE HAD TO MAKE THE POINT

01:14:15:03    01:14:17:23    THAT SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PUT YOURSELF

01:14:17:24    01:14:20:09    IN HARM'S WAY.

01:14:20:10    01:14:24:22    AND IN THE PROCESS, YOU MAY STIR UP SOME VIOLENCE,

01:14:24:23    01:14:27:01    BUT YOU WOULD NOT ENGAGE IN THE VIOLENCE.

01:14:29:22    01:14:31:06    WE WERE ATTACKED.

01:14:31:07    01:14:32:26    PEOPLE WERE BEATEN.

01:14:32:27    01:14:35:13    LIGHTED CIGARETTES PUT OUT DOWN PEOPLE'S BACKS,

01:14:35:14    01:14:37:29    POURED KETCHUP AND HOT SAUCE ON PEOPLE.

01:14:39:19    01:14:44:06    THE POLICE OFFICIALS CAME IN AND ARRESTED ALL OF US.

01:14:44:07    01:14:47:18    HOLDING MY HEAD HIGH, I FELT SO FREE.

01:14:47:19    01:14:49:07    I FELT LIBERATED.

01:14:49:08    01:14:50:24    I FELT LIKE I CROSSED OVER.

01:14:50:25    01:14:52:29    [MAN] ♪ THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE ♪

01:14:53:00    01:14:55:25    ♪ I'M GONNA LET IT SHINE ♪

01:14:55:26    01:14:58:04    ♪ THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE ♪

01:14:58:05    01:14:59:18    ♪ I'M GONNA LET IT SHINE... ♪

01:14:59:19    01:15:03:01    [LEWIS] MY MOTHER FELT THAT IT WOULD BRING SHAME AND DISGRACE

01:15:03:02    01:15:06:15    ON THE FAMILY NAME FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED.

01:15:06:16    01:15:08:21    ♪ LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE, LET IT SHINE... ♪

01:15:08:22    01:15:10:12    [LEWIS] I WILL NEVER FORGET THE LETTER SHE WROTE

01:15:10:13    01:15:13:19    SAYING, "YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THAT MESS,"

01:15:13:20    01:15:16:06    AND THAT'S WHEN I WROTE HER BACK

01:15:16:07    01:15:19:18    AND TOLD HER THAT I WAS DOING WHAT I THOUGHT WAS RIGHT.

01:15:19:19    01:15:22:23    [MAN] ♪ OVER MY HEAD ♪

01:15:22:24    01:15:25:01    ♪ OH, LORD ♪

01:15:25:02    01:15:30:21    ♪ I SEE FREEDOM IN THE AIR. ♪

01:15:45:27    01:15:47:29    [LEWIS] YES, MY MOTHER, MY FATHER

01:15:48:00    01:15:50:12    TOLD ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN

01:15:50:13    01:15:52:17    WHEN I ASKED THEM ABOUT THOSE SIGNS

01:15:52:18    01:15:54:22    THAT SAID, "WHITE MEN, COLORED MEN."

01:15:54:23    01:15:58:01    THEY SAID, "THAT'S THE WAY IT IS."

01:15:58:02    01:16:01:28    YOU ARE THE LEADERS OF THE 21st CENTURY.

01:16:01:29    01:16:04:05    YOU MUST LEAD.

01:16:04:06    01:16:07:14    YOU MUST BE A HEADLIGHT...

01:16:07:15    01:16:09:29    AND NOT A TAIL LIGHT.

01:16:10:00    01:16:14:20    YOU MUST FIND A WAY TO GET IN THE WAY.

01:16:14:21    01:16:17:03    [APPLAUSE]

01:16:17:04    01:16:20:07    OH, I DO REMEMBER MY GRADUATION FROM COLLEGE.

01:16:20:08    01:16:23:26    YEARS AGO, WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GRADUATING

01:16:23:27    01:16:26:27    IN 1961.

01:16:26:28    01:16:31:15    I HAD MY ROBE. HAD MY CAP.

01:16:31:16    01:16:33:11    BUT I MISSED THE GRADUATION.

01:16:33:12    01:16:36:10    I WAS IN JAIL IN MISSISSIPPI

01:16:36:11    01:16:38:12    DURING A FREEDOM RIDE.

01:16:40:16    01:16:42:22    FOR MANY YEARS, I HAD TRAVELED

01:16:42:23    01:16:45:24    FROM TROY TO NASHVILLE

01:16:45:25    01:16:51:07    AND I'D SEEN AND FELT THE STING OF SEGREGATION.

01:16:51:08    01:16:53:06    IN THE WAITING ROOM.

01:16:53:07    01:16:56:13    GOING TO THE BACK OF THE BUS.

01:16:56:14    01:16:59:17    IN THE FALL OF 1960,

01:16:59:18    01:17:01:23    THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

01:17:01:24    01:17:05:19    HAD ISSUED A DECISION BANNING DISCRIMINATION

01:17:05:20    01:17:06:24    IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION,

01:17:06:25    01:17:09:23    BUT IT WAS NOT BEING ENFORCED.

01:17:09:24    01:17:13:11    NO SOUTHERN STATES WERE ABIDING

01:17:13:12    01:17:16:01    BY THE SUPREME COURT RULING.

01:17:16:02    01:17:18:14    THEY WERE ORDERED TO CEASE AND DESIST,

01:17:18:15    01:17:20:15    BUT NO ONE WAS DOING THAT.

01:17:24:13    01:17:27:26    [LEWIS] AND SO WHEN THE IDEA OF THE FREEDOM RIDES CAME ALONG,

01:17:27:27    01:17:29:07    THAT WAS MY MOMENT.

01:17:29:08    01:17:31:12    THAT WAS MY MOMENT.

01:17:32:12    01:17:34:05    WE HAD BEEN WARNED

01:17:34:06    01:17:36:25    THAT IT WAS A DANGEROUS MISSION,

01:17:36:26    01:17:39:00    AND WE HAD TO BE PREPARED

01:17:39:01    01:17:43:02    TO GO TO JAIL, BE BEATEN,

01:17:43:03    01:17:45:15    OR TO DIE.

01:17:45:16    01:17:48:09    [THOMAS] THE STRATEGY WAS ALWAYS BLACKS AND WHITES

01:17:48:10    01:17:50:29    WOULD SIT TOGETHER TOWARD THE FRONT OF THE BUS.

01:17:51:00    01:17:53:13    THE INTENDED ROUTE WAS TO GO

01:17:53:14    01:17:57:11    FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. TO NEW ORLEANS,

01:17:57:12    01:18:02:02    AND, OF COURSE, WE DIDN'T GET THAT FAR.

01:18:02:03    01:18:05:02    [BILL HARBOUR] THE BUS AT ANNISTON WAS SET AFIRE.

01:18:05:03    01:18:07:12    I ALSO FOUND OUT THE BUS THAT WENT INTO BIRMINGHAM,

01:18:07:13    01:18:09:07    THE RIDERS WAS BEATEN,

01:18:09:08    01:18:14:08    AND A LOT OF 'EM WAS IN BAD SHAPE.

01:18:14:09    01:18:20:08    AND WE WAS TOLD THAT THE FREEDOM RIDE HAD STOPPED.

01:18:20:09    01:18:23:11    [LEWIS] BUT BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENCE, I MADE A DECISION

01:18:23:12    01:18:26:09    WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL SIT-IN-ERS

01:18:26:10    01:18:27:22    THAT WE SHOULD FIND A WAY

01:18:27:23    01:18:29:26    TO PICK UP THE RIDE AND CONTINUE.

01:18:29:27    01:18:32:11    EVERYBODY TOLD US THAT IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS.

01:18:32:12    01:18:35:25    WE SHOULD NOT TAKE UP THE FREEDOM RIDE.

01:18:35:26    01:18:40:09    [LEWIS] WE FELT WE COULD NOT ALLOW THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE

01:18:40:10    01:18:42:29    STOP A NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGN.

01:18:45:23    01:18:50:19    [LEWIS] WE LEFT A GREYHOUND BUS STATION IN BIRMINGHAM.

01:18:50:20    01:18:52:15    WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE TRAVELING

01:18:52:16    01:18:54:19    IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE ARE TRAVELING ACROSS...

01:18:54:20    01:18:57:24    WE HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ROBERT KENNEDY

01:18:57:25    01:18:59:08    AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

01:18:59:09    01:19:01:11    AND THE OFFICIALS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA

01:19:01:12    01:19:04:19    THAT PROTECTION WOULD BE PROVIDED.

01:19:04:20    01:19:07:02    [HARBOUR] I COULD SEE FOUR POLICEMAN MOTORCYCLES

01:19:07:03    01:19:09:05    IN FRONT OF THE BUS.

01:19:09:06    01:19:12:07    A HELICOPTER WAS FLYING ON TOP OF THE BUS.

01:19:12:08    01:19:15:00    HAD STATE TROOPERS BEHIND THE BUS

01:19:15:01    01:19:18:16    AND EVERY FOUR OR FIVE MILES DOWN THE HIGHWAY.

01:19:18:17    01:19:23:13    [LEWIS] BUT WHEN WE GOT ABOUT 15 OR 20 MILES OUTSIDE OF MONTGOMERY,

01:19:23:14    01:19:27:12    ALL SIGN OF THE PATROL CARS DISAPPEARED.

