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KING: I accept this honor
for our lost ones,
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whose deaths pave our path.
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And for the 20 million
Negro men and women
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motivated by dignity
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and a disdain for hopelessness.
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This isn't right.
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Corrie.
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This ain't right.
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CORETTA: What's that?
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This necktie. It's not right.
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Well, it's not a necktie, dear.
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It's an ascot.
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Yes, but generally the same principles
should apply, shouldn't they?
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It's not right.
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It's not right, or you don't like it?
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(SIGHS) I don't like how this looks.
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Looks distinguished and debonair to me.
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You know what I mean.
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Like we're living high on the hog.
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Dressed like this
while folks back home are... (SIGHS)
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It's not right.
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Wait till the brothers
back home see me like this.
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They'll have a good laugh.
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Let them laugh.
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It's not a crime to be away
for a few days, Martin.
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It's nice being away, huh?
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Yeah. It really is.
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Look here.
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I'm gonna be a pastor somewhere small.
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College town.
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(CHUCKLING)
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Lead a little church. Teach a class.
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(SIGHS)
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Maybe the occasional
speaking engagement.
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And I'll pay all the bills for us,
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especially the mortgage
for our very own house.
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Perfect.
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You look handsome.
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JAHN: Through it all,
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Martin Luther King
has spoken of his dream.
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One which we
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and many other people
around the world share.
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To this undeterred hero for justice,
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the Nobel Committee of Oslo, Norway,
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awards our 1964 Peace Prize.
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(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
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KING: I accept this honor
for our lost ones,
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whose deaths pave our path.
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I accept this honor for
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the more than 20 million
American Negroes
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who are motivated by dignity.
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Together we believe that
what the illusion
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of supremacy has destroyed,
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the truth of equality can nourish.
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GIRL 1: I promise you.
It ain't nothing to be scared of.
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It's quick. And the pastor
is right there next to you.
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GIRL 2: Yeah, but the biggest thing
is getting your hair wet up.
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I got my hair pressed that same morning
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and it was wasted
as soon as I hit the water.
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I should have worn
a swim cap like Mama said.
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(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
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GIRL 3: See, I asked my mama
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could she make my hair like
Coretta Scott King had hers
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at the Washington March.
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But she said that was too grown.
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Oh, I love her hair.
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I heard she don't even put rollers in it.
It's just like that.
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But I studied it. I know how she do it.
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See, she parts in the middle and then...
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(SIGHS)
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MAN: Annie Lee Cooper!
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(SIGHS)
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Get on up now. I ain't got all day.
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You work for Mr. Dunn
down at the rest home, ain't that right?
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Yes.
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Wonder what old Dunn'll say
when I tell him
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one of his gals is down here
stirring a fuss.
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I ain't stirring no fuss.
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I'm just here trying to register to vote.
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It's all right this time.
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It's right when I say it's right.
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Recite the Constitution's preamble.
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Know what a preamble is?
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"We the people of the United States,
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"in order to form a more perfect union,
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"establish justice,
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"ensure domestic tranquility,
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"provide for the common defense,
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"promote the general welfare..."
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How many county judges in Alabama?
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(BREATHES DEEPLY)
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Sixty-seven.
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Name them.
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JOHNSON: Aren't we done?
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Are we not done with this?
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Will this ever end?
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I don't know, Mr. President.
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A comprehensive plan
is already in place.
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The act was only passed six months ago.
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So hammer home that impatience
only hurts the overall cause.
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We're... We're getting there.
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Just... Just keep reiterating the plan.
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No, he doesn't want reiteration.
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He wants something so he can say,
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"Look, I told you I had a dream
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"and it's all coming goddamn true,
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"whether you like it or not!"
That's what he wants.
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What he needs to do
is get on board with what we're doing
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instead of the other way around.
For once!
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Mr. President, Dr. King.
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KING: Mr. President.
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Dr. King.
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(CHUCKLES)
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Well, I'll tell you.
I'm a tall son-of-a-bitch,
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but this close to the new Nobel laureate
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and with all those other trinkets
you've been collecting lately,
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I feel tits-high to a puppy dog.
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Well, thank you, Mr. President.
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Mr. White.
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- Dr. King.
- All right.
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I'll tell you, ending segregation,
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proudest moment of my life
when I signed that '64 Act.
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Proudest moment of my life, I tell you.
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Now civil rights is a priority
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- of this administration as you know.
- Thank you.
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We're gonna face the challenge,
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or this country is
storing up a heap of trouble for itself.
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Now, seeing as I can't convince you to
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work with my administration
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in an official capacity
inside the White House,
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I feel damn fortunate
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to have someone
as statesmanlike as you
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leading the movement.
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And I want you to go on leading it.
No one else.
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Not one of these
militant Malcolm X types.
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(JOHNSON CHUCKLING)
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So... I wanna help. Tell me how.
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Well, Mr. President,
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I'm here to speak
specifically about the denial
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of a basic American right
for the Negro citizen.
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The right to vote.
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Well, uh... Technically...
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Technically, we already have it.
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Yes, Mr. President.
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But, we both know in the South
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black voters are kept off the rolls
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and out of the voting booths
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by systematic intimidation
and fear, Mr. President.
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(CLEARS THROAT) Now,
you asked how you can help.
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We want Federal legislation
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granting Negroes the right
to vote unencumbered.
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And we want Federal
protocol eliminating
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the decades-long dismissal
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and illegal denial of
blacks seeking to vote.
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And we want
robust enforcement of that protocol.
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Well, um... (CLEARS THROAT)
That's fine.
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But... Most of the South
is still not desegregating.
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Let's not start another battle
when we haven't even won the first.
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And you know what
the next battle should be?
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The eradication of poverty.
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I'm calling it "The War on Poverty."
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It's a matter of political priorities.
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Poverty is going to be my focus at home
and I want you to help me with this.
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We can make big changes
in these things
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for people of all colors.
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And I know that matters to you,
doesn't it?
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This voting thing
is just gonna have to wait.
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(CLEARING THROAT)
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It...
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(STAMMERING)
It can't wait, Mr. President.
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Well, why not?
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Because there have been thousands
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of racially motivated murders
in the South,
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including those four girls.
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Well, I know that...
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And you know the astounding fact
that not one of these criminals
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who murder us when and why they want
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has ever been convicted.
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Yeah, I know we have a lot
of work to do down there.
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Not one conviction
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because they are protected
by white officials
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chosen by an all-white electorate.
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And on the rare occasions
that they face trial,
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they are freed by all-white juries.
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All-white because
you can't serve on a jury
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unless you are registered to vote.
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Well, Dr. King, you've certainly given me
something to think about.
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But this administration is going
to set this aside for a while.
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Just for a while, you understand.
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Yes, Mr. President, I... I understand.
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
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Selma it is.
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Big speech lined up
for these folks tonight, Doc?
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We need to see
what's what first, Big Fellow.
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We're just here to test the waters.
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Oh, my Lord.
What you got us into, woman?
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We've got 128 miles
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to come to our senses, gentlemen.
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NASH: Hush.
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This here is the place we need to be.
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This right here is the next great battle.
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I can only imagine.
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Hmm.
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Decent-looking place to die though.
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(ABERNATHY CHUCKLES WRYLY)
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Ms. Nash.
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Mr. Bevel.
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Doc? This here is it. Selma's the place.
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A lot of groundwork
has already been laid
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by the people here.
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And they ready.
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
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(DOOR OPENS)
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ORANGE: Sister Boynton.
BOYNTON: Mr. Orange.
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Good afternoon.
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MAN 1: Dr. King?
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May I introduce myself?
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Yeah, of course.
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- (GROANS)
- MAN 2: Hey!
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(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
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It's okay. It's okay. I'm okay.
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This way, Dr. King.
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KING: That white boy can hit.
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ABERNATHY: This place is perfect.
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What's the FBI's current information
on Martin Luther King?
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I heard he was assaulted in Selma.
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My information can be
summed up in a few words.
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King is a political and moral degenerate.
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Well, you say that, J. Edgar.
I have to take it seriously.
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But if he's a degenerate,
what I do know is,
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he's a non-violent degenerate.
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And I want him to go on leading
the civil rights movement,
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not one of these bloodthirsty militants.
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What I need to know right now is
what's he about to do next?
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Mr. President,
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you know we can shut men
with power down
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permanently and unequivocally.
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I'm very aware of that, Mr. Director.
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Well, if you prefer a different approach,
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we can go with the wife.
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We know there's tension
in the home already.
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We can weaken the dynamic.
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Dismantle the family.
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(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
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(PHONE RINGING)
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Hello.
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MAN: (ON PHONE) You ain't got long.
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When the hearts of those Pickaninnies
of yours stop beating...
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Same thing?
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CORETTA: When are
you all heading out?
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KING: We're heading back
to Selma at 5:00 a.m.
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It turned out to be
an ideal staging ground.
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There's a full couple of weeks planned.
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Quite a bit to be done.
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I see.
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That highway is nice now.
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Get you there in a couple of hours.
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Good people in those parts though.
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Well...
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I'm worried about the ones
who ain't so good.
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00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,531
This local Sheriff Jim Clark
262
00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,887
is supposed to be bad business.
263
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,562
Won't go down without a fight, they say.
264
00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,402
And since we don't fight...
265
00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:29,121
Well...
266
00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,841
As good a place to die as any, I guess.
267
00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,608
I wish you wouldn't talk like that.
268
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,322
It just takes the edge off.
269
00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,523
You and your friends can joke about that.
270
00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,443
I don't joke about that.
271
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,524
You're right. I'm sorry.
272
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,243
I'll, uh, put these things
away in your bag now.
273
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,846
I didn't realize you were leaving so early.
274
00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:28,651
(SIGHS)
275
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,484
(PHONE RINGING)
276
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,930
Hello?
277
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,126
KING: (ON PHONE) Halie?
278
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,570
Martin.
279
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,882
I need to hear the Lord's voice.
280
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:06,966
Oh.
281
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,482
Surely, Martin. Surely.
282
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,050
(JACKSON CLEARS THROAT)
283
00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:28,969
JACKSON: (SINGING) Precious Lord
284
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,169
Take my hand
285
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:42,205
Lead me home
286
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:47,721
Let me stand
287
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:53,326
I am tired
288
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,370
(KING SIGHS)
289
00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:01,402
I am weak
290
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:09,569
I am worn
291
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:19,285
Through the storm
292
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:26,883
Through the night
293
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:36,644
Lord, lead me on
294
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,481
To the light
295
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,803
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
296
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,964
- KING: Hey!
- Hey!
297
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:45,530
- Sully.
- Look at you.
298
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,601
(LAUGHING)
299
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,047
- Morning, Doctor.
- Good morning, Doctor.
300
00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:50,360
SULLIVAN: Drive all right?
301
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,726
KING: Good and long.
302
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,644
Good news is Richie Jean is in there.
303
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,324
Oh, she's ready for you.
304
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,731
(ALL LAUGHING)
305
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,280
Negro, that's all you had to say.
306
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,244
Uncle Marty!
307
00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:05,601
There she is! There's our girl!
308
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,050
Hey, Richie Jean!
309
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,804
RICHIE JEAN: Oh!
310
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,249
- KING: Looking like her mom.
- You go play.
311
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,368
- Hey!
- Hey, Ralphy.
312
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:17,605
ABERNATHY: How you doing?
RICHIE JEAN: Hey!
313
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,246
- Good to see you, sweetheart.
- Hey, come over here.
314
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,445
ABERNATHY: Oh, Lord,
it's good to see this!
315
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,602
Okay, now, I've got the grits on the stove.
316
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,648
Uh, how many we expecting today?
317
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,001
Well, now, Sister Jackson.
318
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,686
You know about our group,
the SCLC, right?
319
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,728
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference?
320
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,246
A few of our top SCLC leaders
are with us this time
321
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,767
since we're going to
be here a little longer than expected.
322
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,850
Now, this here's Reverend C.T. Vivian.
323
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,649
He coordinates all the SCLC branches.
324
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,405
Welcome. Nice to meet you.
Welcome, welcome.
