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Transcription: [00:36:24]
{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]] and [[clapping]]

[00:36:31]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I remember the last time we were in Hattiesburg, we were in the [[?]] temple I believe and we all gathered there and the police came into the building, the fire trucks surrounded the building and wailed all night

[00:36:48]
{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]]

[00:36:50]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I recall as we are now stood in there we say again tonight there's a fire going on [[?]]

[00:36:56]
{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]] and [[clapping]]

[00:37:08]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Now ladies and gentlemen we have had, representation from four major civil rights groups in our area and we sort of reversing, what ordinarily would be protocol in Mississippi tonight,

[00:37:24]
because now we're going to bring on some white folks you know

[00:37:29]
{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]] and [[clapping]]

[00:37:40]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You know I recall when we were in New York couple days ago and they were all head up about you know everybody-- every newsman wants to know from the regular civil rights people

[00:37:54]
what about the black Muslims?

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{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[background voice]] and [[laughter]]

[00:37:58]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Oh, that's a good one and I heard Whitney Young answer that question, as good as I ever heard it answered when the white man asking "what about the black Muslims?"

[00:38:09]
He said "well you know sir, I think the black Muslims are a unique group and they say unequivocably to the white man, that you've got no monopoly on [[other?]] groups."

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{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]] and [[clapping]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You got the white citizens council, you got the Hattiesburg citizen league-- whatever you call it, you got the John Butch society we entitled to a black Muslim or two

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{SPEAKER name="Audience"}
[[laughter]] and [[clapping]]

Transcription Notes:
The audio has been transcribed but I wasn't sure about a few parts, so I left those as [[?]].