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[solemn music gently fades in]
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[piano playing
"This Little Light of Mine" solemnly]
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[inaudible]
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[music continues]
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[inaudible]
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[music stops]
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{\an8}[woman] Things need to change
and change now.
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{\an8}[man] Which is why
we are staging a protest
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{\an8}at the Democratic National Convention.
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[man 2]
And the Republicans are any better?
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- We plan on challenging them as well.
- [distant phone ringing]
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So you want me to lead
5,000 Negroes into Los Angeles
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and disrupt the Democratic Convention?
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I'm sorry. I'm not your man.
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Who told you you are not our man?
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Were you not our man
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when you took command
of the Montgomery bus boycott
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or spoke with such eloquence
the night your home was bombed?
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You're conveniently forgetting
I'm now co-pastor of Ebenezer.
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When C.L. first heard you speak,
he rang me and said,
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"Bayard, there's magic
going on down here."
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You know what he saw? A star.
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And when that star starts to shine
brighter than any other,
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including the most powerful Negro leaders
that came before,
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they will do everything in their power
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to extinguish your light
and put you in your place.
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Mrs. Ella Baker,
I have received a number of calls
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from prominent men within the movement
who see no wisdom in these protests.
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Men with whom I share a strong kinship.
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Not once you leave the room.
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[softly] Friend, one of my greatest joys
is watching you rise.
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We need you to lead us into Los Angeles,
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where we will most vigorously let Kennedy
and the entire Democratic Party know
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that unless they show up for our people,
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take a stand against segregation,
our people will not show up for them.
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- Hear! Hear!
- Yes! Yes! Yes!
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[Bayard] Do this, Martin.
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Own your power.
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- [big band music playing]
- [chuckles]
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I am pleased to announce
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that my friend, Dr. Martin Luther King,
will be joining us in Los Angeles.
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- Yes!
- Yes!
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[cheering]
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[swing music playing]
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I'm telling you, the best grits ever.
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Lest I remind you, I was born and raised
in Georgia. My mother was...
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Try them.
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Hm?
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Mm!
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Mm.
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- How's my beloved Coretta?
- Fine.
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- And the kids?
- Missing you.
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Every time I step through that house,
"How's Uncle Bayard?"
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- Aw. [chuckles]
- "Where's Uncle Bayard?"
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And those self-appointed noble Negroes
of the NAACP?
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Roy.
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Powell.
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I can't wait to hear what they have to say
about us making a move on LA.
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My convention, my party.
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I've spent the past 15 years
fighting Dixiecrats in Congress,
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going after and winning
on everything from poll taxes
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to the right to piss
in the goddamn Congressional commode.
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How dare his Black ass take aim
without first coming to me?
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[man] Had King reached out,
would you have said yes?
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Hell, no. That fighting son of a bitch
needs to keep down South where he belongs.
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I blame Rustin.
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Ever since the Montgomery bus boycott,
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he's got King thinking
he's the second coming.
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The hell with Bayard Rustin.
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{\an8}His attention-grabbing antics
are the exact opposite
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{\an8}of how policy is altered
and laws are changed.
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[softly] And let's not mention
the unmentionable.
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[Powell] No.
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I say, say it.
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Say it, I say, and say it loud!
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Listen to me.
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I am phoning
the good reverend doctor's office today.
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If they don't call this shit off,
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the world will know the truth
about Martin Luther King and his queen.
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[inhales sharply]
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And, baby, I do not mean Coretta.
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Congressman Powell has done so much
for Harlem.
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{\an8}Almost as much as he's done for himself.
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{\an8}But this is a bold-faced lie,
and he knows it.
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[man] I have to tell Martin. I have...
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Yes, I'm well aware of the fact
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that Martin is your boss
as well as your friend,
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but at least let me speak
with Bayard first,
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as this is certain
to disorder his soul most of all!
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[laughing heartily]
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Me and Martin?
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[scoffs] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Brothers, yes.
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Besides, he's not my type.
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[Randolph] Making threats,
talking about going to the white print...
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Chief, Chief, you call it trouble.
I call it an opportunity.
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In response
to Powell's reckless accusations,
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I'll write a letter
tendering my resignation.
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When Martin rejects it,
we will have forced him to see
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who wishes him well and who does not.
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- [Randolph] What makes you so sure?
- Hm.
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- Be... Because I know Martin, sir.
- [Randolph] Bayard?
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- Sir.
- [Randolph] You may know Martin, but...
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- All will be fine.
- [music stops abruptly]
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I assumed it would just be the two of us.
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We thank you
for your many years of service.
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[footsteps receding]
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[door closes]
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- [phone ringing]
- [typewriter tapping]
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[dramatic sting plays]
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[metal clanking]
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- [stamping]
- [paper rustling]
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- [metal clanking]
- [stamping]
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[typewriter tapping]
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[phone ringing]
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[ringing continues]
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- [phone clicks]
- [woman] War Resisters League.
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[mellow jazz saxophone playing]
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- [music continues]
- [siren wailing]
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[groans]
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[breathing heavily]
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["Shotgun" by Junior Walker
and The All Stars playing]
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[crowd] Whoo!
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[indistinct chattering]
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- [door opens]
- Oh!
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Excuse me.
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- Hey! My brother.
- [man] Blyden.
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- Hey!
- Hey!
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- What's up, man?
- [man] What's up, man? Looking good.
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Welcome to the party.
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Mm.
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Good Lordy, Miss Claudia.
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Goodness. I'm just gonna squeeze
right through here. [chuckles]
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I tell you, man, I go south again,
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it's gonna be with a gun in my hand
and Brother Malcolm in my heart.
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Right.
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Hey! What's up, man?
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[woman] Bayard. Bayard.
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Bayard.
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Aw. [chuckles]
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"For ne'er I saw a true beauty
till this night."
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Are you talking to the vodka or me?
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[both laugh]
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[crowd] Whoo!
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I take it there was some sort of protest?
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Uh, it kinda got derailed,
so we invited everyone back here.
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NAACP!
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- Yeah!
- [man] Nice.
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Obscure fact about Miss Ella Baker,
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early champion of SNCC.
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She's Al Capone when it comes to cards.
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Tonk, Bid Whist, Crazy Eights. [laughs]
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You're marvelous
and have absolutely no idea who I am.
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Like you know what I know?
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[softly] Ice.
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Uh, who is that?
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["Walking the Dog" by Rufus Thomas
playing next door]
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Doors barricaded...
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tires slashed.
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No escape.
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Firebombs thrown inside.
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Folks started screamin'.
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I finally get out.
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I'm on the ground.
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This white man...
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takes this pipe
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and hits me...
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over and over.
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I'm so sorry.
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Like we give a shit you sorry.
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It's probably one of your uncles
or cousins with that pipe.
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- I was raised in Brooklyn.
- Listening to this shit?
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- Why would I have cousins in Alabama?
- White boy talking shit.
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Tom isn't like that.
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Bet you these two
are card-carrying members
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of Martin-de-Lawd's nonviolence jamboree.
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So let's play. I'll be the redneck.
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Beat you so bad
your body starts to scream.
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Beat you like they beat Tyrone.
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Beat you till you're calling
for your mama.
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Whoa, hey!
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I'm the one
that's been preaching passive resistance
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since before you were born.
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- So hit me.
- Bayard, I can take care of myself.
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The pacifist is opposed to using violence,
but must be prepared to receive it.
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Only aim left.
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A policeman in '42
already took care of the right.
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Symmetry.
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[scoffs softly]
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I hear when King said "git,"
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you tucked your tail between your legs
and swished away.
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You're irrelevant.
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It's Friday night. I've been called worse.
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[banging on door]
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So, what are you gonna do?
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Offering my face as a punching bag
to a would-be Sugar Ray wasn't enough?
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I am talking about the party.
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A party is hors d'oeuvres, laughter,
mambo for Latin lovers on the hi-fi.
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Earlier today, a fight almost broke out.
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It did not used to be like that.
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And now it is like that all the time.
SNCC, CORE, the NAACP kids,
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we're all fighting over agendas
and slogans and songs.
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- And you know who's winning?
- Something tells me I'm about to find out.
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Bull Connor in Birmingham,
Strom Thurmond on the Senate floor.
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While we all snap and snarl
and eat each other alive.
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- So, what are you gonna do?
- I already have a job.
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Muste and I have worked together
off and on since I was in my twenties.
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The man hates you because you possess
everything that he does not,
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charm, passion, a goddamn pulse.
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Tom, you've yet to learn it is unwise
to speak of that which you do not know.
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Why don't you just admit
that you're still upset
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over what happened
between you and Dr. King,
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and so you will use any excuse,
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including working a job that you hate...
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- Irrational.
- ...to avoid a cause that you love?
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You're smart about some things,
not about everything.
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I can have an opinion.
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And when it comes to my life, my past,
especially as it relates to Martin,
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I have the right to say, "Enough!"
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[lighter clicks]
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Last time I checked, that was illegal.
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Last time I checked, so were we.
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[clicks]
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[jazz double bass solo playing]
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[music stops]
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[kisses]
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- I've had an idea.
- Hm.
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Wanna be my assistant again?
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Of course.
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Give me the Randolph/Truman '48 folder.
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In that trunk over there.
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Thirty years ago,
Gandhi walked to the sea,
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picked up a handful of salt,
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and inspired a movement
that brought down an empire.
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The time has come for us to do the same.
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[swing music playing]
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We are going to put together
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the largest peaceful protest
in the history of this nation.
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How big?
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One hundred thousand people.
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Is he for real?
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A massive two-day demonstration
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with enough power to shut down
the White House and Capitol Hill.
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Made up of angelic troublemakers
such as yourselves,
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with ideas so bold, so inspiring,
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their execution will demand all groups
draw tightly together and become one.
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So, talk, shout, take command!
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What if we flood the offices
of every member of the House and Senate
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with delegates of the church,
labor, civil rights?
250
00:16:33,375 --> 00:16:34,500
- And...
- And? And?
251
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And such numbers the legislative branch
will cease to function.
252
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Write it on the wall.
253
00:16:38,375 --> 00:16:41,416
No, no. It is impossible to train
that many effective lobbyists...
254
00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:45,416
No, no, no. Do not kill an impulse
before it's born.
255
00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,666
What if they were constituents
from their respective states
256
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who refused to leave
until they've been heard?
257
00:16:51,375 --> 00:16:53,666
- Now that's collaboration.
- [all laugh]
258
00:16:53,750 --> 00:16:56,726
- [Bayard] Write it on the wall.
- Why can't you be collaborative like Norm?
259
00:16:56,750 --> 00:16:58,375
- I... Shut up.
- [chuckles]
260
00:16:58,458 --> 00:17:00,778
- Somebody didn't go home last night.
- Shut up. [chuckles]
261
00:17:00,833 --> 00:17:03,750
Rachelle? How many bodies does it take
to surround the White House?
262
00:17:03,833 --> 00:17:04,833
How many?
263
00:17:05,833 --> 00:17:07,593
Sorry.
I thought that was a setup for a joke.
264
00:17:07,666 --> 00:17:09,541
- You literally want me to find out?
- Yes!
265
00:17:09,625 --> 00:17:13,375
Because on day two,
we shall surround the White House...
266
00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:15,000
Draw the White House on the board.
267
00:17:15,083 --> 00:17:16,583
...while serenading the president.
268
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♪ Ain't gonna let the president
Turn me around ♪
269
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Come on now.
270
00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:23,208
♪ Turn me around ♪
271
00:17:23,291 --> 00:17:24,375
♪ Turn me around ♪
272
00:17:24,458 --> 00:17:28,166
♪ Ain't gonna let the president
Turn me around ♪
273
00:17:28,250 --> 00:17:30,416
- ♪ I'm gonna... ♪
- ♪ Keep on walking ♪
274
00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:31,916
♪ Keep on talking ♪
275
00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:32,833
Come on now.
276
00:17:32,916 --> 00:17:34,875
♪ Marching up to freedom land ♪
277
00:17:34,958 --> 00:17:36,583
[cheering]
278
00:17:36,666 --> 00:17:40,166
Well, what about sleeping arrangements?
DC only has so many Negro hotels.
279
00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:42,208
How about tents? You know, like a...
280
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A sea of tents, big and bold enough
to unify an entire movement.
281
00:17:47,458 --> 00:17:49,791
- Give me that thing.
- [all laugh]
282
00:17:50,750 --> 00:17:54,083
And near the Lincoln Memorial,
a stage where the head
283
00:17:54,166 --> 00:17:56,833
of every civil rights organization
can be heard.
284
00:17:56,916 --> 00:17:58,750
Why just the heads?
285
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[all] Ooh!
286
00:18:01,875 --> 00:18:03,916
[Bayard] More! More!
287
00:18:04,541 --> 00:18:05,916
We're not done yet.
288
00:18:07,125 --> 00:18:09,250
You know there's a lot we can do.
289
00:18:09,333 --> 00:18:12,000
- Get the signatures. We'll follow up...
- Yeah.
290
00:18:12,083 --> 00:18:13,750
That's a really good start.
291
00:18:14,333 --> 00:18:17,041
I think we need to organize this
in a way that we all can...
292
00:18:17,125 --> 00:18:18,125
[music continues]
293
00:18:24,583 --> 00:18:25,583
[music stops]
294
00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,458
In '41, you called for a large-scale march
295
00:18:39,541 --> 00:18:42,666
to protest discrimination
in the defense industry but then canceled.
296
00:18:42,750 --> 00:18:45,125
No, Roosevelt acquiesced to our demands.
297
00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:47,541
As did Truman in '48.
298
00:18:48,208 --> 00:18:51,125
Executive Order 9981,
299
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the end of segregation
in the armed forces.
300
00:18:56,583 --> 00:18:59,000
- [spoon clinks]
- The time has come for another.
301
00:19:00,583 --> 00:19:02,833
- No, Bayard.
- I can handle all the grunt work.
302
00:19:03,375 --> 00:19:06,041
Building a grassroots operation,
rally the young.
303
00:19:06,125 --> 00:19:08,375
But when it comes to the old guard...
304
00:19:08,458 --> 00:19:10,541
- Roy.
- Especially Roy.
305
00:19:11,250 --> 00:19:12,750
...I'm considered a pariah.
306
00:19:13,833 --> 00:19:14,833
I need you.
307
00:19:15,166 --> 00:19:16,875
Bayard, I can't.
308
00:19:16,958 --> 00:19:19,708
If Lucille makes it to another summer...
309
00:19:19,791 --> 00:19:23,000
We honor her
by doing the work we've always done.
310
00:19:23,791 --> 00:19:25,666
The work the two of you did together.
311
00:19:27,916 --> 00:19:29,083
[jazz music playing]
312
00:19:29,166 --> 00:19:30,250
[phones ringing]
313
00:19:30,916 --> 00:19:33,916
No matter what Roy says or does,
I need you to behave.
314
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,625
I do not have issues with Roy.
315
00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:37,416
It's Roy who has issues with me.
316
00:19:37,500 --> 00:19:39,666
But in deference
to both you and the cause,
317
00:19:39,750 --> 00:19:41,416
I'll sit in the corner and smile.
318
00:19:42,125 --> 00:19:45,916
After a day spent flooding the capital
and encircling the White House
319
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,750
so that the president of the United States
cannot get in or out of his own home,
320
00:19:49,833 --> 00:19:53,458
our intrepid protesters
would retire to tents
321
00:19:53,541 --> 00:19:55,375
which now cover the National Mall.
322
00:19:55,458 --> 00:19:57,833
Chief, do you plan
on pulling this together yourself?
323
00:19:57,916 --> 00:20:01,666
We all know there's only one person
who can organize an event of this scale.
324
00:20:04,125 --> 00:20:05,125
Bayard.
325
00:20:05,666 --> 00:20:07,916
I was under the impression
you were busy serving...
326
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,500
I mean, saving white people from the bomb.
327
00:20:10,583 --> 00:20:12,303
- [scattered chuckling]
- I go where needed.
328
00:20:12,375 --> 00:20:15,208
Chief, if memory serves me,
this is your third attempt.
329
00:20:15,291 --> 00:20:17,267
- He did not say "attempt."
- Did you say something?
330
00:20:17,291 --> 00:20:20,666
"Attempt" is hardly the word I'd use
to describe the actions of a man
331
00:20:20,750 --> 00:20:23,958
who is single-handedly responsible
for integrating both the armed forces
332
00:20:24,041 --> 00:20:25,041
and the defense industry.
333
00:20:25,708 --> 00:20:27,291
- [man] Roy.
- [Roy] Yes, Medgar.
334
00:20:27,375 --> 00:20:29,000
Most of our folks in Mississippi
335
00:20:29,083 --> 00:20:31,500
have never been
outside of their hometowns,
336
00:20:31,583 --> 00:20:34,333
so the opportunity to march
with people from all over...
337
00:20:34,416 --> 00:20:35,250
There it is.
338
00:20:35,333 --> 00:20:39,208
...will afford them the chance to discover
not only are they not alone...
339
00:20:39,291 --> 00:20:40,125
He gets it.
340
00:20:40,208 --> 00:20:43,583
...but are engaged in a struggle
far greater than they ever dreamed.
341
00:20:43,666 --> 00:20:45,750
Thank you, Brother Evers.
342
00:20:46,291 --> 00:20:48,125
Chief, what size crowd are you projecting?
343
00:20:48,208 --> 00:20:50,458
One hundred thousand people.
