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{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
uhh Delores Pelham meet Bill Mahony behind the auditorium.

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I said, [[laughing]] watch it Bill, uhh I said when I introduced Miss Baker that that would be my last word but she brought to mind something I had seriously omitted

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and that was the fact that out of the McComb situation, a young lady did spend six or seven months in jail.

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Uh perhaps just a little bit longer time than the people spent in Americus Georgia and she is in many ways sort of an inspiration to all of us.

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Some of us may not know much about her, but perhaps in a few minutes she could tell us something about herself, Miss Brenda Travis.

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Come on up, [[clapping]] come on up. Come on Brenda. Brenda.

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[clapping]

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She's a little embarrassed so I'll tell you some of the things that happened to her.

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She was put in jail in McComb for sitting in at the Greyhound bus station and on the southern, typical southern justice

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uh, she was put- rather sent to- a reform school because she was a juvenile.

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She spent some six months in that reform school, efforts finally got her out.

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She's now in Chicago, winding up, I don't know, education? high school? is that it? I think she's graduating this June and it certainly was a relief to all of us who had to bear her imprisonment

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because she was imprisoned primarily because of what all of us did in McComb, Mississippi and it's with a great deal of uhh pride I suppose that we present to you Brenda Travis. Go ahead.

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{SPEAKER name="Brenda Travis"}
Uh I imagine that most of you have heard what happened to me so therefore I really don't see any need to--