325
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,323
This is Reverend James Bevel.
326
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,448
- How you doing, ma'am?
- I'm well. Thank you.
327
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,090
YOUNG: This here is James Orange.
328
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,565
Oh, this is a big one.
329
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,130
I don't know if I've got
enough to feed you.
330
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,690
Well, let's find out. How about that?
331
00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:58,807
- RICHIE JEAN: Hey!
- (ALL LAUGHING)
332
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,008
Now, you got two of them named James.
333
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,241
Oh, you can call me Jim, Sister.
334
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,446
And Orange is fine with me, ma'am.
335
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:04,760
Or Big Fellow!
336
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,769
All right. Well, this is fine with me.
337
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,963
Mrs. Jackson. Hosea Williams.
338
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,280
Or Castro!
339
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,328
Oh, yeah, that's a long story.
340
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,166
Uh, those grits, they need
some stirring. Mind?
341
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:18,844
ABERNATHY: You put
your foot in it now.
342
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,968
Ain't you supposed to be on a diet?
343
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:22,201
(ALL LAUGHING)
344
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:23,441
Somebody call Juanita.
345
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,761
- There's a phone!
- Hey, get off that phone.
346
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:27,927
Juanita?
347
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,207
ABERNATHY: Don't do it, Doc.
Don't do it...
348
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,050
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
349
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,049
Turning in, Doc. You okay?
350
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,531
Yes, sir. Good night to you.
351
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:43,885
Uh...
352
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,243
I wanted to tell you that
the students are in town.
353
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,160
Local students?
354
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,969
Oh, no.
355
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,080
The Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee.
356
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:02,963
- Oh. Okay. Our young friends at SNCC.
- Mmm-hmm.
357
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,011
Good to know.
358
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,969
You the one told them to organize.
359
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:09,481
Took it to heart.
360
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,488
Don't be surprised
if they don't give us grief tomorrow.
361
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,245
Town folk may be happy
to see us. But SNCC?
362
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,762
They feel we're in their territory.
363
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,927
- They're young and full of spirit.
- Mmm.
364
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:25,371
Not a bad thing.
365
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,209
It'll sort out.
366
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,330
Good night.
367
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,965
Good night.
368
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:45,049
"Boycotting the buses in Montgomery.
369
00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,282
- "Segregation in Birmingham."
- (APPLAUSE)
370
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,484
Boycotting the buses in Montgomery.
371
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,610
Segregation in Birmingham.
372
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,091
(AUDIENCE AGREEING)
373
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,966
Now? Voting in Selma.
374
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:08,089
One struggle ends just to go
right to the next and the next.
375
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,084
If you think of it that way,
it's a hard road.
376
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,411
But I don't think of it that way.
377
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,245
I think of these efforts as one effort.
378
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,085
And that one effort is for our life.
379
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,889
(AUDIENCE AGREEING)
380
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,568
Our life as a community.
Our life as a nation.
381
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,168
For our lives.
382
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,521
We can do this.
383
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:39,681
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
384
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,165
We must do this!
385
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,007
We see children
386
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,811
become victims of one
of the most vicious crimes
387
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,082
ever perpetrated against humanity
388
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,208
within the walls of their own church!
389
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,370
They are sainted now.
390
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:04,762
They are the sainted ones
in this quest for freedom.
391
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,525
And they speak to us still.
392
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,090
They say to us,
393
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,766
to all of us, all colors and creeds,
394
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,730
that we must do this.
395
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,127
They say to us that it is unacceptable
396
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,642
for more than 50% of Selma to be Negro
397
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,202
and yet less than 2% of Negroes here
being able to vote
398
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,284
and determine their own destiny
as human beings.
399
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:37,490
They say to us that
the local white leadership
400
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:38,925
use their power
401
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,721
to keep us away from the ballot box
and keep us voiceless.
402
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,211
(APPLAUSE AND AGREEMENT
CONTINUE)
403
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,168
As long as I am unable to exercise
my constitutional right to vote,
404
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,210
I do not have command of my own life.
405
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,807
I cannot determine my own destiny
for it is determined for me
406
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,043
by people who would rather
see me suffer than succeed.
407
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,288
Those that have gone before us say,
"No more!"
408
00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:05,600
AUDIENCE: No more! No more!
409
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,250
No more!
410
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,120
That means protest, that means march,
411
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,444
that means disturb the peace,
that means jail,
412
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,887
that means risk! And that is hard!
413
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,689
(SHOUTS OF AGREEMENT)
414
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,046
We will not wait any longer.
415
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,122
Give us the vote!
416
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:26,770
That's right! No more!
417
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,367
We're not asking. We're demanding.
418
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,601
Give us the vote!
419
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:31,806
ALL: Give us the vote!
420
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,441
Dr. King.
Roy Reed of The New York Times.
421
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,522
Yes. Hello to you. How are you?
422
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,921
I'm well, sir. Thank you for asking.
423
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,841
Dr. King, are you truly non-violent
if you are provoking violence, sir?
424
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,964
We are here, using
our very bodies in protest
425
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,883
- to say to those who deny us...
- Dr. King. Dr. King.
426
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:00,961
Pleasure, sir.
427
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,805
...that we will no longer let them use
their billy clubs
428
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,724
in dark corners and halls of power.
429
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,565
We make them do it
in the glaring light of day, Mr. Reed.
430
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,608
Is SNCC standing with us
on this or not, gentlemen?
431
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:12,806
You want us to bring our people in,
432
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,086
but you're not giving anything in return.
433
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,606
Now we are asking for
some kind of commitment here.
434
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,603
Respectfully speaking, of course,
435
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,047
we've been handling
the voter registration
436
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:22,531
in this town now for two years.
437
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,001
Well, you haven't gotten
very far, have you?
438
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,766
Well, maybe not, Reverend.
But we're still here.
439
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:29,921
WILLIAMS: Meaning what?
440
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,525
FORMAN: This time next month,
you won't be!
441
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,682
- WILLIAMS: That's insanity!
- Just like you left Albany.
442
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,205
Those people are pathetic
down there now.
443
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,441
Like they daddy left home!
444
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,648
What we're trying to explain
is that in Albany you all...
445
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,564
You know what I think?
Maybe we should just leave Selma...
446
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:42,607
Now!
447
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:43,681
Leave it to these two.
448
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,041
Come back in another two years
and see how much further you got!
449
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,929
- Sounds just fine to me.
- KING: That's enough.
450
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,041
Enough of this now.
451
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,121
I haven't the time for this.
452
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,725
None of us got the time for this.
453
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,686
John.
454
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:02,931
James.
455
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,681
The way our organization works
is straightforward.
456
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,970
We negotiate. We demonstrate.
We resist.
457
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,048
And on our best days, our adversary
helps the matter by making a mistake.
458
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,169
Now, we were in Albany for nine months
and we made a lot of mistakes.
459
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,326
But their sheriff, Laurie Pritchett,
460
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,570
he never made a mistake.
461
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:31,042
Kept his cool,
kept arresting us in a humane way,
462
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,567
carried people to
the jail-wagons on stretchers.
463
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,768
Day in, day out.
464
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,846
- There was no drama.
- You mean there was no cameras.
465
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,001
Exactly.
466
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,364
Now I know, we all understand,
that you young people
467
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,205
believe in working in
the community long-term.
468
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,126
Doing the good work
to raise black consciousness.
469
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,883
It's good grassroots work.
470
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,971
I can't tell you how much we admire that.
471
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,328
But what we do
472
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,368
is negotiate,
473
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,965
demonstrate,
474
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,121
resist.
475
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,288
And a big part of that
476
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,443
is raising white consciousness.
477
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,050
And in particular the consciousness
478
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,805
of whichever white man happens
to be sitting in the Oval Office.
479
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,929
Right now, Johnson has other fish to fry
and he'll ignore us if he can.
480
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,771
The only way to stop him doing that
481
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,571
is by being on the front page
of the national press every morning
482
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,961
and by being on the TV news every night.
483
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,162
And that requires
484
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,161
drama.
485
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,801
Now...
486
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,526
John.
487
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,085
James.
488
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,889
Answer me one question.
489
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,882
I've been told the sheriff in this town
isn't like Laurie Pritchett in Albany.
490
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,249
He's a big ignorant bully
like Bull Connor in Birmingham.
491
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,643
Well, you tell me. You know Selma.
492
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,166
You know Sheriff Jim Clark.
493
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,207
Is he Laurie Pritchett?
494
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,521
Or is he Bull Connor?
495
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,121
He's Bull Connor.
496
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,849
- ABERNATHY: Bingo!
- Good.
497
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,531
That's good.
498
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,721
But it gets better.
499
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,251
See, Clark doesn't control the streets
like Connor did in Birmingham.
500
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,560
Clark's the County Sheriff,
501
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,803
and all he controls in Selma
is the County Courthouse.
502
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,245
So relatively speaking,
503
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,806
we have clear avenues of approach
504
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,121
to a defined battle zone.
505
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,730
(MUSIC PLAYING)
506
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,203
In the courthouse sits
the heart of the matter,
507
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,567
the voter registration office.
508
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,529
Now this is an exceptional circumstance.
509
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,650
See, in Albany, there were
no clearly defined battle zones.
510
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,643
The issue was segregation,
511
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,041
and segregation was everywhere.
512
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:08,126
In Selma, we can concentrate
our actions on one building.
513
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,847
A citadel, defended by fanatics.
514
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,450
The Selma Courthouse.
515
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,369
A perfect stage.
516
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,800
(WHITE PEOPLE
SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
517
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,326
CLARK: Y'all deliberately
causing an obstruction!
518
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,847
You don't disperse,
you're gonna be arrested.
519
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,046
I promise you!
520
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:40,804
Sheriff Clark,
521
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,724
we're trying to gain access
to the registration office.
522
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,404
Which is our legal right.
523
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,646
CLARK: There's too many of you.
524
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:48,085
And you know damn well there is!
525
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,288
Now, y'all just gonna have
to wait at the rear!
526
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:51,925
No, Sheriff Clark.
527
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,411
We're going in the front
528
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,482
and we're gonna wait right here.
529
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,882
Segregation is now illegal
in this country, sir.
530
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:00,849
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING CONTINUES)
531
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,521
WOMAN: Get out, nigger.
532
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,647
JIMMIE: Come on.
CAGER: I'm trying.
533
00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:04,801
VIOLA: Kneel down, Daddy.
534
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:06,921
CLARK: Come on.
535
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,283
Keep this sidewalk clear. Clear a path!
536
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,125
Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
537
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,611
Get the hell out of the way!
538
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,250
Keep the sidewalk clear!
539
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,041
I said keep it clear!
540
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,610
Okay. We about to sit him down.
He can't sit.
541
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:19,801
CLARK: Then he needs to learn.
542
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,644
- He gonna sit.
- Sit down, God damn it!
543
00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:23,449
JIMMIE: Hey, hey! Pa? Pa?
544
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,245
VIOLA: Daddy.
545
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,564
JIMMIE: I just told you he can't sit.
546
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,051
CLARK: Oh, what do we got here?
547
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,127
What's going on here, boy?
548
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,486
What we got here? What we got here?
549
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,369
- Jimmie! Sit down!
- No, Mama, I'm sick of this.
550
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,566
- Jimmie!
- VIOLA: Don't do it.
551
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:37,641
Do you have a problem, boy?
552
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:39,324
JIMMIE: I'm sick of this! I just told you...
553
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,801
CLARK: What'd you think, boy?
What'd you think?
554
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,484
What the fuck are you thinking?
555
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:44,721
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
556
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,721
(BOTH GRUNTING)
557
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,040
(PEOPLE GASP)
558
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:55,480
Get that nigger woman!
559
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:56,721
MAN: Kill that nigger bitch!
560
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,646
Get your hands off of me!
561
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,129
- (GRUNTING)
- (PEOPLE CLAMORING)
562
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:03,961
(SCREAMING INDISTINCTLY)
563
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,922
WALLACE: We will not tolerate
a bunch of nigra agitators
564
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,686
attempting to orchestrate
a disturbance in this state.
565
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,603
Not as long as I'm governor.
