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[Sarah] Dreams are God's way
of showing us his plans.
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[jazz playing]
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The good Lord don't want us to just
sit around and wait for things to happen.
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Gotta go out and light a match
under whatever it is you want.
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And what I want is to own a factory
for hair products.
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God helps those who help themselves.
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Let me take you on a tour.
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[Sarah] Over here,
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I'm gonna have a full-service salon
with six hair culturists.
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And over here, I'm gonna make
my new Walker hair-care line...
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Hair Grower, vegetable shampoo,
and my brand new pressing oil, Glossine.
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Which is why I brought you here,
gentlemen.
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With your support, I'll be able
to purchase this fine building.
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Curious that you decided to open a factory
for, um... feminine products.
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[Sarah] It was my idea.
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CJ's in charge of the ads.
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Well, now. I do more than ads, now.
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Of course.
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I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
CJ's been such an asset to my company.
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[man] Now I see who wears the pants
in this family.
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[men laughing]
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And it ain't just a dream. I got a plan.
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This investment
will make you a 20 percent return,
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and nobody's gonna give it to you
that good but me.
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[man] Well, I for one...
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would feel more comfortable knowing
that there was other investors,
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business endorsements.
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I endorse them, myself.
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I put everything I got into this factory.
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Now I could've rebuilt my basement
after the fire, but instead,
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I took all my money and I made
a down payment on this building.
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Now I'm giving you all the chance
to be first in, part of history.
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That's a lot of money
your wife is asking for. It's risky.
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To paraphrase the great JD Rockefeller,
ain't no reward without risk.
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Who's in, gentlemen?
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It's a bit soon.
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It's...
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My apologies, but I have to go.
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[Sarah]
Just a few more moments of your time!
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Please, gentlemen?
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Just... listen to me.
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Please!
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Gentlemen.
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Gentlemen, wait, please. Just a mom...
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Please.
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[passersby chattering]
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[train whistle blowing in distance]
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And there went our best shot at investors.
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What you gonna do now, Sarah?
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I'm gonna get the most famous Negro
in America to endorse me.
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- [hip-hop music playing]
- [women vocalizing]
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♪ God gave you the answer
When he gave you the woman ♪
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♪ God gave you the answer
When he gave you the woman ♪
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♪ Gave you the answer ♪
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♪ When he gave you the ♪
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[clicks teeth, sighs]
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You oughta just take it off,
and get back in bed with me.
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- Oh, Charles Walker, you are terrible!
- [laughing]
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You look just good enough to eat!
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- Mmm.
- Mmm.
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[chuckles]
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So where you off to?
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Ransom's house.
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Apparently, his wife Nettie has an idea
how to get in touch with Booker.
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[CJ] Hmm.
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Still no word, huh?
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[Sarah] Mmm.
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He is an important man.
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Travels all around the world.
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- [CJ] Hmm.
- [Sarah] Going to conventions...
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giving speeches.
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First Negro in the White House.
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Yeah, it's no surprise he's...
missed all of my letters.
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My calls. My telegram.
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[CJ] We're running out of time.
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Hate to lose our down payment.
I think I should talk to the investors.
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Now, now, I... I know men.
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I appreciate that, baby.
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Really, I do, but...
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this is my company.
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Yeah, okay.
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If I can't be the one to grow it,
it just don't seem worth having.
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No, it's fine.
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It's fine.
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But there is something you can do.
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Again?
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[laughs]
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I'm serious.
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What?
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Get tickets to Booker's convention.
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So the NNBL is a gentlemen's organization.
I don't think they'd welcome you too well.
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I don't need to be welcomed.
I just need five minutes with Booker.
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- [CJ laughing] You're something else.
- [Sarah chuckles]
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All right, I'll see what I can do.
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- [Sarah chuckles]
- Keep on going around now. Keep on...
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[both laughing]
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Just hurry back.
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You bet.
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[hip-hop music playing]
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- ♪ I'm a master ♪
- ♪ Master ♪
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- ♪ Y'all should give me honorary masters ♪
- ♪ Masters ♪
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♪ Rapper work the green
Just like the Masters ♪
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♪ The new slave
Talkin' like he got a masta ♪
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♪ Whoo whoo ♪
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♪ Screamin' "Free thought!" ♪
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- Don't go wasting the oil on the side!
- [jazz playing]
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Get every drop in the tin!
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I'm a guitar player, not a laborer.
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Hey, you start another fire,
I will shoot you dead.
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For the 15th time,
that damn fire wasn't my fault.
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Whose fault is it, then?
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Your mama was making too much too fast.
Her burner's went bust.
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So it was Mama's fault?
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She put a roof over your head
and food on your plate,
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and you got the nerve to blame her
for what you did?
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I ain't do nothing.
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[Cleophus] It was your job!
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You had the burners on, and then you left.
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See? That's why I'm finna hurry up
and open my juke joint...
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I mean, saloon, and get out
from under this whole damn family.
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Mmm, I'll believe it when I see it.
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[Cleophus humming]
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What's got you
in such a good mood, Daddy?
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Booker T. Washington is in town next week.
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CJ is out getting us tickets!
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Oh! Did I ever tell you all that Booker
was on the plantation next to mine?
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- Yes, Daddy.
- Yes, Cleophus.
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Used to see him every Sunday at worship.
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He was about six years old, maybe...
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I'm about... 17 or 18, maybe...
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[grunts]
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Pardon me for staring.
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Your face is exquisite.
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I do a little photography on the side.
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I'd love to take your picture.
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Me? Really?
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Think about it.
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Looks like you could use a break.
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I can take over for you if you want.
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Uh, yeah. Thanks.
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It's hot!
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I know.
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[jazz playing]
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[Nettie] Freeman mentioned you were
looking for an endorsement from Booker,
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so I asked the ladies to put a rush
on your membership.
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Now you'll be the newest member,
just in time.
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- Oh, Nettie, you're a miracle!
- There's more.
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The National Association president
is gonna be in town...
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Margaret Murray Washington?
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Mm-hmm. Booker's wife will be joining him
at the convention.
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- Ransom, you got a brilliant wife.
- Oh, amen to that!
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I may have the degrees,
but she's the real brains in the family.
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- Indeed. Yes, indeed. Thank you, Nettie.
- Of course.
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Any news?
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Uh, well...
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We knew raising 10,000
was going to be difficult.
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Thanks to Nettie,
I'm gonna get Booker's endorsement.
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There'll be tons of other investors
to meet.
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I got a good feeling about this.
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I left word for a college buddy of mine
who works for Booker,
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Emmett Scott.
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I'm optimistic too,
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but we need a Plan B.
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A few Plan Bs.
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I could take out a second mortgage
on the house.
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I can't let you do that. Too risky.
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You could lose your home.
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Theodore, the mortician
we met at the factory,
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said he's willing to talk numbers again.
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- Maybe CJ can meet with him.
- No.