344
00:20:50,541 --> 00:20:51,976
- [murmuring]
- [man 2] It can't be done.
345
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,375
Mr. Wilkins, forgive me,
but that's impractical.
346
00:20:54,458 --> 00:20:57,875
Elias here's from Alabama,
field organizer.
347
00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:02,125
Perhaps you have facts
to substantiate your claims?
348
00:21:02,625 --> 00:21:04,208
Previous DC demonstrations.
349
00:21:05,208 --> 00:21:07,625
In 1913, 8,000 suffragettes,
350
00:21:07,708 --> 00:21:10,041
in '26, 25,000 Ku Klux Klan,
351
00:21:10,125 --> 00:21:15,375
and in 1932, 42,000 veterans marched
and were attacked with tear gas and tanks.
352
00:21:15,958 --> 00:21:17,559
- [Roy] Who led the attack?
- The military.
353
00:21:17,583 --> 00:21:19,375
- And the race of the veterans?
- White.
354
00:21:19,875 --> 00:21:21,666
White boys.
355
00:21:21,750 --> 00:21:23,083
[murmuring]
356
00:21:24,291 --> 00:21:28,083
Young man, your facts are correct.
Your sense of history is not.
357
00:21:28,583 --> 00:21:32,708
Those 42,000 men marched on Washington, DC
because it was the Depression.
358
00:21:32,791 --> 00:21:34,541
And after dutifully serving their country,
359
00:21:34,625 --> 00:21:38,041
found themselves without jobs and homes
and food to feed their family.
360
00:21:38,125 --> 00:21:40,750
And when they took to the streets
and were attacked,
361
00:21:40,833 --> 00:21:42,875
the world did, in fact, bear witness.
362
00:21:42,958 --> 00:21:45,500
Gandhi brought an empire
down to its knees...
363
00:21:45,583 --> 00:21:48,500
Will someone please tell this man
that this is not India?
364
00:21:48,583 --> 00:21:51,791
For decades, the NAACP
has been legally leading the charge,
365
00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:56,208
and now you're proposing
100,000 Black folks invade Washington, DC.
366
00:21:56,291 --> 00:22:00,291
- Have you talked to Martin about this?
- I lost his number. He lost mine.
367
00:22:00,375 --> 00:22:03,000
Well, Dr. King, who hasn't lost my number,
368
00:22:03,083 --> 00:22:06,458
has come to understand
that mass lobbying is sheer madness.
369
00:22:06,541 --> 00:22:10,708
Brown v. Board is the crowning glory
of this organization,
370
00:22:10,791 --> 00:22:14,041
yet all across the South,
when Negro children sleep,
371
00:22:14,125 --> 00:22:17,583
they see "whites only" signs
instead of their dreams.
372
00:22:17,666 --> 00:22:20,833
Counting on the courts
to eradicate racial inequity,
373
00:22:20,916 --> 00:22:22,083
that's madness!
374
00:22:26,375 --> 00:22:29,583
Mr. Randolph, you are a giant amongst men,
375
00:22:30,458 --> 00:22:32,166
but when it comes to this,
376
00:22:32,708 --> 00:22:35,083
the NAACP says no.
377
00:22:37,250 --> 00:22:39,250
[murmuring]
378
00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:46,750
[door closes]
379
00:22:46,833 --> 00:22:51,041
Now that Roy has made his position clear,
380
00:22:51,625 --> 00:22:54,958
Dr. King's number,
which you have allegedly lost?
381
00:22:56,791 --> 00:22:57,791
Go find it.
382
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,166
[footsteps receding]
383
00:23:03,250 --> 00:23:05,333
- [buckle jingles]
- [footsteps approaching]
384
00:23:07,291 --> 00:23:08,333
[urinating]
385
00:23:11,083 --> 00:23:13,041
"When an individual is protesting
386
00:23:13,125 --> 00:23:15,791
society's refusal
to acknowledge his dignity,
387
00:23:15,875 --> 00:23:19,083
his act of protest
confers dignity on him."
388
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,666
- Why are you quoting me to me?
- You're an inspiration.
389
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:28,750
Inspiration untethered from action
loses all value.
390
00:23:28,833 --> 00:23:29,833
Who said that?
391
00:23:30,666 --> 00:23:31,541
- I did...
- [zipper zips]
392
00:23:31,625 --> 00:23:33,083
- ...just now.
- [toilet flushes]
393
00:23:34,750 --> 00:23:36,208
- [opens tap]
- [water running]
394
00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:39,875
Now, I agree with Mr. Evers.
Your idea has potential.
395
00:23:39,958 --> 00:23:42,291
I would have spoken up,
but I didn't think it was my place.
396
00:23:42,375 --> 00:23:43,208
[paper towels rustle]
397
00:23:43,291 --> 00:23:46,625
It wasn't your place to voice support,
but it was yours to help tear it down?
398
00:23:47,708 --> 00:23:52,541
Your march is possible without the NAACP,
but not without Dr. King.
399
00:23:52,625 --> 00:23:54,291
And Mr. Wilkins knows it.
400
00:23:58,750 --> 00:23:59,791
Elias Taylor.
401
00:24:00,708 --> 00:24:02,500
Looked like you was about to ask.
402
00:24:02,583 --> 00:24:04,958
I was about to ask something,
but it wasn't that.
403
00:24:06,083 --> 00:24:07,333
[chuckles]
404
00:24:07,416 --> 00:24:09,666
- I was warned. [chuckles]
- [chuckles]
405
00:24:10,875 --> 00:24:12,875
Well, whatever you wanna say,
you just say it.
406
00:24:12,958 --> 00:24:14,291
- Doesn't everyone?
- No.
407
00:24:15,625 --> 00:24:18,833
No, most people are
modest, cautious, afraid.
408
00:24:19,916 --> 00:24:22,583
So say it, whatever's on your mind
this very second.
409
00:24:22,666 --> 00:24:24,000
No caution, no fear.
410
00:24:29,833 --> 00:24:30,750
[scoffs]
411
00:24:30,833 --> 00:24:32,958
My wife is in town through Saturday night.
412
00:24:35,166 --> 00:24:36,166
[Bayard chuckles]
413
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,666
[man] Now, Mr. Wilkins here, he's a...
414
00:24:44,250 --> 00:24:46,791
Mr. Rustin. Claudia Taylor.
415
00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:48,750
- Have we...
- Oh, years ago.
416
00:24:48,833 --> 00:24:51,000
I volunteered
for the Women's Political Council
417
00:24:51,083 --> 00:24:52,291
during the bus boycott.
418
00:24:52,375 --> 00:24:55,583
[inhales] You spoke, and my spirit soared.
419
00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:57,416
Uh, Elias.
420
00:24:58,583 --> 00:24:59,583
Have you two met?
421
00:25:00,333 --> 00:25:01,833
- Just now.
- Earlier?
422
00:25:01,916 --> 00:25:04,000
Mr. Wilkins chose Elias
to coordinate the efforts
423
00:25:04,083 --> 00:25:06,083
between the national and regional branches
424
00:25:06,166 --> 00:25:08,333
before he takes over
for my daddy's church.
425
00:25:08,416 --> 00:25:12,500
Such a vocation holds great rewards
both worldly and celestial.
426
00:25:12,583 --> 00:25:15,000
- A heavenly calling indeed.
- [Bayard] Hm.
427
00:25:15,083 --> 00:25:18,541
But once my daddy says yes,
I expect a Lincoln like my mama's.
428
00:25:18,625 --> 00:25:19,750
[all laugh]
429
00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:25,833
Well, I hope to see you both again
very soon, perhaps on the Sabbath.
430
00:25:25,916 --> 00:25:28,083
Oh, sadly, no. I leave Saturday.
431
00:25:28,166 --> 00:25:30,291
But wouldn't that have been a dream?
432
00:25:31,416 --> 00:25:33,791
- [distant traffic buzzing]
- [footsteps receding]
433
00:25:33,875 --> 00:25:35,250
[horns honking]
434
00:25:35,833 --> 00:25:36,833
Careful.
435
00:25:37,833 --> 00:25:40,125
I asked you to be my assistant,
not Mrs. Rustin.
436
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,750
That is, if you still want the job.
437
00:25:43,250 --> 00:25:44,458
Mwah!
438
00:25:45,750 --> 00:25:48,666
[horn honks loudly]
439
00:25:48,750 --> 00:25:51,083
["Everybody Loves a Lover"
by Doris Day playing]
440
00:25:51,166 --> 00:25:53,416
The first time I was invited
into Martin's home,
441
00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:55,291
there were guns under the sofa,
442
00:25:55,375 --> 00:25:56,500
guards on the front porch.
443
00:25:56,583 --> 00:26:00,791
Understandably so, given the threats
being leveled at he and his family.
444
00:26:01,583 --> 00:26:04,541
I started talking to him
about passive resistance.
445
00:26:05,083 --> 00:26:07,500
Over time, the guns went away.
446
00:26:08,208 --> 00:26:12,083
So Dr. King's stance on nonviolence,
he got from you?
447
00:26:12,166 --> 00:26:15,875
- By way of Jesus Christ, Gandhi, Thoreau.
- [laughs]
448
00:26:17,458 --> 00:26:18,541
So he trusted you.
449
00:26:19,125 --> 00:26:21,583
I always told him what I knew to be true.
450
00:26:23,291 --> 00:26:25,125
Excuse me. Vodka water.
451
00:26:25,916 --> 00:26:29,083
And how about a... Manhattan?
452
00:26:29,583 --> 00:26:32,750
- Ha! After two, you'll be a changed man.
- Well, in that case, give me three.
453
00:26:32,833 --> 00:26:35,291
- Ah! [laughing]
- ["I Don't Know" by Ruth Brown playing]
454
00:26:35,375 --> 00:26:37,666
Oh, the man is asthmatic. Mm.
455
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:39,958
Now, he can barely walk or breathe,
456
00:26:40,041 --> 00:26:45,416
but the second he hits that pulpit,
you know the end of the world is at hand.
457
00:26:46,125 --> 00:26:49,291
- Oh! Well, I'm gonna burn in hell.
- For sharing how you feel?
458
00:26:49,375 --> 00:26:53,166
Oh, for not revering a man who welcomed me
into his home and hates my guts.
459
00:26:53,250 --> 00:26:55,750
And I feel the exact same way about him.
460
00:26:55,833 --> 00:26:57,708
- Mm-hmm. Mm.
- [laughing]
461
00:26:58,333 --> 00:27:01,500
Oh, you're bad. You're good.
I'll have another. Do you want one?
462
00:27:01,583 --> 00:27:02,791
You got it.
463
00:27:02,875 --> 00:27:04,708
So, the church,
464
00:27:04,791 --> 00:27:06,125
your dream or hers?
465
00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:08,416
Well, I've always wanted
to serve the Lord.
466
00:27:10,166 --> 00:27:12,208
- And you were raised...
- Quaker.
467
00:27:12,291 --> 00:27:13,666
- [Elias] Nah.
- [chuckles]
468
00:27:13,750 --> 00:27:14,916
My parents... [chuckles]
469
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:19,375
Well, really, my grandparents
raised me after their daughter,
470
00:27:20,583 --> 00:27:22,375
my mother, flew the coop.
471
00:27:24,458 --> 00:27:28,833
So... the rumors about you and Dr. King...
472
00:27:28,916 --> 00:27:30,625
Ugh! An ugly lie
473
00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:34,541
perpetrated by Adam Clayton Powell
to stop a planned protest.
474
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,625
He threatened to share his lie
with the press.
475
00:27:39,416 --> 00:27:40,250
[groans]
476
00:27:40,333 --> 00:27:42,791
I called Martin's bluff and resigned.
477
00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:46,458
[chuckles] He accepted,
478
00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:50,833
effectively ending my connection
to the movement.
479
00:27:52,875 --> 00:27:55,541
Months later,
Reverend Powell was made chairman
480
00:27:55,625 --> 00:27:57,500
of the House Committee
on Education and Labor.
481
00:27:57,583 --> 00:28:00,833
♪ I get a thrill that's much too much ♪
482
00:28:00,916 --> 00:28:04,333
♪ Too much, too much, too much ♪
483
00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:09,291
♪ Could a heart so right ♪
484
00:28:11,583 --> 00:28:13,875
♪ Be led so wrong... ♪
485
00:28:15,125 --> 00:28:16,125
You're okay...
486
00:28:17,333 --> 00:28:18,333
in here...
487
00:28:19,875 --> 00:28:20,875
at this hour.
488
00:28:21,208 --> 00:28:23,208
♪ Would it last this long... ♪
489
00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:26,125
[indistinct chattering, laughing]
490
00:28:26,833 --> 00:28:30,666
- ♪ I don't know ♪
- ♪ I don't know, I don't know ♪
491
00:28:31,583 --> 00:28:35,041
- ♪ I don't know ♪
- ♪ I don't know, I don't know ♪
492
00:28:38,666 --> 00:28:41,166
That's drilled into you
the day you're born, huh?
493
00:28:41,250 --> 00:28:43,500
They think you're less than,
so you gotta be better than.
494
00:28:43,583 --> 00:28:46,666
- Yes.
- So be charming, be perfect, be polite.
495
00:28:46,750 --> 00:28:49,791
The suffocating chains
of Negro respectability.
496
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,125
When I told Ma Rustin I preferred dancing
with boys instead of girls, she said,
497
00:28:57,250 --> 00:28:59,166
"What would you have me do with that?"
498
00:29:00,333 --> 00:29:04,000
And then she said,
"I suppose that's what you need to do."
499
00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:09,708
When Martin speaks, he holds nothing back.
500
00:29:10,708 --> 00:29:13,916
That's what people feel
when they hear him.
501
00:29:14,833 --> 00:29:15,833
Truth.
502
00:29:16,791 --> 00:29:18,458
So tell me,
503
00:29:19,583 --> 00:29:20,791
Elias Taylor,
504
00:29:22,833 --> 00:29:24,583
how can you preach salvation
505
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:26,958
and not wanna save yourself?
506
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,625
How can you speak of love
507
00:29:30,125 --> 00:29:32,916
when your heart
is disconnected from your flesh?
508
00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:36,750
[chuckles] Ah.
509
00:29:36,833 --> 00:29:38,583
[sensual music playing]
510
00:29:38,666 --> 00:29:40,791
And when Roy said,
511
00:29:40,875 --> 00:29:43,750
"Elias, can you substantiate your claim?"
512
00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:46,541
and you pulled out that piece of paper,
513
00:29:46,625 --> 00:29:48,916
I hope you didn't think that I was go...
514
00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:55,291
[softly] Teach me how not to be afraid.
515
00:30:15,375 --> 00:30:16,375
Good night.
516
00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:33,875
[woman] Lord, no.
517
00:30:42,333 --> 00:30:43,333
[inaudible]
518
00:30:55,625 --> 00:30:56,833
{\an8}[man] Shame on Reverend King.
519
00:30:56,916 --> 00:31:00,250
Sending those poor children
to march the streets of Birmingham?
520
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:06,041
A man in uniform unleashes attack dogs,
turns fire hoses on the innocent,
521
00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:08,208
and the first words
out of your goddamn mouth
522
00:31:08,291 --> 00:31:10,416
are "shame on Reverend King"?
523
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:12,000
Bayard, there's no reason...
524
00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:15,416
You see this and think,
"Those poor Negroes down south,"
525
00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:18,625
incapable of understanding
they are beyond powerful,
526
00:31:18,708 --> 00:31:23,166
because today they discovered a bravery
they never knew they had.
527
00:31:23,250 --> 00:31:25,309
- A bravery you'll never know.
- [colleague] Now, Bayard...
528
00:31:25,333 --> 00:31:28,125
You sit behind that desk
as you've sat for over 30 years,
529
00:31:28,208 --> 00:31:31,000
convincing yourself
that you're committed to saving the world,
530
00:31:31,083 --> 00:31:34,958
when the only thing you're committed to
is your own safety and superiority.
531
00:31:35,041 --> 00:31:36,458
Bayard, enough.
532
00:31:36,541 --> 00:31:38,958
Railing against Jim
because of the color of his skin.
533
00:31:39,041 --> 00:31:42,125
I'm not railing against Jim
because of the color of his skin.
534
00:31:42,208 --> 00:31:45,916
I'm railing at Jim
for being arrogant and ill-informed.
535
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,333
The fact that he happens to be white
while doing so, well,
536
00:31:48,416 --> 00:31:50,083
that's between him and the Lord.
537
00:31:51,041 --> 00:31:52,291
[footsteps receding]
538
00:31:53,458 --> 00:31:57,708
Every day, we agree to surrender
that which makes us different
539
00:31:57,791 --> 00:32:00,375
so that together we might forge
a more humane world.
540
00:32:00,458 --> 00:32:02,375
I can't surrender my differences.
541
00:32:02,458 --> 00:32:03,833
The world won't let me.
542
00:32:03,916 --> 00:32:06,416
And even if I could,
I wouldn't want to. Not today.
543
00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:08,541
Not today.
544
00:32:08,625 --> 00:32:09,625
What are you doing?
545
00:32:10,208 --> 00:32:11,458
Where are you going?
546
00:32:14,041 --> 00:32:16,750
Bayard, you must stay here
where I can protect you
547
00:32:16,833 --> 00:32:18,666
from the world and from yourself.