566
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:29,247
Now, I stand here today
567
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,321
(CAMERA CLICKING)
568
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,323
in the cradle of the Confederacy
569
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,042
to remind its people
of our Founding Fathers' goals of duty.
570
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,329
Goals long since forgotten
by progressives and liberals
571
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,927
in favor of what they call
a changing world.
572
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,846
They seek to make us one mongrel unit.
573
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,050
Instead of allowing each race to flourish
from its separate racial station
574
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,521
as has been the standard
for generations now.
575
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,726
Good morning, Mr. President.
576
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:57,802
Their changing world
577
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,848
is sickening the balance
of the Southland.
578
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,086
Now...
579
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,607
I pledged to stand up
for Alabama when I campaigned
580
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,762
and the people elected me
on that pledge,
581
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,241
and that is exactly what I intend to do.
582
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,360
(WOMAN SIGHS)
583
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,288
ABERNATHY: Johnson'll flinch.
584
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,888
KING: I'm tired, Ralphy.
585
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,689
Tiring of this.
586
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,721
Eyes on the prize, Martin.
587
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,644
Yeah, but what is the prize, friend?
588
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,842
We fight to have a seat
at whatever table we want.
589
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,923
How does it help a black man
to be able to eat at a lunch counter
590
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,480
if he doesn't earn enough
to buy the burger?
591
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,048
Or worse yet, can't even...
592
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,210
Can't even read the menu
593
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,523
'cause there was no Negro school
where he's from.
594
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,648
What is that?
595
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:16,801
That equality?
596
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,249
- Amen.
- And what about in our minds?
597
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,726
Equality in the black psyche.
Look at these men.
598
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,288
Beaten and broken down for generations.
599
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,727
Deciding to demand more?
600
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,450
What happens when a man stands up
and says enough is enough?
601
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,329
Look at Medgar.
602
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,483
Murdered the man in his own driveway.
603
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,562
Kids and wife right there
inside the house.
604
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,530
George and Herbert Lee, Lamar Smith.
605
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,763
A man stands up, only to be struck down.
606
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,091
And what happens to the people he led?
607
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:01,961
(SIGHS)
608
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,929
What are we doing, Ralphy?
609
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,401
We take it piece by piece.
610
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,604
Like we been doing.
611
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,567
We build the path as we can.
612
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,169
Rock by rock.
613
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,408
This cell is probably bugged.
614
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,045
(LAUGHING)
615
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,610
It probably is.
616
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:34,925
Oh, Lord.
617
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,681
They're gonna ruin me
so they can ruin this movement.
618
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,486
They are.
619
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,648
"Look at the birds of the air,
620
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,048
"that they do not sow, nor reap,
621
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,849
"nor gather into barns,
622
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,970
"and yet your Heavenly Father
doth feed them.
623
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,521
"Are you not worth much more than they?
624
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,050
"And who of you by being worried
625
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,646
"can add a single hour to his life?"
626
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,048
Matthew 6, verse 27.
627
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,485
All right.
628
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,760
Yes, sir.
629
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,121
(SIGHS)
630
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:32,806
VIVIAN: What? Where did you hear that?
631
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,167
ORANGE: I overheard them talking
about him coming in this evening.
632
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,287
LEWIS: Overheard us?
633
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,442
I'm learning about this just like you.
We didn't do this.
634
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:39,931
WILLIAMS: That Negro
can't be talking about that
635
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,407
"by any means necessary" madness
with these people.
636
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:43,925
They about to bust as it is.
637
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,087
He's on his way here, right?
638
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,844
So we gotta figure this out.
Right and fast.
639
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:48,729
Oh, he ain't on his way. He here.
640
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:52,571
Holy shit.
641
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,369
(CAR DOORS CLOSING)
642
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:04,720
- Are you all right?
- (EXHALES)
643
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,407
I wish I had more time to prepare is all.
644
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,807
I want to do this kind of thing
whenever possible.
645
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,929
But I don't get to do it enough
to feel entirely comfortable.
646
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,691
I prefer to be prepared.
647
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,322
Yes, I understand that.
648
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,885
I admire you. I do.
649
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,403
Sometimes I wish
I were more out there in the trenches.
650
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,721
You do more than you know, Mrs. King.
651
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:34,801
(CORETTA EXHALES)
652
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,165
I'll tell you what I know to be true.
653
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,005
It helps me in times
when I'm feeling unsure.
654
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:43,081
If you'd like.
655
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,763
Oh, please do, Mrs. Boynton.
656
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,681
I know that we are descendants
of a mighty people,
657
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,286
who gave civilization to the world.
658
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,329
People who survived
the hulls of slave ships
659
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,289
across vast oceans.
660
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,684
People who innovate and create and love
661
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:09,049
despite pressures
and tortures unimaginable.
662
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:11,963
They are in our bloodstream.
663
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,646
Pumping our hearts every second.
664
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,929
They've prepared you.
665
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,964
You are already prepared.
666
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,885
Mrs. King, I mean no disrespect.
667
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,123
I come with great respect
for your husband.
668
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,407
I have no army behind me anymore.
669
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,250
I have myself and the truth.
670
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,487
That is all I stand on today.
671
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,848
You've said disrespectful things
in the past, Minister.
672
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,571
So you'll understand
why there is some alarm here tonight.
673
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,961
I do. I understand that.
674
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,049
Your husband and I, we do not see
exactly eye-to-eye
675
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,327
on how to achieve progress
for the black man.
676
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,166
And yes, I have been piercing
in my critiques of non-violence.
677
00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:02,450
But because we don't agree, Mrs. King,
does not mean that I'm the enemy.
678
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,763
What do you intend to say
to these people then, sir?
679
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,251
A lot of work has been done here,
680
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,322
and I don't intend to
see it undone tonight.
681
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,882
Let's just say, my eyes see in a new way.
682
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,526
But your local sheriff here?
He doesn't know that.
683
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,761
So allow me to be the alternative
to your husband.
684
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,769
The alternative
that scares them so much
685
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,649
they turn to Dr. King in refuge.
686
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:29,121
Let my being here, Mrs. King,
represent the factions
687
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:31,851
that will come if they don't
give the good reverend
688
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,201
what he's asking for and soon.
689
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,090
Do you know what he has said
about us in the past, Coretta?
690
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,004
He called us "ignorant Negro preachers."
691
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,969
Called me a modern day Uncle Tom.
692
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:45,089
Said on national television
that the white man pays me
693
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,289
to keep Negroes defenseless.
694
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,204
The white man pays me!
695
00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:55,402
How could you allow it?
696
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,087
It wasn't like that this time, Martin.
I'm telling you...
697
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,606
He spoke with some of
the words he's used before,
698
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,569
but it wasn't aimed at you.
699
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:05,531
It was...
700
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:07,571
It had more to do with helping us.
701
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,251
Not that you need his help.
702
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:12,651
I'm just telling you how it was.
703
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,451
This movement, our movement,
704
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,727
has been the one
that has moved the needle.
705
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,842
Our movement changes laws
706
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,490
and day-to-day life for our people.
707
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:23,608
But what has he changed?
708
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:26,087
Actually changed?
709
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,285
You don't sound like yourself.
You sound tired.
710
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,249
And you sound enamored.
711
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,889
(CORETTA SIGHS)
712
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,325
I didn't mean that.
713
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:44,645
Corrie.
714
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,604
Coretta.
715
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,330
I didn't mean that.
716
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,406
(CORETTA SIGHS)
717
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,371
I'm tired.
718
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:10,730
You're right.
719
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:19,645
Rest then.
720
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:22,481
Rest tonight, Martin.
721
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,049
WALLACE: This is not
what I want to hear.
722
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:32,082
How in Christ's sake does
Malcolm X slip into my state,
723
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,891
meet with the wife of the other one,
724
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,923
and give an actual speech
to these nigras
725
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,411
who are already riled up enough?
726
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,244
I mean, how does that happen,
Colonel Lingo?
727
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,401
Governor...
728
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,609
Is every spook militant in existence
gonna pay us a visit?
729
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,082
- Huh?
- (SIGHS)
730
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,924
Do you know what this means?
731
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,968
Johnson is going to get jumpy.
732
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,766
King and X together is sending him
through the cotton-pickin' stratosphere.
733
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,571
And pictures of nigras
getting beat in the street
734
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,846
- doesn't help the matter.
- Governor...
735
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,049
Now I can't make a move
against that backwoods,
736
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:05,565
white trash Sheriff Clark
737
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,244
'cause that'll be seen
as I'm helping King.
738
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,370
But somebody got to
get Jim Clark under control.
739
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:13,651
Election year is coming up
740
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,963
and this black voting business
won't abide.
741
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,724
I mean, what's not clear about that?
742
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,007
Look, George, I'm telling you,
743
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,731
if the Lord Jesus and Elvis Presley
744
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:25,808
come visiting and they said,
745
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,965
"Jim, now, we need you to
treat them niggers nice."
746
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,691
Jim Clark would beat the shit
out of the pair of them,
747
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:33,841
then throw them in jail.
748
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:36,531
Jesus H. Christ.
749
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,444
Jim's a good old boy,
he's a friend of mine.
750
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,045
Jim Clark just ain't that scary.
751
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,722
Now he's playing into their hands.
752
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,285
Now...
753
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,840
If you want fear,
754
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,451
you need dominance in Selma.
755
00:46:54,680 --> 00:47:00,084
Hoover picked up some intel
about a night march.
756
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,321
Wasn't announced.
757
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,289
It's some locals outside of King's group.
758
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:05,567
Unofficial, they called it.
759
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:10,089
Supposed to happen tomorrow night
once King leaves jail.
760
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,766
Going to some bleeding heart
fundraiser in California.
761
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:19,645
WALLACE: So...
762
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,483
King's out of town.
763
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:24,646
Fewer cameras.
764
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:27,521
And at night.
765
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,331
LINGO: Find a reason
to send us in there.
766
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,927
Let's scare some real sense
into them black bastards.
767
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,525
OFFICER: (OVER LOUDSPEAKER)
Y'all move back.
768
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,284
Move back now. Get back.
769
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:39,531
Go back to your homes now.
770
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:40,681
(OFFICER BLOWING WHISTLE)
771
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,761
(ALL SCREAMING)
772
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,361
- Stop! Leave him be!
- Mama, come on!
773
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,724
Mama, come on!
774
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,569
We gotta keep moving. Come on.
775
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,046
This way, this way.
776
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:08,201
WOMAN: Leave him alone.
777
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:10,641
(WOMAN SCREAMING)
778
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,450
(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
779
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,565
(ALL PANTING)
780
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,086
It's all right.
781
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,049
It's gonna be all right. Okay?
782
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,361
Act like you're...
Act like you're reading your menu. Okay?
783
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:36,761
It's okay.
784
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:39,001
Pops...
785
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,203
It's all right, Mama. It's gonna be cool.
786
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:44,850
It's okay, it's okay.
787
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:51,601
JIMMIE: Hey! Hey...
788
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,125
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
789
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,131
No, get off of him! Just get off of him!
790
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,601
Get off of him! No!
791
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,084
No! Get off of him!
792
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,286
- (GROANS)
- (VIOLA SCREAMING)
793
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,245
VIOLA: Stop it! No, no, no!
794
00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:12,366
- (COCKING GUN)
- Stop it!
795
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,285
(VIOLA WAILING)
796
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:40,247
Help me.
797
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:42,608
(SIRENS BLARING IN DISTANCE)
798
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:44,246
(CRYING)
799
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,320
Help me.
800
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,720
Jimmie.
801
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,925
Jimmie. Jimmie. Jimmie.
802
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,047
Help me.
803
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:22,765
Sir?
804
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,641
Oh. Dr. King.
805
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,010
There are no words
to soothe you, Mr. Lee.
806
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,323
There are no words.
807
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:02,450
But I can tell you one thing for certain.
808
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,290
God was the first to cry.
809
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:08,771
Yes.
810
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,009
He was the first to cry for your boy.
811
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:13,844
Yes. I believe that.
812
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:19,449
Is your daughter...