01:19:27:13    01:19:29:09    [HARBOUR] AND WE PULLED INTO THE BUS STATION.

01:19:29:10    01:19:32:21    I REMEMBER JOHN SAYING, "BILL, IT'S A LITTLE TOO QUIET."

01:19:32:22    01:19:34:11    [LEWIS] IT WAS SO EERIE.

01:19:34:12    01:19:38:03    ALMOST LIKE TIME WAS STANDING STILL.

01:19:40:19    01:19:42:22    WE STARTED OFF THE BUS,

01:19:42:23    01:19:46:11    AND THE MOMENT WE GOT ON THE GROUND,

01:19:46:12    01:19:48:16    A MOB CAME OUT OF NOWHERE.

01:19:48:17    01:19:51:26    AND WENT STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE MEDIA.

01:19:51:27    01:19:54:28    AND THEY START SWINGING ON THE REPORTERS

01:19:54:29    01:19:58:04    AND KNOCKING PEOPLE DOWN AND TAKING THEIR CAMERAS

01:19:58:05    01:19:59:18    AND SMASHING 'EM, AND...

01:19:59:19    01:20:01:21    HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE.

01:20:01:22    01:20:03:20    ACTING JUST WILD.

01:20:03:21    01:20:06:08    AND SO WE KNEW WE WERE GONNA BE NEXT.

01:20:06:09    01:20:09:01    AND I SAID TO THIS GROUP

01:20:09:02    01:20:11:15    THAT WE SHOULDN'T RUN-- WE SHOULD STAND STILL.

01:20:11:16    01:20:13:25    SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID.

01:20:13:26    01:20:17:26    WE ALL JOINED HANDS AND WAITED FOR THE MOB TO COME.

01:20:17:27    01:20:19:24    AND THEY DID.

01:20:19:25    01:20:21:15    PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE.

01:20:21:16    01:20:25:23    AXE HANDLES, STICKS, PITCHFORKS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

01:20:25:24    01:20:26:26    BEATING US TO DEATH.

01:20:26:27    01:20:28:10    I WAS BEATEN.

01:20:28:11    01:20:30:22    I WAS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A WOODEN CRATE.

01:20:30:23    01:20:34:17    I THINK I WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS.

01:20:34:18    01:20:37:15    MY SEAT-MATE JIM ZWERG

01:20:37:16    01:20:42:13    WAS SO SEVERELY BEATEN HIS TEETH WAS KNOCKED OUT.

01:20:42:14    01:20:45:08    I MEAN, THEY WERE JUST VICIOUS.

01:20:45:09    01:20:47:10    IT WAS PROBABLY 15 OR 20 MINUTES

01:20:47:11    01:20:49:19    BEFORE ANY POLICEMEN SHOWED UP.

01:21:06:02    01:21:08:24    [LEWIS] WE WAS TRYING REALLY TO APPEAL

01:21:08:25    01:21:10:27    TO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE BEATING US,

01:21:10:28    01:21:15:18    APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T PROTECT US.

01:21:15:19    01:21:19:05    NONVIOLENCE IS LOVE IN ACTION.

01:21:19:06    01:21:24:25    IN SAVING THE OTHER PERSON,

01:21:24:26    01:21:27:24    IN RESCUING OR REDEEMING THE OTHER PERSON,

01:21:27:25    01:21:30:24    YOU'RE RESCUING, YOU'RE SAVING YOURSELF.

01:21:34:12    01:21:36:04    IT WAS ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO

01:21:36:05    01:21:38:11    WHEN ELWIN WILSON AND HIS FRIENDS

01:21:38:12    01:21:40:01    ATTACKED A BLACK MAN AT A BUS STATION

01:21:40:02    01:21:41:13    IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

01:21:41:14    01:21:43:22    THAT YOUNG BLACK MAN WENT ON TO BECOME A CONGRESSMAN,

01:21:43:23    01:21:44:28    CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS.

01:21:44:29    01:21:49:11    I'D ALREADY TRIED...

01:21:49:12    01:21:52:00    AND DID CHANGE MY LIFE.

01:21:52:01    01:21:54:23    [BRIAN WILLIAMS] HE SAYS HE WAS A RACIST FOR YEARS.

01:21:54:24    01:21:56:23    HE TOOK PART IN MULTIPLE BEATINGS,

01:21:56:24    01:21:58:13    HE JOINED THE KKK.

01:21:58:14    01:21:59:13    HE SAYS IT WAS...

01:21:59:14    01:22:00:18    [LEWIS] IT WAS VERY MOVING

01:22:00:19    01:22:02:04    AND VERY TOUCHING FOR ME

01:22:02:05    01:22:05:00    FOR HIM TO COME TO WASHINGTON

01:22:05:01    01:22:07:04    AND SAY, "I'M SORRY FOR WHAT I DID,"

01:22:07:05    01:22:09:29    AND I SAID, "I'LL FORGIVE YOU,"

01:22:10:00    01:22:13:26    AND I DON'T HAVE ANY BITTERNESS OR HATRED.

01:22:13:27    01:22:15:23    IT'S A GREAT FEELING.

01:22:15:24    01:22:19:20    IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THE DISTANCE WE'VE COME.

01:22:19:21    01:22:21:27    THAT'S WHAT THE MOVEMENT WAS ALL ABOUT--

01:22:21:28    01:22:24:26    TO CREATE A DIFFERENT SOCIETY,

01:22:24:27    01:22:26:04    A BETTER SOCIETY,

01:22:26:05    01:22:28:07    TO BE RECONCILED TO EACH OTHER.

01:22:32:15    01:22:35:01    IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE

01:22:35:02    01:22:37:29    A SUCCESSFUL CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

01:22:38:00    01:22:40:22    THAT DID NOT HAVE THAT STUDENT WING.

01:22:40:23    01:22:43:16    NOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BASICALLY YOUNG PEOPLE

01:22:43:17    01:22:48:02    FROM THE AGE OF 15 TO PROBABLY ABOUT 24 YEARS OF AGE.

01:22:48:03    01:22:50:22    WE'RE YOUNG, IDEALISTIC.

01:22:50:23    01:22:54:25    WE HAD A VISION OF A BETTER AMERICA.

01:22:54:26    01:22:58:05    [LEWIS] WE AFFIRMED A PHILOSOPHICAL, A RELIGIOUS IDEAL

01:22:58:06    01:22:59:07    OF NONVIOLENCE.

01:22:59:08    01:23:01:01    [LAFAYETTE] THROUGH NONVIOLENCE,

01:23:01:02    01:23:03:22    COURAGE DISPLACES FEAR.

01:23:03:23    01:23:06:15    LOVE TRANSFORMS HATE.

01:23:06:16    01:23:10:08    [HOLMES NORTON] ACCEPTANCE DISSIPATES PREJUDICE.

01:23:10:09    01:23:12:29    PEACE DOMINATES WAR.

01:23:13:00    01:23:15:27    [LEWIS] FAITH RECONCILES DOUBT.

01:23:15:28    01:23:19:15    HOPE ENDS DESPAIR.

01:23:19:16    01:23:21:25    JOHN BECAME THE CHAIRMAN OF S.N.C.C.

01:23:21:26    01:23:26:21    IN VERY LARGE PART OUT OF SHEER COURAGE.

01:23:26:22    01:23:31:09    THERE WERE THOSE WHO WERE MUCH MORE ARTICULATE,

01:23:31:10    01:23:33:27    BUT THE VOTE WAS TAKEN

01:23:33:28    01:23:38:14    BASED ON JOHN'S CLEAR REPUTATION

01:23:38:15    01:23:42:28    OF BEING COURAGEOUS AND ALSO TAKING ACTION.

01:23:42:29    01:23:46:10    AND IT WAS A ACTION-ORIENTED GROUP.

01:23:46:11    01:23:50:05    [LEWIS] WE WERE THE GUERRILLAS OF THE MOVEMENT.

01:23:50:06    01:23:54:19    AND WE DELIBERATELY WOULD PUT OURSELVES IN HARM'S WAY

01:23:54:20    01:23:58:12    TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE BLACK PEOPLE TO STAND OUT.

01:24:02:12    01:24:04:04    NEXT WEEK, I SHALL ASK

01:24:04:05    01:24:06:17    THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO ACT,

01:24:06:18    01:24:07:22    TO MAKE A COMMITMENT

01:24:07:23    01:24:09:24    IT HAS NOT FULLY MADE IN THIS CENTURY

01:24:09:25    01:24:13:01    TO THE PROPOSITION THAT RACE HAS NO PLACE

01:24:13:02    01:24:16:14    IN AMERICAN LIFE OR LAW.

01:24:16:15    01:24:20:03    I CAME HERE, 23 YEARS OLD,

01:24:20:04    01:24:23:11    THE CHAIR OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE

01:24:23:12    01:24:26:21    TO PARTICIPATE IN A MARCH FOR FREEDOM,

01:24:26:22    01:24:31:05    MARCH FOR JOBS, A MARCH FOR EQUALITY.