548
00:32:18,750 --> 00:32:21,750
You are a man of exceptional skills
and of keen intellect,
549
00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:26,458
but until you admit your anger
at being abandoned by your parents,
550
00:32:26,541 --> 00:32:30,541
which is why you became homosexual,
to hurt them and yourself,
551
00:32:30,625 --> 00:32:33,500
you will never be fully whole,
do you hear me?
552
00:32:34,333 --> 00:32:38,041
Not as a man and not as a person
committed to saving the world.
553
00:32:38,125 --> 00:32:42,500
Mr. Muste, sir,
have you ever been to a Negro church?
554
00:32:43,208 --> 00:32:44,666
Innumerable times.
555
00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:47,208
As a Quaker,
I'd never seen anything like it.
556
00:32:47,708 --> 00:32:50,375
The hand-clapping,
the singing, the shouting.
557
00:32:50,875 --> 00:32:51,875
It felt like...
558
00:32:52,833 --> 00:32:54,583
exalted rage.
559
00:32:55,541 --> 00:32:59,833
So instead of standing here
and saying something I might regret,
560
00:32:59,916 --> 00:33:00,916
I'm gonna leave.
561
00:33:01,458 --> 00:33:02,958
And this coming Sunday...
562
00:33:05,541 --> 00:33:06,791
I'm going to church.
563
00:33:09,583 --> 00:33:11,500
- [footsteps receding]
- [door closes]
564
00:33:13,750 --> 00:33:15,333
[Latin jazz music playing]
565
00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:20,166
This, uh, new young preacher
that's working for Roy,
566
00:33:20,250 --> 00:33:23,000
I hear he's so fine
the Lord cried when he made him.
567
00:33:23,083 --> 00:33:27,375
I have no idea to what
or whom you are referring.
568
00:33:27,458 --> 00:33:31,333
What about the other one?
What's his name? The... The pale one. Tom.
569
00:33:31,416 --> 00:33:33,500
- [laughs]
- Is that more your flavor?
570
00:33:33,583 --> 00:33:35,166
I am drawn to beauty,
571
00:33:35,250 --> 00:33:39,000
Black, white, indeterminate,
so long as they're passionate and smart.
572
00:33:39,083 --> 00:33:42,166
Why is everyone so obsessed
with what I'm doing and with whom?
573
00:33:42,250 --> 00:33:45,583
I'm just curious as to why
it took you so long to return my calls.
574
00:33:45,666 --> 00:33:49,166
Because, my dear Miss Baker,
you casually ask questions
575
00:33:49,250 --> 00:33:51,666
which cut to the core of one's soul.
576
00:33:52,666 --> 00:33:56,000
- So why aren't you on a bus to Atlanta?
- Because I do not care.
577
00:33:57,291 --> 00:34:00,208
And besides, Dr. King is doing just fine.
578
00:34:01,083 --> 00:34:02,500
Albany, Georgia.
579
00:34:02,583 --> 00:34:06,375
- You call that doing just fine?
- Who tries to integrate an entire town?
580
00:34:07,666 --> 00:34:11,458
Your focus must be singular.
A... A lunch counter, a bus boycott.
581
00:34:11,541 --> 00:34:15,000
Sheriff Pritchett undermined
every media-savvy move Martin made.
582
00:34:15,083 --> 00:34:17,875
As a result, the civil rights struggle
got swept off the front pages
583
00:34:17,958 --> 00:34:19,000
of The New York Times.
584
00:34:19,083 --> 00:34:21,041
- [phone ringing]
- I thought you didn't care.
585
00:34:21,625 --> 00:34:25,458
Of course I care about the cause.
More so Coretta and the kids.
586
00:34:25,541 --> 00:34:27,541
- Just answer the phone.
- [Bayard] Yes?
587
00:34:27,625 --> 00:34:28,625
[music stops]
588
00:34:29,333 --> 00:34:30,583
[softly] Ella, turn on the TV.
589
00:34:31,583 --> 00:34:32,666
What? Okay.
590
00:34:34,958 --> 00:34:36,916
...where legal remedies are not at hand.
591
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:42,000
Redress is sought in the streets,
in demonstrations and protests,
592
00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:46,583
which create tensions
and threaten violence and threaten lives.
593
00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,541
We face, therefore, a moral crisis
as a country and a people.
594
00:34:51,458 --> 00:34:54,708
Next week, I shall ask
the Congress of the United States to act.
595
00:34:55,375 --> 00:34:58,083
To make a commitment
it has not fully made in this century
596
00:34:58,583 --> 00:35:01,416
to the proposition that race has no place
597
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,041
in American life or law.
598
00:35:04,875 --> 00:35:05,875
The Federal...
599
00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:12,416
On your own, you and Martin are fine,
600
00:35:13,333 --> 00:35:15,625
but together, you are fire.
601
00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:18,541
- Now, he needs you...
- I can't.
602
00:35:18,625 --> 00:35:21,125
...to help him figure out what's next,
and you need him
603
00:35:21,208 --> 00:35:23,458
to nationalize this march.
604
00:35:23,541 --> 00:35:26,500
And don't you dare tell me
about your damn job as an excuse.
605
00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:31,625
I quit my job this afternoon
or took a leave of absence or something.
606
00:35:31,708 --> 00:35:32,708
Good.
607
00:35:35,208 --> 00:35:38,500
A shark trapped in a damn shot glass.
608
00:35:39,375 --> 00:35:41,875
Now, I never believed
for one second Powell's lie,
609
00:35:41,958 --> 00:35:45,541
but I do believe that he saw the power
that you and Martin had,
610
00:35:45,625 --> 00:35:46,958
and it threatened him.
611
00:35:48,458 --> 00:35:49,583
Threatens 'em all.
612
00:35:51,208 --> 00:35:52,833
But this... this country
613
00:35:53,708 --> 00:35:57,291
has failed us over and over again.
614
00:35:58,125 --> 00:36:03,458
And even so, each day, we forgive
by fighting to make things right.
615
00:36:03,541 --> 00:36:06,666
And yet you can't forgive Martin
for failing you that one time?
616
00:36:10,041 --> 00:36:14,583
This new generation is restless
and... and angry.
617
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,875
You want that anger to turn to blood?
618
00:36:18,541 --> 00:36:19,791
Our children's blood?
619
00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:23,708
Or will you harness it with Martin
for our freedom?
620
00:36:26,083 --> 00:36:27,083
You go.
621
00:36:29,416 --> 00:36:31,458
You go get your friend back.
622
00:36:35,583 --> 00:36:36,583
[sniffles]
623
00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:41,500
[radio announcer] That 1510 spot
way down south here in Dixie.
624
00:36:41,583 --> 00:36:45,291
John R., WLAC soul center,
Nashville, Tennessee,
625
00:36:45,875 --> 00:36:49,708
the broadcasting service
of Life and Casualty Insurance Company.
626
00:36:49,791 --> 00:36:51,583
[mellow saxophone solo playing]
627
00:37:01,375 --> 00:37:02,625
Don't touch that nigger.
628
00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:12,500
Get on back now.
629
00:37:14,125 --> 00:37:17,791
If I move, this child will never know
that an injustice is taking place.
630
00:37:19,166 --> 00:37:20,375
- [punch thuds]
- [both grunt]
631
00:37:20,458 --> 00:37:21,875
[both grunting]
632
00:37:21,958 --> 00:37:23,625
- I'm not resisting.
- [grunting]
633
00:37:24,791 --> 00:37:25,875
I'm not... [straining]
634
00:37:26,375 --> 00:37:27,791
- I'm... [grunts]
- [body thuds]
635
00:37:28,458 --> 00:37:30,625
- [both grunt]
- [music continues]
636
00:37:31,250 --> 00:37:32,333
[punches thudding]
637
00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:46,458
[grunts]
638
00:37:48,958 --> 00:37:50,708
- [music stops]
- [bus engine running]
639
00:38:05,416 --> 00:38:07,625
["Lucille" by Little Richard playing]
640
00:38:19,625 --> 00:38:20,750
[music fading]
641
00:38:22,291 --> 00:38:23,375
[doorbell chimes]
642
00:38:25,750 --> 00:38:28,208
- Bayard. Oh my word!
- Coretta.
643
00:38:28,291 --> 00:38:30,041
- As I live and breathe!
- [laughing]
644
00:38:30,750 --> 00:38:33,875
- When did you get into town?
- Oh, within the hour.
645
00:38:33,958 --> 00:38:35,208
Oh, look at you.
646
00:38:35,291 --> 00:38:37,875
- No, look at you.
- Oh, you must stay for dinner.
647
00:38:37,958 --> 00:38:39,791
Oh, you better ask
the master of the house.
648
00:38:39,875 --> 00:38:42,666
Oh, hush.
You can't be a master without slaves,
649
00:38:42,750 --> 00:38:44,958
and in this house,
there are neither. [chuckles]
650
00:38:45,041 --> 00:38:46,750
Oh, you must see the children.
651
00:38:46,833 --> 00:38:49,125
I did it! Look, I did it!
652
00:38:49,208 --> 00:38:52,208
- [girl] Shut up.
- So, Madam Coloratura.
653
00:38:52,291 --> 00:38:53,875
Carnegie Hall?
654
00:38:53,958 --> 00:38:58,125
- I know some folks who know some folks.
- You haven't been here ten minutes.
655
00:38:58,708 --> 00:39:01,541
♪ This little light of mine ♪
656
00:39:01,625 --> 00:39:04,916
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
657
00:39:06,375 --> 00:39:10,833
♪ This little light of mine ♪
658
00:39:11,375 --> 00:39:15,041
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
659
00:39:15,125 --> 00:39:19,208
♪ This little light of mine ♪
660
00:39:19,291 --> 00:39:23,083
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
661
00:39:23,166 --> 00:39:25,416
♪ Let it shine ♪
662
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,041
♪ Let it shine ♪
663
00:39:28,541 --> 00:39:29,916
♪ Let it shine ♪
664
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:30,833
All right. All right.
665
00:39:30,916 --> 00:39:33,083
- ♪ Everywhere I go ♪
- ♪ Go ♪
666
00:39:33,166 --> 00:39:36,000
- ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
- Oh!
667
00:39:36,083 --> 00:39:37,958
♪ Everywhere I go ♪
668
00:39:38,041 --> 00:39:39,083
Good. Good.
669
00:39:39,166 --> 00:39:40,625
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
670
00:39:40,708 --> 00:39:42,208
Your microphone. Here you go.
671
00:39:42,291 --> 00:39:45,000
♪ Everywhere I go ♪
672
00:39:45,083 --> 00:39:46,916
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
673
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,208
♪ Let it shine,
let it shine, let it shine ♪
674
00:39:51,291 --> 00:39:53,601
- Well, all right. Come on.
- [solo] ♪ Jesus is the light ♪
675
00:39:53,625 --> 00:39:56,666
♪ Jesus is the light ♪
676
00:39:56,750 --> 00:39:59,500
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
677
00:39:59,583 --> 00:40:02,125
- ♪ Jesus is the light ♪
- [clapping]
678
00:40:02,208 --> 00:40:03,750
♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
679
00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:04,976
- [Bayard] Yes!
- [Coretta] Come on, Bernice.
680
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,666
♪ Jesus is the light ♪
681
00:40:06,750 --> 00:40:09,541
- [Coretta] Thank you.
- ♪ I'm gonna let it shine ♪
682
00:40:09,625 --> 00:40:12,166
♪ Let it shine, let it shine ♪
683
00:40:12,250 --> 00:40:14,583
♪ Let it shine, let it shine ♪
684
00:40:14,666 --> 00:40:17,546
- ♪ Let it shine, let it shine ♪
- [Bayard] Fortissimo! Which means loud!
685
00:40:17,583 --> 00:40:22,333
♪ Let it shine ♪
686
00:40:22,416 --> 00:40:23,250
- Bravo!
- [clapping]
687
00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:25,541
- Bravo, Uncle Bayard!
- Yeah, Uncle Bayard!
688
00:40:25,625 --> 00:40:27,041
[humming "Let It Shine"]
689
00:40:29,750 --> 00:40:30,916
[humming continues]
690
00:40:42,041 --> 00:40:43,166
[exhales]
691
00:40:44,750 --> 00:40:47,541
So... Brother Medgar.
692
00:40:49,583 --> 00:40:50,583
Unspeakable.
693
00:40:53,750 --> 00:40:55,666
What did you make of Kennedy's speech?
694
00:40:56,833 --> 00:40:58,875
Calculated, cautious.
695
00:40:59,625 --> 00:41:01,458
Hours later, Medgar gets shot.
696
00:41:05,958 --> 00:41:08,916
So your march is... ambitious.
697
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,250
Unless we demonstrate strength in unity,
Kennedy will do what they've always done,
698
00:41:13,833 --> 00:41:16,375
champion legislation
that's destined to fail.
699
00:41:18,333 --> 00:41:20,166
This was not an easy journey for me.
700
00:41:21,791 --> 00:41:25,583
But... the promise
of what this march could become,
701
00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:29,708
the monumental impact it could have,
the lives it could radically alter.
702
00:41:29,791 --> 00:41:31,309
- [laughing]
- The dreams, the visions,
703
00:41:31,333 --> 00:41:33,416
and unfulfilled aspirations
of our ancestors...
704
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:35,541
First time we met... [laughs]
705
00:41:36,750 --> 00:41:37,958
...I remember calling Corrie
706
00:41:38,041 --> 00:41:42,041
and saying that this Rustin fella's
a little crazy in the head.
707
00:41:42,125 --> 00:41:43,125
[chuckles]
708
00:41:43,458 --> 00:41:45,416
Only later did I fully comprehend
709
00:41:46,625 --> 00:41:48,541
that "a little" didn't even come close.
710
00:41:49,458 --> 00:41:50,458
[chuckles]
711
00:41:52,833 --> 00:41:53,916
I missed you, friend.
712
00:41:56,833 --> 00:41:57,833
And I you.
713
00:42:01,208 --> 00:42:05,333
Come fall, the Dixiecrats will get to work
gutting Kennedy's bill, which leaves us...
714
00:42:05,416 --> 00:42:09,208
Two months to organize
the largest peaceful protest ever
715
00:42:09,291 --> 00:42:11,375
and absolutely no time for anything else.
716
00:42:11,458 --> 00:42:12,291
Such as?
717
00:42:12,375 --> 00:42:15,750
Succumbing to blackmail,
innuendo, and lies,
718
00:42:15,833 --> 00:42:19,333
which are sure to follow
if and when the march is announced.
719
00:42:20,958 --> 00:42:23,875
What about things that are true about you?
720
00:42:25,875 --> 00:42:27,875
What you see, I cannot conceal.
721
00:42:28,958 --> 00:42:32,000
But... I swear to you,
722
00:42:32,666 --> 00:42:33,833
there will be no...
723
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,041
incidents.
724
00:42:41,250 --> 00:42:44,041
So an epic demonstration
in our nation's capital,
725
00:42:44,125 --> 00:42:46,541
organized in eight to ten weeks
726
00:42:46,625 --> 00:42:49,083
without the help of the NAACP.
727
00:42:49,875 --> 00:42:51,875
Sounds like a hell of a good time.
728
00:42:55,916 --> 00:42:56,916
You once said,
729
00:42:58,333 --> 00:43:00,416
"The time is always right
730
00:43:01,541 --> 00:43:02,541
to do right."
731
00:43:06,166 --> 00:43:08,541
We're calling for a nonviolent,
732
00:43:09,375 --> 00:43:11,250
peaceful march on Washington.
733
00:43:11,833 --> 00:43:12,750
Yes!
734
00:43:12,833 --> 00:43:16,750
We intend to go there
not by the hundreds or by the thousands,
735
00:43:17,666 --> 00:43:19,625
but by the hundreds of thousands.
736
00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:22,833
[Elias] Now that Dr. King
has publicly endorsed the march,
737
00:43:24,166 --> 00:43:25,791
Mr. Wilkins can't attack it.
738
00:43:27,250 --> 00:43:28,750
So he's coming after you.
739
00:43:30,625 --> 00:43:32,166
[man shouts] Brother Rustin!
740
00:43:33,208 --> 00:43:35,416
- Cleve! What are you doing here?
- [laughing]
741
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:38,750
When I heard
about Roy's little coup de tête-à-tête,
742
00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:42,708
I decided to come and provide support,
moral and otherwise.
743
00:43:44,958 --> 00:43:45,958
Norm, Tom,
744
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,833
meet the indomitable Cleve Robinson,
union leader of District 65.
745
00:43:49,916 --> 00:43:53,000
And newly appointed chairman
of the march's administrative committee.
746
00:43:53,083 --> 00:43:54,250
And our first donor.
747
00:43:55,708 --> 00:43:59,458
You'd think they've never seen
proud Black men before.
748
00:43:59,541 --> 00:44:02,125
"Glorious shall be the battle
when the time comes
749
00:44:02,208 --> 00:44:04,541
to fight for our people and our race!"
750
00:44:06,291 --> 00:44:09,041
Black gents, and Tom, shall we?
751
00:44:09,125 --> 00:44:10,125
[all laughing]
752
00:44:12,666 --> 00:44:15,958
I realize a total budget of $65,000
may seem like a lot...
753
00:44:16,041 --> 00:44:18,059
Chief, there's a rumor going around
that you're planning
754
00:44:18,083 --> 00:44:19,458
on holding the march this summer?
755
00:44:19,541 --> 00:44:22,625
- Way too soon.
- While the horror of Birmingham is fresh...
756
00:44:22,708 --> 00:44:25,041
- Bayard assured me the time...
