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CIVIL RIGHTS CORE - PART TWO

PRESIDENT JOHNSON CALLS FOR NEW VOTING LAWS CONCERNING BLACKS AS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS MOVE ON

Selma and Montgomery, United States of America USA. GV. Low angle exterior of Brown Chapel in Selma, the starting place of the march. CU. Board outside church GV. Crowd outside the chapel before the march starts. VS. The Reverend Martin Luther King Leader of the NAACP on steps of chapel with other civil rights leaders. VS. Blacks and whites form up in lines for the march. VS. Luther King heads the march as it moves off. CU. Peoples feet walking. MCU. Luther King heading march. VS. After one mile of the march the marchers come across a wall of Troopers who bar their way. The march has come to a halt. VS. The marchers kneel by the road in prayer. VS. Marchers arriving in Montgomery after a successful five day march from Selma. They carry banners and Stars and Stripes, among them are nuns also. At this point in the film the track of President Johnson's speech to Congress starts. MS. President Johnson speaking to Congress, he explains why he feels that a new voting law is just and necessary. S.O.F. A transcript of this speech is in attached dope. VS. Marchers crowded into Montgomery. VS. Flashback to civil rights demonstrators outside the White House. VS. Congress stands to applaud the President after his speech, Vice President Humphries is first to shake his hand and then everyone shakes the President's hand. VS. Marchers on the road from Selma to Montgomery. CU. Sign, 'Down Town Montgomery'. VS. The singing Luther King leads the marchers into Montgomery among them is Harry Belafonte. VS. Luther King and the marchers having peaceful demonstration in front of town Hall in Montgomery. (F.G.)

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BAYARD RUSTIN - HARRY BELAFONTE - MLK

ORIG. NEG. 300 SOG. MAG. INTERVIEW WITH CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, BAYARD RUSTIN ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS MEETING WITH BLACK AFRICAN AMBASSADORS. INTERVIEW SCLC LEADER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING - SAYS THERE IS NO MILITARY SOLUTION IN VIETNAM. SAYS IT IS TIME TO ORGANIZE THE NEGROES IN THE NORTHERN GHETTOS. INTERVIEW ACTOR SINGER HARRY BELAFONTE, ABOUT VARIOUS CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES. CI: PERSONALITIES - KING, MARTIN LUTHER. PERSONALITIES - BELAFONTE, HARRY. PERSONALITIES - RUSTIN, BAYARD.

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CU HARRY BELAFONTE SINGING " WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH MY MIND ON JESUS" HYMN " ON THE STREET AT FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

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SCREEN LEGEND, ACTIVIST HARRY BELAFONTE DIES AT 96

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THE SON OF CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANTS WORKED HARD TO PULL HIMSELF OUT OF POVERTY THROUGH MUSIC AND EDUCATION. \n\nHARRY BELAFONTE SOUNDBITE\n"I and my brothers and sisters were first to be educated.\n\nBELAFONTE's HUMBLE AND SOMETIMES ROUGH BEGINNINGS IN NEW YORK CITY HELPED SHAPE THE MAN WHO LATER WOULD HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON AMERICAN MUSIC AND DRAMA.\n\nHARRY BELAFONTE SOUNDBITE YELLOW FILE TAPE\n"I went to school here. (NYC). Drama school. My classmates were Marlon Brando, Sydney Poitier, Walter Malthau, Bea Arthur."\n\nBELAFONTE BURST ONTO THE ENTERTAINMENT SCENE IN THE EARLY 1950S. HE WAS DUBBED THE "KING OF CALYPSO" BECAUSE OF THE JAMAICAN FOLK MUSIC HE MADE POPULAR. AT AROUND THE SAME TIME, HE WON RAVE REVIEWS FOR HIS ROLE IN THE MOVIE "CARMEN JONES." IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST FILMS WITH AN ALL BLACK CAST TO GARNER BOX OFFICE SUCCESS. \n\nTHE MAN WITH THE UNIQUELY HUSKY VOICE WENT ON TO MAKE MORE THAN 40 ALBUMS, INCLUDING ORIGINAL RECORDINGS AND COMPILATIONS...AND STARRED IN MORE THAN 10 MOVIES SPANNING More than 5 DECADES.\n\nCLIP FROM "ISLAND IN THE SUN" MOVIE WITH BELAFONTE\n("My skin is my nation.")\n\nBELAFONTE WON SEVERAL GRAMMY AWARDS FOR HIS RECORDS IN THE EARLY 1960S...AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK PERFORMERS TO WIN A TONY AWARD -- FOR THE BROADWAY HIT "JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON'S ALMANAC." IN HIS LATER YEARS, \nHIS BIG SCREEN PROJECTS DEALT WITH THE LARGER SOCIETAL ISSUES OF RACE AND CLASS, LIKE 1995'S "WHITE MAN'S BURDEN."\n\nWHITE MAN'S BURDEN CLIP\n"So you lost your job. Lots of people lose their jobs. Tough luck get another one."\n\nALTHOUGH BELAFONTE'S CAREER KEPT HIM BUSY, HE ALWAYS MADE TIME FOR HIS FAMILY. HE WAS THE FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN FROM TWO MARRIAGES. HIS DAUGHTER, SHARI BELAFONTE FOLLOWED IN HIS FOOTSTEPS TO BECOME AN ACTRESS IN HER OWN RIGHT. \n\nSHOW FILE BROLL OF HARRY AT VARIOUS ACTIVIST ACTIVITIES. SHOW HIM AT ACLU EVENT AND AT THURGOOD MARSHALL EVENT.\n\nALTHOUGH HIS MUSIC AND MOVIES GAINED HIM FAME, BELAFONTE ALSO MADE HIS MARK AS A POLITICAL ACTIVIST. IN THE 60S, HE STOOD UP FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF BLACKS IN AMERICA AND STOOD SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE LIKES OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., AND BOBBY KENNEDY, BOTH LATER ASSASSINATED. TWO DECADES LATER, HE TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO THE POOR AND POWERLESS ABROAD, ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA.\n\nIN 19-85 BELAFONTE INITIATED THE USA FOR AFRICA RECORDING OF "WE ARE THE WORLD" WITH SOME THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS ENTERTAINERS.\nTHE SONG RAISED OVER 63-MILLION DOLLARS FOR AFRICAN RELIEF..\n\n---VO---\nAND FOR HIS HUMANITARIANISM, THE ARTIST RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS FROM THE KENNEDY CENTER, THE ACLU, THE AMERICAN NATIONAL MEDAL OF THE ARTS AND THE THURGOOD MARSHALL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. \n\nHARRY SOUNDBITE\n"...goes to Mister Harry Belafonte."\n\nHE ALSO STOOD ALONGSIDE OPRAH WINFREY AT HARVARD--THE TWO RECEIVING THE UNIVERSITY'S HIGHEST MEDAL OF HONOR FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT THE TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN W.E.B. DU BOIS AWARD CEREMONY.\n\n\nLATER IN LIFE, BELAFONTE FURTHER SEALED HIS LEGACY,\nSTARTING HIS OWN FOUNDATION: "SANKOFA," FOCUSED ON SOCIAL JUSTICE. \nIN THE DOCUMENTARY "HARRY BELAFONTE: SING YOUR SONG," HE CONTEMPLATED HIS LIFE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT...AND THE WORK THAT LAY AHEAD. \n\n\n---SOT---\n2:18 Belafonte: I try to envision playing out the rest of my life almost exclusively devoted to reflection, but there is too much to be done."\n\nAT THE PREMIERE OF A MOVIE ABOUT HIS FRIEND BOBBY KENNEDY, BELAFONTE SAID HE HOPED PEOPLE WOULD REMEMBER HIM FOR WHAT HE DID FOR PEOPLE IN NEED, AND NOT JUST HOW HE ENTERTAINED THEM.\n\n--SOT---\n"My social activism, the things that I believe in politically and although I took a lot of heat in what I did then//And I'm taking heat again for some of the things I say and do but If history is any measure then I probably wind up on the right side of the equation."\n\n--TAG--\n\n\n-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n--KEYWORD TAGS--\n