813
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:23,644
Is Jimmie Lee's mother here, Mr. Lee?
814
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,682
No, she... She couldn't make it.
815
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:37,449
May I ask your age, sir?
816
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,567
Well, I... I got 82 years.
817
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:43,805
1883.
818
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:45,086
Right.
819
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,242
(STAMMERING) Yeah. Jimmie...
820
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,888
He born in '38.
821
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,044
He a Army man.
822
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,691
I mean, he was... Was an Army man.
823
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,087
In the Army a spell.
824
00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:07,408
He say, "Pa, you gonna vote
before you done."
825
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,363
Mmm-hmm. That's what he said.
826
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:12,891
He tell me.
827
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:17,563
- He was a good boy.
- Yes.
828
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:18,721
Always good.
829
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,484
Always good.
830
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,524
Jimmie gone.
831
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,729
I'm so sorry.
832
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:44,801
Yeah.
833
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:06,005
KING: Who murdered
Jimmie Lee Jackson?
834
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:14,080
Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson?
835
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,960
We know a state trooper
836
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,247
acting under the orders
of George Wallace
837
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,721
pointed the gun and pulled the trigger.
838
00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:29,131
But how many other fingers
were on that trigger?
839
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,561
Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson?
840
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,648
Every white lawman
who abuses the law to terrorize.
841
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:46,802
Every white politician
842
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,729
who feeds on prejudice and hatred.
843
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:52,928
(ALL AGREEING)
844
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,726
Every white preacher
who preaches the Bible
845
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,565
and stays silent
before his white congregation.
846
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,324
(ALL AGREEING)
847
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,684
Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson?
848
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,525
Every Negro man and woman
849
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,723
who stands by without joining this fight
850
00:54:13,800 --> 00:54:16,724
as their brothers and sisters
are humiliated,
851
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,690
brutalized, and ripped from this earth!
852
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,842
(APPLAUSE)
853
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,889
When I heard
854
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,328
President Kennedy
had been shot and killed...
855
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,371
And when I heard just yesterday
856
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,249
that Malcolm X,
857
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:41,563
who stood in this very church
just three weeks ago,
858
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,642
had been shot and killed,
859
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,761
I turned to my wife Coretta
860
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:49,808
and said the same thing I often say
861
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:52,531
when one of our leaders is struck down,
862
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,483
"Our lives are not fully lived
863
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,609
"if we're not willing to die
for those we love
864
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,650
"and for what we believe."
865
00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:04,051
(ALL AGREEING)
866
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,405
But today, Jimmie,
867
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,126
we're doing the living
and you've done the dying, dear brother.
868
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,330
We will not let your sacrifice
pass in vain, dear brother.
869
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,323
We will not let it go!
870
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:22,641
We will finish what you were after!
871
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:25,121
We will get what you were denied!
872
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,727
We will vote and we will
put these men out of office!
873
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,802
We will take their power!
874
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,326
We will win
what you were slaughtered for!
875
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,811
PEOPLE: Yeah!
876
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,361
We're going back to Washington.
877
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,082
We're going to demand
to see the President.
878
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:44,730
And I'm gonna tell him
879
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,683
that Jimmie was murdered
by an administration
880
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:51,650
that spends millions of dollars every day
881
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:55,441
to sacrifice life
in the name of liberty in Vietnam,
882
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,126
yet lacks the moral will
and the moral courage
883
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,171
to defend the lives
of its own people here in America!
884
00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:03,765
(APPLAUSE)
885
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,449
We will not let it go!
886
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,406
And if he does not act,
we will act. We will act!
887
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:13,369
We will do it for all of our lost ones.
888
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,241
All of those, like Jimmie Lee Jackson,
889
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:17,890
who have gone too soon,
890
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,042
taken by hate!
891
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:21,724
(APPLAUSE)
892
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:29,844
Let me hear the top-tier issues
893
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:33,891
that have to be evident
in the overall legislation we demand.
894
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:35,041
Let's break it down.
895
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,640
But let's root this discussion
in what we know.
896
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,926
We know Johnson
can't see the full picture.
897
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,769
So, let's paint it for him.
898
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,970
What are the specific hardships
and humiliations
899
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:51,011
we can address
within the larger context of legislation?
900
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,922
Doc, we gotta start
with banning these laws that
901
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,162
if a Negro tries to register,
902
00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:00,971
I mean, actually musters up
the courage to go in that courthouse,
903
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,763
that their name and address
is published in the paper.
904
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,207
It gives anybody who wants
to do them any harm
905
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,965
their exact location,
and we know how the Klan is.
906
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,805
I hear that. But the poll taxes
got to be our focus first.
907
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:13,961
'Cause black people are poor!
908
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,849
- Black people are poor down here.
- Yep.
909
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,287
And they expected to pay for every year
they weren't legally registered
910
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:19,441
before they can register.
911
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,126
Now, what the hell is that?
Who got that kind of money?
912
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,282
(ALL CLAMORING)
913
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,771
VIVIAN: Come on now! Listen now!
914
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,161
The big issue is voting vouchers.
915
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,446
Is that the number one issue?
916
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:30,601
VIVIAN: Now hold on. Let me finish.
917
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:32,205
'Cause everybody'll forget
about this part.
918
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:35,124
But if you're Negro,
the only way you can vote
919
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:37,806
is if an approved registered voter
vouches for you.
920
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,929
Right? So, let's say, you take
some place like Lowndes County,
921
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,207
where there are no Negroes
who are registered
922
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:47,126
and you've got to have someone
who is registered to vouch for you.
923
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:48,406
What are you supposed to do?
924
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:49,761
- Hmm?
- Mmm.
925
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,444
Nobody you know,
926
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,764
not a single black person
for 100 miles is registered.
927
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,367
So how do you get the voucher, right?
928
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,807
To get you into the courthouse door
929
00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,281
to pay the poll tax
930
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,681
to get your name published
931
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:08,320
and get yourself dead.
932
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,001
That's true.
933
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:12,491
We need a new plan!
934
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,164
I can't take him back to Washington
935
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,050
and waltz into the White House
with a list of empty demands.
936
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,009
Tactics, my friends!
937
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:21,731
We must break down this institution
938
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:24,644
into the tangible tactics
that it takes to dismantle it.
939
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:28,161
JOHNSON: What's your next move?
940
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:32,484
A march from Selma to Montgomery
to protest and amplify.
941
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,528
Well, I'll be damned.
942
00:58:34,600 --> 00:58:37,001
This was always
part of the plan, wasn't it?
943
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,004
Provoke some tragedy
in little old Selma, then go big.
944
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,968
Get someone killed
and march on the State Capitol!
945
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,085
Selma to Montgomery's
gotta be 50 miles!
946
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,891
You march those people
into rural Alabama unprotected,
947
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:51,121
it's gonna be open season.
948
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,646
It's too damn far
and too damn dangerous!
949
00:58:53,720 --> 00:58:55,609
Then propose new legislation, sir.
950
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,331
I can't do that this year.
I won't! I told you.
951
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,842
We need your involvement here,
Mr. President.
952
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,571
We deserve your help
as citizens of this country.
953
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:04,721
Citizens under attack.
954
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,929
Now, you listen to me. You listen to me.
955
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:09,889
You're an activist. I'm a politician.
956
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,566
You got one big issue.
I got a hundred and one.
957
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,608
Now, you demanding more
958
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,047
and putting me on the spot
with this visit, that's okay.
959
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:18,884
That's your job. That's what you do.
960
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,531
But I am sick and tired
961
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:23,887
of you demanding and telling me
962
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,281
what I can and what I can't do.
963
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,089
If you want my support
on this voting thing,
964
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,162
I need some quid pro quo from you.
965
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,051
What do you want, Mr. President?
966
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,008
We have a line on
some threats that are, uh,
967
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,405
particularly troubling.
968
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:40,249
Well, what's new?
969
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,928
No, no. This is serious.
Credible threats with detail.
970
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,685
RUSTIN: This information,
coming from the FBI, I assume?
971
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:49,886
High-level?
972
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,888
The same high-level
that's been tracking us like animals?
973
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,123
Bugging our homes and our hotel rooms.
974
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:01,727
Digging for things
that simply are not there, Lee?
975
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,320
This all feels very convenient.
976
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:07,760
WHITE: Okay.
977
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:10,760
This is coming from
Lowndes County, Alabama.
978
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:12,922
Between Selma and Montgomery.
979
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,963
I'm telling you, if he were my guy,
980
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,407
I'd keep him off the frontlines.
981
01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:22,446
Just for a while.
982
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:26,885
Not gonna happen, Lee.
983
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,164
Meet me halfway on this, Martin.
984
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:31,288
I can't, Mr. President.
985
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:33,124
Can't or won't?
986
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:37,410
I came here hoping
to talk to you about people.
987
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:40,891
People are dying in the street for this.
988
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,440
It cannot wait, sir.
989
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,044
Mr. President, how did it go?
990
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,490
What can I do to help?
991
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:58,289
Get me J. Edgar Hoover.
992
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:01,091
MAN 1: (ON TAPE) King,
993
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:04,002
you know you are a complete fraud
994
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,129
and a liability to all nigras.
995
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,329
Like all frauds, your end is approaching.
996
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:12,810
You are done.
997
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:17,889
Your degrees and your fancy awards
will not save you.
998
01:01:18,880 --> 01:01:23,807
The American public
will soon know you for what you are,
999
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:27,202
an evil, abnormal beast.
1000
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,851
(MAN 2 GRUNTING ON TAPE)
1001
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,161
(WOMAN MOANING ON TAPE)
1002
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:37,731
(TAPE STOPS)
1003
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:46,970
That wasn't me.
1004
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:51,689
That isn't me, Corrie.
1005
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:57,491
I know.
1006
01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,611
I know what you sound like.
1007
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:14,728
I've gotten used to a lot.
1008
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:21,526
All the hours wondering after your safety,
1009
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,321
worried about how you are.
1010
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:31,441
This house.
1011
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:34,886
Renting here.
1012
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:38,724
No foundation.
1013
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,771
Without the things
the children should have,
1014
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:49,002
all because of how it would look.
1015
01:02:54,480 --> 01:02:56,244
I have gotten used to it,
1016
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,330
for better or worse.
1017
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:03,891
(SIGHS)
1018
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:07,365
But what I have never gotten used to
1019
01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:09,850
is the death.
1020
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:16,683
The constant closeness of death.
1021
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,449
(CORETTA SIGHS)
1022
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,251
It's become like a thick fog to me.
1023
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,451
I can't see life sometimes
1024
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:33,730
because of the fog of death
constantly hanging over.
1025
01:03:37,400 --> 01:03:41,007
People actually say
that they will stop the blood
1026
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,482
running through the hearts
of our children.
1027
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,530
That's what they said
on the other end of that phone line.
1028
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,806
How they're going to kill my children.
1029
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,001
And what they'll do to you
and how they'll do it.
1030
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,481
How many years
have I had to listen to this?
1031
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:00,686
The filth,
1032
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:06,449
deranged and twisted
and just ignorant enough to be serious.
1033
01:04:13,560 --> 01:04:15,369
If I ask you something,
1034
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:20,448
will you answer me with the truth?
1035
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:23,521
Yes.
1036
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:26,685
Good,
1037
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:29,451
because I am not a fool.
1038
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:40,283
Do you love me?
1039
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,567
Yes, I love you, Coretta.
1040
01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:01,086
(SNIFFLES)
1041
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,367
Do you love any of the others?
1042
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:26,287
No.
1043
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,966
I need to put the march back a day.
1044
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:48,441
YOUNG: Why?
1045
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,042
I have to be home right now.
1046
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:53,727
YOUNG: Oh.
1047
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,451
Yes. Okay. I understand.
1048
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:05,611
But I have to tell you
the organization looks good.
1049
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:07,205
Real good.
1050
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:10,409
The mood is strong.
And the locals are prepared.
1051
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:12,404
The SNCC kids are ready to go.
1052
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,330
We can start it off from Selma,
1053
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,529
and you can join in on the second day.
1054
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,321
I just think it'd be a mistake
to hold people back
1055
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:34,925
when their blood is up.