01:24:31:06    01:24:35:00    WELL, I WAS VERY THRILLED AND MOVED

01:24:35:01    01:24:38:00    BY BEING ASKED TO BE ONE OF THE SPEAKERS

01:24:38:01    01:24:40:07    AT THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON.

01:24:40:08    01:24:42:17    [HOROWITZ] I THINK ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE THE MARCH,

01:24:42:18    01:24:44:12    JOHN CAME INTO THE MARCH OFFICE

01:24:44:13    01:24:47:26    WITH HIS SPEECH IN HIS HAND

01:24:47:27    01:24:49:21    AND SHOWED IT TO PEOPLE,

01:24:49:22    01:24:51:02    AND WE ALL LOVED IT.

01:24:51:03    01:24:53:06    IT WAS MILITANT.

01:24:53:07    01:24:56:07    IT WAS UNCOMPROMISING.

01:24:56:08    01:24:58:04    [LEWIS] I HAD A GREAT DEAL OF ADMIRATION

01:24:58:05    01:25:02:07    FOR THE OLDER LEADERS OF THE MARCH,

01:25:02:08    01:25:05:01    BUT, IN A SENSE, I FELT LIKE THEY WERE--

01:25:05:02    01:25:07:10    I WAS ON EQUAL FOOTING.

01:25:07:11    01:25:10:15    I CAME FRESH FROM THE STRUGGLE.

01:25:10:16    01:25:14:29    FRESH FROM THE FRONT LINE OF THE BATTLE.

01:25:15:00    01:25:17:26    I WAS NOT IN NEW YORK IN A BIG OFFICE.

01:25:22:10    01:25:23:25    WHEN WORD GOT BACK TO US

01:25:23:26    01:25:25:13    THAT THERE WERE SOME PROBLEMS WITH--

01:25:25:14    01:25:26:22    NOT THE WHOLE SPEECH,

01:25:26:23    01:25:29:16    BUT, FRANKLY, WITH A VERY SMALL PORTION OF HIS SPEECH,

01:25:29:17    01:25:33:17    AND OUR FIRST RESPONSE WAS DEFENSIVENESS.

01:25:33:18    01:25:37:04    AND THIS WAS A VERY RADICAL, POLITICAL SPEECH.

01:25:37:05    01:25:38:21    THEY DIDN'T WANT THE ADULTS

01:25:38:22    01:25:41:08    TO HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.

01:25:41:09    01:25:43:08    THE WORD AROUND WASHINGTON

01:25:43:09    01:25:45:05    AND THE THING THAT MOST PEOPLE FEARED

01:25:45:06    01:25:47:28    WOULD BE THAT THE MARCH WOULD CAUSE VIOLENCE.

01:25:47:29    01:25:49:16    PEOPLE WERE VERY CONCERNED

01:25:49:17    01:25:53:01    ABOUT HOW THIS MARCH WOULD LOOK,

01:25:53:02    01:25:55:16    HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THE CONGRESS.

01:25:55:17    01:26:00:08    I THINK THERE WERE POWERFUL FORCES WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION

01:26:00:09    01:26:03:19    PUTTING PRESSURE ON SOME OF THE MOVEMENT LEADERS.

01:26:03:20    01:26:06:28    WE FELT THAT WHAT PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD PROPOSED IN HIS BILL

01:26:06:29    01:26:08:23    WAS A LITTLE TOO LATE.

01:26:08:24    01:26:14:05    [MAN] ♪ WE SHALL OVERCOME... ♪

01:26:14:06    01:26:17:04    [LEWIS] IT WAS 250,000 PEOPLE OUT THERE,

01:26:17:05    01:26:19:19    AND WE WERE MAKING THESE CHANGES,

01:26:19:20    01:26:21:07    TAKING OUT A WORD HERE,

01:26:21:08    01:26:23:02    CHANGING A WORD THERE.

01:26:23:03    01:26:25:24    AND I WAS STEAMING A LITTLE INSIDE.

01:26:25:25    01:26:28:02    OUR MAJOR CONCERN, AS I RECALL IT,

01:26:28:03    01:26:30:11    WAS THAT WE'D DO WHATEVER CHANGES HAD TO BE DONE

01:26:30:12    01:26:32:09    AND THAT THEY'D MEET OUR STANDARDS

01:26:32:10    01:26:35:11    SO THAT WE WOULD NOT FEEL THAT WE HAD SOLD OUT.

01:26:35:12    01:26:39:00    [RANDOLPH] I HAVE THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT TO THIS GREAT AUDIENCE...

01:26:39:01    01:26:42:10    [LEWIS] MR. RANDOLPH, HE WAS THE DEAN OF BLACK LEADERSHIP.

01:26:42:11    01:26:47:17    HE SAID, "JOHN, LET'S CHANGE THIS FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY.

01:26:47:18    01:26:50:21    WE COME THIS FAR TOGETHER. LET'S STAY TOGETHER."

01:26:50:22    01:26:53:15    [YOUNG] JOHN AGREED WITH A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

01:26:53:16    01:26:55:22    JUST OUT OF RESPECT FOR WHO HE WAS.

01:26:55:23    01:26:57:26    [HOLMES NORTON] IN SOME SENSE,

01:26:57:27    01:27:00:24    WE RECOGNIZED THAT THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MARCH

01:27:00:25    01:27:02:14    WAS TO DRAW PEOPLE TOGETHER.

01:27:02:15    01:27:04:23    [SELLERS] SO WE HAD TO MAKE THAT COMPROMISE,

01:27:04:24    01:27:06:00    AND WE DID IT,

01:27:06:01    01:27:08:21    BUT THAT ALWAYS LEFT A QUESTION

01:27:08:22    01:27:11:07    IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS ABOUT COMPROMISES.

01:27:11:08    01:27:13:24    [LEWIS] AND I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT MOMENT

01:27:13:25    01:27:15:17    WHEN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

01:27:15:18    01:27:18:18    SAID, "I NOW PRESENT TO YOU THE NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

01:27:18:19    01:27:21:23    OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE..."

01:27:21:24    01:27:24:29    ...COORDINATING COMMITTEE, BROTHER JOHN LEWIS.

01:27:25:00    01:27:27:07    [APPLAUSE]

01:27:30:24    01:27:32:19    [LEWIS] AND I TOOK DEEP BREATH,

01:27:32:20    01:27:36:16    AND I SAID, "WE MARCH TODAY FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM."

01:27:36:17    01:27:38:00    THE TIME WILL COME

01:27:38:01    01:27:41:18    WHEN WE WILL NOT CONFINE OUR MARCHING TO WASHINGTON.

01:27:41:19    01:27:43:13    WE WILL MARCH THROUGH THE SOUTH.

01:27:43:14    01:27:44:26    THROUGH THE STREETS OF JACKSON.

01:27:44:27    01:27:46:07    THROUGH THE STREETS OF DANVILLE.

01:27:46:08    01:27:47:27    THROUGH THE STREETS OF CAMBRIDGE.

01:27:47:28    01:27:49:28    THROUGH THE STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM.

01:27:49:29    01:27:51:01    [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

01:27:51:02    01:27:53:14    WE DO NOT WANT OUR FREEDOM GRADUALLY,

01:27:53:15    01:27:55:27    BUT WE WANT TO BE FREE NOW.

01:28:02:04    01:28:04:04    FIVE DECADES AGO TODAY

01:28:04:05    01:28:07:03    AMERICANS CAME TO THIS HONORED PLACE.

01:28:07:04    01:28:10:02    THEY CAME BY THE THOUSANDS.

01:28:10:03    01:28:15:03    WILLINGLY, THEY WENT TO JAIL TO PROTEST UNJUST LAWS.

01:28:15:04    01:28:20:01    THAT WAS THE SPIRIT YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE JOHN LEWIS

01:28:20:02    01:28:22:08    BROUGHT TO THAT DAY.

01:28:22:09    01:28:26:11    [SINGING INDISTINCTLY]

01:28:26:12    01:28:28:14    ♪ WE ARE THE REVOLUTION... ♪

01:28:28:15    01:28:30:20    [LEWIS] WE ARE TIRED.

01:28:30:21    01:28:33:02    WE ARE TIRED OF BEING BEAT BY POLICEMEN.

01:28:33:03    01:28:34:27    WE ARE TIRED OF SEEING OUR PEOPLE

01:28:34:28    01:28:36:20    LOCKED UP IN JAIL OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

01:28:36:21    01:28:38:13    AND THEN YOU HOLLER, "BE PATIENT."

01:28:38:14    01:28:40:26    HOW LONG CAN WE BE PATIENT?

01:28:40:27    01:28:43:22    50 YEARS LATER, WE CANNOT WAIT.

01:28:43:23    01:28:45:02    WE CANNOT BE PATIENT.

01:28:45:03    01:28:48:15    WE MUST STAND UP AND FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

01:28:48:16    01:28:50:08    AS WE MARCH TODAY.

01:29:04:16    01:29:06:05    [LEWIS] MEMBERS OF MY OWN ORGANIZATION,

01:29:06:06    01:29:08:11    THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE,

01:29:08:12    01:29:10:06    CAME HERE TO ORGANIZE

01:29:10:07    01:29:12:05    VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES.