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No, CJ ain't as good a salesman
as he thinks he is.
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Besides, nobody can represent
my company like me.
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Theodore is the richest colored man
in town.
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Convince him, and sycophants fall in line.
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I'm gonna go talk to Theodore right now.
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Thanks again, for everything.
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Ransom, we can't fail.
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[Sarah] Afternoon.
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Afternoon.
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[Sarah] Hope I'm not interrupting.
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I heard you were...
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interested in talking more
about investing in my factory?
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Just tell me what it'll take
to get you to come on board.
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Who was it...
and what did they do to you?
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It's okay.
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Ransom said that you was in a meeting
with the mortician.
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He tried to...
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[Sarah] Stop!
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I got away.
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[man grunts] Don't you run from me!
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Take one more step,
and I will blow the black off you.
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I've come too far, done too much.
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- I'm not gonna let that happen again.
- It's all right.
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You gonna be all right, Sarah.
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Is CJ home?
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What do I tell him?
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Nothing. Nothing at all.
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You and I both know ain't no good
gonna come from CJ knowing.
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[jazz playing]
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[CJ] Ooh-whoo! Hey, Pop.
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- Something smells good in here!
- [Sarah chuckles]
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- Hey, baby.
- Hey.
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[CJ] Mmm.
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What's wrong?
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Nothing.
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Just glad to see you.
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[clears throat] Did you get 'em?
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Yes, sir! Ha.
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Three tickets to hear
Booker T. Washington speak
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at the National Negro
Business League conference.
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There it is.
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I heard if he lets you speak,
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it's like a personal endorsement
from Booker.
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His support can triple your business.
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That's why I figured me and Daddy
take John...
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John?
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- What about me?
- You called me?
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[CJ] Well, no.
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Baby, they say you
don't even need a ticket.
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All the wives, they congregate
in the kitchen, they make refreshments.
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How am I supposed to meet investors
and hear speeches from the kitchen?
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Sarah...
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Seem to remember you making
disparaging remarks
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about Booker in the past.
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Something about him bending
to the white man's will.
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Just 'cause I don't always agree with him
don't mean I don't respect him.
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Now, he got a plan to uplift the race!
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He built Tuskegee College
to see it through!
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I admire the hell out of that!
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Let me go and speak on your behalf.
Trust me.
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You gonna have to find another way, John.
I'm going.
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- You finished with the basement?
- We out of paint.
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Then go into town and get some!
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You don't rest until every inch
of my house is fixed, you hear me?
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[John] For the last time,
I ain't start that goddamn fire!
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[door slams]
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You better talk to him.
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Hello, Miss Addie.
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You remember me?
I'm Lelia's husband, John.
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That's right!
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Oh, what a pleasant surprise.
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- How you doing?
- Mmm.
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Would you care to join me
in a Cocaine-Cola?
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Come on.
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- Come on!
- Oh, okay!
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[Addie giggles]
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So you're from Pittsburgh, huh?
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What do you do for work?
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I play guitar.
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I mean, used to.
I'm trying to open me a juke joint now.
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You wanna serve country folk liquor
in the middle of nowhere?
252
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The way I see it,
if I pick the right location,
253
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all the top musicians'll be
coming through.
254
00:13:55,751 --> 00:13:57,169
I can get them to play for nothing.
255
00:13:57,253 --> 00:13:58,587
[Addie] Can I freshen your drink?
256
00:13:59,171 --> 00:14:01,340
So how's Sarah's business doing?
257
00:14:01,882 --> 00:14:04,468
[John]
Busy. Too busy, if you know what I mean.
258
00:14:04,552 --> 00:14:06,720
Sarah gonna help you open
your little juke joint?
259
00:14:06,804 --> 00:14:09,515
[scoffs] Her charity don't never seem
to extend to me.
260
00:14:09,598 --> 00:14:11,100
She'll eat a barn full of pigs feet
261
00:14:11,183 --> 00:14:13,519
sooner than lift a finger
to help my black ass.
262
00:14:14,144 --> 00:14:16,564
We oughta call Sarah Madam Pigs Feet.
263
00:14:16,647 --> 00:14:18,774
[laughing]
264
00:14:19,525 --> 00:14:22,152
Swine ain't safe around her! [laughs]
265
00:14:22,236 --> 00:14:25,739
I tell you, all that swine
must be affecting her brain
266
00:14:25,823 --> 00:14:28,301
'cause she thinks she can just waltz
into that men's conference
267
00:14:28,325 --> 00:14:30,125
and get an audience
with Booker T. Washington.
268
00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:32,955
Sarah's trying to get an endorsement
from Mr. Washington?
269
00:14:33,038 --> 00:14:33,956
Ain't that crazy?
270
00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:35,207
How she gonna build a factory
271
00:14:35,291 --> 00:14:37,291
when half her house look like
burned fried chicken?
272
00:14:37,334 --> 00:14:38,711
Sarah still ain't learn her place.
273
00:14:38,794 --> 00:14:42,131
And get this. She say she's gonna
open salons all over the world.
274
00:14:42,214 --> 00:14:43,465
You're lying, John.
275
00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:47,428
[John] The nerve! Just wish I could knock
Miss High-and-Mighty off her horse.
276
00:14:47,928 --> 00:14:50,472
God, really can't stand that woman.
277
00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:56,269
Mmm.
278
00:14:56,979 --> 00:15:02,359
In case you hear anything else about Sarah
that I might find interesting...
279
00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:07,239
Lelia's been good to me.
280
00:15:09,199 --> 00:15:10,784
Suit yourself. [laughs]
281
00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:19,126
But, I believe in your juke joint.
282
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:23,297
If you change your mind,
283
00:15:24,548 --> 00:15:25,966
you know where to find me.
284
00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:27,050
[Addie giggles]
285
00:15:27,301 --> 00:15:28,177
[John chuckles]
286
00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:29,260
[Addie giggles]
287
00:15:29,970 --> 00:15:31,639
Let me go on and get out of here.
288
00:15:33,223 --> 00:15:34,642
Night, Miss Addie.
289
00:15:34,725 --> 00:15:36,101
Good night, John.
290
00:15:37,394 --> 00:15:38,646
[bells jingle]
291
00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,444
Madam Pigs Feet.
292
00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:47,112
[crowd chattering]
293
00:15:51,492 --> 00:15:55,871
[jazz playing]
294
00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:22,481
- Yeah, you're gonna be right in there.
- [man] All right, let's go.
295
00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:25,275
It's Ransom.
296
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:29,737
Sweetness.
297
00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:32,157
What are you doing here?
298
00:16:32,241 --> 00:16:33,617
I'm here to assist.
299
00:16:34,159 --> 00:16:35,159
Assist what?
300
00:16:35,202 --> 00:16:39,248
Assist highfalutin Negroes
in their illicit recreational activities
301
00:16:39,331 --> 00:16:41,458
that this fine city's got to offer.