1056
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:38,249
KING: I hear you,
1057
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:40,004
but we need to be out there full throttle.
1058
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:41,491
This ain't a test run.
1059
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,165
We need to get to Montgomery.
1060
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:47,005
I warned Johnson that
we were going to the Capitol.
1061
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:48,889
We need to do just that.
1062
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:53,082
YOUNG: And I believe we will.
We'll get there.
1063
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,207
And when we do the real deal, the finale,
1064
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,362
when you make the big speech
at the end,
1065
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:03,681
right on Wallace's doorstep.
1066
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,886
KING: I don't know, Andy.
1067
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:24,043
YOUNG: It'll be just fine.
1068
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:28,281
We'll get it started strong.
And you'll finish strong.
1069
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:30,081
Mmm.
1070
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,967
Okay. Uh... Let's proceed.
1071
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,563
But only one of us walks to start.
1072
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:43,611
I don't want to get back on Monday
and find all our leadership in jail.
1073
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:45,720
One of us walks.
1074
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:47,810
YOUNG: Understood.
1075
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:54,770
There will be no march
from Selma to Montgomery.
1076
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,767
It is not conducive to
traffic flow on Route 80.
1077
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:00,251
Or to public safety.
1078
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,924
Your lives could be in danger,
1079
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,241
but we're going to be strong
if we stick together.
1080
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,529
Don't fight back.
It's a non-violent movement.
1081
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,004
Non-violence is not passive.
It's actually very strong.
1082
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:13,051
We shouldn't do this, John.
1083
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:14,929
This is not us. This is not SNCC.
1084
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,206
It's some bullshit.
1085
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,529
It's gonna do more for King
and the SCLC than for Selma.
1086
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:21,081
This is Alabama.
1087
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,567
They can keep their asses
in Washington, D.C.
1088
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,881
You don't tell us how to live our lives.
1089
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:28,281
This is an example of what
you might deal with out there.
1090
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:31,045
What you might experience.
Here we go. Let's show them.
1091
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:33,441
We don't want your kind here.
1092
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,124
Go to the bottom of the river, black boy.
1093
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,804
We're going to put you down
in Alabama River!
1094
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:37,927
LEWIS: He's not even here.
1095
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:39,047
How's it gonna do more for him?
1096
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:40,963
FORMAN: Well, why ain't
he here, then, man?
1097
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:42,963
Are you listening to yourself?
1098
01:08:43,040 --> 01:08:45,361
First, it's gonna do more for him.
Now, it's why he ain't here?
1099
01:08:45,440 --> 01:08:46,885
Do you want him here,
or do you not want him here?
1100
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,645
Honestly, I don't give a rat's ass
about that man. That's your hero.
1101
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,644
Let's take these bastards
and stick them down into Alabama River
1102
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:53,960
and never see them again.
1103
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:55,485
James, you are so off-base with this.
1104
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,324
All this nonsense.
This ain't what SNCC is about.
1105
01:08:57,400 --> 01:08:58,481
Don't make me out to be
the bad guy here, John.
1106
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,324
I'm not! You're the one playing me small.
1107
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:01,970
- Don't demonize me...
- (OVERLAPPING ARGUMENT)
1108
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:04,528
You're mad because they called him in.
1109
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:07,922
We were here first.
And they called him in.
1110
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,480
I get it. I understand that.
1111
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:14,007
But if we are really
and truly for the people,
1112
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,401
and the people of Selma chose him,
1113
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,848
well, then the people have spoken.
1114
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:24,525
And if they want to march,
then I'm marching with them.
1115
01:09:28,240 --> 01:09:29,765
Then, brother,
1116
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,241
you're marching as John Lewis.
1117
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:35,804
Not as part of SNCC.
1118
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:39,762
It's been voted on and decided.
1119
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,685
For this march, you're on your own
with De Lawd and his disciples.
1120
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:13,648
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1121
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:17,643
VIVIAN: Short man wins.
Short man wins.
1122
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:19,770
Short man wins.
1123
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:22,606
All right.
1124
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,802
All right. Who got it?
1125
01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:30,005
It's on you, Hosea.
1126
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:31,804
WILLIAMS: You ready, young blood?
You ready?
1127
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,007
- All right. Let's do this.
- All right.
1128
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:42,565
REED: About 525 Negroes
had left Brown's Chapel
1129
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:46,167
and walked six blocks to cross
Pettus Bridge and the Alabama River.
1130
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:03,848
There were young and old,
1131
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,891
and they carried an assortment of packs,
bed rolls and lunch sacks.
1132
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,210
The troopers were waiting
300 yards beyond the end of the bridge.
1133
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,731
Behind the troopers
were dozens of possemen,
1134
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,482
15 of them on horses,
1135
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:34,689
and perhaps 100 white spectators.
1136
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:46,489
Can you swim?
1137
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:51,361
Not many swimming pools for
black folk where I come from.
1138
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,050
Yeah.
1139
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:12,883
(REPORTERS CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY)
1140
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,325
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
1141
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,808
Andy, it's Bayard. Everybody there?
1142
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:25,081
Yes.
1143
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:26,366
BAYARD: Turn on CBS right now, Andy.
1144
01:13:26,440 --> 01:13:27,680
Right now. You have a TV there?
1145
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,849
- Yes. Now?
- Right now!
1146
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:31,924
Turn on the television set.
1147
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:34,569
ANNOUNCER ON TV: We interrupt
this program to bring you
1148
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,001
a special bulletin from CBS News.
1149
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,200
Give 'em two minutes. Stand right there.
1150
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:56,691
We're ready.
1151
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:11,962
This is an unlawful assembly.
1152
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,361
You have two minutes to disperse.
1153
01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:17,284
Go home or go to your church.
1154
01:14:17,360 --> 01:14:20,443
This march will not continue.
1155
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:22,809
Two minutes.
1156
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,805
May I have a word with the Major?
1157
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,043
There's no word to be had.
1158
01:14:35,440 --> 01:14:37,363
Major Cloud, may we speak with you?
1159
01:14:50,480 --> 01:14:52,084
Troopers, advance!
1160
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:53,641
(GUNSHOT)
1161
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,371
(TROOPERS YELLING)
1162
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:03,040
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
1163
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:06,566
(PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
1164
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,411
Seventy million people are watching this.
1165
01:15:10,480 --> 01:15:12,403
REED: The first 10 or 20 Negroes
1166
01:15:12,480 --> 01:15:14,084
were swept to the ground screaming,
1167
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:15,446
arms and legs flying,
1168
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,410
packs and bags went skittering
across the grassy divider.
1169
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:20,606
(GUNFIRE)
1170
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:23,450
(ALL SCREAMING)
1171
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:30,046
(GROANING)
1172
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,806
REED: Those still on their feet retreated.
1173
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:37,928
A cheer went up
from the white spectators
1174
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,604
lining the south side of the highway.
1175
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:41,251
(ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
1176
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,371
- (COUGHING)
- Come on.
1177
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,005
You gotta come on.
1178
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:50,206
MAN: Please, don't...
1179
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:53,245
REED: The troopers continued pushing,
1180
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:56,489
using both the force of their bodies
and the prodding of their nightsticks.
1181
01:16:00,480 --> 01:16:01,527
(GROANS)
1182
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:05,851
(ALL CLAMORING)
1183
01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:10,281
(GUNSHOT)
1184
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,766
REED: Suddenly, there was
a sharp sound, like a gunshot,
1185
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:19,010
and a gray cloud spewed over
the troopers and the Negroes.
1186
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,560
But before the cloud hid it all,
1187
01:16:21,680 --> 01:16:25,844
there were several seconds
of unobstructed view.
1188
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:26,967
(CLEARS THROAT)
1189
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:40,281
(YELLING)
1190
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,168
REED: Fifteen or 20 nightsticks
1191
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,288
could be seen through the gas,
1192
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,170
flailing at the heads of the marchers.
1193
01:16:53,440 --> 01:16:54,487
Ahhh!
1194
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:56,005
REED: The Negroes cried out
1195
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:57,730
as they crowded together for protection,
1196
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,002
and the whites on the sidelines
whooped and cheered.
1197
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,485
From the hospital
came reports of victims
1198
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:19,804
suffering fractures of ribs,
heads, arms and legs.
1199
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:21,882
And Negro leader John Lewis,
1200
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:24,088
despite injury from
a possible skull fracture,
1201
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:28,330
led the marchers back to the chapel
after the encounter with officers.
1202
01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:30,685
Help!
1203
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:32,201
Help!
1204
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:40,851
He said, "I don't see
how President Johnson
1205
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:42,331
"can send troops to Vietnam
1206
01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:46,366
"and can't send troops
to Selma, Alabama."
1207
01:17:46,440 --> 01:17:50,570
To which the Negroes present
roared their approval.
1208
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:53,402
(GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING)
1209
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:11,729
(INAUDIBLE)
1210
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,166
MAN: Gerry! Gerry, come with us!
Come with us!
1211
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:36,571
We need your gun, man!
1212
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:37,971
GERRY: I can't walk!
1213
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,646
MAN: Come with us. We know you got
them guns in the shed, Gerry.
1214
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:43,087
Hey, hey, hey, what you need guns for?
1215
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:44,844
The Bible says,
"An eye for an eye," Reverend.
1216
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:46,490
- Yeah?
- I'm sick of this shit!
1217
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,642
How many guns
you think they got down there?
1218
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:50,609
That's an entire army down there.
1219
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:52,967
What you got? A couple of .32s? A .38?
1220
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:54,411
Maybe a couple
of old scatterguns? What?
1221
01:18:54,480 --> 01:18:57,006
I got enough to kill a couple
of them crackers, that's what I got!
1222
01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:00,368
And how many of us you think
they gonna kill in retaliation?
1223
01:19:00,440 --> 01:19:03,569
With their 12-gauge pump-actions,
their Colt automatics,
1224
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,961
their Remingtons, their helicopters,
their tanks!
1225
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:10,367
We won't win that way,
and I ain't talking about the Bible.
1226
01:19:10,440 --> 01:19:12,169
I ain't talking what's right by God.
1227
01:19:12,240 --> 01:19:14,766
I am talking facts. Cold, hard facts!
1228
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:19,209
Now, you take two of them,
and they take 10 of us.
1229
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:22,887
No. We have to win another way.
1230
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:26,442
ANNOUNCER: (ON TV) ...to our
regularly scheduled program.
1231
01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:36,168
We're going back to the bridge.
1232
01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:43,201
We're going to finish this,
we promise you that, Ms. Amelia.
1233
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,243
We go again.
1234
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:51,481
(REPORTERS CLAMORING)
1235
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:52,607
(CAMERAS CLICKING)
1236
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,091
MALE REPORTER: Dr. King!
Can we get a statement, sir?
1237
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:57,400
Dr. King! Morning, Doctor.
1238
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:58,965
Can we get a statement, please?
1239
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:00,451
- KING: Morning.
- Morning.
1240
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:07,290
While rageful violence continues
towards the unarmed people of Selma,
1241
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:13,409
while they are assaulted with tear gas
and batons like an enemy in a war,
1242
01:20:13,480 --> 01:20:17,041
no citizen of this country
can call themselves blameless,
1243
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:20,806
for we all bear a responsibility
for our fellow man.
1244
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:24,444
I am appealing to
men and women of God
1245
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,522
and goodwill everywhere,
1246
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:28,921
white, black and otherwise.
1247
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:34,769
If you believe all are created equal,
come to Selma.
1248
01:20:34,840 --> 01:20:39,289
Join us. Join our march against injustice
and inhumanity.
1249
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:41,850
We need you to stand with us.
1250
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:47,484
GRAY: Judge Johnson,
Dr. King's call-to-action
1251
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:49,289
was nationally televised.
1252
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:52,808
We've seen hundreds of people
travel across the country
1253
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:54,644
to attend tomorrow's march,
1254
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:58,805
mostly white,
mostly clergy of some kind.
1255
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,529
The SCLC is seeking
a federal court order
1256
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:06,968
enjoining the state authorities
from interfering with the next march.