01:29:12:06    01:29:14:28    DO YOU HAVE ANY BUSINESS IN THE COURTHOUSE?

01:29:14:29    01:29:17:22    [LEWIS] AND WE HAD THE RESISTANCE OF A SHERIFF

01:29:17:23    01:29:19:28    WHO WOULD NOT ALLOW PEOPLE

01:29:19:29    01:29:21:28    TO EVEN ENTER THE COURTHOUSE DOOR

01:29:21:29    01:29:24:14    TO TAKE THE LITERACY TEST.

01:29:27:21    01:29:30:07    THEY COULDN'T REGISTER TO VOTE.

01:29:35:00    01:29:36:21    ON ONE OCCASION, A MAN WAS ASKED

01:29:36:22    01:29:41:09    TO COUNT THE NUMBER OF BUBBLES ON A BAR OF SOAP.

01:29:41:10    01:29:42:18    ON ANOTHER OCCASION,

01:29:42:19    01:29:43:21    A MAN WAS ASKED TO COUNT

01:29:43:22    01:29:47:18    THE NUMBER OF JELLYBEANS IN A JAR

01:29:47:19    01:29:52:12    AND WERE TOLD THEY COULDN'T READ OR WRITE WELL ENOUGH.

01:29:52:13    01:29:55:06    TODAY MARKS THE BEGINNING...

01:29:55:07    01:29:58:01    [LEWIS] DURING THIS SELMA CAMPAIGN,

01:29:58:02    01:30:01:03    DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CAME TO SELMA.

01:30:01:04    01:30:03:25    [YOUNG] THE COMMUNITIES INVITED US,

01:30:03:26    01:30:07:19    SO WE AGREED THAT WE WOULD COME

01:30:07:20    01:30:11:05    TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.

01:30:11:06    01:30:12:13    S.N.C.C. SAW THIS

01:30:12:14    01:30:16:04    AS US COMING IN TO INVADE THEIR TERRITORY,

01:30:16:05    01:30:18:01    BUT JOHN NEVER GOT UPSET ABOUT THAT.

01:30:18:02    01:30:20:18    JOHN WAS WITH US.

01:30:23:26    01:30:27:03    [LEWIS] AFTER A SERIES OF ARRESTS AND JAILINGS

01:30:27:04    01:30:29:14    AND BEATING ON THE PART OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS,

01:30:29:15    01:30:32:17    THE SHERIFFS AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PEOPLE IN SELMA,

01:30:32:18    01:30:36:27    A YOUNG BLACK MAN BY THE NAME OF JIMMIE LEE JACKSON,

01:30:36:28    01:30:40:02    HE WAS SHOT IN THE STOMACH BY A STATE TROOPER,

01:30:40:03    01:30:43:19    AND A FEW DAYS LATER, HE DIED.

01:30:43:20    01:30:46:16    AND WE SAID THEN THAT WE HAD TO MARCH

01:30:46:17    01:30:49:09    FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY.

01:30:49:10    01:30:52:17    THERE WILL BE NO MARCH BETWEEN SELMA, ALABAMA AND MONTGOMERY,

01:30:52:18    01:30:55:13    AND I HAVE SO INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

01:30:55:14    01:31:00:13    [LEWIS] THE LOCAL PEOPLE IN SELMA WANTED TO MARCH,

01:31:00:14    01:31:03:08    BUT THE NATIONAL S.N.C.C. OFFICE

01:31:03:09    01:31:05:00    WERE OPPOSED TO THE IDEA

01:31:05:01    01:31:08:23    OF PEOPLE WALKING FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY.

01:31:08:24    01:31:10:13    I DISAGREED.

01:31:10:14    01:31:13:13    [SELLERS] JOHN WAS JUST MORALLY COMMITTED.

01:31:13:14    01:31:17:03    HE MADE A PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO SELMA.

01:31:17:04    01:31:22:04    [LEWIS] THERE WAS A FEELING THAT DR. KING AND S.C.L.C. PEOPLE

01:31:22:05    01:31:24:16    WOULD BE THERE FOR A WHILE,

01:31:24:17    01:31:26:28    LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD GET HURT,

01:31:26:29    01:31:29:28    THEN THEY WOULD LEAVE AND GO ON SOMEPLACE ELSE.

01:31:29:29    01:31:31:21    S.N.C.C. HAD TAKEN A POSITION

01:31:31:22    01:31:34:15    THAT IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE A PART

01:31:34:16    01:31:36:01    OF THE SELMA DEMONSTRATIONS.

01:31:36:02    01:31:38:29    THEY FINALLY CONCLUDED THAT IF I WANTED TO MARCH

01:31:39:00    01:31:41:09    I COULD MARCH AS AN INDIVIDUAL

01:31:41:10    01:31:45:02    BUT NOT AS CHAIR OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.

01:31:45:03    01:31:46:19    HE DID NOT ARGUE WITH THEM.

01:31:46:20    01:31:49:03    HE LET THEM TAKE THAT POSITION.

01:31:49:04    01:31:53:27    HE WAS A PERSON OF CONVICTIONS-- PERSONAL CONVICTIONS.

01:31:53:28    01:31:57:06    SO HE TOOK A STAND

01:31:57:07    01:32:00:11    AND DID WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT.

01:32:00:12    01:32:04:23    [WOMAN] THAT DAY, THAT SUNDAY WAS THE FIRST SUNDAY.

01:32:04:24    01:32:08:27    MY HUSBAND AND MARTIN WERE GOING THAT MONDAY.

01:32:08:28    01:32:12:20    AND THE CALL CAME TO EBENEZER

01:32:12:21    01:32:16:07    TO SPEAK TO DR. KING ABOUT MARCHING,

01:32:16:08    01:32:18:15    BECAUSE WHEN THEY GOT THERE,

01:32:18:16    01:32:21:19    JOHN AND THOSE, THE PEOPLE WERE READY TO MARCH.

01:32:24:23    01:32:27:26    [LEWIS] AND SO IT WAS MY RESPONSIBILITY

01:32:27:27    01:32:29:12    TO WALK WITH HOSEA,

01:32:29:13    01:32:32:12    AND THEY ASKED ME TO LEAD IT ON BEHALF OF S.N.C.C.

01:32:32:13    01:32:34:22    THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT I HAD BEEN TOLD NOT TO REPRESENT

01:32:34:23    01:32:39:01    THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.

01:32:39:02    01:32:42:17    TO ME, IT WAS A VERY PRAYERFUL, ORDERLY,

01:32:42:18    01:32:45:14    PEACEFUL, SILENT PROTEST.

01:32:45:15    01:32:49:06    IT REMINDED ME OF GANDHI'S MARCH TO THE SEA.

01:32:49:07    01:32:52:21    SO THEY MARCHED.

01:32:52:22    01:32:55:17    AND, OH, MY GOD.

01:32:55:18    01:32:57:20    [LEWIS] WHEN WE GOT TO THE APEX

01:32:57:21    01:32:59:10    OF THE EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE

01:32:59:11    01:33:01:24    CROSSING THE ALABAMA RIVER,

01:33:01:25    01:33:06:15    LOOKING DOWN, YOU SAW A SEA OF BLUE.

01:33:06:16    01:33:08:19    IT WAS ALABAMA STATE TROOPERS--

01:33:08:20    01:33:13:12    THE SHERIFF AND HIS POSSE ON HORSEBACK.

01:33:13:13    01:33:15:18    IT WAS A VERY EERIE FEELING,

01:33:15:19    01:33:18:09    THE MOMENT THAT WE STOOD THERE.

01:33:18:10    01:33:19:25    YOU COULD SEE THE DEBRIS.

01:33:19:26    01:33:24:08    YOU COULD SEE THE WIND JUST BLOWING SOMEONE'S COAT.

01:33:24:09    01:33:27:10    [OFFICER] I'M SAYING THAT THIS IS AN UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY.

01:33:27:11    01:33:29:21    YOU'RE ORDERED TO DISPERSE.

01:33:29:22    01:33:31:24    GO HOME OR GO TO YOUR CHURCH.

01:33:31:25    01:33:34:23    THIS MARCH WILL NOT CONTINUE.

01:33:34:24    01:33:36:28    [LEWIS] WE STOOD THERE.

01:33:36:29    01:33:40:16    I LOOKED AT HOSEA. HOSEA LOOKED AT ME.

01:33:40:17    01:33:42:23    SAID, "LET'S KNEEL.

01:33:42:24    01:33:45:12    AND PRAY."

01:33:45:13    01:33:47:13    BEFORE WE COULD PASS THE WORD BACK

01:33:47:14    01:33:49:14    TO THE GROUP TO KNEEL AND PRAY,

01:33:49:15    01:33:53:09    THE MAJOR SAID, "TROOPERS, ADVANCE."

01:34:02:27    01:34:04:23    I WAS HIT IN THE HEAD BY A STATE TROOPER

01:34:04:24    01:34:06:21    WITH A NIGHTSTICK.

01:34:06:22    01:34:09:03    MY LEGS WENT FROM UNDER ME.

01:34:09:04    01:34:11:20    I THOUGHT I SAW DEATH.

01:34:14:14    01:34:19:20    I DIDN'T ASK TO BE BEATEN ON THE BRIDGE.