- Let the man speak!
757
00:44:25,125 --> 00:44:27,250
We've got to seize the moment.
The time is now.
758
00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:29,166
- Bayard, if I might.
- Do you understand...
759
00:44:29,250 --> 00:44:30,330
[Martin decisively] Bayard!
760
00:44:32,208 --> 00:44:33,208
Martin.
761
00:44:33,833 --> 00:44:36,875
We all heard the president
announce on national television
762
00:44:37,416 --> 00:44:39,625
that he intends
to send a bill to Congress.
763
00:44:40,166 --> 00:44:43,500
It is my personal estimation
that in order to get the bill
764
00:44:43,583 --> 00:44:47,416
past Southern segregationists
will take a president of intelligence,
765
00:44:48,125 --> 00:44:52,000
political savvy, and the passion.
766
00:44:52,083 --> 00:44:54,916
Kennedy has the first two in abundance
but not the third.
767
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,083
Not when it comes to civil rights.
768
00:44:57,166 --> 00:44:59,458
So to ensure he does not relent,
769
00:44:59,541 --> 00:45:05,541
we must not relent in our commitment
to the country and to the race.
770
00:45:05,625 --> 00:45:08,000
And that is the reason
for the timely nature
771
00:45:08,083 --> 00:45:12,083
of this most improbable
yet most essential endeavor.
772
00:45:12,166 --> 00:45:14,958
- I couldn't have said it better...
- Who are all these people?
773
00:45:15,041 --> 00:45:17,333
You, you, you, you, stay.
774
00:45:17,416 --> 00:45:19,041
Everyone else, out.
775
00:45:19,125 --> 00:45:21,875
I am chairman
of the administrative committee
776
00:45:21,958 --> 00:45:24,458
and, to date, the march's only donor.
777
00:45:24,541 --> 00:45:26,708
Much appreciated. Out!
778
00:45:26,791 --> 00:45:29,500
Go on. Write yourselves out of history.
779
00:45:29,583 --> 00:45:32,000
- [Bayard] Come on.
- I'd be happier doing it without you.
780
00:45:32,083 --> 00:45:36,000
You showboating,
bloodsucking sons of whores!
781
00:45:36,083 --> 00:45:37,375
- Gonna throw me out?
- Cleve!
782
00:45:37,958 --> 00:45:40,041
- Go and suck your mother!
- Oh, Cleve. Cleve.
783
00:45:43,666 --> 00:45:45,750
You do realize what's happening
right this second?
784
00:45:46,708 --> 00:45:50,000
My guess is Roy is starting
to build his case against me.
785
00:45:50,083 --> 00:45:51,791
We must ask ourselves,
786
00:45:51,875 --> 00:45:56,041
is this the man we wish to see labeled
Mr. March-on-Washington?
787
00:45:56,125 --> 00:45:58,045
[Bayard] John Lewis
and the chief will defend me.
788
00:45:58,083 --> 00:46:00,000
[Roy] He was
in the Young Communist League.
789
00:46:00,083 --> 00:46:01,916
Which he renounced years ago.
790
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,000
- Imprisoned for refusing the draft.
- A moral decision, not a cowardly one.
791
00:46:06,083 --> 00:46:08,916
Even so, Roy will press on.
792
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,750
His mannerisms and reputation
make him an easy target.
793
00:46:12,833 --> 00:46:15,500
{\an8}And when the white press
and the powers that be take aim,
794
00:46:15,583 --> 00:46:16,500
{\an8}and they will,
795
00:46:16,583 --> 00:46:19,833
{\an8}every person seated at this table
796
00:46:19,916 --> 00:46:23,166
{\an8}will be in the line of fire
because of him.
797
00:46:26,041 --> 00:46:27,166
Chief?
798
00:46:30,291 --> 00:46:32,958
What date is strategically wise
for a march?
799
00:46:33,666 --> 00:46:36,958
- We'll need at least eight weeks.
- Monday, August 26th.
800
00:46:37,041 --> 00:46:40,625
Mondays are challenging for Protestants,
Fridays complicated for Jewish friends.
801
00:46:40,708 --> 00:46:42,625
Sorry, sir, but what happened in there?
802
00:46:42,708 --> 00:46:46,083
- They voted to remove Bayard as director.
- Son of a bitch.
803
00:46:46,166 --> 00:46:47,416
My first order of business
804
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:49,625
was to reappoint him
as my deputy director,
805
00:46:49,708 --> 00:46:52,125
- putting him fully in charge.
- [all laughing]
806
00:46:52,208 --> 00:46:55,583
You can call me trash collector
for all I care.
807
00:46:56,541 --> 00:46:58,750
You are one very clever Black man.
808
00:46:58,833 --> 00:47:00,333
[Cleve laughs]
809
00:47:00,416 --> 00:47:02,166
[softly] Get to work, my friend.
810
00:47:02,750 --> 00:47:04,500
[upbeat jazz music playing]
811
00:47:10,958 --> 00:47:12,666
[indistinct chattering]
812
00:47:28,541 --> 00:47:29,958
Come on. Come on. Come on.
813
00:47:31,791 --> 00:47:32,791
Lights.
814
00:47:34,083 --> 00:47:35,625
Our new offices!
815
00:47:36,250 --> 00:47:37,791
The third floor's uninhabitable,
816
00:47:37,875 --> 00:47:40,416
so we'll be all on top of each other
down here.
817
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:41,625
Ugh, dirty.
818
00:47:43,208 --> 00:47:44,208
There you go.
819
00:47:45,333 --> 00:47:46,333
Over here.
820
00:47:49,625 --> 00:47:51,291
- Our boardroom.
- [woman] Our boardroom?
821
00:47:51,375 --> 00:47:54,541
Rachelle, you'll be in charge
of transportation.
822
00:47:54,625 --> 00:47:56,083
For 100,000 people?
823
00:47:56,166 --> 00:47:57,333
I can't even drive.
824
00:47:57,416 --> 00:48:02,166
Norm, you'll travel from city to city
raising funds and spreading the word.
825
00:48:02,250 --> 00:48:03,250
Well, what's my budget?
826
00:48:04,250 --> 00:48:08,000
This'll get you to your first city where
you'll raise funds to get you to the next.
827
00:48:09,583 --> 00:48:10,708
My office.
828
00:48:10,791 --> 00:48:14,041
Near the stairs and the front door?
Is that wise?
829
00:48:14,125 --> 00:48:16,916
I'd like to welcome a woman
who needs no introduction.
830
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,458
Dr. Anna Hedgeman.
831
00:48:18,541 --> 00:48:19,541
[cheering]
832
00:48:20,708 --> 00:48:22,708
Dr. Hedgeman has volunteered
833
00:48:22,791 --> 00:48:25,166
to lead outreach
to all religious organizations.
834
00:48:26,208 --> 00:48:27,458
Tom, Eleanore.
835
00:48:27,541 --> 00:48:29,666
- You'll oversee all written documents.
- Yeah.
836
00:48:29,750 --> 00:48:32,125
First up, an invite to a July 2nd meeting
837
00:48:32,208 --> 00:48:34,583
with the leaders
of the Big Six civil rights organizations.
838
00:48:34,666 --> 00:48:35,750
- [Anna] Oh.
- [clamoring]
839
00:48:35,833 --> 00:48:40,250
All those big oversized hats
for those big oversized heads.
840
00:48:40,333 --> 00:48:42,916
- [woman laughs]
- We need their numbers and resources.
841
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,291
- Courtney?
- Yes, sir.
842
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,333
You'll come with me to DC.
843
00:48:46,416 --> 00:48:47,583
- Tom?
- Yup.
844
00:48:48,250 --> 00:48:51,101
Instead of finding a place in the city,
you're gonna stay in my spare room.
845
00:48:51,125 --> 00:48:54,666
- Keep me focused and out of trouble.
- We tried this, and it doesn't work.
846
00:48:54,750 --> 00:48:55,583
Everyone!
847
00:48:55,666 --> 00:48:56,958
[music stops]
848
00:48:58,458 --> 00:49:00,791
By the time I get back
from DC tomorrow night,
849
00:49:00,875 --> 00:49:03,875
this dump needs to be operational.
850
00:49:04,458 --> 00:49:06,166
[big band swing music playing]
851
00:49:13,625 --> 00:49:15,291
[classical music playing]
852
00:49:16,125 --> 00:49:18,041
[Bayard] One can't help but be in awe.
853
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,250
Makes you wanna believe.
854
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:28,740
Bayard Rustin, deputy director of
the March on Washington
855
00:49:28,791 --> 00:49:29,875
for Jobs and Freedom.
856
00:49:29,958 --> 00:49:30,958
Chief Wells.
857
00:49:31,583 --> 00:49:34,208
Mr. Caldwell,
Deputies Walden, Cowell, and Barnes.
858
00:49:34,708 --> 00:49:37,333
- Who's with the National Park Service?
- No one.
859
00:49:38,208 --> 00:49:42,666
If I'm not mistaken,
the mall falls under NPS jurisdiction.
860
00:49:42,750 --> 00:49:43,750
Correct.
861
00:49:45,916 --> 00:49:49,541
Chief Wells,
in little under seven weeks' time,
862
00:49:49,625 --> 00:49:51,291
a monumental, two-day event is...
863
00:49:51,375 --> 00:49:53,666
One day. It's no longer a two-day event.
864
00:49:54,833 --> 00:49:55,875
According to whom?
865
00:49:55,958 --> 00:49:59,750
Mr. Wilkins of the NAACP
also believes it should be one day.
866
00:49:59,833 --> 00:50:02,791
I'd be safe in assuming
you do not work for Mr. Wilkins.
867
00:50:02,875 --> 00:50:04,333
No, I do not.
868
00:50:04,416 --> 00:50:05,958
[chuckles] Well, neither do I,
869
00:50:06,041 --> 00:50:08,250
so I'm confused as to why
you even mentioned his name.
870
00:50:08,333 --> 00:50:09,166
Mr. Rustin...
871
00:50:09,250 --> 00:50:11,750
I am, however, very interested
in knowing who you do work for.
872
00:50:11,833 --> 00:50:13,875
Mr. Rustin,
we find what works best is for you
873
00:50:13,958 --> 00:50:15,708
to answer our questions, not the reverse.
874
00:50:15,791 --> 00:50:17,291
And I found a free-flowing exchange
875
00:50:17,375 --> 00:50:19,916
of information and ideas
works even better.
876
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:22,791
Well, when you put on an event
in your mall, we'll give that a go,
877
00:50:22,875 --> 00:50:25,166
but seeing as it's your gathering
in our mall...
878
00:50:25,250 --> 00:50:28,666
Your mall? Not the National Mall
or America's Front Yard...
879
00:50:28,750 --> 00:50:31,601
- Since you insist on raising your voice...
- I have not raised my voice...
880
00:50:31,625 --> 00:50:35,208
You're more invested in constructing
roadblocks instead of finding solutions...
881
00:50:35,291 --> 00:50:39,125
The person I needed to communicate with
didn't even bother to show up.
882
00:50:39,208 --> 00:50:41,875
I fail to see how we can support
your gathering. Gentlemen.
883
00:50:43,541 --> 00:50:44,666
Where are you going?
884
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:48,625
Sir, sir! It is not a gathering.
It is an act of civil disobedience,
885
00:50:48,708 --> 00:50:50,583
sanctioned by some
of the most meaningful minds
886
00:50:50,666 --> 00:50:51,583
in the country.
887
00:50:51,666 --> 00:50:56,541
And it is going to take place
over two days!
888
00:50:57,583 --> 00:50:58,583
[exhales]
889
00:50:59,291 --> 00:51:02,500
[announcer]
...departing from Union Station for Boston...
890
00:51:02,583 --> 00:51:04,500
I tell you, Martin, not since Tennessee,
891
00:51:04,583 --> 00:51:07,208
when those two policemen
set out to reconfigure my face,
892
00:51:07,291 --> 00:51:09,958
have I experienced
such an overt display of disregard.
893
00:51:10,791 --> 00:51:15,083
They had one goal, to make sure
the meeting was a resounding failure.
894
00:51:16,125 --> 00:51:17,666
[Martin] You say he mentioned Roy.
895
00:51:23,166 --> 00:51:26,916
Yeah, but it was clear this was coming
from someplace higher up.
896
00:51:27,833 --> 00:51:29,726
[Martin] President Kennedy
and his attorney general brother
897
00:51:29,750 --> 00:51:30,750
higher up?
898
00:51:31,333 --> 00:51:32,791
Or Hoover and the FBI?
899
00:51:34,750 --> 00:51:35,791
All of the above.
900
00:51:38,291 --> 00:51:39,291
[Coretta] Martin?
901
00:51:40,166 --> 00:51:41,666
Corrie's calling me to dinner.
902
00:51:43,416 --> 00:51:44,583
We'll speak tomorrow.
903
00:51:45,333 --> 00:51:46,333
Give her a hug.
904
00:51:48,625 --> 00:51:49,791
[coins clink]
905
00:51:55,666 --> 00:51:56,750
[phone ringing]
906
00:51:59,208 --> 00:52:00,250
Hello.
907
00:52:00,916 --> 00:52:02,291
- [sniffs]
- [heavy breathing]
908
00:52:04,166 --> 00:52:05,166
Hello?
909
00:52:09,083 --> 00:52:11,833
- [receiver clanks, rings out]
- [suspenseful music plays]
910
00:52:15,458 --> 00:52:16,916
[phone ringing]
911
00:52:19,583 --> 00:52:22,000
["Sacred Is the Lord"
by Mahalia Jackson playing]
912
00:52:22,083 --> 00:52:23,291
[phone ringing]
913
00:52:24,166 --> 00:52:26,541
[singing along]
914
00:52:26,625 --> 00:52:28,375
[phone ringing]
915
00:52:29,958 --> 00:52:31,500
[volume increases]
916
00:52:31,583 --> 00:52:33,166
[phone ringing]
917
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:35,916
♪ Oh my Lord... rain... ♪
918
00:52:36,500 --> 00:52:38,375
- [phone ringing]
- ♪...rain... ♪
919
00:52:42,833 --> 00:52:44,333
Oh sorry.
920
00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:48,708
- Sorry.
- Come on.
921
00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:50,500
You alone?
922
00:52:50,583 --> 00:52:53,083
- Never, when Mahalia's around. [chuckles]
- [music stops]
923
00:52:53,583 --> 00:52:54,583
Drink?
924
00:52:55,458 --> 00:52:58,750
Uh, no, I should probably go to sleep.
- Oh no.
925
00:53:00,291 --> 00:53:01,666
I made you one anyway.
926
00:53:01,750 --> 00:53:02,750
Bayard...
927
00:53:10,458 --> 00:53:11,458
Good night.
928
00:53:14,583 --> 00:53:15,583
[door closes]
929
00:53:26,500 --> 00:53:28,125
[sinister music playing]
930
00:53:41,916 --> 00:53:42,916
[car approaching]
931
00:53:49,291 --> 00:53:50,934
- [phones ringing]
- [indistinct chattering]
932
00:53:50,958 --> 00:53:54,750
- [woman] Yes, this is Michelle Harwood.
- Yes. Yes, this is Michelle Harwood
933
00:53:58,625 --> 00:54:01,500
March on Washington, Michelle Harwood.
How may I help you?
934
00:54:02,541 --> 00:54:04,666
[woman 2] Yes.
Yes, this is Michelle Harwood.
935
00:54:08,083 --> 00:54:10,041
- [woman] Louisville 50?
- [phone ringing]
936
00:54:10,791 --> 00:54:13,875
- [woman 3] Michelle Harwood speaking.
- Who is Michelle Harwood?
937
00:54:13,958 --> 00:54:16,458
Anyone involved in travel
is Michelle Harwood.
938
00:54:16,541 --> 00:54:19,416
Keeps it simple when they call back.
It was Bayard's idea.
939
00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:20,809
[woman 4] Yes, this is Michelle Harwood.
940
00:54:20,833 --> 00:54:23,541
[Lewis] The president kept talking,
mostly about himself.
941
00:54:23,625 --> 00:54:26,583
How if anything goes wrong at the march,
it's gonna kill his bill.
942
00:54:26,666 --> 00:54:31,458
And why protest at the White House,
especially after his speech and his bill?
943
00:54:31,541 --> 00:54:33,208
What was Roy's response?
944
00:54:33,291 --> 00:54:34,291
He nodded mostly.
945
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,250
- Whitney and Jim?
- Watching Martin, who was listening.
946
00:54:38,333 --> 00:54:41,750
- [inhales] Then the president's brother...
- The attorney general was there?
947
00:54:41,833 --> 00:54:45,083
Kept saying we should cancel,
call the whole thing off.
948
00:54:45,708 --> 00:54:47,916
And this took place in the Oval Office?
949
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:49,166
Three days ago.
950
00:54:51,916 --> 00:54:55,125
Now, I received a very distressing letter
from Senator Douglas.
951
00:54:55,208 --> 00:54:57,375
I received one as well,
from Senator Humphrey.
952
00:54:57,458 --> 00:54:58,833
So did I, Senator Hart.
953
00:54:58,916 --> 00:55:00,416
- Regarding?
- Latrines.
954
00:55:00,500 --> 00:55:03,375
- Isn't Park Services helping us out?
- No, they are not.
955
00:55:03,458 --> 00:55:06,375
Which is why I'm proposing the march
from a coalition with the unions.
956
00:55:06,458 --> 00:55:08,500
The AFL-CIO, the UAW...