1257
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:10,527
You're asking me to overturn
the Governor's mandate
1258
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:12,602
and to do so without a hearing,
1259
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:13,960
but it's not going to happen at all
1260
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,051
without a proper proceeding.
1261
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:19,090
Dr. King is in position
to lead tomorrow's march, Judge.
1262
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:23,165
Understood, but you will have
your day in court on Thursday, Mr. Gray.
1263
01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:26,050
Meanwhile, there will be
no march tomorrow.
1264
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:28,646
I will not oppose Wallace
against protocol.
1265
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,884
"Thousands head south
in moral crusade."
1266
01:21:36,720 --> 01:21:38,484
WHITE: The SCLC
already filed an appeal
1267
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,927
against Wallace's orders this morning.
1268
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,528
You want my advice, Mr. President?
1269
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:47,445
You have to ask?
1270
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:50,524
Give King the march to Montgomery.
1271
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:55,563
Do that, and then Selma's over.
1272
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,161
Then you're back in control.
1273
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:00,322
In control of what?
1274
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,289
Another civil war?
1275
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,010
This ain't about the goddamn march.
1276
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:05,809
You think he cares about the march?
1277
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:08,486
He wants the law changed, now.
1278
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:10,571
I've got Congress
calling me by the dozens.
1279
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,120
I've got picketing that gets
bigger and bigger every day.
1280
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:15,811
He tugs on their goddamn
white liberal conscience.
1281
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,841
Every march pulls 'em. Especially when
people are getting beat up in the streets.
1282
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,206
These pictures are going
around the world, Lee.
1283
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:28,523
I understand, Mr. President.
1284
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:30,204
All the more reason to act now.
1285
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:31,327
I'm gonna act now.
1286
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,886
You tell Wallace
and those backwater hicks
1287
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,042
I don't want to see
any more of this horseshit.
1288
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,249
And you tell King he best not march,
you hear me?
1289
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:43,767
Either King stops and Wallace stops,
1290
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:45,808
or I'll stop 'em both.
1291
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:49,407
I'm here on the President's order
to try and make this work.
1292
01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:52,205
Please work with me.
1293
01:22:53,480 --> 01:22:55,323
So we give up the march and you...
1294
01:22:56,360 --> 01:22:57,725
You give what?
1295
01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,205
We asked for federal protection.
1296
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:01,770
And with no disrespect,
1297
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:03,330
but when the Assistant Attorney General
1298
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,482
is the highest-ranking
federal official in Selma,
1299
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,767
we have our answer.
1300
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:09,126
And it's not the one we want.
1301
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:13,922
Might I suggest that you
speak with Governor Wallace
1302
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,606
and Sheriff Clark
and urge them against violence
1303
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,484
instead of trying to persuade us
1304
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:20,369
not to have a peaceful protest?
1305
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,163
Maybe we can make a deal.
1306
01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:31,090
What if I
1307
01:23:31,760 --> 01:23:36,129
could assure you that the administration
would endorse a later march
1308
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:38,525
if tomorrow is called off?
1309
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:44,245
You know what?
He's closer than you may think
1310
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,841
to coming around on this issue.
1311
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:50,686
I believe this compromise
might be agreeable.
1312
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:52,000
KING: Mr. Doar?
1313
01:23:53,040 --> 01:23:57,568
Thousands have gathered here
to demonstrate their dignity.
1314
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:01,129
I don't want to challenge Judge Johnson.
1315
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,009
I don't want to go against the President.
1316
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:04,320
I don't want any of this.
1317
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:08,005
The President could stop this
with a stroke of his pen.
1318
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,208
He chooses not to.
1319
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,760
The decision is with your side, sir,
1320
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:14,961
not ours.
1321
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:18,809
(BLUES MUSIC PLAYING)
1322
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:26,084
Good to see you, Father.
Good to see you.
1323
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:27,525
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for coming out.
1324
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,364
Hello, sister. Good to
see you this afternoon.
1325
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:33,084
Oh. Oh... You came.
1326
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:35,401
You called and we came, my friend.
1327
01:24:35,480 --> 01:24:36,845
You are not alone, my friend.
1328
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:38,081
Welcome, welcome.
1329
01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:39,321
- Hi, what's your name?
- Susan.
1330
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:41,404
Hi, I'm Viola. Welcome to Selma.
1331
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,327
- Yes, ma'am, I'm good. How are you?
- Fine, thank you.
1332
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,004
What is your name
and where are you from, sir?
1333
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:48,890
My name is James Reeb.
I've come from Boston.
1334
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:52,282
Tell me, why have you
traveled here, Mr. Reeb?
1335
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:56,720
I heard about the attack
of innocent people
1336
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:58,165
who just want their rights,
1337
01:24:58,480 --> 01:25:03,008
and I couldn't just stand by
when Dr. King put out that call to clergy.
1338
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:04,601
I couldn't.
1339
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,002
The President doesn't
want us to march today.
1340
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:08,246
(CROWD CHEERS)
1341
01:25:08,320 --> 01:25:10,288
The courts don't want us to march.
1342
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:11,761
But we must march.
1343
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:12,841
ALL: Yeah!
1344
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:14,689
- We must stand up.
- ALL: Yeah!
1345
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,606
We must make a massive demonstration
of our moral certainty.
1346
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:20,645
(CROWD CHEERING)
1347
01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:26,041
I'm so glad we're here together today.
1348
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:28,607
I thank you for standing up.
1349
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,049
For we shall be victorious in our quest.
1350
01:25:32,120 --> 01:25:35,090
We shall cross the finish line
hand in hand.
1351
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,046
For we shall overcome.
1352
01:25:39,600 --> 01:25:40,647
All right.
1353
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:42,051
(APPLAUSE)
1354
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,602
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)
1355
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,485
Troopers, withdraw!
1356
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:42,921
(APPLAUSE)
1357
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:48,602
My point is,
after what happened the last time,
1358
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:50,808
if it don't feel right, we don't do it.
That's my point.
1359
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:52,723
We've been going round
and round on this for hours,
1360
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:54,325
and nothing's gonna change the fact that
1361
01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:56,289
it was Doc's decision
and we have to support him.
1362
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:57,930
NASH: This is a movement
of many, not of one.
1363
01:29:58,000 --> 01:29:59,570
So any choice we make
has to be right for many.
1364
01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:02,166
Come on, Diane. Now, you know
that's not what I meant by that, all right?
1365
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:04,527
People are angry, Dr. King.
1366
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:09,887
Angry. They went back to that bridge
because they were hot about Sunday.
1367
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:11,883
That was our moment out there today.
1368
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:13,246
And you threw it away.
1369
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:16,326
They could've sealed off
the road behind us.
1370
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:20,121
No food, water, no kind of
support allowed through.
1371
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:22,610
We wouldn't have made 10 miles.
1372
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,045
You saying this was a trap?
1373
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:25,850
(SIGHS)
1374
01:30:27,480 --> 01:30:28,811
I don't know what it was.
1375
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:31,727
That was no trap!
1376
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:33,689
You know why they
opened up the road to us?
1377
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:36,805
Because all them nice,
respectable white folks
1378
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:38,928
was with us, and we
should've capitalized on that.
1379
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:41,287
Because they're not gonna be
around here for long. They never are!
1380
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:43,601
It was Martin's call. It's done.
1381
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:46,763
- He made the wrong goddamn call!
- Hey, watch your mouth, young man!
1382
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:49,207
Two days ago,
you didn't wanna march at all.
1383
01:30:49,280 --> 01:30:52,090
And now you're mad because
it didn't go the way you planned?
1384
01:30:52,160 --> 01:30:53,889
BEVEL: Calm down, brother.
1385
01:30:57,880 --> 01:30:59,370
Now, what happened out there today?
1386
01:30:59,440 --> 01:31:01,408
You gotta tell us something. Please.
1387
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,811
I'd rather people be upset and hate me
1388
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:14,884
than be bleeding or dead.
1389
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:42,650
(SIGHS)
1390
01:32:09,840 --> 01:32:12,525
KING: My dearest Corrie,
1391
01:32:14,520 --> 01:32:16,602
at a time when I need you,
1392
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:19,568
I cannot call you.
1393
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:25,802
And I have done this to myself, to us.
1394
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:31,482
At this late hour,
1395
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:35,251
my thoughts are of you
1396
01:32:35,360 --> 01:32:38,682
and all you have sacrificed
for this struggle.
1397
01:32:40,360 --> 01:32:43,330
So many have sacrificed.
1398
01:32:44,400 --> 01:32:46,846
So many have been lost.
1399
01:32:48,160 --> 01:32:51,721
I wonder how many must we lose.
1400
01:32:55,640 --> 01:33:00,771
I pray for discernment and guidance
as we journey on.
1401
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:06,922
I pray, too, that I can justify
the faith you once had in me.
1402
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:16,245
I, too, often feel that heavy fog
you spoke of, Corrie.
1403
01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:23,766
Only you and our family clears the haze.
1404
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:29,050
Love, Martin.
1405
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:33,120
MAN: He betrayed trust.
1406
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:36,763
He called, we came,
and he didn't fulfill his own call.
1407
01:33:36,880 --> 01:33:39,008
Yeah, but sometimes
it's not that clear-cut.
1408
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:41,367
Sometimes it's instinctual.
1409
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:44,004
Like when you're preaching,
1410
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:46,409
and you're just flying.
1411
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,843
You know, you're not on the notes.
You're not on memory.
1412
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:55,403
You're tapped into what's higher,
what's true.
1413
01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:57,611
God is guiding you.
1414
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:01,129
I've known that feeling.
1415
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:02,486
It's rare, but I've known it.
1416
01:34:02,600 --> 01:34:03,840
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
1417
01:34:05,960 --> 01:34:09,760
I think that's what happened to Dr. King
up there on the bridge today.
1418
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,320
He kneeled down,
prayed to God and got an answer.
1419
01:34:12,400 --> 01:34:15,290
And he was brave enough
to follow that answer,
1420
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,250
and I, for one, don't fault him for it.
1421
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:21,210
- Except he owes me a bus ticket home.
- (CHUCKLES)
1422
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:22,645
MAN 1: You know what
I hate more than niggers?
1423
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:24,091
MAN 2: What's that?
1424
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:25,846
White niggers.
1425
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:28,330
Look, we don't want trouble, okay?
1426
01:34:28,400 --> 01:34:30,129
MAN 1: No, you came here
stirrin' trouble.
1427
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:40,206
(GROANING)
1428
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:41,367
(GRUNTS)
1429
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:48,601
Doc,
1430
01:34:50,480 --> 01:34:51,845
someone's been hurt.
1431
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:56,004
(GROANING)
1432
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:59,649
A priest, from Boston.
1433
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:02,361
White.
1434
01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:08,123
Now you know what being a nigger
around here feels like, boy.
1435
01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:10,927
Hurt? How?
1436
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:18,926
Dead.
1437
01:35:19,080 --> 01:35:20,286
(GASPS)
1438
01:35:34,760 --> 01:35:36,330
I need a phone!
1439
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:41,531
Chicago, Detroit, Boston, I don't care.
1440
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:43,728
Hell, you got 2,000 people
marching up in Harlem.
1441
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:45,126
Well, good for you.
1442
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:48,010
But when you have people
come inside the White House?
1443
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:50,765
Inside the White House! On a tour?
1444
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:52,406
They just sat down, Martin.
1445
01:35:52,480 --> 01:35:54,130
They sat down in the main corridor,
1446
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:56,441
started singin' and shoutin'.
Well, I won't have it!
1447
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:57,971
I cannot stop people from expressing...
1448
01:35:58,040 --> 01:35:59,724
You can! You can stop them.
1449
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:03,691
No, you can stop it.
You, sir, can do more.
1450
01:36:03,760 --> 01:36:06,923
Now I'm glad to hear that you called
Reverend Reeb's widow, sir.
1451
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:08,968
That is very fine, and it is right.
1452
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:11,008
I only wish that
Jimmie Lee Jackson's family
1453
01:36:11,080 --> 01:36:13,731
would have received the same
consideration from their President.
1454
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:15,802
Don't you lay your guilt at my door.
