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Transcription: [00:30:04]

{SPEAKER name="Lewis James Williams"}
Anyway,ah Belzoni is kinda rough.

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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
and you mother, put you out, put you out,

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{SPEAKER name="Lewis James Williams"}
I'll tell them about that

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{SPEAKER name="John Lewis"}
Fighting for the freedom

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{SPEAKER name="Lewis James Williams"}
Well not exactly she put me out, she, I have got a lot of ones at Belzoni that uh.
I got a lot of telephone calls, saying that uh that they uh threating my life,something like that. And uh,
my Mother and Fathers told me I'ma have to leave Belzoni because of what's going on with the people that's saying to her about me.
And so I told her I will leave, I came here.

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{SILENCE}

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{Unknown Speaker}
They got scared.

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{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
Well. Everybody in here know why he's out know.
[[inaudible]] Belzoni, and they don't want us doing what he was doing in Belzoni.

{Unknown Speaker}
That's right.

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{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
You know about Reverend Lee [[??]] and Mr. Colt [[??]]. This is why this young man is up here. Now we have the people that's been working on [[??]]'s farm. Whom I assume is gonna speak to you briefly about what has happened to violators [[??]]. Right now [[inaudible]] fired a shot gun [[inaudible]]. Uh I guess [[inaudible]]

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{Unknown Speaker}
Wow, I think its great you know. We been working highway 61 and highway 1. Today we are providing the rolling force, we've prepared ourselves for this.