302
00:16:41,542 --> 00:16:43,043
How can I help you?
303
00:16:43,127 --> 00:16:45,671
Fifty cents on 4-8-2.
304
00:16:45,754 --> 00:16:47,756
- Sho' you right.
- [coin clinks]
305
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,174
You wanna write it down?
306
00:16:49,258 --> 00:16:52,511
I hear a number once, I got it.
I don't need to hear it again.
307
00:16:52,594 --> 00:16:56,557
Say, I got an arrangement
with a nice, trick broad
308
00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,559
that's giving happy endings at lunch.
309
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:00,561
I'll see you after the speech.
310
00:17:00,644 --> 00:17:03,230
I bet I will. [laughs]
311
00:17:05,983 --> 00:17:07,401
I want in too.
312
00:17:07,484 --> 00:17:09,778
- She ain't into that.
- Not what I meant.
313
00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,489
I want a bet a dollar on 5-3-1.
314
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:14,360
I thought you didn't gamble.
315
00:17:14,408 --> 00:17:18,537
Lord knows I don't, but I'd like to take
whatever winnings I might get
316
00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:20,414
and invest in my boss's factory.
317
00:17:21,498 --> 00:17:23,083
Now is this a loan or a bet?
318
00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:24,376
It's a bet.
319
00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:26,545
Bet.
320
00:17:28,756 --> 00:17:30,049
I got you, cousin.
321
00:17:35,345 --> 00:17:37,139
Ah, Mr. Scott.
322
00:17:37,222 --> 00:17:39,641
Mr. Ransom. Look at you.
323
00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:43,854
I got your note. Mr. Washington
is aware of Madam CJ Walker.
324
00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:45,397
Oh, so she can speak?
325
00:17:45,481 --> 00:17:48,233
Mr. Washington seemed inclined
to add her to the docket.
326
00:17:48,317 --> 00:17:50,152
Can't promise, but tell her to be ready.
327
00:17:51,820 --> 00:17:54,281
Madam Walker is always ready.
328
00:17:54,364 --> 00:17:56,408
[Booker] The Southern white man is scared,
329
00:17:56,909 --> 00:18:01,080
thinks the Negro has harbored resentment
of such magnitude
330
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:02,956
that he should be afraid.
331
00:18:03,373 --> 00:18:06,085
We made some gains during Reconstruction.
332
00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:10,047
We elected colored senators
and congressmen,
333
00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:12,925
like your very own former representative,
334
00:18:13,008 --> 00:18:17,304
the distinguished
Reverend Charles Spencer Smith!
335
00:18:17,387 --> 00:18:20,015
[murmurings of approval]
336
00:18:21,350 --> 00:18:24,978
Then white fear set in
and brought Jim Crow,
337
00:18:25,604 --> 00:18:28,982
not only wiping away those gains
but setting us back.
338
00:18:29,066 --> 00:18:33,946
And this is why we must ease their fears
339
00:18:34,029 --> 00:18:36,657
and appeal to their compassion.
340
00:18:37,157 --> 00:18:42,371
We must create our own businesses.
341
00:18:43,163 --> 00:18:44,665
And show whites
342
00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:50,921
that Negroes are capable
of economic independence.
343
00:18:51,004 --> 00:18:54,049
- [Cleophus] Yeah! Uh-huh!
- [crowd cheering]
344
00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:02,307
We can uplift our race!
345
00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:04,309
Amen! Uh-huh!
346
00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:07,855
We can be separate and equal!
347
00:19:07,938 --> 00:19:10,399
- [unsettled murmuring]
- [scant applause]
348
00:19:13,277 --> 00:19:16,280
Now I've organized this
National Negro Business League
349
00:19:16,864 --> 00:19:20,826
to support us
with our most pressing fiscal issues.
350
00:19:20,909 --> 00:19:26,165
I am very, very proud to introduce you all
351
00:19:26,248 --> 00:19:30,627
to businessmen representing
every industry.
352
00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:33,672
We even have a female...
353
00:19:34,798 --> 00:19:39,636
beauty culture luminary.
354
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,682
Please welcome Miss...
355
00:19:44,391 --> 00:19:46,310
Addie Munroe!
356
00:19:51,064 --> 00:19:54,735
Miss Munroe is representative
of the finest
357
00:19:54,818 --> 00:19:56,862
of Negro womanhood in business,
358
00:19:56,945 --> 00:20:01,742
and she is quite fetching to the eye,
wouldn't you agree?
359
00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:03,577
- Huh, gentlemen?
- [whistle]
360
00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:05,996
- Thank you. All right, gentlemen.
- [men chuckle]
361
00:20:06,955 --> 00:20:12,169
Now, Miss Munroe will be outside
selling raffle tickets.
362
00:20:12,544 --> 00:20:18,217
Um, all benefits go to the new structure
at our beloved Tuskegee Institute.
363
00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:19,343
Thank you very much!
364
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:21,887
- [applause]
- Thank you very much.
365
00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:24,388
Miss Munroe.
366
00:20:30,729 --> 00:20:33,273
Six speakers
and he still didn't call my name.
367
00:20:33,357 --> 00:20:34,691
Conference ain't over, darling.
368
00:20:35,108 --> 00:20:37,277
Emmett said it could happen at any time.
369
00:20:37,361 --> 00:20:40,739
He even trotted Addie out
like a dummy in a dress.
370
00:20:41,281 --> 00:20:42,281
Now, now.
371
00:20:44,159 --> 00:20:47,079
Please find Emmett, and remind him
how many jobs I'd be creating.
372
00:20:47,162 --> 00:20:48,162
Will do.
373
00:20:48,372 --> 00:20:51,833
[women whispering indistinctly]
374
00:20:53,710 --> 00:20:54,710
Nettie!
375
00:20:55,379 --> 00:20:58,423
Mrs. Thomas,
such a pleasure to see you here.
376
00:20:58,507 --> 00:20:59,633
Good day to you.
377
00:21:00,342 --> 00:21:03,470
Margaret Washington,
may I introduce you to Madam CJ Walker,
378
00:21:03,553 --> 00:21:04,930
our newest member?
379
00:21:05,013 --> 00:21:07,557
She has a fabulous
local hair-care company.
380
00:21:07,641 --> 00:21:09,643
Oh, yes. I think I have heard of you.
381
00:21:09,726 --> 00:21:15,274
Being recognized by an esteemed educator
such as yourself is an honor.
382
00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:20,404
You have an open invitation to my salon,
any treatment, free of charge.
383
00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:22,281
Bless your heart. [chuckles]
384
00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:25,951
Hard to get anything but that cheap
snake oil stuff in Tuskegee.
385
00:21:26,034 --> 00:21:28,328
Which is why I want to open
my own factory.
386
00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:30,539
A factory? Impressive.
387
00:21:30,622 --> 00:21:34,334
I want to make going to the salon
affordable for all women.
388
00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:36,962
- You are doing the Lord's work.