957
00:55:08,583 --> 00:55:11,500
Both of whom are against a two-day event...
958
00:55:11,583 --> 00:55:12,833
You're on the AFL council.
959
00:55:12,916 --> 00:55:16,041
Well, I'm not sure about Meany,
but Reuther does, in fact,
960
00:55:16,125 --> 00:55:17,965
favor a one-day march
and no White House event.
961
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:19,500
Exactly what I said.
962
00:55:19,583 --> 00:55:22,541
We need to limit this to one day
and take the White House off the table.
963
00:55:22,625 --> 00:55:25,458
You try to get me fired.
Now you wanna see the march destroyed.
964
00:55:25,541 --> 00:55:28,208
Do you think I just woke up one day
and said to myself,
965
00:55:28,291 --> 00:55:30,250
"Let's stage the largest march ever
966
00:55:30,333 --> 00:55:33,375
and get former communist Quaker
Bayard Rustin to pull it all together?"
967
00:55:33,458 --> 00:55:34,791
No, I did not.
968
00:55:34,875 --> 00:55:38,333
But once we signed on,
we're in it no matter what.
969
00:55:39,458 --> 00:55:41,416
If you would just accept
the inevitable now,
970
00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:43,541
instead of later
when economics force you to,
971
00:55:43,625 --> 00:55:46,125
it would give the appearance
of strength and unity.
972
00:55:47,500 --> 00:55:50,000
It's called being strategic.
973
00:55:52,958 --> 00:55:56,083
I know this may feel like an attenuation
of everything that we fought for...
974
00:55:56,166 --> 00:55:57,750
Because that's exactly what it is.
975
00:55:57,833 --> 00:56:01,333
A two-day event will make it clear
that we will not back down or back away.
976
00:56:01,416 --> 00:56:03,625
- If you allow Roy this one...
- Absolutely not.
977
00:56:03,708 --> 00:56:07,416
Bayard, you have Chief,
you have me, Dr. Hedgeman, and Jim.
978
00:56:07,500 --> 00:56:10,041
An uneasy alliance,
but an alliance nonetheless.
979
00:56:10,125 --> 00:56:13,375
And if I'm not asking attendees
to get arrested at the White House
980
00:56:13,458 --> 00:56:17,291
or, heaven forbid, sleep in tents,
I could get more congregations to sign on.
981
00:56:18,666 --> 00:56:21,333
- So no lobbying Congress?
- Or marching on the White House?
982
00:56:21,416 --> 00:56:24,041
- Or tents on the Mall?
- Turning into a goddamn picnic.
983
00:56:24,125 --> 00:56:26,791
That first day, sharing ideas,
writing them on the wall...
984
00:56:26,875 --> 00:56:28,835
Bayard, you have to understand
our disappointment.
985
00:56:28,875 --> 00:56:30,750
Do I want this? No.
986
00:56:31,500 --> 00:56:34,500
But if we wanna make sure
100,000 people show up, we need help.
987
00:56:34,583 --> 00:56:38,500
And in order to get the unions
and their money, changes have to be made.
988
00:56:39,875 --> 00:56:42,541
If Sisters Dorie and Joyce
went out to Westchester
989
00:56:42,625 --> 00:56:43,958
or the Upper East Side,
990
00:56:44,041 --> 00:56:47,625
I know you'd come back with not only
enough money for one bus but three.
991
00:56:48,250 --> 00:56:50,500
Same with you Eleanore, Tom, Charlene.
992
00:56:51,166 --> 00:56:53,125
We are committed to the cause
993
00:56:53,208 --> 00:56:56,625
of altering the trajectory of this country
towards freedom.
994
00:56:58,250 --> 00:56:59,625
That's what's on the line.
995
00:57:02,291 --> 00:57:03,291
Nothing less.
996
00:57:03,833 --> 00:57:06,375
[rhythmic jazz music playing]
997
00:57:10,416 --> 00:57:13,500
I'd like to share what it was like
growing up in Hattiesburg.
998
00:57:13,583 --> 00:57:15,125
As a young girl in Mississippi...
999
00:57:15,208 --> 00:57:16,916
Regardless of how smart you were...
1000
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:18,291
...and never miss Sunday school.
1001
00:57:18,375 --> 00:57:20,750
...you were told that your dreams
were never gonna happen.
1002
00:57:20,833 --> 00:57:24,083
- Because of what you looked like.
- Because of the color of your skin.
1003
00:57:24,166 --> 00:57:25,541
[music continues]
1004
00:57:26,208 --> 00:57:27,458
We got another bus!
1005
00:57:29,583 --> 00:57:31,250
[horn honking]
1006
00:57:33,791 --> 00:57:38,291
As long as Negro workers
are ill-housed and underpaid,
1007
00:57:38,375 --> 00:57:40,416
then the fate of all workers
will be at peril.
1008
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:44,125
My father was president
of Transportation Workers Local 101.
1009
00:57:44,208 --> 00:57:46,416
- Brooklyn!
- [all] Brooklyn!
1010
00:57:46,500 --> 00:57:47,833
[music continues]
1011
00:57:51,708 --> 00:57:53,666
[Cleve]
Get your March on Washington buttons!
1012
00:57:53,750 --> 00:57:56,625
One quarter, brother. One quarter.
One quarter... Thank you!
1013
00:57:56,708 --> 00:57:59,416
For the emancipation of our race!
1014
00:57:59,500 --> 00:58:02,041
One quarter. One quarter.
Make sure you are there!
1015
00:58:02,125 --> 00:58:03,976
- Sister, one quarter. One quarter.
- Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
1016
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,000
One quarter!
1017
00:58:07,291 --> 00:58:09,416
We just had the best idea ever.
1018
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:11,625
Everybody say yeah!
1019
00:58:11,708 --> 00:58:13,541
[crowd cheering, applauding]
1020
00:58:13,625 --> 00:58:15,291
Say yeah!
1021
00:58:15,833 --> 00:58:17,166
[crowd] Yeah!
1022
00:58:17,250 --> 00:58:19,333
- Say yeah!
- [crowd] Yeah!
1023
00:58:19,416 --> 00:58:21,041
- Yeah!
- [crowd] Yeah!
1024
00:58:21,125 --> 00:58:22,875
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
1025
00:58:25,916 --> 00:58:28,416
- [Tom] Five thousand!
- [Eleanore] Five thousand dollars.
1026
00:58:28,500 --> 00:58:33,791
August 28th, Mahalia Jackson's gonna sing,
and freedom's gonna shine.
1027
00:58:33,875 --> 00:58:35,583
Freedom has never been free,
1028
00:58:36,083 --> 00:58:40,166
so we will continue to march,
and we will fight and will not stop.
1029
00:58:40,750 --> 00:58:41,833
[cheering]
1030
00:58:45,250 --> 00:58:46,416
[music stops]
1031
00:58:48,541 --> 00:58:50,250
[piano playing gospel music]
1032
00:58:54,083 --> 00:58:58,666
And the Lord wants you to know
that you're loved.
1033
00:58:58,750 --> 00:59:00,083
- Yes. Thank the Lord.
- Yes.
1034
00:59:00,166 --> 00:59:02,750
- [Elias] Now, he wraps you in his arms...
- [all] Yes, he does.
1035
00:59:02,833 --> 00:59:06,041
- ...and your fears begin to fade.
- [all] Yes!
1036
00:59:06,791 --> 00:59:09,583
- Now, his touch...
- Yes!
1037
00:59:09,666 --> 00:59:10,833
...is his way of saying...
1038
00:59:10,916 --> 00:59:13,000
- [woman] Praise to God!
- ...you're not alone.
1039
00:59:13,083 --> 00:59:14,642
- [woman] You're not alone.
- [man] Thank you!
1040
00:59:14,666 --> 00:59:16,750
Now, where you once felt hopeless...
1041
00:59:16,833 --> 00:59:17,708
[woman] Yes!
1042
00:59:17,791 --> 00:59:19,333
...you now feel strong.
1043
00:59:19,416 --> 00:59:20,458
[woman] Uh-huh!
1044
00:59:20,541 --> 00:59:22,708
- Where there was once doubt, ha...
- [all] Yes!
1045
00:59:22,791 --> 00:59:26,208
- Amen! Praise the Lord!
- ...you now feel brave and alive.
1046
00:59:26,791 --> 00:59:27,791
Because you know.
1047
00:59:27,875 --> 00:59:29,750
- [all] Amen!
- [Elias] Oh, you know!
1048
00:59:29,833 --> 00:59:32,041
You know! You know!
1049
00:59:32,125 --> 00:59:34,583
You know! You know
1050
00:59:34,666 --> 00:59:36,833
with all of your heart
1051
00:59:36,916 --> 00:59:39,333
that you are a child of God.
1052
00:59:39,416 --> 00:59:42,875
That you have the right to love
and be loved.
1053
00:59:42,958 --> 00:59:46,416
- Yes!
- Let the congregation say amen.
1054
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:47,916
[congregation] Amen!
1055
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,833
[Elias] Amen and amen
and amen and amen and amen!
1056
01:00:02,625 --> 01:00:04,041
- Tom!
- Yeah?
1057
01:00:04,125 --> 01:00:07,500
On the desk, an invitation to the march
Dr. Anna asked me to write.
1058
01:00:07,583 --> 01:00:08,833
My spelling is atrocious.
1059
01:00:08,916 --> 01:00:12,708
Also, have Officer Johnson
from the New York Guardians come see me.
1060
01:00:13,833 --> 01:00:15,726
- [glass thuds]
- And in addition to an FBI detail
1061
01:00:15,750 --> 01:00:18,375
being parked out front,
careful what you say on the phone.
1062
01:00:18,458 --> 01:00:21,458
I have a feeling
the entire Kennedy clan is listening in.
1063
01:00:21,541 --> 01:00:22,541
[door closes]
1064
01:00:22,625 --> 01:00:25,041
[officer] Keep moving. Go. Everybody go.
1065
01:00:25,125 --> 01:00:26,291
[tense music playing]
1066
01:00:26,375 --> 01:00:28,375
[officer] Move it. Move it. Get in.
1067
01:00:31,916 --> 01:00:32,916
Go.
1068
01:00:36,583 --> 01:00:37,783
- [thuds]
- [Elias] Mr. Rustin?
1069
01:00:40,416 --> 01:00:41,750
I waited for you outside.
1070
01:00:42,750 --> 01:00:44,333
When the cops showed up, uh,
1071
01:00:44,416 --> 01:00:46,958
they closed the curtains
and rounded them up like dogs.
1072
01:00:47,750 --> 01:00:48,750
Why the cameras?
1073
01:00:49,541 --> 01:00:52,416
The police sometimes alert the press
when there's gonna be a raid.
1074
01:00:53,458 --> 01:00:54,500
I have a wife.
1075
01:00:55,458 --> 01:00:58,416
You know, parents, six brothers
and sisters, a congregation in wait.
1076
01:00:58,500 --> 01:01:00,666
What if I'd gone inside? I almost did.
1077
01:01:01,958 --> 01:01:02,958
Where were you?
1078
01:01:03,291 --> 01:01:04,916
Running late, thank God.
1079
01:01:07,625 --> 01:01:08,666
Or God's warning.
1080
01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:13,208
Ma Rustin once told me
that I should only associate
1081
01:01:13,291 --> 01:01:15,833
with those who had
as much to lose as I did.
1082
01:01:17,625 --> 01:01:19,041
We'll be more careful.
1083
01:01:20,375 --> 01:01:21,575
[breathily] I have to go. I...
1084
01:01:25,041 --> 01:01:26,250
[whispering] Elias.
1085
01:01:30,250 --> 01:01:32,291
Uh, roughly speaking,
there are how many Guardians?
1086
01:01:32,375 --> 01:01:34,833
One thousand one hundred
Negro New York City policemen.
1087
01:01:34,916 --> 01:01:36,708
Ah, you're the only cops I trust,
1088
01:01:36,791 --> 01:01:40,833
so I'm gonna need every single one of you
in DC, but your guns must stay at home.
1089
01:01:40,916 --> 01:01:43,500
Even if I thought that was a good idea,
which I do not,
1090
01:01:43,583 --> 01:01:46,375
New York law requires
that we're in possession of our firearms
1091
01:01:46,458 --> 01:01:47,500
24 hours a day.
1092
01:01:47,583 --> 01:01:49,791
Well, then I guess
we're gonna have to change the law.
1093
01:01:49,875 --> 01:01:53,166
- Thank you so very much for coming.
- [announcer] Today, from the Senate floor,
1094
01:01:53,250 --> 01:01:56,166
the following allegations were made
by Senator Strom Thurmond.
1095
01:01:57,041 --> 01:01:58,291
[Bayard] We'll be in touch.
1096
01:01:58,375 --> 01:02:02,708
[Thurmond] Mr. King's infamous alliances
with communists and agitators
1097
01:02:03,458 --> 01:02:05,208
has been a carefully guarded secret.
1098
01:02:05,291 --> 01:02:06,166
[Bayard] Eleanore!
1099
01:02:06,250 --> 01:02:08,450
- [Thurmond] Until now.
- Get Mayor Wagner on the phone.
1100
01:02:08,500 --> 01:02:13,125
[Thurmond] Mr. Bayard Rustin,
not only Mr. King's closest advisor,
1101
01:02:13,875 --> 01:02:15,291
he is also a communist.
1102
01:02:16,416 --> 01:02:19,916
This march is being built
by the Communist Party. It...
1103
01:02:20,666 --> 01:02:23,083
Tom, we're gonna need
three press releases,
1104
01:02:23,166 --> 01:02:26,208
ranging from purely pissed
to questioning the mental well-being
1105
01:02:26,291 --> 01:02:28,500
of the not-so-beloved senator
from South Carolina.
1106
01:02:29,041 --> 01:02:30,892
Eleanore, what's the name
of that woman reporter
1107
01:02:30,916 --> 01:02:31,916
from The Washington Post?
1108
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:33,875
- McNair?
- Susanna McBee?
1109
01:02:33,958 --> 01:02:36,541
- Bayard, Dr. King.
- Oh, thank you. I'll take it in my office.
1110
01:02:36,625 --> 01:02:38,916
I will not speak to anyone else
from the press except her.
1111
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:41,208
And get Mayor Wagner to call me back.
1112
01:02:42,791 --> 01:02:45,208
[Martin] Fortunately,
Roy's animus towards you
1113
01:02:45,291 --> 01:02:48,833
is eclipsed by his unadulterated hatred
for Strom Thurmond.
1114
01:02:49,625 --> 01:02:51,208
So we're safe for now, friend.
1115
01:02:51,708 --> 01:02:53,208
Thank you, friend.
1116
01:02:55,541 --> 01:02:56,625
[phone clunks]
1117
01:02:58,541 --> 01:02:59,541
[knocking on door]
1118
01:03:00,833 --> 01:03:02,083
Press release number one.
1119
01:03:11,166 --> 01:03:14,625
Years ago, when I was in Pasadena
1120
01:03:14,708 --> 01:03:17,583
doing speeches
for the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
1121
01:03:19,291 --> 01:03:20,291
[knocking on door]
1122
01:03:20,958 --> 01:03:23,875
Is this the office
of the famous Bayard Rustin? [chuckles]
1123
01:03:23,958 --> 01:03:25,000
[chuckles]
1124
01:03:29,833 --> 01:03:31,166
I'll finish the other two.
1125
01:03:34,875 --> 01:03:36,666
- I've been thinking.
- About?
1126
01:03:36,750 --> 01:03:38,208
What Ma Rustin said.
1127
01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:41,083
"Only associate with someone
1128
01:03:42,166 --> 01:03:43,541
with as much to lose."
1129
01:03:45,583 --> 01:03:47,750
And who might that someone be?
1130
01:03:49,666 --> 01:03:50,666
Who do you think?
1131
01:03:52,708 --> 01:03:56,625
[Eleanore] She goes on to talk about
your dedication to justice and peace
1132
01:03:56,708 --> 01:03:58,208
and calls you heroic.
1133
01:03:58,291 --> 01:03:59,916
[cheering]
1134
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,208
- Yeah!
- [Eleanore laughs]
1135
01:04:01,916 --> 01:04:04,083
Enough. Enough. Get rid of all that.
1136
01:04:04,166 --> 01:04:07,208
- [all laugh]
- So, last night, thinking about the march...
1137
01:04:07,291 --> 01:04:10,291
We need to provide
toll booths with leaflets
1138
01:04:10,375 --> 01:04:13,750
so that those arriving by cars
know where to go once they're in DC.
1139
01:04:14,458 --> 01:04:16,375
It's, uh, just after one.
1140
01:04:18,041 --> 01:04:19,041
Early.
1141
01:04:20,375 --> 01:04:21,916
Good night, everyone.
1142
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,041
Go. Go.
1143
01:04:26,166 --> 01:04:28,666
- Blyden.
- Mr. Rustin, sir.
1144
01:04:29,458 --> 01:04:32,375
I've been hounding the mayor
about a project.
1145
01:04:32,458 --> 01:04:36,750
Today he called me back and said yes.
So, starting next week...
1146
01:04:38,125 --> 01:04:39,916
[solemn music playing]
1147
01:04:44,083 --> 01:04:46,000
Please follow me to the third floor.
1148
01:04:46,083 --> 01:04:47,750
- [music continues]
- [rain tapping]
1149
01:05:03,833 --> 01:05:09,375
I do not take orders
from no goddamn Uncle Tom's.