01:34:19:21    01:34:22:09    I DON'T LIKE PAIN.

01:34:22:10    01:34:26:06    I DON'T LIKE TO SUFFER IN A HOSPITAL.

01:34:26:07    01:34:29:09    BUT IF THAT'S THE PRICE YOU HAVE TO PAY

01:34:29:10    01:34:32:28    TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR OTHERS,

01:34:32:29    01:34:34:28    I WAS WILLING TO PAY THAT PRICE.

01:34:37:11    01:34:39:19    THAT HAPPENED ON A SUNDAY.

01:34:39:20    01:34:41:28    BY THAT TUESDAY, THERE WAS DEMONSTRATION

01:34:41:29    01:34:44:04    IN 80 MAJOR CITIES IN AMERICA.

01:34:57:06    01:34:58:29    NOW JOIN ARMS.

01:34:59:00    01:35:00:15    YOU WERE DOWN THERE COMING THIS WAY?

01:35:00:16    01:35:02:07    RIGHT. WE WERE WALKING RIGHT OVER THERE,

01:35:02:08    01:35:04:10    IN TWO, ORDERLY--

01:35:04:11    01:35:05:27    -ON THE SIDEWALK. -ON THE SIDEWALK.

01:35:05:28    01:35:07:02    NO ONE SAYING A WORD.

01:35:07:03    01:35:08:21    [MAN] THE FORCES CAME THIS WAY?

01:35:08:22    01:35:10:13    THEY CAME...

01:35:10:14    01:35:12:14    [SENATOR HARRY REID] THOSE ARE THE THINGS WHERE HE GETS

01:35:12:15    01:35:13:23    VERY, VERY SERIOUS,

01:35:13:24    01:35:15:20    AND YOU CAN TELL HE'S, AT LEAST IN MY WORDS,

01:35:15:21    01:35:19:16    SAYING, "I SURVIVED THAT."

01:35:19:17    01:35:22:04    [LEWIS] EIGHT DAYS AFTER BLOODY SUNDAY

01:35:22:05    01:35:24:17    WHEN LYNDON JOHNSON SPOKE TO THE NATION,

01:35:24:18    01:35:27:02    SPOKE TO THE JOINT SESSION OF THE CONGRESS,

01:35:27:03    01:35:29:06    HE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE IN SELMA,

01:35:29:07    01:35:31:13    INTRODUCED THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.

01:35:31:14    01:35:34:14    BEFORE HE CONCLUDED THAT SPEECH,

01:35:34:15    01:35:38:01    HE SAID, "AND WE SHALL OVERCOME."

01:35:40:09    01:35:42:26    SITTING NEXT TO DR. KING WITH ANDY

01:35:42:27    01:35:45:11    C.T. VIVIAN AND OTHERS,

01:35:45:12    01:35:47:06    I LOOK AT DR. KING.

01:35:47:07    01:35:49:22    TEARS STARTED FLOWING FROM HIS EYES.

01:35:49:23    01:35:51:14    WE ALL CRIED A LITTLE.

01:35:51:15    01:35:53:25    AND DOCTOR KING SAID THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

01:35:53:26    01:35:55:11    WOULD BE PASSED.

01:36:32:25    01:36:34:29    [SELLERS] JOHN'S COMMITMENT TO SELMA

01:36:35:00    01:36:38:02    WAS DIRECTLY LINKED TO JOHN'S PERSONAL COMMITMENT

01:36:38:03    01:36:41:10    TO SELMA AS OPPOSED TO A POLITICAL DECISION.

01:36:41:11    01:36:45:25    NOW THE QUESTION IS COULD HE MAKE THAT PERSONAL COMMITMENT

01:36:45:26    01:36:48:15    AND STILL BE THE SPOKESPERSON OF S.N.C.C.?

01:36:48:16    01:36:53:04    [DISTANT SINGING]

01:36:53:05    01:36:54:15    IN THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME,

01:36:54:16    01:36:57:13    THERE WAS A GREAT MOVEMENT TOWARD BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS.

01:36:57:14    01:36:59:03    BLACK NATIONALISM.

01:36:59:04    01:37:05:00    [MALCOLM X] TODAY IT'S TIME TO STOP SINGING AND START SWINGING.

01:37:05:01    01:37:08:21    WE GOT A NEW GENERATION OF BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.

01:37:08:22    01:37:12:02    YOU ALSO HAVE THE WATTS AND HARLEM REBELLIONS,

01:37:12:03    01:37:14:20    AND NOW PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO LOOK AT THE CONCERNS

01:37:14:21    01:37:16:24    OF BLACKS WHO ARE CAUGHT IN THE GHETTOS.

01:37:16:25    01:37:19:16    [MAN] WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?

01:37:19:17    01:37:23:09    WE HAVE BEEN TOO NONVIOLENT! TOO NONVIOLENT.

01:37:23:10    01:37:25:09    [LEWIS] THERE WAS A MOVE IN S.N.C.C. AT THAT TIME

01:37:25:10    01:37:29:13    TO MOVE ALL OF THE WHITE PEOPLE OUT.

01:37:29:14    01:37:31:06    IT WAS A MOVEMENT TOWARD

01:37:31:07    01:37:33:12    GIVING UP ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF NONVIOLENCE.

01:37:33:13    01:37:36:08    THERE WAS SOME PEOPLE WHO WANTED ME TO TAKE ON DR. KING.

01:37:36:09    01:37:39:06    I WAS NOT ANY WAY GONNA GET ON A FIGHT

01:37:39:07    01:37:41:07    WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

01:37:41:08    01:37:43:05    I THINK THAT STOKELY WAS PROBABLY

01:37:43:06    01:37:45:08    KINDA WAITING IN THE WINGS

01:37:45:09    01:37:49:00    FOR HIS OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME CHAIRMAN OF THE ORGANIZATION.

01:37:49:01    01:37:51:24    [LEWIS] PEOPLE FELT THAT I WAS NOT MILITANT ENOUGH,

01:37:51:25    01:37:53:21    NOT RADICAL ENOUGH.

01:37:53:22    01:37:58:10    IT WAS TIME FOR ME, IN A SENSE, TO LEAVE.

01:38:11:02    01:38:13:06    BUT THAT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT MOMENT,

01:38:13:07    01:38:15:18    BECAUSE S.N.C.C. HAD BEEN MY FAMILY.

01:38:15:19    01:38:20:01    THESE YOUNG PEOPLE HAD BEEN MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

01:38:20:02    01:38:24:11    IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT PERIODS FOR ME IN THE MOVEMENT.

01:38:24:12    01:38:25:29    IT WAS LIKE BREAKING UP.

01:38:26:00    01:38:28:07    IT WAS LIKE BEING PUT OUT.

01:38:30:22    01:38:33:13    [KING] OH, YES, I PRAYED A PRAYER.

01:38:33:14    01:38:37:01    AND I PRAYED OUT LOUD THAT NIGHT.

01:38:37:02    01:38:41:21    I SAID, "LORD, I'M DOWN HERE TRYING TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT."

01:38:41:22    01:38:42:27    [AUDIENCE CHEERING]

01:38:42:28    01:38:47:24    JOHN LEWIS NEVER, EVER DOUBTED, QUESTIONED,

01:38:47:25    01:38:52:08    OR DISRESPECTED ANYTHING THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID.

01:38:52:09    01:38:58:03    MARTIN FELT THAT JOHN LEWIS WAS HIS TRUE, SPIRITUAL SON.

01:38:58:04    01:39:01:14    HE REALLY LOVED HIM LIKE HIS OWN CHILD.

01:39:01:15    01:39:04:24    THE REST OF US, MARTIN WAS PRETTY ALOOF.

01:39:04:25    01:39:06:21    BUT WITH JOHN, HE JUST--

01:39:06:22    01:39:08:22    HE WAS REALLY COMFORTABLE WITH JOHN,

01:39:08:23    01:39:11:05    BECAUSE JOHN WANTED TO LISTEN.

01:39:11:06    01:39:13:17    JOHN WANTED TO HANG ON HIS EVERY WORD.

01:39:13:18    01:39:16:08    HE WAS LIKE A BIG BROTHER.

01:39:16:09    01:39:19:07    HE WAS MY FRIEND.

01:39:19:08    01:39:22:15    HE WOULD ASK ME SOMETIMES JOKINGLY,

01:39:22:16    01:39:25:02    "JOHN, DO YOU PREACH SOMETIME?"

01:39:25:03    01:39:28:00    AND I SAID, "YES, DR. KING, WHEN I'M TAKING A SHOWER."

01:39:28:01    01:39:29:05    AND HE WOULD JUST LAUGH.

01:39:29:06    01:39:31:19    HE WOULD LAUGH. HE THOUGHT IT WAS SO FUNNY.

01:39:34:24    01:39:37:28    I GOT INVOLVED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

01:39:37:29    01:39:40:18    OF ROBERT KENNEDY IN '68.

01:39:40:19    01:39:43:10    [ROBERT KENNEDY] WE CAN WORK TOGETHER...

01:39:43:11    01:39:45:25    AND THAT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON WITHIN THE UNITES STATES...