- [laughs]
389
00:21:37,045 --> 00:21:40,424
Care to join us? We club women,
we socialize in the serving room.
390
00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:43,051
Oh, there's nothing I'd like more.
391
00:21:43,635 --> 00:21:45,554
But first, can I trouble you for a favor?
392
00:21:46,138 --> 00:21:48,932
I'm in need of investors for my factory,
393
00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:52,352
and an endorsement from your husband
could make all the difference.
394
00:21:52,436 --> 00:21:55,605
I'm just having a hard time
getting to him.
395
00:21:56,773 --> 00:22:00,360
I make it a point not to get involved
with my husband's affairs.
396
00:22:00,902 --> 00:22:02,821
Well, you know how marriage is!
397
00:22:02,904 --> 00:22:04,906
I have my business, and he has his.
398
00:22:06,408 --> 00:22:09,119
Come, Mrs. Washington.
The ladies are expecting us.
399
00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:11,663
You ladies have a good day.
400
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:12,748
[Nettie] Bye, Sarah.
401
00:22:16,918 --> 00:22:19,212
Socializing with the wives sounds fun.
402
00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:21,896
I didn't come here to make sandwiches.
I came here to do business.
403
00:22:21,965 --> 00:22:23,717
[laughs] Oh, I know.
404
00:22:24,885 --> 00:22:25,969
[Sarah] Oh, CJ!
405
00:22:26,553 --> 00:22:28,472
- [CJ] Ten more minutes.
- Oh! There he is.
406
00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:31,308
Follow him in.
407
00:22:31,391 --> 00:22:33,831
I ain't following him in the bathroom.
That's not a good idea.
408
00:22:33,894 --> 00:22:35,854
You've been talking about
speaking on my behalf...
409
00:22:35,896 --> 00:22:37,814
Go in and invite him to our house
for dinner.
410
00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:39,191
Sarah, I ain't going in the...
411
00:22:39,733 --> 00:22:40,859
Get in there.
412
00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:42,777
Go!
413
00:22:44,071 --> 00:22:46,114
- See, I don't...
- Get in there.
414
00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:52,204
[Addie] Well, well, well.
415
00:22:52,662 --> 00:22:55,457
Sarah! Oh, Madam. [chuckles]
416
00:22:56,083 --> 00:22:57,167
What brings you here?
417
00:22:57,250 --> 00:23:00,545
You still running around,
dreaming of opening a factory?
418
00:23:00,629 --> 00:23:05,300
Oh, Addie, you'd be surprised
how many people want me to succeed.
419
00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,678
I'm in escrow on an old feed mill
in Bucktown.
420
00:23:08,762 --> 00:23:10,055
I'll be open in a month.
421
00:23:10,514 --> 00:23:12,933
Well, now that I have
Booker's endorsement...
422
00:23:13,016 --> 00:23:16,019
- You call that an endorsement?
- ...maybe I'll open a factory too.
423
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,731
But you need an education to run one.
424
00:23:19,815 --> 00:23:22,859
And we both know you ain't got that.
425
00:23:22,943 --> 00:23:25,821
Oh, you'd be surprised how much I learned
over the years.
426
00:23:25,904 --> 00:23:28,490
Gosh, it wasn't that long ago
that I was showing you
427
00:23:28,573 --> 00:23:30,992
how to make change for a dollar! [laughs]
428
00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:34,704
And now, my product outsells yours.
429
00:23:34,788 --> 00:23:36,498
Who told you that?
430
00:23:36,581 --> 00:23:38,792
All your former customers
that switched over to me.
431
00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:40,001
Reverend!
432
00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:42,879
Oh, where you going, Addie?
433
00:23:42,963 --> 00:23:44,589
This was just getting good.
434
00:23:46,258 --> 00:23:47,551
Baby, baby, baby!
435
00:23:48,593 --> 00:23:51,221
- Guess who's coming to dinner tonight?
- Don't play with me, CJ.
436
00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:54,182
Booker T. Washington said
he's free for the evening
437
00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,934
and wants a home-cooked meal.
438
00:23:56,017 --> 00:23:59,312
We gotta throw Booker the best dinner...
No, the best party he's ever seen!
439
00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:00,272
[CJ] Yeah!
440
00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:01,690
Mmm!
441
00:24:01,773 --> 00:24:03,316
- [Sarah laughing]
- Mmm!
442
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,568
- Come on.
- Stop!
443
00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,791
You hit, cousin. $500.
444
00:24:32,053 --> 00:24:34,853
[Nettie] Ransom, stop dillydallying.
We're gonna be late for the party.
445
00:24:35,432 --> 00:24:37,559
[jazz playing]
446
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:41,146
Well, Booker was the first Negro
to dine in the White House.
447
00:24:41,229 --> 00:24:43,523
Now, what you think he had to do
to get that invitation?
448
00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:46,151
Promise Massa
he'd keep the slaves in line.
449
00:24:46,234 --> 00:24:48,361
- [laughing]
- [CJ chuckling] Oh, Pop!
450
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:51,740
You brought a famous man like Booker
bathtub hooch?
451
00:24:51,823 --> 00:24:54,659
Make you forget you got 20 lashes
that day.
452
00:24:55,243 --> 00:24:56,411
Set up right in here.
453
00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:58,747
Mm-hmm. Come on in.
454
00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:00,665
Yeah! [chuckles]
455
00:25:00,749 --> 00:25:02,375
Thank you. Come on in.
456
00:25:02,459 --> 00:25:03,627
Well, hello!
457
00:25:03,710 --> 00:25:04,586
[kisses]
458
00:25:04,669 --> 00:25:06,796
Good to see you.
The food's just set up in here.
459
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,465
- Evening, Lelia.
- Good to see you.
460
00:25:08,548 --> 00:25:10,967
Yes. Yes, sir. Hello, Reverend.
461
00:25:11,051 --> 00:25:13,845
Thank you so much for coming.
The food's just in there.
462
00:25:16,389 --> 00:25:18,850
Uh, y'all know I do sing a little, right?
463
00:25:21,603 --> 00:25:24,564
With your help, with your support,
464
00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:28,026
I can uplift the race too, Mr. Washington.
465
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:32,614
Female entrepreneurship
will uplift the race.
466
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:36,952
- I'm ready to do my part, Mr. Washington.
- [knocking]
467
00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:38,078
Come in!
468
00:25:38,870 --> 00:25:40,413
[Ransom] It's Ransom.
469
00:25:44,292 --> 00:25:48,171
Forgive me if I'm being too forward,
but if I could have a brief word?
470
00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:50,048
I'll stay out here.
471
00:25:51,132 --> 00:25:54,302
I feared we wouldn't have a chance
to speak for the rest of the night.
472
00:25:54,803 --> 00:25:55,887
What is it, Ransom?
473
00:25:57,639 --> 00:25:59,683
I wanna invest in your factory.
474
00:26:02,185 --> 00:26:03,895
I have $500.