1150
01:05:10,291 --> 01:05:12,958
Thinking you shit 'cause of that badge.
1151
01:05:13,916 --> 01:05:18,000
How many niggas dead 'cause of that badge?
1152
01:05:18,083 --> 01:05:19,250
[music continues]
1153
01:05:21,791 --> 01:05:22,791
Good.
1154
01:05:23,458 --> 01:05:24,708
Good. Breathe.
1155
01:05:29,375 --> 01:05:31,415
- [inaudible]
- [Bayard] When they see an aggressor,
1156
01:05:32,583 --> 01:05:34,583
move as one, work as one.
1157
01:05:38,958 --> 01:05:40,916
If we desire a society of peace,
1158
01:05:42,625 --> 01:05:46,083
then we cannot achieve
such a society through violence.
1159
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:04,916
You will leave your weapons at home.
1160
01:06:05,875 --> 01:06:11,666
You will wear white identifying armbands,
wear a white hat, and carry a whistle.
1161
01:06:12,750 --> 01:06:14,583
It is your responsibility
1162
01:06:14,666 --> 01:06:19,750
to create an atmosphere of peace
for all to witness and follow.
1163
01:06:21,875 --> 01:06:22,875
God bless you all.
1164
01:06:23,750 --> 01:06:26,000
- Good job.
- All right.
1165
01:06:26,083 --> 01:06:27,375
That...
1166
01:06:28,166 --> 01:06:29,166
Appreciate it.
1167
01:06:29,916 --> 01:06:32,541
- My friend, Elias Taylor, with the NAACP.
- Thank you, sir.
1168
01:06:32,625 --> 01:06:34,125
- Thank you.
- Nice work.
1169
01:06:34,208 --> 01:06:36,208
- Good job.
- Take care now.
1170
01:06:36,708 --> 01:06:38,291
Thank you. Elias Taylor.
1171
01:06:39,791 --> 01:06:40,833
Oh.
1172
01:06:40,916 --> 01:06:42,625
[chuckles]
1173
01:06:43,250 --> 01:06:45,625
Elizabethan Songs & Negro Spirituals.
1174
01:06:45,708 --> 01:06:46,875
So you sang, huh?
1175
01:06:46,958 --> 01:06:49,250
And on two songs,
played the lute. [chuckles]
1176
01:06:49,333 --> 01:06:52,583
Oh, they sure as hell
don't grow 'em like you down in Alabama.
1177
01:06:52,666 --> 01:06:55,000
Or anywhere else. [laughs]
1178
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,000
[glass thuds]
1179
01:06:57,375 --> 01:07:00,500
- Oh God, no. No, I... I... I...
- Yes. Yes.
1180
01:07:01,458 --> 01:07:03,041
[playing lute]
1181
01:07:03,125 --> 01:07:08,458
♪ I ne'er didst dream ♪
1182
01:07:08,541 --> 01:07:12,916
♪ Such heavenly joy ♪
1183
01:07:13,916 --> 01:07:16,000
♪ Wouldst come my... ♪
1184
01:07:19,666 --> 01:07:20,708
[door closes]
1185
01:07:21,291 --> 01:07:23,291
Tom! [chuckles]
1186
01:07:23,791 --> 01:07:26,000
Tom's staying here through the march.
1187
01:07:26,083 --> 01:07:28,250
- I thought you and Eleanore were...
- Canceled.
1188
01:07:28,333 --> 01:07:29,333
[Bayard] Oh.
1189
01:07:29,916 --> 01:07:32,125
- I'm sure you must be...
- No, I'm good.
1190
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,976
- So, Elias, I hear you're married.
- [Bayard] Tom...
1191
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,291
And you attended Howard University.
I heard of colored passing for white.
1192
01:07:40,375 --> 01:07:42,175
- Good luck with the reverse.
- Elias, please!
1193
01:07:42,208 --> 01:07:45,375
When I was 16,
I brought a Negro friend home for dinner.
1194
01:07:45,458 --> 01:07:48,833
My father told me he was not going
to allow "that boy" to sit at his table.
1195
01:07:49,416 --> 01:07:51,208
And that was the end of that.
1196
01:07:51,291 --> 01:07:52,291
Your friend?
1197
01:07:52,708 --> 01:07:53,708
My family.
1198
01:07:54,166 --> 01:07:56,125
I moved out,
and I've been on my own ever since.
1199
01:07:56,625 --> 01:08:00,041
Where I come from,
we hold on to our family...
1200
01:08:02,666 --> 01:08:03,666
no matter what.
1201
01:08:04,416 --> 01:08:05,625
[footsteps receding]
1202
01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:08,041
[Bayard] Elias.
1203
01:08:13,166 --> 01:08:14,375
[softly] I care about him.
1204
01:08:15,750 --> 01:08:17,458
Who don't you care about?
1205
01:08:18,583 --> 01:08:21,000
I'm sure there's
some PhD student at Columbia
1206
01:08:21,083 --> 01:08:23,208
or some junior activist fresh out of Fisk.
1207
01:08:23,291 --> 01:08:26,125
Why don't you take them both
down to that bar on 8th Avenue
1208
01:08:26,208 --> 01:08:29,500
and regale them with stories
about Gandhi and King?
1209
01:08:29,583 --> 01:08:30,809
And then, when it's convenient...
1210
01:08:30,833 --> 01:08:33,916
Oh, I'm sorry.
When their feelings become inconvenient,
1211
01:08:34,500 --> 01:08:35,750
it's on to the next one.
1212
01:08:36,291 --> 01:08:37,291
[breathing heavily]
1213
01:08:38,041 --> 01:08:40,333
Except this time, you started giving
your heart to someone
1214
01:08:40,416 --> 01:08:43,541
who is so clearly incapable
of giving his back.
1215
01:08:43,625 --> 01:08:46,083
And all the while, I've been...
1216
01:08:47,708 --> 01:08:48,708
I'm...
1217
01:08:50,166 --> 01:08:51,166
[exhales]
1218
01:08:51,208 --> 01:08:52,416
[footsteps receding]
1219
01:08:56,125 --> 01:08:57,250
[door slams]
1220
01:08:57,791 --> 01:09:00,601
Courtney, Charles, we need more chairs.
We need the entire team up here.
1221
01:09:00,625 --> 01:09:02,625
- But what about the phones?
- Now!
1222
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,000
[Martin] Bayard.
1223
01:09:06,583 --> 01:09:08,000
Roy's guest has arrived.
1224
01:09:09,458 --> 01:09:10,791
[Bayard] What are they up to?
1225
01:09:13,541 --> 01:09:15,666
- We're about to find out.
- [clapping]
1226
01:09:15,750 --> 01:09:19,041
And with our three new religious leaders
and Mr. Reuther from the UAW,
1227
01:09:19,125 --> 01:09:21,291
the Big Six is now the Big Ten.
1228
01:09:25,041 --> 01:09:27,416
Given that this will probably be
1229
01:09:27,500 --> 01:09:29,708
one of the last meetings
before the march...
1230
01:09:29,791 --> 01:09:32,583
Mr. Randolph,
I have a question for our deputy director.
1231
01:09:32,666 --> 01:09:34,625
As I was saying, this is probably...
1232
01:09:34,708 --> 01:09:37,083
Mr. Rustin, you love your work,
love this march?
1233
01:09:37,666 --> 01:09:39,083
With all my heart.
1234
01:09:39,583 --> 01:09:42,166
What if, strictly hypothetical,
1235
01:09:43,083 --> 01:09:46,416
there was someone attached
to this fine organization you've created
1236
01:09:46,916 --> 01:09:48,583
whose mere presence
1237
01:09:48,666 --> 01:09:51,291
was dangerous and detrimental
to the cause you love?
1238
01:09:52,375 --> 01:09:56,500
Someone whose past affiliations,
political and otherwise,
1239
01:09:57,500 --> 01:10:00,125
combined with their quiddity and flair,
1240
01:10:00,208 --> 01:10:03,500
could be used by those in power
to inflict great harm,
1241
01:10:03,583 --> 01:10:05,083
not just to the march,
1242
01:10:06,250 --> 01:10:09,500
but the acts of vengeance
from those in power
1243
01:10:09,583 --> 01:10:13,333
could very easily derail the fight
for racial justice in this country
1244
01:10:13,416 --> 01:10:14,958
a good ten, fifteen years.
1245
01:10:16,500 --> 01:10:18,708
Would you keep that person
in their position,
1246
01:10:19,333 --> 01:10:22,708
or would your sense of duty
as a custodian of the cause
1247
01:10:22,791 --> 01:10:26,375
compel you to send him/her,
her/him on his/her way?
1248
01:10:28,750 --> 01:10:30,250
Hypothetically speaking...
1249
01:10:32,750 --> 01:10:34,375
I'd send them on their way.
1250
01:10:35,375 --> 01:10:39,750
Unless the person in question
happened to be me.
1251
01:10:40,291 --> 01:10:41,416
[scattered laughing]
1252
01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:44,625
Julia and Janifer Rustin
raised me to be humble and never brag,
1253
01:10:44,708 --> 01:10:48,041
but seeing as no one else on the team
was raised... Blyden, are you a Quaker?
1254
01:10:48,125 --> 01:10:49,708
- Hell, no.
- They'll speak instead.
1255
01:10:49,791 --> 01:10:52,583
Norm, how many first aid stations
have been secured?
1256
01:10:52,666 --> 01:10:55,875
Twenty-two, run by teams
of mostly Negro medical practitioners.
1257
01:10:55,958 --> 01:10:57,125
Water?
1258
01:10:57,208 --> 01:10:59,059
There'll be six water tanks,
1,500 gallons each,
1259
01:10:59,083 --> 01:11:02,500
ensuring that the 27 portable fountains
are operational all day long.
1260
01:11:02,583 --> 01:11:03,583
Transportation?
1261
01:11:03,666 --> 01:11:07,125
All in all, we have 2,220 chartered buses.
1262
01:11:07,208 --> 01:11:10,083
CORE North Carolina, 11 buses.
SNCC Mississippi, seven.
1263
01:11:10,166 --> 01:11:11,833
[Bayard] And Reverend Powell's church?
1264
01:11:11,916 --> 01:11:15,458
They've chartered five. I could continue
state by state, but, Joyce?
1265
01:11:15,541 --> 01:11:16,791
Forty Freedom trains.
1266
01:11:16,875 --> 01:11:19,375
And thanks to the UAW,
six chartered flights,
1267
01:11:19,458 --> 01:11:23,666
bringing in workers from Chicago,
Grand Rapids, Flint, Detroit,
1268
01:11:23,750 --> 01:11:25,958
Syracuse, Rochester, and New York.
1269
01:11:26,041 --> 01:11:27,875
Also, per Mr. Rustin's request,
1270
01:11:27,958 --> 01:11:32,541
the mayor has approved the implementation
of the subway rush hour schedule at 5 a.m.
1271
01:11:32,625 --> 01:11:35,458
so that passengers can make
their 6 a.m. bus departures the day of.
1272
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:37,041
Blyden, who are the Guardians?
1273
01:11:37,125 --> 01:11:39,166
A fraternal order
of New York City's Black police.
1274
01:11:39,250 --> 01:11:43,166
And how many will be in Washington, DC
to ensure a safe and peaceful march?
1275
01:11:43,250 --> 01:11:44,291
Over 1,000.
1276
01:11:44,375 --> 01:11:46,750
- Latrines?
- Two hundred and ninety-two.
1277
01:11:46,833 --> 01:11:51,833
And a chartered plane of celebrities,
including Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando,
1278
01:11:51,916 --> 01:11:54,250
James Baldwin, Charlton Heston...
1279
01:11:54,333 --> 01:11:55,541
Moses.
1280
01:11:55,625 --> 01:11:59,083
Diahann Carroll, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Lena Horne, and Burt Lancaster
1281
01:11:59,166 --> 01:12:00,916
will also be in attendance.
1282
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:03,500
All of which has been achieved
in seven weeks.
1283
01:12:03,583 --> 01:12:07,750
And that is why
I would never send me on my way.
1284
01:12:08,333 --> 01:12:10,291
- [cheering, laughing]
- [man] Yeah!
1285
01:12:15,708 --> 01:12:16,916
Yes, yes, yes.
1286
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,375
How does so much get accomplished
in such a short amount of time?
1287
01:12:20,458 --> 01:12:25,166
By working 12 to 15 hours a day every day
and because of Bayard.
1288
01:12:25,250 --> 01:12:28,916
Chief, Dr. Hedgeman,
you ever get a word stuck in your head
1289
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:30,625
that you just can't shake?
1290
01:12:31,250 --> 01:12:32,083
Now what?
1291
01:12:32,166 --> 01:12:35,000
While Bayard and the Rustinettes
were putting on their little revue,
1292
01:12:35,083 --> 01:12:38,125
the word I couldn't shake, Pasadena.
1293
01:12:39,291 --> 01:12:42,500
- [tense music playing]
- [Powell] Martin, you ever been?
1294
01:12:42,583 --> 01:12:44,017
[Martin] What's that got to do
with anything?
1295
01:12:44,041 --> 01:12:47,583
[Powell] How about you, deputy director?
Ever spent time in Pasadena?
1296
01:12:49,666 --> 01:12:51,000
- Hm?
- [chuckles]
1297
01:12:51,083 --> 01:12:54,208
[Powell] Can't recall?
Well, I just happened to have...
1298
01:12:54,291 --> 01:12:56,375
[music continues]
1299
01:12:56,458 --> 01:12:58,458
The hell did the GD thing go? I had it.
1300
01:12:58,541 --> 01:13:00,041
No, I'm done. Done.
1301
01:13:00,583 --> 01:13:03,125
- [papers rustling]
- I look at this program.
1302
01:13:03,666 --> 01:13:05,666
I do not see one woman's name.
1303
01:13:05,750 --> 01:13:08,875
Not Ella Baker or Diane Nash,
1304
01:13:08,958 --> 01:13:11,875
not Dorothy Height or Gloria Richardson.
1305
01:13:11,958 --> 01:13:14,416
Myrlie Evers, Rosa Parks.
1306
01:13:14,500 --> 01:13:16,958
Not, not, not, not, not.
1307
01:13:17,041 --> 01:13:18,625
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong,
1308
01:13:18,708 --> 01:13:21,416
but a decision was made early on
that only leaders
1309
01:13:21,500 --> 01:13:23,916
of participating organizations
would be allowed to speak.
1310
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,934
- [Powell] Hold up, where's my name?
- [Martin] That includes no politicians.
1311
01:13:26,958 --> 01:13:29,708
[Powell] Look, I am more
than just a politician.
1312
01:13:30,208 --> 01:13:32,458
You hotfoot down
to 7th Avenue and 125th Street
1313
01:13:32,541 --> 01:13:35,041
and stop anyone,
say the name Adam Clayton Powell...
1314
01:13:35,125 --> 01:13:37,416
Dr. Hedgeman, might I suggest
1315
01:13:37,500 --> 01:13:40,375
we reconvene
once a solution has been found?
1316
01:13:40,458 --> 01:13:42,916
Good. Now back to the point
I was about to make...
1317
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,083
Adam, you are a guest here.
You cannot continually...
1318
01:13:46,166 --> 01:13:48,583
Would one of you mind
checking the glove compartment...
1319
01:13:48,666 --> 01:13:52,250
- Adam!
- You might be head nigga down South...
1320
01:13:52,333 --> 01:13:53,958
Congressman Powell!
1321
01:13:55,916 --> 01:13:59,000
We have moved on!
1322
01:14:05,625 --> 01:14:07,875
This meeting is adjourned.
1323
01:14:18,833 --> 01:14:20,083
Keep the faith, baby.
1324
01:14:25,833 --> 01:14:27,541
[footsteps going downstairs]
1325
01:14:32,125 --> 01:14:34,125
[phone ringing]
1326
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,000
[sighs]
1327
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:42,166
Evening, G-man.
1328
01:14:42,791 --> 01:14:43,809
Please tell Mr. Hoover to...
1329
01:14:43,833 --> 01:14:44,833
[woman] Mr. Rustin.
1330
01:14:47,583 --> 01:14:48,583
Who is this?
1331
01:14:49,166 --> 01:14:50,166
[woman] Claudia.
1332
01:14:51,625 --> 01:14:52,791
Elias' wife.
1333
01:14:53,375 --> 01:14:55,250
Oh, uh, yes.
1334
01:14:55,750 --> 01:14:57,416
[groans, clears throat]
1335
01:14:58,125 --> 01:14:59,125
[inhales sharply]
1336
01:15:00,125 --> 01:15:01,458
[exhales] How are you?
1337
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:04,333
[Claudia] Thank you for asking.
1338
01:15:04,958 --> 01:15:06,458
I have good news.
1339
01:15:07,083 --> 01:15:08,333
My father has decided
1340
01:15:08,416 --> 01:15:11,708
to officially hand over
his congregation to my husband.
1341
01:15:12,833 --> 01:15:13,833
Oh, that is...
1342
01:15:15,250 --> 01:15:16,416
wonderful indeed.
1343
01:15:17,208 --> 01:15:19,333
[Claudia] I'm glad to hear
you feel that way.
1344
01:15:20,708 --> 01:15:23,791
So if you wouldn't mind telling my husband
1345
01:15:25,333 --> 01:15:27,875
it is time for him to return home
1346
01:15:28,916 --> 01:15:31,458
to the path our Lord ordains.
