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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
Where are you from brother? Where you from? Raise up, come on man, don't be ashamed of where you live. Come on.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
Well anyway, tell him to get the word out there. Now it's alright, just a minute, please. Lemme have your attention now, [[claps]] it's alright, it's alright, it's alright to hear these speeches.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
You know, we got to do some work, and if we, you see Mr. Gregory has come down in vain if we're not down there Monday morning.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
These children have gone to jail in vain and not only that we gonna make ourselves the adults. Lemme have it quiet, please. [[claps]]

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
The adults-, can I have it quiet? The white folks gonna say that the negros in this county don't want the vote.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
Now lemme tell you why they're gonna to say, do you remember that first mass meeting?

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
The white citizen's council had an ad and said that the white citizen's council had stopped the first mass meeting because only 350 negros came out after the leaders had worked 60 days to get the mass meeting. Now that's what they said, now you gonna let Reverend Reese, Mr. Doyle, Ms. Boyintin, yourself, and everybody else in Selma down if we don't have at least 500 people down there Monday.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
Now we can have that many people down at that courthouse, see. Children gonna be down there after 3:30 after school is out because they have the right to see the courthouse too.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
But you adults gotta be there in the morning and this is a serious matter now! I mean there is no plaything, you've got to make up in your mind what you're gonna do Monday morning.

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{SPEAKER name="James Forman"}
See a lot of people raised their hands last night about they're gonna be down at that courthouse Monday.