475
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:06,982
Where'd you get that kind of money?
476
00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:08,065
Well...
477
00:26:09,234 --> 00:26:12,195
did a little legal work on the side
when I was at Columbia.
478
00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,865
In a few hours, Booker will endorse you.
479
00:26:16,366 --> 00:26:19,494
Businessmen will be
falling over themselves to invest.
480
00:26:20,787 --> 00:26:22,247
I wanted to be the first.
481
00:26:27,043 --> 00:26:28,211
Bless your heart.
482
00:26:29,671 --> 00:26:30,964
I'll put it in the safe.
483
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,676
Your tenacity is remarkable, Madam.
484
00:26:36,177 --> 00:26:38,263
Nettie and I wish you the best of luck.
485
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:41,432
Thank you.
486
00:26:43,184 --> 00:26:44,184
[door closes]
487
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:47,647
[Sarah sighs]
488
00:26:51,943 --> 00:26:54,487
[jazz playing]
489
00:26:54,571 --> 00:26:55,572
[CJ chuckles]
490
00:26:57,741 --> 00:26:59,534
- [man] Yeah!
- [crowd] Whoo!
491
00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:01,661
- [woman] Go on!
- [man] Whoo!
492
00:27:03,163 --> 00:27:04,163
Whoo!
493
00:27:10,670 --> 00:27:11,755
Whoo!
494
00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:15,717
[all laughing] Hey! Whoo!
495
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,510
- Show me what you got.
- CJ!
496
00:27:17,594 --> 00:27:18,928
Come on. Show me what you got.
497
00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:20,388
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
498
00:27:21,264 --> 00:27:22,724
- Whoo!
- Whoo!
499
00:27:22,807 --> 00:27:25,435
- Madam CJ Walker.
- [Sarah laughing]
500
00:27:25,518 --> 00:27:26,853
- The Madam.
- [woman] Whoo!
501
00:27:26,936 --> 00:27:30,649
- Yes!
- [all cheering]
502
00:27:37,197 --> 00:27:38,031
Yes!
503
00:27:38,114 --> 00:27:41,076
[all cheering, hooting]
504
00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:45,622
All right, now.
505
00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:48,875
Do it, CJ!
506
00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:49,958
[CJ laughs]
507
00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:53,380
[all] Ah!
508
00:27:55,382 --> 00:28:00,220
Oh, baby, I just want to take a moment
and say thank you.
509
00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:03,807
We got a great Negro leader
coming to our house.
510
00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:04,766
Yes, we do.
511
00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:05,849
We did it.
512
00:28:06,935 --> 00:28:07,935
You did it.
513
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,730
I'm just glad I could come through
for you, baby.
514
00:28:11,606 --> 00:28:12,649
I love you.
515
00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:15,777
- I love you too.
- [chuckles]
516
00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:22,867
[CJ] Mmm.
517
00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:26,913
[crowd cheering, applauding]
518
00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:29,457
Now we're gonna bring up a local favorite.
519
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:32,085
Give it up for Ms. Lelia Robinson!
520
00:28:32,168 --> 00:28:33,211
Come on, girl.
521
00:28:33,294 --> 00:28:34,212
[crowd applauding]
522
00:28:34,295 --> 00:28:36,339
[John] Lelia, what the hell
you think you're doing?
523
00:28:36,798 --> 00:28:37,674
[man] Yeah!
524
00:28:37,757 --> 00:28:39,008
See what you got.
525
00:28:40,593 --> 00:28:42,595
[jazz playing]
526
00:28:48,476 --> 00:28:54,607
♪ Last night
I dreamed that someone kissed me ♪
527
00:28:54,691 --> 00:28:58,361
♪ Two wonderful lips ♪
528
00:28:58,445 --> 00:29:03,575
♪ Stretched right close to mine ♪
529
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:09,038
♪ Sweet kisses that came in the night ♪
530
00:29:09,122 --> 00:29:12,917
♪ Sweet kisses that brought me to life ♪
531
00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:17,380
♪ I really like my honey and sugar a lot ♪
532
00:29:17,464 --> 00:29:21,092
♪ But they're not half as sweet
As the kisses I got ♪
533
00:29:21,176 --> 00:29:24,804
♪ Sweet kisses
That came in the night ♪
534
00:29:24,888 --> 00:29:28,892
♪ Sweet kisses
That brought me to life ♪
535
00:29:28,975 --> 00:29:33,354
♪ Oh, Mr. Dream Man
Hear my plea ♪
536
00:29:33,438 --> 00:29:37,525
- ♪ I'm his honey, and he's my bee ♪
- [all] Oh!
537
00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:42,322
♪ So, please make sure
He buzz around nobody but me ♪
538
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:46,743
♪ Sweet kisses that came in the night ♪
539
00:29:47,202 --> 00:29:49,454
[light applause]
540
00:29:58,713 --> 00:30:00,924
- [jazz playing]
- [CJ] Booker better get here.
541
00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:10,433
He's late.
542
00:30:10,517 --> 00:30:13,728
[Cleophus] Booker's got every right
to be late, Sarah. He's free.
543
00:30:24,989 --> 00:30:26,241
I'm gonna be right back.
544
00:30:28,618 --> 00:30:29,869
What are you doing here?
545
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:33,957
As Madam's newest and, no doubt,
best-looking investor,
546
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,210
- I thought it was time we break bread.
- Since when are you an investor?
547
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:39,712
Since I helped you with that cash.
548
00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:41,756
What cash? My number hit.
549
00:30:42,757 --> 00:30:45,176
Come on, cuz, you can't be that square.
550
00:30:48,304 --> 00:30:49,347
You fixed it?
551
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,558
Mmm.
552
00:30:53,893 --> 00:30:55,436
Goddamn.
553
00:30:56,396 --> 00:30:57,564
Hey, you look here.
554
00:30:58,189 --> 00:31:01,609
This is the best job I've ever had,
and you ain't gonna mess that up.
555
00:31:03,152 --> 00:31:06,155
Got me? Now see yourself out of here.
556
00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:10,534
[clicks teeth]
557
00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:24,591
CJ, I need to know... every detail
of what happened in the bathroom.
558
00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:28,595
I told Booker you're my wife,
and I invited him to dinner.
559
00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:30,889
What then?
560
00:31:34,517 --> 00:31:35,685
He put away his pistol.
561
00:31:36,686 --> 00:31:38,229
- Pistol?
- Yeah.
562
00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:42,275
- Why did he take out a pistol?
- I went in, and I locked the door.
563
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:45,580
Just us.
I didn't want us to be interrupted.
564
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:46,905
And I must've scared him.
565
00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:50,909
The man has a lot of enemies.
He just whipped out his pistol.
566
00:31:50,992 --> 00:31:52,660
Booker's not coming to our house.
567
00:31:53,119 --> 00:31:55,705
He just told you what he thought
you wanted to hear.