1455
01:36:15,880 --> 01:36:17,291
You're the one choosing to send
1456
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,011
people out to slaughter
when we told you there was trouble.
1457
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:21,286
We won't sit idle
1458
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:24,091
while you wait another year or two
to send this bill up at your leisure.
1459
01:36:24,160 --> 01:36:26,527
That should be clear by now.
1460
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:30,525
We will continue to demonstrate
until you take action, sir.
1461
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:32,443
And if our President
won't protect our rights,
1462
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:33,885
we will take this fight to court.
1463
01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:37,247
You know, I'm... I'm trying here.
1464
01:36:37,320 --> 01:36:39,084
We're getting close
to figuring something out
1465
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,970
on this voting thing,
but I will not have this!
1466
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:45,641
This bill has been
almost impossible to craft,
1467
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:47,051
you hear me?
1468
01:36:47,120 --> 01:36:50,522
You think you're jugglin', Martin?
I'm jugglin', too.
1469
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:54,408
I am a preacher from Atlanta.
1470
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:58,600
You are the man who won the presidency
of the world's most powerful nation
1471
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:02,002
by the greatest landslide
in history four months ago.
1472
01:37:02,360 --> 01:37:03,600
And you are the man
1473
01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:07,685
dismantling your own legacy
with each passing day.
1474
01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:11,362
No one will remember
the Civil Rights Act.
1475
01:37:11,880 --> 01:37:14,486
But they will remember
the standoff in Selma
1476
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,291
when you never even
set foot in this state.
1477
01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:20,921
They will remember you saying,
"Wait," and "I can't,"
1478
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:24,402
unless you act, sir.
1479
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,129
- KING: Evenin'.
- Evenin'.
1480
01:37:39,280 --> 01:37:41,567
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
1481
01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:56,567
I wanted to speak privately.
1482
01:37:57,520 --> 01:38:00,364
I know there's been trouble
with the group,
1483
01:38:00,440 --> 01:38:02,488
and I apologize that our efforts
1484
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:04,801
have caused a rift between y'all.
1485
01:38:06,440 --> 01:38:08,044
That's a painful thing, I know,
1486
01:38:08,120 --> 01:38:10,088
and I'm truly sorry it's happened.
1487
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:14,564
Yeah, painful.
1488
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:18,006
(SIGHS)
1489
01:38:20,400 --> 01:38:22,368
LBJ is not moving, John.
1490
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:26,840
I thought he would,
but our efforts are not working,
1491
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:29,327
and I can't risk another march
with people getting killed
1492
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:31,164
when it's not working. I won't do it.
1493
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:35,363
We need voting, not marching.
You know that.
1494
01:38:36,160 --> 01:38:40,609
We have to move beyond these protests
to some real political power.
1495
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:43,001
This can't go on forever like this.
1496
01:38:44,680 --> 01:38:46,682
I can't go on like this.
1497
01:38:56,840 --> 01:38:58,046
(SIGHS)
1498
01:39:02,480 --> 01:39:04,050
When I was...
1499
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:09,925
When I was working with SNCC
on the Freedom Rides,
1500
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:16,082
the Montgomery bus
reached the city limits.
1501
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:20,206
We got off. And out of nowhere,
1502
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:25,571
from all directions, they came.
1503
01:39:28,280 --> 01:39:31,568
There was men, women.
1504
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:35,125
Kids, too.
1505
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:42,609
They had just about every
makeshift weapon you could think of.
1506
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:45,206
I mean, bats, bricks,
1507
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:50,241
tire irons, pipes.
1508
01:39:54,040 --> 01:39:55,769
I remember...
1509
01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:01,364
I remember this little girl
just clawing her nails
1510
01:40:01,440 --> 01:40:05,365
into the side of my friend Jessie's face
1511
01:40:05,440 --> 01:40:09,604
while her daddy... Her daddy
beat him with an ax handle.
1512
01:40:12,680 --> 01:40:14,489
Jessie was unconscious,
1513
01:40:14,560 --> 01:40:17,484
and they just kept beating on him
and beating on him.
1514
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:24,850
I must've passed out
on the asphalt somewhere.
1515
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:34,769
Next day, I found myself patched up
and sitting in a church.
1516
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:38,888
I could barely hold my head up,
but I needed to be there.
1517
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,162
You were gonna be speaking.
1518
01:40:44,040 --> 01:40:46,202
And I needed to hear you.
1519
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:51,804
And I was feeling down,
but you got up there.
1520
01:40:54,400 --> 01:40:55,970
You remember that day at all?
1521
01:40:56,520 --> 01:40:57,601
(KING SIGHS)
1522
01:40:57,680 --> 01:41:00,490
I don't think we remember it
the same way.
1523
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:03,604
What'd I say, John?
1524
01:41:04,960 --> 01:41:07,327
I'm about to tell you right now.
1525
01:41:08,600 --> 01:41:10,489
And I hope you hear me.
1526
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,246
You said that we would triumph.
1527
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:19,647
That we would triumph
because there could be no other way.
1528
01:41:23,720 --> 01:41:25,643
And you know what else you said?
1529
01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:31,727
You said,
1530
01:41:32,720 --> 01:41:34,165
"Fear not.
1531
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,564
"We've come too far to turn back now."
1532
01:41:50,600 --> 01:41:52,284
KING: I feel good about where we are.
1533
01:41:52,360 --> 01:41:54,089
We have a strong case.
1534
01:41:54,160 --> 01:41:55,491
- We can do this.
- Right.
1535
01:41:56,080 --> 01:41:59,880
KING: Now, Ms. Cooper
and Ms. Boynton are here,
1536
01:41:59,960 --> 01:42:01,689
- and they need to be ready.
- LEWIS: Mmm-hmm.
1537
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,648
KING: A lot depends on
what they have to say. Okay?
1538
01:42:05,720 --> 01:42:08,041
YOUNG: Mmm.
I hear what you're saying, but...
1539
01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:31,571
You're here.
1540
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:35,809
Yes, I'm here.
1541
01:42:41,480 --> 01:42:42,686
I'm glad.
1542
01:42:56,720 --> 01:42:58,688
Just in time.
1543
01:42:59,040 --> 01:43:01,407
In the matter of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
1544
01:43:01,480 --> 01:43:02,891
v. the state of Alabama,
1545
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:06,521
I will now hear testimony
from the plaintiffs. Mr. Gray.
1546
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:10,001
Your Honor, you will hear
testimony from the victims
1547
01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:12,805
who were beaten and bludgeoned
in their quest for freedom.
1548
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:16,525
For their right to vote
and to self-determine.
1549
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:18,246
The fact of the matter, Your Honor,
1550
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:21,290
is that the incidents that occurred
cannot be disputed.
1551
01:43:21,720 --> 01:43:24,121
These particular circumstances
1552
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:30,090
will paint a thorough picture
of the horrific events endured in Selma.
1553
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:32,967
Very well, you may proceed.
1554
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:37,170
Mr. King, you went out on that bridge
in direct violation of that judge's orders.
1555
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:41,282
You deliberately disobeyed this judge
and the Governor, did you not?
1556
01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:45,729
Thousands of people came to Selma,
1557
01:43:45,800 --> 01:43:48,770
aroused by Sunday's brutal acts
1558
01:43:49,160 --> 01:43:52,846
exacted by officials of the city of Selma
1559
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:54,763
and the state of Alabama.
1560
01:43:54,840 --> 01:43:57,889
I felt if I had not led the march,
1561
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:00,002
pent-up emotions and inner tensions
1562
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:04,369
would have led to an uncontrollable
retaliatory situation,
1563
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,491
a violent situation on both sides.
1564
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:10,130
I don't need any of your preaching
and prancing in here,
1565
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:11,440
you hear? I want an answer.
1566
01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:12,806
Objection.
1567
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:14,041
Watch it, counselor.
1568
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:15,800
I'm trying very hard, Judge.
1569
01:44:16,160 --> 01:44:17,525
Try harder, counselor.
1570
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:26,409
It seems basic
to our constitutional principles
1571
01:44:26,480 --> 01:44:29,689
that the extent of the right to assemble,
1572
01:44:30,480 --> 01:44:32,244
and demonstrate and march
1573
01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:34,368
along the highway in a peaceful manner
1574
01:44:34,440 --> 01:44:35,726
ought to be commensurate
1575
01:44:35,800 --> 01:44:38,326
with the enormity of the wrongs
1576
01:44:38,400 --> 01:44:40,721
that are being protested
and petitioned against.
1577
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:46,168
In this case, the wrongs are enormous.
1578
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:49,766
Therefore,
1579
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:54,003
the extent of the right to demonstrate
1580
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:57,562
in an estimated five-day march
from Selma to Montgomery
1581
01:44:58,240 --> 01:44:59,924
has been approved accordingly.
1582
01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:02,010
MAN: Yes!
WOMAN: Thank God!
1583
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:03,923
(CROWD MURMURING)
1584
01:45:04,040 --> 01:45:06,327
JUDGE: There's no further
business with this court.
1585
01:45:06,840 --> 01:45:10,561
These proceedings are concluded,
with our thanks to the litigants.
1586
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:13,689
Good day, gentlemen.
1587
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:27,530
(INDISTINCT)
1588
01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:30,167
MAN: Yeah, that's right.
1589
01:45:30,240 --> 01:45:32,561
Well, now, we don't like
to have no mistakes, if you...
1590
01:45:32,680 --> 01:45:33,841
If you're sure about it.
1591
01:45:35,360 --> 01:45:39,001
Bayard says that Harry says
he can get Nina Simone,
1592
01:45:39,080 --> 01:45:43,210
Dick Gregory, Joan Baez,
Peter, Paul and Mary in.
1593
01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:44,406
(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING IN SURPRISE)
1594
01:45:44,480 --> 01:45:46,244
Come on now.
We don't got money for that.
1595
01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:48,362
Well, Harry is chartering a plane himself.
1596
01:45:48,440 --> 01:45:51,410
(SINGING) Day-O, day-O
1597
01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:56,206
ALL: Daylight come
and me wan' go home
1598
01:45:56,280 --> 01:46:01,650
President's angling for your blocking
of the march to be overturned.
1599
01:46:02,320 --> 01:46:04,846
Unfortunately, all my maneuvers
have been put on hold
1600
01:46:04,960 --> 01:46:07,201
while the matter's being adjudicated.
1601
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:17,646
JOHNSON: Governor,
you wanted to talk.
1602
01:46:18,600 --> 01:46:20,284
Well, Mr. President...
1603
01:46:21,400 --> 01:46:23,846
Malcontents are disrupting Alabama,
1604
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:27,208
and it's your responsibility to stop them.
1605
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:30,685
They're protesting about the right to vote
1606
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:34,082
and the way they're treated in your state.
1607
01:46:34,200 --> 01:46:38,410
So that's your problem,
your responsibility,
1608
01:46:38,480 --> 01:46:40,482
and it's on your watch.
1609
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:43,168
Mr. President, I disagree.
1610
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:47,202
We have a certain way things are done.
It's the way it is.
1611
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:49,487
And it's the way
the people want it to stay.
1612
01:46:51,640 --> 01:46:53,927
George, why are you doing this?
1613
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:55,889
Your whole career
has been working for the poor.
1614
01:46:55,960 --> 01:46:57,644
Why are you off on this black thing?
1615
01:46:58,160 --> 01:47:00,811
Well, 'cause you can't ever satisfy them.
1616
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:03,769
First, it's the front seat of the bus.
1617
01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:06,491
Next, it's take over the parks,
1618
01:47:06,560 --> 01:47:08,289
then it's the public schools,
1619
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:11,085
then it's voting, then it's jobs,
1620
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:14,323
then it's distribution
of wealth without work.
1621
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,923
George, you seen
all those demonstrators
1622
01:47:19,000 --> 01:47:20,286
out front of the White House
1623
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,567
keeping my Lady Bird awake
the whole damn night?
1624
01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:24,608
Oh, yes, Mr. President. I saw them.
