I Would Like To Talk About Some

The 20th Of March In 1964, I Went Before The Secretary Of State To Qualify To Run As An Official Candidate For Congress From The 2nd Congressional District, And It Was Easier For Me To Qualify To Run Than It Was For Me To Pass The Literacy Test To Be A Registered Voter. And We Had Four People To Qualify And Run In The June Primary Election Be We Didn't Have Enough Negroes Registered In Mississippi.

Some Things I Found Out In The National Convention I Wasn't Too Glad I Did Find Out. But We Will Work Hard, And It Was Important To Actually Really Bring This Out To The Open, The Things I Will Say Some People Knew About And Some People Didn't; This Stuff That Has Been Kept Under The Cover For So Many Years. Actually, The World And America Is Upset And The Only Way To Bring About A Change Is To Upset It More.

I Think There Will Be Great Leaders Emerging From The State Of Mississippi. The People That Have The Experience To Know And The People Not Interested In Letting Somebody Pat You On The Back And Tell Us "i Think It Is Right." And It Is Very Important For Us Not To Accept A Compromise And After I Got Back To Mississippi, People There Said It Was The Most Important Step That Had Been Taken.

We Didnt Come All This Way For No Two Seats When All Of Us Is Tired.

I Was Treated Much Better In Africa Than I Was Treated In America. And You See, Often I Get Letters Like This: "go Back To Africa."