1347
01:15:33,291 --> 01:15:34,208
Mrs. Taylor...
1348
01:15:34,291 --> 01:15:36,541
I wanna thank you for the time,
1349
01:15:38,541 --> 01:15:41,625
the inordinate amount of time
that you've taken with Elias,
1350
01:15:41,708 --> 01:15:43,750
but that is over.
1351
01:15:45,500 --> 01:15:46,416
Claudia...
1352
01:15:46,500 --> 01:15:48,541
[Claudia] You believe
in Elias' possibilities.
1353
01:15:50,208 --> 01:15:52,958
I know his limitations.
1354
01:15:56,791 --> 01:15:58,291
- [phone clunks]
- [hang up tone]
1355
01:16:01,500 --> 01:16:02,833
[solemn music playing]
1356
01:16:13,166 --> 01:16:14,791
- Chief Wells.
- Mr. Rustin.
1357
01:16:15,291 --> 01:16:17,125
My associate is handing out a map,
1358
01:16:17,208 --> 01:16:19,625
which details the location
of key support systems,
1359
01:16:19,708 --> 01:16:21,750
water fountains, lost and found.
1360
01:16:21,833 --> 01:16:23,291
I'm also pleased to inform you
1361
01:16:23,375 --> 01:16:26,333
that over 1,000 New York City Marshals
will be present.
1362
01:16:26,416 --> 01:16:28,166
The Guardians have been schooled
1363
01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:30,708
in the tenets and practices
of passive resistance
1364
01:16:30,791 --> 01:16:32,875
and, therefore, will not be armed.
1365
01:16:32,958 --> 01:16:36,166
For the first time since Prohibition,
every liquor store in the area
1366
01:16:36,250 --> 01:16:37,500
will be closed for the day.
1367
01:16:37,583 --> 01:16:40,291
All elective surgeries have been canceled,
1368
01:16:40,375 --> 01:16:43,416
and congressmen are telling
their female staff to stay home.
1369
01:16:44,083 --> 01:16:45,250
And why is that?
1370
01:16:46,375 --> 01:16:49,166
Is it because a number of people,
specifically a number of men
1371
01:16:49,250 --> 01:16:51,083
with skin my color, will be in town?
1372
01:16:51,875 --> 01:16:53,583
The last time I turned on the television,
1373
01:16:53,666 --> 01:16:57,333
I saw a pack of white hooligans
attacking Negroes at a lunch counter
1374
01:16:57,416 --> 01:17:00,750
and a white police officer
ordering children to be hosed.
1375
01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:05,458
But to blame all for the actions of a few
would be unfair.
1376
01:17:06,375 --> 01:17:10,416
As a matter of fact,
that's what's called being racist.
1377
01:17:12,458 --> 01:17:15,708
You two, you look like
you might be the engineers I requested.
1378
01:17:15,791 --> 01:17:16,791
That we are.
1379
01:17:17,416 --> 01:17:19,833
On the day of your march,
the entire DC police force
1380
01:17:19,916 --> 01:17:21,125
has been mobilized,
1381
01:17:22,500 --> 01:17:25,416
along with 500 reserves,
2,500 National Guard,
1382
01:17:25,500 --> 01:17:27,625
4,000 Army soldiers,
1383
01:17:27,708 --> 01:17:30,333
and, per orders of the Pentagon,
19,000 troops.
1384
01:17:30,416 --> 01:17:32,376
Well, I hope you'll have something
for them to do,
1385
01:17:32,458 --> 01:17:34,708
because they will not be needed here.
1386
01:17:34,791 --> 01:17:37,458
And whoever has direct dealings
with Mr. Hoover,
1387
01:17:37,541 --> 01:17:40,833
let him know that on August 28th,
1388
01:17:40,916 --> 01:17:45,166
Black, white, young, old,
rich, working-class, poor
1389
01:17:45,250 --> 01:17:47,583
will descend on Washington, DC,
1390
01:17:47,666 --> 01:17:50,041
and there's nothing he can do to stop it.
1391
01:17:51,375 --> 01:17:54,541
I need a sound system which will allow
someone speaking here
1392
01:17:54,625 --> 01:17:57,208
to be heard all the way back there
1393
01:17:57,291 --> 01:18:00,583
because sound is how you turn
a crowd into an audience.
1394
01:18:01,708 --> 01:18:04,333
And as each of our heroines rises,
1395
01:18:04,416 --> 01:18:07,458
Chief would proclaim
their remarkable deeds to the world.
1396
01:18:07,958 --> 01:18:11,416
- So seen but not heard.
- They could write their own introductions.
1397
01:18:11,500 --> 01:18:15,333
With all due respect, Mr. Randolph,
a woman should introduce them.
1398
01:18:15,416 --> 01:18:19,125
And don't ask me for recommendations,
because a number of women have informed me
1399
01:18:19,208 --> 01:18:22,083
that they will not be participating
in the march.
1400
01:18:22,166 --> 01:18:23,583
That's unfortunate to hear.
1401
01:18:24,250 --> 01:18:26,208
[sighs] What is unfortunate, sir,
1402
01:18:26,875 --> 01:18:29,916
are the circumstances
that led them to the decision.
1403
01:18:30,708 --> 01:18:33,291
[Randolph] Bayard,
what's the word in Washington?
1404
01:18:34,166 --> 01:18:37,125
Uh, well, we need $16,000 to $20,000
for a sound system.
1405
01:18:37,208 --> 01:18:38,958
How are the numbers?
1406
01:18:39,041 --> 01:18:41,458
- [Bayard] Rachelle?
- Our latest estimate is 88,000.
1407
01:18:41,541 --> 01:18:44,875
If we have one person less than 100,000...
1408
01:18:44,958 --> 01:18:48,625
Interesting enough, last couple of days,
Congressman Powell has been hounding me
1409
01:18:48,708 --> 01:18:50,041
about speaking at the march.
1410
01:18:50,125 --> 01:18:51,291
You wanna know why?
1411
01:18:52,416 --> 01:18:54,708
Aunt Bess is throwing a cookout.
1412
01:18:54,791 --> 01:18:56,041
- [all laugh]
- Aunt Bess?
1413
01:18:56,125 --> 01:18:57,958
Nobody has an Auntie Bess.
1414
01:18:58,041 --> 01:19:01,125
Aunt Wilhelmina, Aunt Clarissa, Aunt...
1415
01:19:01,208 --> 01:19:03,500
I have an Aunt Bess!
1416
01:19:03,583 --> 01:19:05,125
And 20 guests have confirmed.
1417
01:19:05,708 --> 01:19:08,916
By the time cousins call cousins,
neighbors invite neighbors,
1418
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,000
Aunt Bess best be cooking for at least 50.
1419
01:19:13,041 --> 01:19:17,208
Mr. Deputy Director,
you best be cooking for 200,000.
1420
01:19:17,291 --> 01:19:18,875
- You heard it here first.
- Ooh.
1421
01:19:23,875 --> 01:19:24,875
Pledge cards.
1422
01:19:25,375 --> 01:19:28,416
It feels a bit off-putting
to be begging the day of.
1423
01:19:30,291 --> 01:19:34,291
"I do solemnly swear to commit myself
to the civil rights struggle."
1424
01:19:35,708 --> 01:19:38,875
"And do pledge my heart, mind, and body,
1425
01:19:39,416 --> 01:19:42,875
unequivocally and without regard
to personal sacrifice,
1426
01:19:43,833 --> 01:19:48,250
to the achievement of social peace
through social justice."
1427
01:19:48,958 --> 01:19:50,875
"I pledge to carry
the message of the march
1428
01:19:50,958 --> 01:19:55,500
to my friends and neighbors back home
and to arouse them to an equal commitment
1429
01:19:55,583 --> 01:19:56,875
and an equal effort."
1430
01:19:58,416 --> 01:20:00,166
"I will march, and I will write letters."
1431
01:20:00,666 --> 01:20:02,583
"I will demonstrate, and I will vote."
1432
01:20:02,666 --> 01:20:05,916
"I will work to make sure that my voice
and those of my brothers
1433
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:10,166
ring clear and determined
from every corner of this land."
1434
01:20:21,875 --> 01:20:22,875
My wife...
1435
01:20:27,666 --> 01:20:30,875
Her father is retiring
and leaving his church on to me.
1436
01:20:32,833 --> 01:20:34,166
She called to tell me.
1437
01:20:38,750 --> 01:20:40,625
Did she also tell you she's pregnant?
1438
01:20:46,625 --> 01:20:47,625
[softly] Elias...
1439
01:20:49,416 --> 01:20:52,166
you may think you're killing off
one aspect of yourself,
1440
01:20:52,666 --> 01:20:53,708
but you're not.
1441
01:20:54,500 --> 01:20:56,333
You're killing all of yourself.
1442
01:20:58,625 --> 01:21:00,166
I am a married man,
1443
01:21:01,750 --> 01:21:03,916
about to be a father, and you, sir,
1444
01:21:05,250 --> 01:21:08,500
are a sick man,
and you need to stop following me.
1445
01:21:11,375 --> 01:21:13,500
She also implied
she hadn't heard from you.
1446
01:21:14,375 --> 01:21:17,333
Have you visited this park at night?
Mt. Morris Baths?
1447
01:21:17,958 --> 01:21:18,958
Who got to you?
1448
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,916
The vice squad? The FBI?
1449
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:22,125
Do they have pictures?
1450
01:21:22,916 --> 01:21:26,250
For the desires of the flesh
are against the spirit,
1451
01:21:26,333 --> 01:21:28,666
and the desires of the spirit
are against the flesh.
1452
01:21:28,750 --> 01:21:31,125
For the desires of the flesh
are against the spirit,
1453
01:21:31,208 --> 01:21:32,916
and the desires of the flesh...
1454
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:35,166
To keep you from that
which you desire most.
1455
01:22:10,041 --> 01:22:12,916
[Thurmond] The organizer
of this catastrophe-in-wait,
1456
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:16,208
the so-called "man," Bayard Rustin,
1457
01:22:16,791 --> 01:22:18,541
is not only a communist,
1458
01:22:19,125 --> 01:22:20,583
he is also a pervert.
1459
01:22:21,416 --> 01:22:24,875
I have, in my possession,
his Pasadena arrest record,
1460
01:22:24,958 --> 01:22:27,708
dated January 1953.
1461
01:22:27,791 --> 01:22:32,416
Mr. Rustin plead guilty
to lewd conduct with two men.
1462
01:22:32,500 --> 01:22:34,583
He's a convicted homosex...
1463
01:22:39,708 --> 01:22:40,767
- [car door opens]
- [gasps]
1464
01:22:40,791 --> 01:22:42,541
The Council of Churches has committed
1465
01:22:42,625 --> 01:22:45,000
to build 80,000 box lunches
the evening before, correct?
1466
01:22:45,083 --> 01:22:46,083
- Correct?
- Yes.
1467
01:22:46,125 --> 01:22:47,875
Yes! Peanut butter and jelly.
1468
01:22:47,958 --> 01:22:49,875
- We were talking, and...
- [phone ringing]
1469
01:22:49,958 --> 01:22:51,125
Don't answer that.
1470
01:22:51,208 --> 01:22:54,000
- Uh, who's we?
- The girls and myself.
1471
01:22:54,083 --> 01:22:56,916
Uh, and decided that cheese sandwiches
would be so much better.
1472
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:58,226
No. No. Peanut butter and jelly.
1473
01:22:58,250 --> 01:22:59,767
- [phones ringing]
- Don't answer that.
1474
01:22:59,791 --> 01:23:03,083
What is the one word
you've heard me say over and over?
1475
01:23:03,166 --> 01:23:04,458
- Eleanore?
- Details.
1476
01:23:04,541 --> 01:23:06,981
- It's gonna be over 80 degrees.
- [phone ringing frantically]
1477
01:23:07,416 --> 01:23:08,916
Cheese spoils.
1478
01:23:09,500 --> 01:23:10,541
You should know better.
1479
01:23:10,625 --> 01:23:13,458
- [grunting]
- [phone ringing]
1480
01:23:13,541 --> 01:23:15,041
You should have known better!
1481
01:23:15,125 --> 01:23:16,309
- [heavy breathing]
- [phones ringing]
1482
01:23:16,333 --> 01:23:18,333
- [punch thuds]
- [Bayard grunts]
1483
01:23:18,416 --> 01:23:20,500
[phones ringing]
1484
01:23:24,166 --> 01:23:26,083
[blaring big band music playing]
1485
01:23:43,500 --> 01:23:44,500
[music stops]
1486
01:23:52,666 --> 01:23:53,708
[Martin] Bayard...
1487
01:23:57,250 --> 01:23:59,333
You are one of the smartest men I know,
1488
01:24:00,375 --> 01:24:01,625
so explain to me why,
1489
01:24:02,583 --> 01:24:04,333
after all that's left undone,
1490
01:24:05,041 --> 01:24:09,125
am I yet again forced
to justify my existence.
1491
01:24:11,625 --> 01:24:14,625
Each of us are taught in ways
both cunning and cruel
1492
01:24:14,708 --> 01:24:16,791
that we are inadequate, incomplete,
1493
01:24:17,291 --> 01:24:20,083
And the easiest way to combat
that feeling of not being enough
1494
01:24:20,166 --> 01:24:22,333
is to find someone we consider less than.
1495
01:24:22,416 --> 01:24:25,625
Less than because they are poorer than us
or because they are darker than us
1496
01:24:25,708 --> 01:24:27,250
or because they desire someone
1497
01:24:27,333 --> 01:24:30,125
our churches and our laws say
they should not desire.
1498
01:24:30,833 --> 01:24:32,958
When we tell ourselves such lies,
1499
01:24:33,041 --> 01:24:35,750
start to live and believe such lies,
1500
01:24:35,833 --> 01:24:39,791
we do the work of our oppressors
by oppressing ourselves.
1501
01:24:43,625 --> 01:24:46,666
Strom Thurmond and Hoover
don't give a shit about me.
1502
01:24:47,666 --> 01:24:52,875
What they really want to destroy
is all of us coming together
1503
01:24:52,958 --> 01:24:55,166
and demanding this country change.
1504
01:24:59,916 --> 01:25:01,750
Are they expecting my resignation?
1505
01:25:04,416 --> 01:25:05,416
Some are, yes.
1506
01:25:05,875 --> 01:25:07,791
Then they're going to have to fire me
1507
01:25:08,625 --> 01:25:10,166
because I will not resign.
1508
01:25:13,291 --> 01:25:15,000
On the day that I was born Black,
1509
01:25:15,916 --> 01:25:17,625
I was also born a homosexual.
1510
01:25:19,375 --> 01:25:22,166
They either believe
in freedom and justice for all,
1511
01:25:23,625 --> 01:25:24,666
or they do not.
1512
01:25:32,250 --> 01:25:33,250
[door opens]
1513
01:25:34,125 --> 01:25:35,125
[door closes]
1514
01:25:36,250 --> 01:25:39,250
- [woman] Yes, this is Michelle Harwood.
- [phones ringing]
1515
01:25:40,833 --> 01:25:42,851
- [woman 2] This is Michelle Harwood.
- [woman 3] Okay. Okay.
1516
01:25:42,875 --> 01:25:45,250
And may I have your first and last name?
1517
01:25:47,583 --> 01:25:48,958
Michelle Harwood speaking.
1518
01:25:50,916 --> 01:25:52,708
Yes, this is Michelle.
1519
01:25:52,791 --> 01:25:54,000
Biloxi, another bus.
1520
01:25:54,625 --> 01:25:56,666
Forty-seven, Chattanooga.
1521
01:25:58,125 --> 01:26:00,184
[woman 4] Eleanore, I got new numbers.
Wanna see 'em?
1522
01:26:00,208 --> 01:26:03,583
- [woman 5] Do you have any other requests?
- You're gonna take the tollbooth.
1523
01:26:03,666 --> 01:26:05,375
[typewriter tapping]
1524
01:26:05,458 --> 01:26:08,583
[Joyce] Just before
the Washington Old Dominion corridor...
1525
01:26:11,250 --> 01:26:13,791
Is that how you intend to dress
for my execution?
1526
01:26:13,875 --> 01:26:14,875
[laughs softly]
1527
01:26:16,791 --> 01:26:18,541
My widow's veil is at the cleaners.
1528
01:26:18,625 --> 01:26:20,125
[chuckles, inhales sharply]
1529
01:26:24,958 --> 01:26:26,875
This entire time
you've been waiting for me
1530
01:26:26,958 --> 01:26:29,041
to offer you something
I'm not ready to give.
1531
01:26:31,500 --> 01:26:32,708
Maybe when I'm older
1532
01:26:34,166 --> 01:26:36,333
and most of the battles have been won,
I'll...
1533
01:26:37,916 --> 01:26:39,625
free myself to fall in love.
1534
01:26:41,875 --> 01:26:45,500
But until then, I want you to know
that you're my family.
1535
01:26:47,208 --> 01:26:48,208
No secrets,
1536
01:26:49,208 --> 01:26:50,208
no shame,
1537
01:26:51,750 --> 01:26:52,750
just love.
1538
01:26:54,750 --> 01:26:55,750
[door opens abruptly]
1539
01:26:58,791 --> 01:27:01,416
I am dismayed that there are men
1540
01:27:01,500 --> 01:27:04,083
who, wrapping themselves
in Christian morality,
1541
01:27:04,750 --> 01:27:08,875
would violate the most elementary
conceptions of human decency
1542
01:27:08,958 --> 01:27:11,458
in order to persecute other men.