1625
01:47:24,680 --> 01:47:27,570
Well, let's go out there, you and I,
1626
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:31,042
and announce that you've decided
to let the blacks vote undeterred,
1627
01:47:31,720 --> 01:47:33,449
and this whole mess will go away.
1628
01:47:33,520 --> 01:47:36,524
And I don't have to draft bills
or force the issue.
1629
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:39,802
Now, why don't we do that, George?
1630
01:47:39,880 --> 01:47:42,724
Why don't you just let the niggers vote?
1631
01:47:43,560 --> 01:47:45,688
You agree they got the right to vote,
don't you?
1632
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:47,603
Oh, there's no quarrel with that.
1633
01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:49,762
I know that. That's the law.
1634
01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:52,529
Then why don't you just let 'em vote?
1635
01:47:52,920 --> 01:47:54,490
I don't have that power.
1636
01:47:54,560 --> 01:47:56,449
It belongs to the county registrars.
1637
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:58,727
Now, don't shit me
about who runs Alabama.
1638
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:04,523
I don't have any legal power
over the county registrars, Mr. President.
1639
01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:06,728
They have their regulations
and they adhere.
1640
01:48:07,400 --> 01:48:09,687
Are you trying to shit me,
George Wallace?
1641
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:12,527
Are you trying
to fuck over your President?
1642
01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:13,761
Mr. President...
1643
01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:16,121
We shouldn't even
be thinking about 1965.
1644
01:48:16,200 --> 01:48:18,931
We should be thinking about 1985.
1645
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:21,762
You and I'll be both dead
and gone by then.
1646
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,168
In 1985, what do you want looking back?
1647
01:48:25,240 --> 01:48:27,004
You want people
remembering you sayin',
1648
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:31,483
"Wait," or "I can't,"
or, uh, "It's too hard"?
1649
01:48:34,400 --> 01:48:36,846
I don't right care what they think,
1650
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,321
and you shouldn't neither.
1651
01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:45,926
Well...
1652
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:49,448
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let history
1653
01:48:49,520 --> 01:48:52,888
put me in the same place
as the likes of you.
1654
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:00,561
I speak tonight for the dignity of man
1655
01:49:00,640 --> 01:49:03,769
and the destiny of democracy.
1656
01:49:04,640 --> 01:49:07,962
At times, history and fate
1657
01:49:08,040 --> 01:49:11,965
meet at a single time in a single place.
1658
01:49:13,160 --> 01:49:18,121
So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.
1659
01:49:19,400 --> 01:49:22,404
There, long suffering men and women
1660
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:28,409
peacefully protested the denial
of their rights as Americans.
1661
01:49:28,480 --> 01:49:30,608
Rarely in any time
1662
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:33,923
does an issue lay bare the secret heart
1663
01:49:34,880 --> 01:49:36,848
of America itself.
1664
01:49:37,840 --> 01:49:42,368
The issue for equal rights
for the American Negro
1665
01:49:42,440 --> 01:49:43,726
is that issue.
1666
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:46,001
For this issue,
1667
01:49:47,000 --> 01:49:50,004
many of them were brutally assaulted.
1668
01:49:54,480 --> 01:49:58,565
There is no Negro problem.
There is no Southern problem.
1669
01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,689
There is only an American problem.
1670
01:50:02,840 --> 01:50:04,569
(POLITICIANS APPLAUDING)
1671
01:50:05,840 --> 01:50:12,291
The Constitution says that
no person shall be kept from voting
1672
01:50:12,360 --> 01:50:15,011
because of his race or color.
1673
01:50:16,240 --> 01:50:20,245
To correct the denial
of this fundamental right,
1674
01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:24,848
this Wednesday,
I will send to Congress a law
1675
01:50:24,920 --> 01:50:29,005
designed to eliminate
these illegal barriers.
1676
01:50:29,560 --> 01:50:35,806
The bill will strike down
voting restrictions in all elections,
1677
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:39,601
federal, state and local.
1678
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:43,328
And we shall do this.
1679
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:48,722
We shall overcome.
1680
01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:51,249
(APPLAUSE)
1681
01:51:06,280 --> 01:51:08,442
We believe we can cover you
through Lowndes County,
1682
01:51:08,520 --> 01:51:12,161
but once we add the final day's march
through Montgomery,
1683
01:51:12,240 --> 01:51:14,846
and you're passing through
all those tall buildings and whatnot,
1684
01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:16,888
coverage becomes challenging.
1685
01:51:18,600 --> 01:51:20,967
So please consider
1686
01:51:22,120 --> 01:51:23,690
driving in on the final leg.
1687
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:27,321
And please consider nixing
the speech at the Capitol.
1688
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:31,728
Well, if Wallace
will see us when we arrive,
1689
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:33,928
there'll be no need for a speech.
1690
01:51:34,440 --> 01:51:36,522
- (CHUCKLES)
- Can you arrange that?
1691
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:44,131
I can't hide.
1692
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:48,291
We can't hide. You understand.
1693
01:51:52,160 --> 01:51:54,811
I don't want to see this go wrong for you.
1694
01:51:57,240 --> 01:51:59,607
Don't you want
to protect yourself, Doctor?
1695
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:03,488
Let me try to do that.
1696
01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:10,284
You know, I know you want to live to see
the fruits of all this work. I know you do.
1697
01:52:12,960 --> 01:52:16,362
I'm just asking you
to allow us to help you do that.
1698
01:52:24,480 --> 01:52:26,926
I'm no different than anybody else.
1699
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:31,162
I want to live long and be happy.
1700
01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:37,209
But I'll not be focusing
on what I want today.
1701
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:41,321
I'm focused on what God wants.
1702
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:49,129
We're here for a reason,
through many, many storms.
1703
01:52:53,480 --> 01:52:55,448
But, today, the sun is shining,
1704
01:52:55,520 --> 01:52:57,363
and I'm about to stand in its warmth
1705
01:52:57,440 --> 01:53:01,684
alongside a lot of freedom-loving people
who worked hard to get us here.
1706
01:53:03,120 --> 01:53:07,205
I may not be with them
for all the sunny days to come,
1707
01:53:09,160 --> 01:53:11,925
but as long as there
is light ahead for them,
1708
01:53:14,200 --> 01:53:16,089
it's worth it to me.
1709
01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:27,170
Thank you, John.
1710
01:53:28,120 --> 01:53:31,488
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)
1711
01:53:37,720 --> 01:53:40,371
(INAUDIBLE)
1712
01:55:10,160 --> 01:55:11,321
(CROWD CHEERING)
1713
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:15,007
KING: We heard them say
we'd never make it here.
1714
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:21,842
We heard them say they'd stop us,
if it was the last thing they did.
1715
01:55:23,840 --> 01:55:27,845
We heard them say
we don't deserve to be here.
1716
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:33,890
But today, we stand as Americans.
1717
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:36,729
(CROWD CHEERING)
1718
01:55:37,640 --> 01:55:39,210
We are here,
1719
01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:43,249
and we ain't gonna let nobody
turn us around.
1720
01:55:44,680 --> 01:55:47,206
This mighty march,
1721
01:55:48,040 --> 01:55:50,327
which will be counted
as one of the greatest
1722
01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:54,246
demonstrations of protest and progress,
1723
01:55:54,320 --> 01:55:57,608
ends here in the Capitol of Alabama
1724
01:55:57,720 --> 01:55:59,768
for a vital purpose.
1725
01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:04,924
We have not fought only
for the right to sit where we please
1726
01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:08,129
and go to school where we please.
1727
01:56:08,200 --> 01:56:12,410
We do not only strive here today
to vote as we please.
1728
01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:15,284
But with our commitment,
1729
01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:19,524
we give birth each day to a new energy
1730
01:56:19,600 --> 01:56:23,161
that is stronger than
our strongest opposition.
1731
01:56:23,240 --> 01:56:25,288
(CROWD CHEERING)
1732
01:56:25,360 --> 01:56:28,728
And we embrace
this new energy so boldly,
1733
01:56:28,800 --> 01:56:31,246
embody it so fervently,
1734
01:56:31,320 --> 01:56:34,483
that its reflection illuminates
a great darkness.
1735
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:36,291
(CHEERING)
1736
01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:40,609
Our society has distorted who we are.
1737
01:56:41,840 --> 01:56:44,491
From slavery to the Reconstruction
1738
01:56:44,600 --> 01:56:48,321
to the precipice at which we now stand,
1739
01:56:48,400 --> 01:56:53,930
we have seen powerful
white men rule the world
1740
01:56:54,600 --> 01:56:59,481
while offering poor white men
a vicious lie as placation.
1741
01:57:00,560 --> 01:57:03,484
And when the poor white man's children
1742
01:57:03,560 --> 01:57:07,042
wail with a hunger
that cannot be satisfied,
1743
01:57:07,640 --> 01:57:11,247
he feeds them that same vicious lie.
1744
01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:12,965
(CROWD AGREEING)
1745
01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:14,485
A lie whispering to them
1746
01:57:15,280 --> 01:57:17,601
that regardless of their lot in life,
1747
01:57:18,400 --> 01:57:22,086
they can at least be
triumphant in the knowledge
1748
01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:26,961
that their whiteness makes them
superior to blackness.
1749
01:57:27,440 --> 01:57:28,965
But we know the truth.
1750
01:57:30,320 --> 01:57:35,486
We know the truth, and we will
go forward to that truth, to freedom.
1751
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:37,325
(CHEERING)
1752
01:57:38,640 --> 01:57:40,529
We will not be stopped.
1753
01:57:42,280 --> 01:57:44,282
We will march for our rights.
1754
01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:48,331
We will march to demand
treatment as full citizens.
1755
01:57:48,760 --> 01:57:52,242
We will march until the viciousness
and the darkness
1756
01:57:52,320 --> 01:57:55,210
gives way to the light of righteousness.
1757
01:57:55,280 --> 01:57:56,361
(CHEERING)
1758
01:57:56,440 --> 01:58:00,047
No man, no myth,
1759
01:58:00,640 --> 01:58:04,964
no malaise will stop this movement.
1760
01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:09,762
We forbid it. For we know
that it is this darkness
1761
01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:14,164
that murders the best in us
and the best of us.
1762
01:58:15,320 --> 01:58:19,120
Whether Jimmie Lee Jackson
or James Reeb,
1763
01:58:21,000 --> 01:58:24,288
or four blameless little girls
1764
01:58:24,560 --> 01:58:29,248
struck down
before they had even begun.
1765
01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:35,287
You may ask, when will we
be free of this darkness?
1766
01:58:35,360 --> 01:58:37,886
I say to you today,
my brothers and sisters,
1767
01:58:38,320 --> 01:58:41,642
despite the pain, despite the tears,
1768
01:58:41,760 --> 01:58:44,525
our freedom will soon be upon us.
1769
01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:47,001
(CROWD CHEERING)
1770
01:58:47,080 --> 01:58:51,722
For "truth crushed to earth
will rise again."
1771
01:58:54,200 --> 01:58:56,601
When will we be free?
1772
01:58:57,560 --> 01:58:59,927
Soon, and very soon.
1773
01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:02,970
Because you shall reap what you sow.
1774
01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:08,889
When will we be free?
1775
01:59:09,560 --> 01:59:11,847
Soon, and very soon.
1776
01:59:12,560 --> 01:59:15,882
Because no lie can live forever.
1777
01:59:19,120 --> 01:59:21,521
When will we be free?
1778
01:59:21,600 --> 01:59:23,568
Soon, and very soon
1779
01:59:23,640 --> 01:59:29,204
because "Mine eyes have seen
the glory of the coming of the Lord.
1780
01:59:29,280 --> 01:59:33,888
"He is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored.
1781
01:59:33,960 --> 01:59:38,170
"He hath loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword.
1782
01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:40,368
"His truth is marching on.
1783
01:59:40,440 --> 01:59:46,971
"Glory! Hallelujah!
1784
01:59:47,040 --> 01:59:50,283
"His truth is marching on."
1785
01:59:54,320 --> 01:59:57,290
(INSPIRATIONAL SONG PLAYING)
1786
02:04:22,640 --> 02:04:25,883
(WORKERS IN SELMA SINGING
TRADITIONAL HYMNS)