If The White Man Gives You Anything

The Mississippi Is Not The Only River. There's The Tallahatchie And The Big Black. People Have Been Put In The River Year After Year, These Things Been Happening.

The Only Thing We Took Out Was The Constitution Of The State Of Mississippi And The Interpretation Of The Constitution. We Had 63,000 People Registered On The Freedom Registration Form. And We Tried From Every Level To Go Into The Regular Democratic Party Medium. We Tried From The Precinct Level. The 16th Of June When They Were Holding Precinct Meetings All Across The State, I Was There And There Was Eight Of Us There To Attend The Meeting, And They Had The Door Locked At 10 O'clock In The Morning. This Is What's Happening In The State Of Mississippi.

My Mother Got Down Sick In 53 And She Lived With Me, An Invalid, Until She Passed Away In 1961. And During The Time She Was Staying With Me Sometime I Would Be Worked So Hard I Couldn't Sleep At Night.

Not Only Have We Paid The Price With Our Names In Ink, But We Have Also Paid In Blood. And They Can't Say That Black People Can't Be Intelligent, Because Going Back To Africa, In Guinea, There Are Almost 4 Million People There And What He, President [sekou] Toure, Is Doing To Educate The People: As Long As The French People Had It They Weren't Doing A Thing That Is Being Done Now.

All Of This Is On Account We Want To Register [sic], To Become First-class Citizens, And If The Freedom Democratic Party Is Not Seated Now, I Question America. Is This America, The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave Where We Have To Sleep With Our Telephones Off The Hooks Because Our Lives Be Threatened Daily Because We Want To Live As Decent Human Beings - In America?