1543
01:27:11,541 --> 01:27:12,583
[applauding on TV]
1544
01:27:15,208 --> 01:27:18,500
Mr. Rustin is one of the most moral,
1545
01:27:19,791 --> 01:27:22,666
one of the most decent human beings
I've ever known.
1546
01:27:23,916 --> 01:27:27,000
He is as committed to American democracy
1547
01:27:28,125 --> 01:27:30,458
as any current elected official
1548
01:27:31,583 --> 01:27:34,208
and would fight to protect
the rights of all,
1549
01:27:35,208 --> 01:27:38,166
including those who would use
the power of their position
1550
01:27:39,625 --> 01:27:40,750
to deny him his.
1551
01:27:42,666 --> 01:27:44,416
I'm proud to call him friend.
1552
01:27:45,333 --> 01:27:49,708
I can't think of a finer person
to lead us into Washington, DC.
1553
01:27:50,208 --> 01:27:51,208
[sobbing]
1554
01:28:09,416 --> 01:28:10,416
[sniffles]
1555
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:15,000
[chuckles softly]
1556
01:28:16,583 --> 01:28:18,000
[indistinct chattering]
1557
01:28:35,791 --> 01:28:37,791
[inspirational music playing]
1558
01:29:21,708 --> 01:29:22,916
[man] Mr. Rustin!
1559
01:29:23,833 --> 01:29:24,833
Blyden.
1560
01:29:28,666 --> 01:29:30,386
- [man 2] What side? Right?
- [man 3] Right.
1561
01:29:32,041 --> 01:29:37,500
♪ Jesus walked this lonesome valley ♪
1562
01:29:38,416 --> 01:29:44,666
♪ He had to walk it by himself ♪
1563
01:29:44,750 --> 01:29:48,000
[vocalizing]
1564
01:29:49,208 --> 01:29:51,458
Lord, I hope and pray they come today.
1565
01:29:52,041 --> 01:29:53,416
[man] That goes over there.
1566
01:29:54,291 --> 01:29:55,541
That goes over there.
1567
01:30:00,375 --> 01:30:03,416
Thank you for coming.
Take this and go right over there.
1568
01:30:06,708 --> 01:30:08,083
[woman] Take some more of those.
1569
01:30:08,166 --> 01:30:10,583
[woman 2] Let's sign
and return these pledge cards.
1570
01:30:13,041 --> 01:30:15,750
- Mr. Rustin.
- Mr. Rustin, sir.
1571
01:30:15,833 --> 01:30:17,750
- It's 7:45 a.m.
- Where is everybody?
1572
01:30:17,833 --> 01:30:21,166
- You said there'd be 100,000 people here.
- I see 75 people here tops.
1573
01:30:21,250 --> 01:30:26,791
Alabama, Wisconsin, Nevada, Union Station.
I would say about 10 o'clock.
1574
01:30:26,875 --> 01:30:27,875
Eleanore?
1575
01:30:29,625 --> 01:30:30,625
[Eleanore] Ten o'clock.
1576
01:30:31,958 --> 01:30:35,208
[man over PA] Check, check.
Testing, one, two, three.
1577
01:30:35,291 --> 01:30:37,500
♪...this morning with
Woke up this morning with ♪
1578
01:30:37,583 --> 01:30:40,708
♪ Woke up this morning with
Woke up this morning with ♪
1579
01:30:40,791 --> 01:30:42,416
♪ Woke up this morning with ♪
1580
01:30:42,500 --> 01:30:45,541
- ♪ Woke up this morning with ♪
- ♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1581
01:30:45,625 --> 01:30:49,125
- ♪ Woke up this morning with ♪
- ♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1582
01:30:49,208 --> 01:30:52,000
[harmonizing] ♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1583
01:30:52,083 --> 01:30:55,500
♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪
1584
01:30:55,583 --> 01:30:58,500
♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1585
01:30:59,041 --> 01:31:02,583
♪ Woke up this morning with my mind ♪
1586
01:31:02,666 --> 01:31:04,958
♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1587
01:31:05,458 --> 01:31:08,291
♪ Hallelu, Hallelu ♪
1588
01:31:08,375 --> 01:31:14,125
♪ Hallelujah! ♪
1589
01:31:17,916 --> 01:31:18,916
Beautiful crowd.
1590
01:31:19,416 --> 01:31:21,416
Freedom now, freedom now...
1591
01:31:21,500 --> 01:31:24,208
- Yeah!
- Hallelujah!
1592
01:31:26,041 --> 01:31:27,083
[chanting]
1593
01:31:29,041 --> 01:31:31,666
Everyone, move this line.
1594
01:31:31,750 --> 01:31:34,458
- [horns honking]
- [inspirational music playing]
1595
01:31:42,416 --> 01:31:45,625
[singers] ♪ Woke up this morning with
Woke up this morning with ♪
1596
01:31:45,708 --> 01:31:48,708
♪ Stayed on freedom ♪
1597
01:31:48,791 --> 01:31:51,666
♪ Woke up this morning with my mind... ♪
1598
01:31:56,166 --> 01:32:00,041
[marchers] ♪ Freedom, freedom ♪
1599
01:32:00,125 --> 01:32:04,041
♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪
1600
01:32:08,250 --> 01:32:13,000
♪ Oh, thank my God how he kept me ♪
1601
01:32:13,083 --> 01:32:17,833
♪ I'm gonna thank him
'Cause He never left me, yeah ♪
1602
01:32:17,916 --> 01:32:21,583
♪ I wanna thank Him
For ol' time religion ♪
1603
01:32:21,666 --> 01:32:26,458
♪ I wanna thank God
For giving me a vision ♪
1604
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:31,333
♪ Oh, I'm gon' join the Heavenly choir ♪
1605
01:32:31,416 --> 01:32:35,958
♪ I'm gonna shout and never get tired ♪
1606
01:32:36,041 --> 01:32:40,375
♪ I'm gonna shout all my troubles over ♪
1607
01:32:40,458 --> 01:32:44,666
♪ I'm gonna sing glory Hallelujah ♪
1608
01:32:44,750 --> 01:32:50,166
♪ You know I'm gonna thank
Thank him for being ♪
1609
01:32:50,791 --> 01:32:57,666
♪ 'Cause God's been so good to me ♪
1610
01:32:58,250 --> 01:33:01,083
♪ Yeah ♪
1611
01:33:01,166 --> 01:33:02,833
[cheering]
1612
01:33:07,250 --> 01:33:10,916
When we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet,
1613
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:14,250
from every state and every city,
1614
01:33:15,083 --> 01:33:17,583
we will be able to speed up that day
1615
01:33:17,666 --> 01:33:19,458
when all of God's children,
1616
01:33:19,541 --> 01:33:21,125
Black men and white men,
1617
01:33:21,208 --> 01:33:24,208
Jews and Gentiles,
Protestants and Catholics,
1618
01:33:24,291 --> 01:33:26,458
will all be able to join hands
1619
01:33:26,541 --> 01:33:29,375
and sing in the words
of the old Negro spiritual,
1620
01:33:30,375 --> 01:33:33,375
"Free at last! Free at last!"
1621
01:33:33,458 --> 01:33:36,208
"Thank God almighty, we are free at last."
1622
01:33:36,291 --> 01:33:37,916
[cheering]
1623
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:39,750
[triumphant music playing]
1624
01:34:40,375 --> 01:34:41,375
[Anna] Bayard.
1625
01:34:41,416 --> 01:34:43,000
- Anna.
- [Cleve] Mr. Randolph. [laughs]
1626
01:34:43,083 --> 01:34:45,083
When I was a child,
1627
01:34:45,583 --> 01:34:47,833
every night, my father would ask,
1628
01:34:48,333 --> 01:34:50,958
"Have you made yourself useful today?"
1629
01:34:51,625 --> 01:34:54,666
And I'm certain that was the same for you.
1630
01:34:54,750 --> 01:34:57,625
But, child, today...
1631
01:34:58,583 --> 01:35:00,041
Today...
1632
01:35:01,708 --> 01:35:03,083
[Roy] Chief! Chief!
1633
01:35:03,666 --> 01:35:04,541
I just got word.
1634
01:35:04,625 --> 01:35:07,625
The president has invited
the Big Ten to the Oval Office.
1635
01:35:07,708 --> 01:35:08,708
- [cheering]
- Oh!
1636
01:35:08,750 --> 01:35:10,625
That's what I'm talking about.
1637
01:35:11,541 --> 01:35:12,458
Congratulations.
1638
01:35:12,541 --> 01:35:14,208
Bayard should be with us.
1639
01:35:16,916 --> 01:35:20,583
A few weeks ago, I said
that I'd happily act as trash collector
1640
01:35:20,666 --> 01:35:22,041
if we pulled today off.
1641
01:35:22,125 --> 01:35:26,083
Rustin, you are far more valuable to us
than a trash collector.
1642
01:35:26,583 --> 01:35:28,208
Roy, for shame.
1643
01:35:28,291 --> 01:35:31,041
Ma Rustin taught me
that no man is less valuable
1644
01:35:31,125 --> 01:35:33,875
because he picks up trash
to care for his own.
1645
01:35:42,416 --> 01:35:43,625
[indistinct chattering]
1646
01:35:50,333 --> 01:35:51,791
Hello, son. How are you?
1647
01:35:51,875 --> 01:35:52,791
Would you mind?
1648
01:35:52,875 --> 01:35:54,208
[gentle music playing]
1649
01:35:54,750 --> 01:35:55,583
Thank you.
1650
01:35:55,666 --> 01:35:56,666
[music continues]
1651
01:36:39,125 --> 01:36:41,125
[group singing in background]
1652
01:37:00,833 --> 01:37:03,500
["Road to Freedom"
by Lenny Kravitz playing]
1653
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:31,708
♪ We are here to make the dream true ♪
1654
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,625
♪ And together that's what we'll do ♪
1655
01:37:39,791 --> 01:37:43,916
♪ We are here we will change the tide ♪
1656
01:37:45,458 --> 01:37:49,250
♪ Step by step standing side by side ♪
1657
01:37:51,166 --> 01:37:56,583
♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
1658
01:37:57,166 --> 01:38:02,083
♪ Until the war is won ♪
1659
01:38:02,708 --> 01:38:07,875
♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
1660
01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:13,208
♪ There's so much work to be done ♪
1661
01:38:15,250 --> 01:38:18,458
♪ We will fight where evil lies ♪
1662
01:38:19,541 --> 01:38:21,708
♪ We will sacrifice ♪
1663
01:38:21,791 --> 01:38:23,791
♪ There's no compromise ♪
1664
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:31,333
♪ On this road we're prepared to die ♪
1665
01:38:31,416 --> 01:38:33,958
♪ We will stay the course ♪
1666
01:38:34,041 --> 01:38:40,750
♪ We know we will rise ♪
1667
01:38:41,458 --> 01:38:47,250
- ♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
- ♪ On the road to freedom ♪
1668
01:38:47,333 --> 01:38:53,125
- ♪ Until the war is won ♪
- ♪ Until the war is won ♪
1669
01:38:53,208 --> 01:38:58,583
- ♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
- ♪ Road to freedom ♪
1670
01:38:59,125 --> 01:39:04,458
- ♪ So much work to be done ♪
- ♪ We're marching on ♪
1671
01:39:04,541 --> 01:39:10,666
- ♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
- ♪ Oh freedom ♪
1672
01:39:10,750 --> 01:39:16,333
- ♪ Until the war is won ♪
- ♪ Until the war is won ♪
1673
01:39:16,416 --> 01:39:22,458
- ♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
- ♪ Freedom ♪
1674
01:39:22,541 --> 01:39:25,375
♪ So much work to be done ♪
1675
01:39:25,458 --> 01:39:28,375
♪ we're marching on
And on and on and on and on ♪
1676
01:39:28,458 --> 01:39:34,250
- ♪ We're on the road to freedom ♪
- ♪ Freedom ♪
1677
01:39:34,333 --> 01:39:39,250
♪ So much work to be done ♪
1678
01:39:42,708 --> 01:39:45,333
["The Knowing" by Ledisi Young playing]
1679
01:39:55,708 --> 01:39:59,333
♪ Your touch, hard to resist ♪
1680
01:39:59,416 --> 01:40:02,750
♪ I can't find the words ♪
1681
01:40:03,458 --> 01:40:05,458
♪ But I want this ♪
1682
01:40:07,541 --> 01:40:11,208
♪ We move differently
And want the same thing ♪
1683
01:40:11,291 --> 01:40:16,750
♪ You're like me and I want you ♪
1684
01:40:18,666 --> 01:40:21,625
♪ Change the world
Watching you make history ♪
1685
01:40:21,708 --> 01:40:24,166
♪ Love's the language
The root of everything ♪
1686
01:40:24,250 --> 01:40:26,125
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1687
01:40:27,166 --> 01:40:29,166
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1688
01:40:30,541 --> 01:40:33,083
♪ Whisper softly
For freedom soon to come ♪
1689
01:40:33,166 --> 01:40:35,625
♪ Ahead of time for others, not for us ♪
1690
01:40:35,708 --> 01:40:37,708
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1691
01:40:39,041 --> 01:40:41,041
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1692
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,875
♪ Forbidden love
A flame, a stolen stare ♪
1693
01:40:44,958 --> 01:40:47,833
♪ But now pretend
That our love's not really there ♪
1694
01:40:47,916 --> 01:40:49,916
♪ They don't wanna know ♪
1695
01:40:50,541 --> 01:40:52,541
♪ They don't need to know ♪
1696
01:40:54,208 --> 01:40:57,083
♪ Now love me, hold me, steal a kiss ♪
1697
01:40:57,166 --> 01:40:59,625
♪ We'll be free one day
To love like this ♪
1698
01:40:59,708 --> 01:41:02,625
- ♪ They don't wanna know ♪
- ♪ Trust me ♪
1699
01:41:02,708 --> 01:41:04,708
♪ One day they will know ♪
1700
01:41:05,541 --> 01:41:06,750
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1701
01:41:06,833 --> 01:41:10,750
♪ Never met someone
Who understands how it feels ♪
1702
01:41:10,833 --> 01:41:16,416
♪ Been on my own forever
This feels unreal ♪
1703
01:41:18,291 --> 01:41:21,250
♪ A perfect love is what we have ♪
1704
01:41:22,416 --> 01:41:28,916
♪ You are my amazing grace ♪
1705
01:41:29,833 --> 01:41:32,708
♪ Building bridges
From where we both begin ♪
1706
01:41:32,791 --> 01:41:35,291
♪ You're my savior
From now until the end ♪
1707
01:41:35,375 --> 01:41:37,375
♪ I hope that you know ♪
1708
01:41:38,291 --> 01:41:40,166
♪ Do you even know ♪
1709
01:41:41,375 --> 01:41:44,416
♪ Imagine living outside
Of all the lines ♪
1710
01:41:44,500 --> 01:41:47,125
♪ Stolen water is sweet our love divine ♪
1711
01:41:47,208 --> 01:41:49,041
♪ They don't wanna know ♪
1712
01:41:50,166 --> 01:41:52,041
♪ They will never know ♪
1713
01:41:55,333 --> 01:41:58,041
♪ We can move mountains ♪
1714
01:41:58,125 --> 01:42:01,291
♪ We could be free now ♪
1715
01:42:01,375 --> 01:42:05,291
♪ Follow our passion
It's closer now ♪
1716
01:42:07,125 --> 01:42:10,875
♪ They'll remember who we are ♪
1717
01:42:12,250 --> 01:42:16,791
♪ One day for us
Breath to breath, no more fear ♪
1718
01:42:17,916 --> 01:42:20,875
♪ I can't have you for myself ♪
1719
01:42:21,875 --> 01:42:27,583
♪ Hiding you from me is hard to do ♪
1720
01:42:29,791 --> 01:42:33,708
♪ There are moments that I can't deny ♪
1721
01:42:33,791 --> 01:42:39,000
♪ How I feel inside for you ♪
1722
01:42:40,791 --> 01:42:43,750
♪ Change the world
Watching you make history ♪
1723
01:42:43,833 --> 01:42:46,333
♪ Love's the language
The root of everything
1724
01:42:46,416 --> 01:42:48,416
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1725
01:42:49,333 --> 01:42:51,333
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1726
01:42:52,375 --> 01:42:55,375
♪ Forbidden love
A flame, a stolen stare ♪
1727
01:42:55,458 --> 01:42:58,000
♪ But now pretend
That our love's not really there ♪
1728
01:42:58,083 --> 01:43:00,166
♪ They don't wanna know ♪
1729
01:43:01,250 --> 01:43:03,083
♪ They don't need to know ♪
1730
01:43:03,708 --> 01:43:06,083
♪ They don't need to know ♪
1731
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:12,000
♪ They don't need to know ♪
1732
01:43:13,083 --> 01:43:14,833
♪ They don't need to know ♪
1733
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:23,750
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1734
01:43:24,916 --> 01:43:26,916
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1735
01:43:33,833 --> 01:43:35,708
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1736
01:43:36,416 --> 01:43:38,208
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1737
01:43:45,666 --> 01:43:47,541
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1738
01:43:48,250 --> 01:43:50,458
- ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1739
01:43:50,541 --> 01:43:53,916
♪ Tell them what we know ♪
1740
01:44:09,375 --> 01:44:10,958
[upbeat jazz music playing]