568
00:31:56,331 --> 00:31:57,373
Ransom!
569
00:31:57,457 --> 00:31:58,457
Madam.
570
00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,043
Call your friend, Emmett.
571
00:32:04,505 --> 00:32:07,884
Yes, she wanted to talk to him
about getting an endorsement,
572
00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:09,636
maybe speaking.
573
00:32:09,719 --> 00:32:11,512
Yes, for her factory.
574
00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:14,349
But I thought you said he...
575
00:32:17,393 --> 00:32:19,228
Ah. Okay.
576
00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:21,897
I see.
577
00:32:26,402 --> 00:32:27,402
You're right.
578
00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:29,155
Booker's not coming.
579
00:32:30,073 --> 00:32:33,076
Why, because CJ scared him?
Never should've trusted you.
580
00:32:33,159 --> 00:32:36,704
Booker thinks beauty culture is frivolous.
581
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:39,832
Now, he might let you
say a prayer or something,
582
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:42,502
but he was never gonna let you
present to investors.
583
00:32:42,585 --> 00:32:44,745
How many days before we lose the lease
on the building?
584
00:32:45,672 --> 00:32:46,714
A week.
585
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:48,799
Get out!
586
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,302
Now, now, Sarah, calm down.
587
00:32:51,386 --> 00:32:53,096
Especially you. Get out of my face!
588
00:32:53,179 --> 00:32:55,264
Get out! Everybody out!
589
00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:57,100
[guests chatter indistinctly]
590
00:32:57,183 --> 00:32:58,768
- [woman] Thank you.
- [CJ] Sarah.
591
00:32:58,851 --> 00:32:59,936
[door opens]
592
00:33:00,019 --> 00:33:01,479
[CJ] I blame you for this.
593
00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:04,107
Putting those ideas in her head.
594
00:33:04,857 --> 00:33:07,026
Those ideas were already there.
595
00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:12,281
Madam was a mess in there.
596
00:33:12,365 --> 00:33:15,702
You had no right involving
your trifling cousin in Madam's business.
597
00:33:16,285 --> 00:33:18,496
And I played the numbers for Sarah
as a backdrop.
598
00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:20,206
That wasn't your choice to make.
599
00:33:21,082 --> 00:33:23,668
As hard as she's trying to work
to be respectable...
600
00:33:23,751 --> 00:33:25,545
the last thing she wants is
his dirty money.
601
00:33:25,628 --> 00:33:29,465
Listen, nobody was stepping up to invest,
I was just trying to help.
602
00:33:31,300 --> 00:33:32,300
You tell her.
603
00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:33,511
Oh, I will.
604
00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:36,514
I'll tell her.
605
00:33:40,893 --> 00:33:44,689
[R&B ballad playing]
606
00:33:47,233 --> 00:33:49,318
- You took all these?
- Mm-hmm.
607
00:33:50,486 --> 00:33:52,739
How you get your mitts
on a camera like that?
608
00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:56,367
The ofay my mama worked for gave it to me.
609
00:33:57,577 --> 00:33:59,954
What I wouldn't give
for talent like yours.
610
00:34:01,497 --> 00:34:02,832
Everybody's got something.
611
00:34:03,624 --> 00:34:05,209
You just ain't found yours yet.
612
00:34:05,710 --> 00:34:08,838
♪ You've got my attention, babe ♪
613
00:34:10,923 --> 00:34:11,923
Turn to the right.
614
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:16,179
♪ 'Cause the moon... ♪
615
00:34:16,262 --> 00:34:17,305
Put your chin up.
616
00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:19,265
Just a bit.
617
00:34:20,558 --> 00:34:25,188
♪ Breeze will take you right
In your zone ♪
618
00:34:25,271 --> 00:34:29,150
♪ You got tonight
But you act like you don't ♪
619
00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:30,233
Relax.
620
00:34:30,276 --> 00:34:32,361
♪ Just so you know ♪
621
00:34:32,445 --> 00:34:38,451
♪ I'm onto you... ♪
622
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,580
Eyes back to me.
623
00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:45,958
♪ I'm onto you... ♪
624
00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:47,085
Smile.
625
00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:54,175
♪ Oh, you ♪
626
00:34:54,258 --> 00:34:55,258
[Esther] Three,
627
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,638
two, one.
628
00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:05,686
[dog barking outside]
629
00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,041
Bunch of us are headed
to Grady's Bar and Grill.
630
00:35:28,709 --> 00:35:29,794
You wanna come?
631
00:35:32,338 --> 00:35:33,923
No. I'm gonna go in.
632
00:35:35,967 --> 00:35:36,968
She needs me.
633
00:35:37,552 --> 00:35:38,552
No, she doesn't.
634
00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:41,013
Madam needs to be alone.
635
00:35:43,641 --> 00:35:44,684
Come on, CJ.
636
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,783
[jazz playing]
637
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:02,994
[crowd laughing, chatting]
638
00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:13,004
CJ, you seen Lelia?
639
00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:15,298
- What?
- Lelia, you seen her?
640
00:36:15,381 --> 00:36:17,967
I saw her with that little boy, Esther.
641
00:36:18,634 --> 00:36:19,719
[CJ snickers]
642
00:36:26,726 --> 00:36:28,311
Oh, all right!
643
00:36:31,647 --> 00:36:35,234
Hey. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, there it is, there it is, there it is.
644
00:36:42,658 --> 00:36:44,660
[jazz continues]
645
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,526
Margaret Murray Washington, please.
646
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:20,070
Margaret?
647
00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:22,490
Madam CJ Walker.
648
00:37:23,282 --> 00:37:25,868
Can I join you ladies
at the convention tomorrow?
649
00:37:26,577 --> 00:37:28,037
I have a surprise.
650
00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:34,418
Oh, we started in, what, 1895,
651
00:37:34,502 --> 00:37:39,757
when that awful man denigrated
Negro womanhood in the Missouri newspaper.
652
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,804
He said that all Negro women
are either prostitutes, liars, or thieves.
653
00:37:44,887 --> 00:37:46,430
- You don't say?
- Mmm.
654
00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:47,974
- [Lelia] Mama, you hear this?
- Mmm.
655
00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:49,809
Of course, we had to respond.
656
00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:53,980
So that's how the National Association
of Colored Women got started?
657
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,524
Yeah. First, we were maybe a 100 women.
658
00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:02,989
Now we are 250,000 strong,
and Margaret is our fearless leader.
659
00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:04,240
[laughs]
660
00:38:04,323 --> 00:38:07,285
Ain't nothing a colored woman can't do
when she set her mind to it.
661
00:38:07,368 --> 00:38:08,411
Got that right.
662
00:38:09,245 --> 00:38:10,913
- That's right.
- [sighs]
663
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:14,125
I was wondering if I could...
664
00:38:15,084 --> 00:38:18,045
get you to put in a good word for me
to Mr. Washington.