01:39:45:26    01:39:48:04    [LEWIS] WHEN I SAW WHAT ROLE THAT--

01:39:48:05    01:39:50:21    INDIVIDUAL POLITICIAN COULD PLAY

01:39:50:22    01:39:52:13    IN BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER--

01:39:52:14    01:39:53:13    AND MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE,

01:39:53:14    01:39:55:08    I THINK AFTER THE ASSASSINATION

01:39:55:09    01:39:57:10    OF DR. KING AND ROBERT KENNEDY,

01:39:57:11    01:40:01:04    I FELT LIKE MAYBE I COULD BE PART OF AN EFFORT

01:40:01:05    01:40:05:14    TO PICK UP WHERE THEY HAD LEFT OFF.

01:40:05:15    01:40:07:10    [LEWIS] ALL THESE YOUNG PEOPLE...

01:40:07:11    01:40:10:06    [REPORTER] AS PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE,

01:40:10:07    01:40:13:14    LEWIS WAS ARRESTED AND BEATEN DURING THE 1960s.

01:40:13:15    01:40:15:22    TODAY, AS DIRECTOR OF THE ATLANTA-BASED

01:40:15:23    01:40:17:11    VOTER EDUCATION PROJECT,

01:40:17:12    01:40:20:08    LEWIS IS STILL TRYING TO REGISTER BLACKS TO VOTE.

01:40:20:09    01:40:22:29    PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO GO TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

01:40:23:00    01:40:26:06    THEY'RE AFRAID TO TALK TO VOTER REGISTRATION WORKERS.

01:40:26:07    01:40:28:07    THEY'RE AFRAID THAT THEY MAY LOSE THEIR JOBS.

01:40:28:08    01:40:30:10    FRIENDS OF MINE STARTED SAYING TO ME,

01:40:30:11    01:40:31:14    "YOU SHOULD RUN FOR SOMETHING.

01:40:31:15    01:40:33:14    YOU SHOULD RUN FOR SOMETHING."

01:40:33:15    01:40:37:29    AND THE TIME CAME.

01:40:38:00    01:40:40:15    [REPORTER] JOHN LEWIS AND JULIAN BOND,

01:40:40:16    01:40:43:29    TWO BONA FIDE HEROES OF THE BLACK STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

01:40:44:00    01:40:45:27    THE POWER BROKERS IN ATLANTA

01:40:45:28    01:40:48:06    IN THE KINDA BACK ROOM, SMOKY ROOM,

01:40:48:07    01:40:51:06    DECIDED JULIAN BOND SHOULD RUN FOR CONGRESS.

01:40:51:07    01:40:53:08    AT STAKE WAS MUCH MORE THAN JUST WHICH MAN

01:40:53:09    01:40:55:04    WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS

01:40:55:05    01:40:56:12    FROM GEORGIA'S FIFTH DISTRICT.

01:40:56:13    01:40:58:29    [REPORTER] LEWIS AND BOND MET DURING THE DAYS

01:40:59:00    01:41:01:17    OF THE LUNCH COUNTER SIT-INS IN NASHVILLE.

01:41:01:18    01:41:02:25    WE HAD GREAT TIMES TOGETHER.

01:41:02:26    01:41:05:02    WE LAUGHED TOGETHER. WE PLAYED TOGETHER.

01:41:05:03    01:41:08:21    I'M NOT GONNA LET A SIX-MONTH POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

01:41:08:22    01:41:11:11    DISRUPT A FRIENDSHIP I'VE HAD WITH JOHN LEWIS

01:41:11:12    01:41:13:02    FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.

01:41:13:03    01:41:15:28    JULIAN BOND IS VERY GOOD-LOOKING

01:41:15:29    01:41:17:28    AND VERY WELL-SPOKEN.

01:41:17:29    01:41:21:00    JOHN KEPT SAYING, "DO YOU WANT A SHOW BOAT OR A TUG BOAT?"

01:41:21:01    01:41:22:21    [REPORTER] THE RUNOFF HAS BEEN NASTY.

01:41:22:22    01:41:25:20    THERE WERE NO SERIOUS ISSUE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO

01:41:25:21    01:41:26:25    UNTIL LEWIS MADE ONE.

01:41:26:26    01:41:28:09    HE TOOK A DRUG TEST

01:41:28:10    01:41:30:19    AND CHALLENGED BOND TO DO THE SAME.

01:41:30:20    01:41:33:25    MY TEST CAME OUT CLEAN.

01:41:33:26    01:41:37:05    BOND CALLED THE DRUG TEST A CHEAP POLITICAL TRICK.

01:41:37:06    01:41:38:25    SO QUICKLY I RESPONDED

01:41:38:26    01:41:42:15    AND SAID, "MR. BOND, MY FRIEND,

01:41:42:16    01:41:44:27    WE WERE ASKED TO TAKE A DRUG TEST."

01:41:44:28    01:41:48:20    I TOOK MY TEST, AND HERE'S THE RESULTS.

01:41:48:21    01:41:52:16    SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO HAVE THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS VICIOUS.

01:41:52:17    01:41:54:23    JULIAN RELUCTANTLY TOOK THE TEST,

01:41:54:24    01:41:57:09    AND IT DIDN'T COME OUT GOOD NEWS FOR HIM.

01:41:57:10    01:41:59:25    THAT WAS REALLY DEMISE OF JULIAN

01:41:59:26    01:42:02:23    AND A REAL STRAIN IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

01:42:02:24    01:42:04:11    THAT PROBABLY WAS A LOW BLOW.

01:42:04:12    01:42:06:06    PROBABLY IF I HAD TO DO THAT OVER AGAIN,

01:42:06:07    01:42:08:10    I PROBABLY WOULDN'T DO IT.

01:42:08:11    01:42:09:19    YOU DID IT WELL!

01:42:09:20    01:42:11:13    [REPORTER] IT WAS A SURPRISING, COME FROM BEHIND VICTORY

01:42:11:14    01:42:13:04    FOR JOHN LEWIS IN HIS BITTER,

01:42:13:05    01:42:14:26    DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL PRIMARY RUNOFF

01:42:14:27    01:42:17:14    AND LONGTIME FRIEND AND CIVIL RIGHTS ALLY JULIAN BOND.

01:42:17:15    01:42:20:28    THERE WAS THAT FEAR THAT HE WAS NAIVE,

01:42:20:29    01:42:23:13    THE FEELING THAT IF YOU BELIEVE

01:42:23:14    01:42:26:29    STRONGLY IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE, YOU'RE NAIVE.

01:42:27:00    01:42:29:03    THAT WAS MY PERSONAL FEAR,

01:42:29:04    01:42:33:29    THAT JOHN'S INTEGRITY WOULD BE A NEGATIVE FOR HIM IN CONGRESS.

01:42:45:15    01:42:48:28    YEAH.

01:42:48:29    01:42:51:18    UH, THEY MAY NOT HAVE IT.

01:42:55:24    01:42:58:22    [REPRESENTATIVE ANDRE CARSON] JOHN AND I BOTH ARE HOUSED IN THE CANNON BUILDING,

01:42:58:23    01:43:01:11    AND I WAS RUNNING LATE FOR VOTES,

01:43:01:12    01:43:03:22    AND ONCE I GOT ON THE ELEVATOR,

01:43:03:23    01:43:07:01    THE ELEVATOR HAD TO STOP AT, I THINK, THE THIRD FLOOR.

01:43:07:02    01:43:08:15    I'M LIKE, "OKAY, WHO COULD THIS BE?"

01:43:08:16    01:43:10:11    I'M GONNA BE LATE FOR VOTES, AND IT'S JOHN.

01:43:10:12    01:43:12:03    I SAID, "HEY, JOHN." HE WAS LIKE, "CAN I CATCH A RIDE?"

01:43:12:04    01:43:13:11    I SAID, "LET'S DO IT."

01:43:13:12    01:43:15:11    AND SO WE GOT OFF ON THE SECOND FLOOR,

01:43:15:12    01:43:17:03    AND WE WALKED OUTSIDE...

01:43:17:04    01:43:19:16    [REPRESENTATIVE STENY HOYER] WE WERE CONSIDERING THE HEALTHCARE BILL

01:43:19:17    01:43:21:01    AND IT WAS TO COME UP FOR A VOTE,

01:43:21:02    01:43:24:29    AND THE DAY BEFORE WE HAD A CAUCUS ON THAT BILL,

01:43:25:00    01:43:28:23    UH, JOHN LEWIS AND OTHERS HAD BEEN WALKING.

01:43:28:24    01:43:34:02    [ALL CHANTING "KILL THE BILL"]

01:43:34:03    01:43:35:11    HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS,

01:43:35:12    01:43:38:25    MAYBE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD COME TO WASHINGTON

01:43:38:26    01:43:41:08    FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING DISRUPTIVE.

01:43:41:09    01:43:43:12    JOHN LEWIS, ANDRE CARSON,

01:43:43:13    01:43:45:20    EMANUEL CLEAVER AND OTHERS, BARNEY FRANK,

01:43:45:21    01:43:49:28    ON THEIR WAY OVER THROUGH CROWDS THAT WERE JEERING

01:43:49:29    01:43:54:06    AND HURLING ETHNIC VULGAR SLURS.

