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Transcription: [00:23:55]

Regardless of who you are, you should be interested in this:

In over 70% of the places that the people went into, to work on a freedom vote for Henry, they were either harassed by police or shot at, beaten, or ran out of town by the whites in the city.

This just goes to show you just how much freedom we really have. People have been talking about how the Negroes and the white folks been getting along for such a long time

until the civil rights organizations moved in. But this just goes to show you just how we have been getting along with them. As long as we were "Yassur Mistah Charlie",

as long as we were bound by our heads and walking in the mud holes and down those plow hills, we were alright with them, right? [Crowd responds with a yes]

But we have become agitators and things like that as soon as we decide to hold our head high and say, "this is our land too, right?" [Crowd responds with a yes]

We don't care what they say. The tides of freedom are moving on, and we not gonna stop for anything.

Now, we all have voiced ourselves, many of us, in the freedom election. This is our own victory road.

Deep in our hearts, from this day on, Aaron Henry shall be governor to us because we're showing the world that we want him. [Crowd cheers, responds with "Amen"]
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No two-bit joker sitting behind anybody's mahogany desk, talking about "Nigger Nigger" everyday is gonna be able to tell me what to do from now on in this particular land called Mississippi!

[[Crowd cheers approval]]