665
00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:23,092
I got some investors on the fence,
and seems like men can't hear a good idea
666
00:38:23,175 --> 00:38:25,177
unless it comes out another man's mouth.
667
00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:28,597
As I said before, it's just not our place.
668
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:31,434
Where exactly is a woman's place?
669
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,647
I mean, you're all accomplished women
with college degrees.
670
00:38:36,731 --> 00:38:38,524
Most of you smarter than your husbands.
671
00:38:39,025 --> 00:38:42,278
Why hide back here?
Go out there where the action is.
672
00:38:42,945 --> 00:38:44,613
We live in a man's world.
673
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,827
Any opportunity I get to convene
with other like-minded women,
674
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:51,162
I gladly take it.
675
00:38:51,704 --> 00:38:54,749
Don't mistake us for victims.
We choose to be here.
676
00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:57,501
We may be near the kitchen,
677
00:38:58,794 --> 00:39:00,004
but we're together.
678
00:39:01,297 --> 00:39:05,051
[Sarah] No disrespect, but it don't matter
if you choose to be here.
679
00:39:05,134 --> 00:39:08,304
- You're still in back, afraid to speak!
- [Mrs. Thomas] And look at the time.
680
00:39:08,387 --> 00:39:10,639
- We better go prepare lunch.
- [Sarah] I know how it is.
681
00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:14,185
See, I've been silent most of my life,
682
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:19,398
but something changed when I started
making my product and telling my story.
683
00:39:20,483 --> 00:39:21,692
There's power in it.
684
00:39:23,986 --> 00:39:25,488
Don't get me wrong.
685
00:39:25,571 --> 00:39:28,240
Just last week, I went to a man
with a business opportunity.
686
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:30,594
He took his genitals out
and tried to force himself on me,
687
00:39:30,618 --> 00:39:32,370
so I understand y'all's hesitation.
688
00:39:34,997 --> 00:39:38,709
Many of us fear harm
from our own husbands,
689
00:39:40,002 --> 00:39:41,170
and rightly so.
690
00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:45,800
Sometimes silence is the only protection
a colored woman can count on.
691
00:39:46,801 --> 00:39:49,887
And now that I've finally learned
to tell my story,
692
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,139
I can't be silent anymore.
693
00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:56,060
[funk music playing]
694
00:39:56,143 --> 00:39:57,144
I can't.
695
00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:04,902
♪ Rise up ♪
696
00:40:06,028 --> 00:40:11,283
I am proud to say I have finally
paid off my sharecropping debt.
697
00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:12,451
Hear! Hear!
698
00:40:15,329 --> 00:40:16,329
Hear. Hear.
699
00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:23,963
- [man] Now I just need $200 to buy...
- Wait, Sarah.
700
00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:26,632
[Sarah] They're gonna let me speak.
701
00:40:29,176 --> 00:40:30,761
♪ Your strength can push us through ♪
702
00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:31,929
Mr. Washington,
703
00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:34,890
my name is Madam CJ Walker,
704
00:40:35,724 --> 00:40:39,979
and with great humility,
I ask that you endorse my new factory.
705
00:40:41,105 --> 00:40:45,943
Now my factory will create jobs...
706
00:40:47,069 --> 00:40:49,029
and opportunity for our people,
707
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:50,698
especially our women.
708
00:40:53,659 --> 00:40:54,702
Look at your wives.
709
00:40:55,828 --> 00:40:56,828
Look at 'em!
710
00:40:58,122 --> 00:40:59,248
Aren't they gorgeous?
711
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:02,209
Mm-hmm.
712
00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:04,712
But they are so much more.
713
00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:07,464
Learned...
714
00:41:08,048 --> 00:41:09,467
political, brilliant!
715
00:41:10,217 --> 00:41:13,012
And they are wasting their talents
in the back!
716
00:41:15,556 --> 00:41:20,186
Help me give them opportunities
that will benefit your whole family.
717
00:41:22,062 --> 00:41:24,773
Female enterprise is good for us all.
718
00:41:25,608 --> 00:41:27,026
It's the way of the future.
719
00:41:28,402 --> 00:41:30,654
I can see it clear as day.
720
00:41:33,449 --> 00:41:37,244
This is how you can truly uplift the race!
721
00:41:46,003 --> 00:41:47,630
[applause builds]
722
00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:07,483
Thank you for those, um...
passionate remarks!
723
00:42:09,985 --> 00:42:12,613
- May I have a word with you, please?
- Yes. [chuckles]
724
00:42:16,325 --> 00:42:18,661
- Please.
- [Sarah] Thank you, Mr. Washington.
725
00:42:19,453 --> 00:42:23,707
[sighs] Forgive me for being so bold,
but God was speaking through me.
726
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,877
That little outburst that you had in there
was rude and uncalled for.
727
00:42:26,961 --> 00:42:30,756
Sir, with all due respect,
I need your endorsement.
728
00:42:31,298 --> 00:42:33,467
Where you lead, others follow.
729
00:42:34,051 --> 00:42:35,844
- Jobs are at stake.
- [Booker] Jobs?
730
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:40,599
In a trivial company that shames Negroes
into Eurocentric standards of beauty.
731
00:42:40,683 --> 00:42:44,144
I have no interest
in making colored women look white.
732
00:42:44,645 --> 00:42:46,522
I want us to feel beautiful too.
733
00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:50,859
But Negroes cannot afford to waste money
on cosmetics.
734
00:42:50,943 --> 00:42:53,320
That's why I pay my employees four times
735
00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:55,823
what they'd earn taking in laundry
for half the hours.
736
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:59,243
And soon you will have Negro women
out-earning Negro men.
737
00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:01,745
Is that what this is about?
738
00:43:01,829 --> 00:43:06,375
How is America going to take us seriously
if we allow our women to surpass us?
739
00:43:06,458 --> 00:43:07,710
It's not a competition.
740
00:43:08,502 --> 00:43:11,255
We all need to be lifted, sir.
741
00:43:11,338 --> 00:43:14,008
The Negro man needs to be lifted first.
742
00:43:14,883 --> 00:43:17,219
I know our men have it hard,
but so do our women.
743
00:43:17,303 --> 00:43:21,223
I would rather endorse a palm reader
744
00:43:21,307 --> 00:43:23,225
than a hair culturalist, Mrs. Walker,
745
00:43:23,309 --> 00:43:26,186
and the little outburst in there
is precisely the reason why
746
00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:29,189
you ladies need to be kept in your place.
747
00:43:32,192 --> 00:43:33,235
Good day.
748
00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:50,544
We ain't mortgaging this house
for your little factory,
749
00:43:50,628 --> 00:43:52,046
so get that notion out your head.
750
00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:53,505
We gotta do something, CJ.
751
00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:55,299
This is our dream.
That's why we came here!
752
00:43:55,382 --> 00:43:57,342
Well, I didn't come here
to build no damn factory.
753
00:43:57,384 --> 00:43:58,969
Sarah, we're doing just fine.
