My Parents Would Make Huge Crops Of

I Am Determined To Get Every Negro In The State Of Mississippi Registered.

I Do Remember, One Time, A Man Came To Me After The Students Began To Work In Mississippi And He Said The White People Were Getting Tired And They Were Getting Tense And Anything Might Happen. Well, I Asked Him "how Long He Thinks We Had Been Getting Tired"? I Have Been Tired For 46 Years And My Parents Was Tired Before Me And Their Parents Were Tired, And I Have Always Wanted To Do Something That Would Help Some Of The Things I Would See Going On Among Negroes That I Didn't Like And I Don't Like Now.

Whether You Have A Ph.d., Or No D, We're In This Bag Together. And Whether You're From Morehouse Or Nohouse, We're Still In This Bag Together. Not To Fight To Try To Liberate Ourselves From The Men - This Is Another Trick To Get Us Fighting Among Ourselves - But To Work Together With The Black Man, Then We Will Have A Better Chance To Just Act As Human Beings, And To Be Treated As Human Beings In Our Sick Society.

Actually, Some Of The Things I Experienced As A Child Still Linger On; What The White Man Has Done To The Black People In The South!

One Of The Things I Remember As A Child: There Was A Man Named Joe Pulliam. He Was A Great Christian Man; But One Time, He Was Living With A White Family And This White Family Robbed Him Of What He Earned. They Didn't Pay Him Anything. This White Man Gave Him $150 To Go To The Hill, (you See, I Lived In The Black Belt Of Mississippi)... To Get Another Negro Family. Joe Pulliam Knew What This White Man Had Been Doing To Him So He Kept The $150 And Didn't Go.