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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and as soon as the white man understands that he can't no more come and talk to one group from one organization.
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And sorta do business behind the backs of the other group. We are saying to the white man in Hattiesburg.
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as we have never said before, that the structure of the freedom movement is one and is together in Hattiesburg.
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It's my privilege at this time to present Miss [[?]]. Who chairs the citizenship school movement for the [[southern ??]] conference.
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A movement that has perhaps encourage more people to sit the right to register vote, than any other activity in the state.
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It's [[?]] citizenship school to take adult, nigro, and white citizens, who can't even read nor write their own name.
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And [[what?]] if these people until there are able to read the constitution of Mississippi, to the point that they can interpret it.
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Write and read about it until they get their name on the registration book.
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We don't have an activity in the state that is more important. And it is the privilege to give to you the lady in our state.
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Who is chairing that particular way. Ms. [??] Come on in.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I feel very good being here with you tonight. And I feel very honored to be able to follow some of the great heroes in the freedom struggle.
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I think the greatest work is being done for freedom in the state of Mississippi. And I am glad to be here among people like the people in Hattiesburg, who is setting another great example.
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When I came in and heard that your plan to go to jail, not knowing that they are bail to get you out. It gave my spirits a great lift, a great lit.
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I don't want to talk for a long time but I do want to say that the citizenship program is with you 100%.
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One of our supervisors for this [[?]] plans to be in the demonstration tomorrow and I told her tonight.
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That said all have a nice long stay. When you go in, that, maybe I'd better to say hope we have a nice stay.
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Hope we will be long. I think that we all have to keep hope. We have to keep hope.
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And we have to keep try. And we can get courage and inspiration from the people like the [[?]] who come down here to help us.
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But we need always to say and to prove that we will never turn back. Thank you very much.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And now ladies and gentlemen the representative of the forth of the major civil rights groups that are about freedom's business in Hattiesburg. Here's Dave Dennis of [Core??].

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