754
00:43:59,428 --> 00:44:02,389
Now, why can't you just be satisfied
with what we got?
755
00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:04,600
Because I can't,
and you shouldn't be either.
756
00:44:04,683 --> 00:44:06,685
Booker was right.
You need to learn your place.
757
00:44:06,769 --> 00:44:07,770
I know my place.
758
00:44:08,020 --> 00:44:10,689
Inside the factory, making my products,
growing my company.
759
00:44:10,773 --> 00:44:13,400
My, my, my products. My company. Yours.
760
00:44:13,484 --> 00:44:14,860
Yours. You're f...
761
00:44:15,611 --> 00:44:16,612
What?
762
00:44:17,321 --> 00:44:18,405
Uh...
763
00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:20,532
Pardon me, but, uh...
764
00:44:21,867 --> 00:44:23,202
I brought the paperwork.
765
00:44:29,041 --> 00:44:30,459
[paper rustling]
766
00:44:32,753 --> 00:44:36,423
You done already decided
to do this... with him.
767
00:44:36,507 --> 00:44:37,800
There are no other options, CJ.
768
00:44:37,883 --> 00:44:40,427
If she defaults on this property,
she will never get another.
769
00:44:40,511 --> 00:44:42,763
For the last time,
mind your goddamn business!
770
00:44:47,267 --> 00:44:48,435
This is my house.
771
00:44:51,313 --> 00:44:52,606
What I say goes.
772
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:56,360
What I say!
773
00:44:56,443 --> 00:44:58,362
[inhales, exhales deeply]
774
00:45:02,241 --> 00:45:03,241
[Sarah] C...
775
00:45:05,369 --> 00:45:06,412
[knocking]
776
00:45:18,549 --> 00:45:21,385
Female enterprise is good for us all.
777
00:45:33,355 --> 00:45:35,107
[R&B music playing]
778
00:45:35,607 --> 00:45:37,109
Good luck with the factory.
779
00:45:38,694 --> 00:45:39,694
[gasps]
780
00:45:40,946 --> 00:45:43,449
Well, come in! Come in! Thank you.
781
00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:45,951
Thank you! God bless you.
782
00:45:46,034 --> 00:45:47,703
[women chatting]
783
00:45:47,786 --> 00:45:48,829
[Sarah] Ransom!
784
00:45:49,371 --> 00:45:50,414
[bell rings]
785
00:45:50,497 --> 00:45:51,497
[Addie sighs]
786
00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:53,792
Well, look who it is.
787
00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:56,295
You want dirt on Madam Pigs Feet?
788
00:45:57,004 --> 00:45:58,672
How much is it worth to you?
789
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:00,924
Your darling Lelia won't be disappointed?
790
00:46:01,383 --> 00:46:03,260
Lelia don't give a damn about me.
791
00:46:03,761 --> 00:46:04,803
I see.
792
00:46:06,305 --> 00:46:09,349
Well, I'd pay a pretty penny to find out
793
00:46:09,433 --> 00:46:11,727
why Sarah's product
sells better than mine.
794
00:46:12,686 --> 00:46:13,771
- Hmm.
- [cork pops]
795
00:46:13,854 --> 00:46:15,606
[Lelia] Club women to the rescue!
796
00:46:15,689 --> 00:46:17,065
Ooh, yes.
797
00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:18,233
[laughing]
798
00:46:19,693 --> 00:46:20,773
[Lelia] There you go, Mama.
799
00:46:20,819 --> 00:46:22,988
Ransom, get us another
bottle of champagne, please!
800
00:46:23,071 --> 00:46:26,950
♪ Hold my head high, the further I go... ♪
801
00:46:27,034 --> 00:46:29,912
Mama, you are opening up a factory.
802
00:46:30,662 --> 00:46:32,247
[women] Whoo!
803
00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:34,166
[women laughing]
804
00:46:34,249 --> 00:46:35,626
I'm opening a factory.
805
00:46:35,709 --> 00:46:38,212
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ I'm a woman ♪
806
00:46:38,295 --> 00:46:41,256
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
807
00:46:41,757 --> 00:46:45,010
- ♪ And this life is full of laughter ♪
- Whoo!
808
00:46:45,093 --> 00:46:47,221
- Never get to drink without my husband.
- Partners!
809
00:46:47,304 --> 00:46:49,348
[women laughing, chatting]
810
00:46:50,516 --> 00:46:52,226
♪ Remember how ♪
811
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:54,412
- ♪ The early days were darker ♪
- [chatting continues]
812
00:46:54,436 --> 00:46:55,497
- Oh!
- ♪ Days were darker ♪
813
00:46:55,521 --> 00:46:58,607
♪ And so I stand up
Time and time again... ♪
814
00:46:59,942 --> 00:47:01,985
[Sarah] Lady Margaret.
Thank you, Nettie...
815
00:47:03,028 --> 00:47:06,073
- To female entrepreneurship!
- [Lelia] Yes!
816
00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:07,282
- Yes!
- [all] Whoo!
817
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:11,036
- ♪ 'Cause I learned how ♪
- ♪ I learned how ♪
818
00:47:11,119 --> 00:47:13,580
- ♪ To stop the hurting ♪
- ♪ Stop the hurting ♪
819
00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:16,959
♪ By giving all my love right back to me ♪
820
00:47:18,043 --> 00:47:20,462
♪ Oh, I can rule like a queen ♪
821
00:47:20,546 --> 00:47:22,422
♪ Be a superhero ♪
822
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,843
♪ Hold my head high the further I go ♪
823
00:47:27,052 --> 00:47:31,807
♪ I can love myself
More than anyone else ♪
824
00:47:31,890 --> 00:47:34,977
♪ I am fire and the world's gotta know ♪
825
00:47:35,060 --> 00:47:36,060
♪ Oh ♪
826
00:47:36,478 --> 00:47:40,524
- ♪ Woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
827
00:47:40,607 --> 00:47:44,695
- ♪ I'm a woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
828
00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:49,157
- ♪ Woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
829
00:47:49,241 --> 00:47:50,742
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ I'm a woman ♪
830
00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:54,079
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
831
00:47:54,454 --> 00:47:58,792
♪ 'Cause I can rule like a queen
Be a superhero ♪
832
00:47:59,126 --> 00:48:02,838
♪ Hold my head high the further I go ♪
833
00:48:03,463 --> 00:48:08,093
♪ I can love myself
More than anyone else ♪
834
00:48:08,176 --> 00:48:11,388
♪ I am fire and the world's got to know ♪
835
00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:16,476
- ♪ Woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
836
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,814
- ♪ Yeah, I'm a woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
837
00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,734
- ♪ Yeah, I'm a woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
838
00:48:23,817 --> 00:48:25,944
♪ Yeah, a beautiful, beautiful woman ♪
839
00:48:26,028 --> 00:48:30,991
- ♪ Yeah, I'm a woman ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