01:44:00:24    01:44:03:21    [LEWIS] THIS MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE THAT WE CAST

01:44:03:22    01:44:05:17    AS MEMBERS OF THIS BODY.

01:44:05:18    01:44:08:06    WE HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TODAY

01:44:08:07    01:44:11:21    TO MAKE HEALTHCARE A RIGHT AND NOT A PRIVILEGE.

01:44:11:22    01:44:13:21    EMANUEL CLEAVER WAS TOGETHER WITH JOHN LEWIS.

01:44:13:22    01:44:15:09    THEY WERE WALKING OVER TO THE CAPITOL

01:44:15:10    01:44:18:04    WHEN SOMEBODY SPIT ON CONGRESSMAN CLEAVER

01:44:18:05    01:44:20:26    AND YELLED THE "N" WORD AS CONGRESSMAN LEWIS.

01:44:20:27    01:44:22:29    I WATCHED JOHN LEWIS

01:44:23:00    01:44:27:00    SO THAT I COULD CHOREOGRAPH MY ACTIONS

01:44:27:01    01:44:28:29    IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH HIM,

01:44:29:00    01:44:30:22    BECAUSE I KNEW THAT JOHN LEWIS HANDLED IT

01:44:30:23    01:44:34:11    THE WAY CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS WERE SUPPOSED TO HANDLE IT.

01:44:37:10    01:44:39:20    [LARSON] BY THE TIME OF SUNDAY'S CAUCUS,

01:44:39:21    01:44:42:00    PEOPLE WERE VERY EDGY ABOUT THIS.

01:44:42:01    01:44:44:15    [REPORTER] BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU, WHEN YOU LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES,

01:44:44:16    01:44:45:27    THIS IS WHITE-KNUCKLE TIME.

01:44:45:28    01:44:47:16    THEY DO NOT HAVE THE VOTES YET.

01:44:47:17    01:44:50:07    I ASKED JOHN IF HE WOULD SPEAK AT OUR CAUCUS,

01:44:50:08    01:44:52:15    AND HE DID, AND HE SAID,

01:44:52:16    01:44:56:10    "WHAT TRANSPIRED YESTERDAY IS NOT IMPORTANT.

01:44:56:11    01:44:58:07    THE IMPORTANT THING FOR US

01:44:58:08    01:45:02:03    IS TO KEEP OUR EYE ON THE PRIZE."

01:45:02:04    01:45:04:21    [CROWD CHANTING] KILL THE BILL! KILL THE BILL!

01:45:04:22    01:45:07:13    [REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI] WHEN WE WERE IN THE ROOM AND WE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE,

01:45:07:14    01:45:10:11    I WANTED TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

01:45:10:12    01:45:12:06    THE WHOLE CAUCUS WAS WALKING TOGETHER.

01:45:12:07    01:45:16:07    AND THE SECURITY FOR THE LEADERSHIP,

01:45:16:08    01:45:18:15    ESPECIALLY FOR NANCY PELOSI,

01:45:18:16    01:45:20:14    SAID, "YOU CANNOT DO THAT. YOU CANNOT WALK--"

01:45:20:15    01:45:23:10    IT WAS AN ANGRY CROWD. "YOU CANNOT."

01:45:23:11    01:45:26:07    AND JOHN, WHO HAD BEEN

01:45:26:08    01:45:30:05    REALLY INSULTED BY THESE PEOPLE

01:45:30:06    01:45:32:22    IN THE COURSE OF THIS DEBATE,

01:45:32:23    01:45:37:13    WE JUST LOCKED ARMS AND WALKED ACROSS THE STREET.

01:45:37:14    01:45:39:19    [REPORTER] A REMARKABLE SCENE.

01:45:39:20    01:45:40:29    A REMARKABLE STATEMENT.

01:45:41:00    01:45:42:21    THE SPEAKER AND DEMOCRATIC LEADER

01:45:42:22    01:45:44:28    WALKING HAND IN HAND TO GO VOTE TODAY

01:45:44:29    01:45:47:01    WITH REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS.

01:45:47:02    01:45:49:11    [REPORTER] THE CULMINATION OF THE EPIC,

01:45:49:12    01:45:52:29    14-MONTH FIGHT OVER HEALTHCARE CAME LATE IN THE NIGHT.

01:45:53:00    01:45:55:28    [LEWIS] WE WALKED INTO THE CAPITOL

01:45:55:29    01:46:00:20    WITH PRIDE AND DIGNITY, AND WE PASSED THAT BILL.

01:46:00:21    01:46:02:27    IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

01:46:10:05    01:46:12:14    [CROWD SHOUTING]

01:46:21:28    01:46:24:29    [SPEAKS SPANISH]

01:46:25:00    01:46:27:24    [CROWD CHANTING] SI SE PUEDE! SI SE PUEDE!

01:46:27:25    01:46:30:09    IF ANY ONE OF US IS ILLEGAL,

01:46:30:10    01:46:32:19    THEN WE ALL ARE ILLEGAL!

01:46:32:20    01:46:34:15    [CHEERING]

01:46:34:16    01:46:37:02    SO KEEP IT UP.

01:46:37:03    01:46:40:03    IF ANY OF YOU GET ARRESTED AND GO TO JAIL,

01:46:40:04    01:46:41:29    I'M PREPARED TO GET ARRESTED

01:46:42:00    01:46:43:06    AND GO TO JAIL WITH YOU.

01:46:43:07    01:46:44:25    [CROWD CHEERS]

01:46:44:26    01:46:47:28    THE JAILS OF AMERICA ARE NOT LARGE ENOUGH

01:46:47:29    01:46:50:18    TO HOLD ALL OF US!

01:46:50:19    01:46:52:17    I MEAN, WHEN JOHN LEWIS SAID,

01:46:52:18    01:46:57:00    "THIS IS MY FIGHT, AND I FEEL THE SAME FIGHT FROM THE '60S,"

01:46:57:01    01:46:59:29    WHO ELSE CAN PUT THAT KIND OF IMPRIMATUR ON A MOVEMENT

01:47:00:02    01:47:01:17    AND SAY IT'S A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?

01:47:01:18    01:47:04:01    IF ONE OF THE LEADERS,

01:47:04:02    01:47:05:13    ICONS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,

01:47:05:14    01:47:07:21    AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN FROM THE SOUTH

01:47:07:22    01:47:10:19    SAYS IT IS, THEN GUESS WHAT? IT IS.

01:47:10:20    01:47:13:27    [REPORTER] D.C. POLICE ARRESTED DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

01:47:13:28    01:47:16:25    AT AN IMMIGRATION RALLY ON THE NATIONAL MALL TUESDAY.

01:47:16:26    01:47:19:02    THIS ARREST WAS THE 45TH

01:47:19:03    01:47:21:16    FROM THE LONGTIME REPRESENTATIVE FROM GEORGIA.

01:47:24:11    01:47:28:01    DO I NEED TO SEND ANY NOTICE OUT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?

01:47:32:00    01:47:33:18    [ARYC MOSHER] HAVING HIM SPEAK ON BEHALF

01:47:33:19    01:47:35:26    OF GAY AND LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDER ISSUES

01:47:35:27    01:47:37:27    RAISES OUR VOICE TO A DEGREE

01:47:37:28    01:47:39:24    WHICH WE COULD NOT REACH WITHOUT HIM.

01:47:39:25    01:47:42:18    ARYC GOT CONGRESSMAN LEWIS

01:47:42:19    01:47:44:28    TO SIGN THIS FOR ME AS A BIRTHDAY PRESENT,

01:47:44:29    01:47:47:19    AND I WAS JUST REALLY TAKEN ABACK BY IT.

01:47:47:20    01:47:50:26    [JOAN GARNER] BELIEVE ME, HE STEPPED OUT WHEN OTHERS WOULDN'T,

01:47:50:27    01:47:53:18    AND SO HE'S BEEN CONSISTENT ON EVER ISSUE

01:47:53:19    01:47:55:07    THAT'S COME BEFORE THE CONGRESS.

01:47:56:19    01:47:59:16    HE WAS THERE WHEN HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION PASSED.

01:47:59:17    01:48:03:08    ALSO BEEN THERE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH H.I.V. AND AIDS.

01:48:03:09    01:48:06:15    IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER WE ARE STRAIGHT OR GAY.

01:48:06:16    01:48:08:04    [ALL CHEER]

01:48:08:05    01:48:11:22    I WILL NOT BE SATISFIED, I WILL NOT BE PLEASED...

01:48:11:23    01:48:13:24    UNTIL WE END DISCRIMINATION

01:48:13:25    01:48:15:11    BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION...

01:48:15:12    01:48:17:00    [CROWD CHEERS]

01:48:17:01    01:48:19:07    [KENNETH SAMUEL] CONGRESSMAN LEWIS MAKES THE CONNECTION

01:48:19:08    01:48:22:11    THAT CIVIL RIGHTS IS ABOUT EQUAL RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE.

01:48:22:12    01:48:23:26    THAT WAS DR. KING'S PLEA,

01:48:23:27    01:48:26:09    THAT A THREAT TO JUSTICE ANYWHERE

01:48:26:10    01:48:28:17    IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE.

01:48:28:18    01:48:30:08    -I SHOULD GO THE WAY LIKE  I GO TO YOUR OFFICE, RIGHT? -[WOMAN] YES.

01:48:30:09    01:48:31:08    OKAY.

01:48:31:09    01:48:34:07    -UH, ABOUT HIS POLICY... -MM-HMM.

01:48:34:08    01:48:38:27    THE VOTE IS PRECIOUS. IT IS ALMOST SACRED.

01:48:38:28    01:48:42:08    IT IS THE MOST POWERFUL NONVIOLENT TOOL

01:48:42:09    01:48:44:18    THAT WE HAVE IN A DEMOCRACY.

01:48:46:06    01:48:47:23    [HORN HONKING]

01:48:47:24    01:48:50:05    I'M JOHN LEWIS. I'M A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

01:48:50:06    01:48:53:20    I WORK IN WASHINGTON WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA.

01:48:53:21    01:48:55:21    YOU WANNA GIVE ME SOME OF YOUR HAIR?

01:48:55:22    01:48:57:14    -[LAUGHTER] -HUH?

01:48:57:15    01:48:59:03    GOOD TO SEE YOU. MAY GOD BLESS YOU.

01:48:59:04    01:49:00:25    [AMINA KHAN] IT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO ME

01:49:00:26    01:49:03:02    THAT HE STARTED WHEN HE WAS MY AGE,

01:49:03:03    01:49:04:07    BECAUSE A LOT OF THE TIMES

01:49:04:08    01:49:05:27    I FEEL LIKE I CAN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE

01:49:05:28    01:49:07:26    'CAUSE I'M ONLY 16.

01:49:07:27    01:49:11:06    [COLLINS] ELECTION DAY IS A GREAT DAY.

01:49:11:07    01:49:13:27    FOR HIM, JUST HISTORICALLY,

01:49:13:28    01:49:16:19    THE POWER TO VOTE AND TO CAST THAT VOTE

01:49:16:20    01:49:18:29    IS JUST SO SACRED.

01:49:19:00    01:49:20:17    GOOD MORNING.

01:49:20:18    01:49:22:14    HOW YOU DOING?

01:49:25:12    01:49:28:24    JUST A WONDERFUL FEELING TO BE ABLE TO GO IN

01:49:28:25    01:49:30:20    AND CAST A VOTE

01:49:30:21    01:49:32:22    WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE THAT I KNEW NEVER HAD A CHANCE,

01:49:32:23    01:49:34:05    NEVER HAD AN OPPORTUNITY.

01:49:38:25    01:49:40:12    [REID] REALLY IMPORTANT.

01:49:40:13    01:49:43:02    HE CONTINUES TO TELL PEOPLE OF AMERICA

01:49:43:03    01:49:45:17    THINGS HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN THE WAY THEY ARE NOW,

01:49:45:18    01:49:47:11    AND UNLESS WE KEEP OUR GUARD UP,

01:49:47:12    01:49:49:12    THINGS COULD ALWAYS BE BAD AGAIN.

01:49:51:12    01:49:52:29    [REPORTER] ...ON THE AIR RIGHT NOW,

01:49:53:00    01:49:55:05    BECAUSE THE SUPREME COURT HAS JUST MADE A MAJOR DECISION...

01:49:55:06    01:49:57:03    [REPORTER #2] ...COURT STRUCK DOWN A KEY SECTION

01:49:57:04    01:49:59:24    OF THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT.

01:49:59:25    01:50:01:26    [WILLIAMS #3] ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS EVER PASSED...

01:50:01:27    01:50:03:06    [REPORTER] TOOK THE TEETH OUT OF A LAW

01:50:03:07    01:50:04:21    ENACTED NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO.

01:50:04:22    01:50:07:10    [REPORTER #4] ...BLUNTLY DECLARED THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED

01:50:07:11    01:50:09:09    AND THE LAW MUST TOO.

01:50:09:10    01:50:12:16    I MUST TELL YOU I WAS DISAPPOINTED,

01:50:12:17    01:50:15:03    BECAUSE I THINK WHAT THE COURT DID TODAY

01:50:15:04    01:50:20:02    IS STAB THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965

01:50:20:03    01:50:21:13    IN ITS VERY HEART.

01:50:21:14    01:50:23:09    [REPORTER] TEXAS RESPONDED IMMEDIATELY,

01:50:23:10    01:50:25:27    SAYING IT WOULD START ENFORCING ONE OF THE NATION'S...

01:50:25:28    01:50:27:17    [REPORTER #2] ...NEEDS TO HAVE A PHOTO I.D., AND IF POTENTIAL VOTERS...

01:50:27:18    01:50:28:24    [REPORTER #3] ...MOVED TO TOUGHEN ITS LAWS,

01:50:28:25    01:50:31:21    INCLUDING A REDUCTION IN EARLY VOTING HOURS.

01:50:31:22    01:50:33:28    [LEWIS] ONLY HOURS AFTER THE DECISION WAS ANNOUNCED

01:50:33:29    01:50:35:08    BY THE SUPREME COURT,

01:50:35:09    01:50:38:02    STATES BEGAN TO PUT INTO FORCE

01:50:38:03    01:50:43:08    EFFORT TO SUPPRESS PEOPLE'S VOTING RIGHTS.

01:50:43:09    01:50:47:18    IT IS A DUTY AND A RESPONSIBILITY OF CONGRESS

01:50:47:19    01:50:51:15    TO RESTORE THE LIFE AND SOUL OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT,

01:50:51:16    01:50:54:06    AND WE MUST DO IT, AND WE MUST DO IT NOW.

01:50:59:16    01:51:01:07    WE'RE CALLING ON THE LEADERSHIP

01:51:01:08    01:51:03:21    TO BRING GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION

01:51:03:22    01:51:05:13    TO THE HOUSE FLOOR.

01:51:05:14    01:51:08:26    GIVE US A VOTE. LET US VOTE.

01:51:08:27    01:51:12:16    WE CAME HERE TO DO OUR JOB! WE CAME HERE TO WORK.

01:51:12:17    01:51:14:25    [LEWIS] WE HAVE TO OCCUPY THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE

01:51:14:26    01:51:16:09    UNTIL THERE'S ACTION.

01:51:16:10    01:51:19:18    [REPORTER] SCORES OF DEMOCRATS FLOODED THE HOUSE FLOOR

01:51:19:19    01:51:23:25    CHANTING "NO BREAK, NO BILL."

01:51:23:26    01:51:26:16    [LEWIS] WE LOST TOO MANY OF OUR CHILDREN, OUR BABIES.

01:51:26:17    01:51:30:11    TOO MANY OF OUR MOTHERS AND FATHERS TO GUN VIOLENCE.

01:51:30:12    01:51:32:02    [CHANTING]

01:51:32:03    01:51:33:29    WE'RE NOT GIVING UP THE FIGHT.

01:51:34:00    01:51:37:16    THE FIGHT IS AN ONGOING FIGHT.

01:51:39:29    01:51:42:20    [LEWIS] I CANNOT EXPLAIN IT.

01:51:42:21    01:51:45:23    IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO SAY

01:51:45:24    01:51:47:28    WHY AND HOW I GOT INVOLVED

01:51:47:29    01:51:50:22    IN THE CAUSE AND THE MOVEMENT.

01:51:50:23    01:51:52:24    I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT

01:51:52:25    01:51:56:17    MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE UNIVERSE

01:51:56:18    01:51:58:20    OR MAYBE IN THE ENVIRONMENT

01:51:58:21    01:52:01:04    OR MAYBE IN THE SPIRIT OF HISTORY,

01:52:01:05    01:52:05:09    AND YOU HAVE TO SORT OF ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE USED.

01:52:09:07    01:52:10:11    I'M GONNA BE ON THE ROAD--

01:52:10:12    01:52:13:06    I'LL BE ON THE ROAD RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

01:52:13:07    01:52:17:05    WE MUST NEVER, EVER BECOME BITTER OR HOSTILE.

01:52:17:06    01:52:20:02    YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONAL.

01:52:20:03    01:52:24:02    THIS IS POLITICS. THIS IS A BUSINESS.

01:52:24:03    01:52:27:01    THIS IS A JOB THAT SOME OF US ASKED FOR.

01:52:27:02    01:52:28:28    SOMETIMES WE GET BRUISED.

01:52:28:29    01:52:31:01    SOMETIMES WE GET KNOCKED DOWN.

01:52:31:02    01:52:34:09    BUT WE HAVE THE WILL,

01:52:34:10    01:52:36:21    THE COURAGE, THE ABILITY,

01:52:36:22    01:52:40:11    AND THE CAPACITY TO GET UP.

01:52:40:12    01:52:45:00    TO FIND A WAY TO GET IN THE WAY.

01:52:45:01    01:52:48:02    TO GET PEOPLE TO SEE

01:52:48:03    01:52:51:02    WHAT IS HAPPENING.

01:52:51:03    01:52:56:15    THAT WILL ONLY COME BY PEOPLE BUILDING AND WORKING TOGETHER.

01:52:56:16    01:53:02:06    WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A LASTING PEACE--

01:53:02:07    01:53:05:20    A COMMUNITY AT PEACE WITH ITSELF.

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