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Harry Belafonte: Missing Crooner

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CLVIZ-40, WE SHALL OVERCOME SHOWS HOW "WE SHALL OVERCOME" HELPED TO BRING IMPORTANT SOCIAL EVENTS TO LIFE. IT CELEBRATES THE GROWTH OF HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, AS IT CHRONICLES THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SONG. AN EMMY AWARD WINNING MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY NARRATED BY HARRY BELAFONTE, WE SHALL OVERCOME FEATURES THE JOYFUL MUSIC OF PETE SEEGER, JOAN BAEZ, TAJ MAHAL, PETER PAUL & MARY, THE FREEDOM SINGERS. IT TRACES THE FASCINATING STORY OF HOW AN OLD SLAVE SPIRITUAL WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A LABOR ORGANIZING SONG BEFORE BECOMING THE WELL KNOWN ANTHEM OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. EARLY VERSIONS REVEAL THE ROLE PLAYED BY BOTH BLACK & WHITE MUSICIANS IN TRANSFORMING THE SONG THAT HELPED BRING AN END TO SEGREGATION. FOLK MUSICIANS HELPED ADAPT THE TUNE TO MAKE IT A SONG OF PEACEFUL PROTEST, IN MOVEMENTS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS & WORKER'S UNIONS. ALONG WITH THE MUSIC, THIS FILM EVOKES POWERFUL EMOTIONS WITH POIGNANT ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE & PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. IT SHOWS HOW MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., AND ASSOCIATES WERE AFFECTED BY THE SONG & SPECIFIC INSTANCES WHERE IT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY WHILE GROUNDED ACTIVISTS IN THE PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENCE. IN REPEATED TESTIMONIES, THE SONG HAD UNIQUE QUALITIES THAT HELPED BOLSTER THE COURAGE AND UNIFY THE PEOPLE IN DOING SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE TASKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. ANTI-APARTHEID LEADER BISHOP DESMOND TUTU SHOWS HOW THE MESSAGE HAS REACHED HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, KOREA, LEBANON, AND MOSCOW. PRESIDENT JOHNSON.

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David Schoenbrun 4:58 How about a personal participation such as today's extraordinary participation, is this a rare experience for you? Sidney Poitier 5:06 No, it is not a rare experience for me, I found having lived in New York and in other parts of America over the last 20 years, since I came from the Caribbean, I found it necessary for self protection and for to perpetuate my survival, that I involve myself in any activity that would ease my burden. David Schoenbrun 5:30 And what was the involvement of Mr. Charlton Heston? Charlton Heston 5:34 Two years ago, I picketed some restaurants in Oklahoma, but without one exception, up until very recently, like most Americans, I am expressed my support of civil rights largely by talking about it at cocktail parties, I'm afraid. But again, like most many Americans this summer, I could no longer pay only lip service to a cause that was so urgently right. And in a time, that is so urgently now. David Schoenbrun 6:02 Mr. Belafonte many of us have felt I particularly as a reporter around the world, I've seen things happen in certain countries at a given moment, where what the French call a prise de conscience takes place a sudden awareness of the problem. I know, in your cases, hasn't been sudden, you've been very active in the civil rights movement, have you not? Harry Belafonte 6:23 Yes I have David Schoenbrun 6:24 Could you tell us a bit about your own role in civil rights? Harry Belafonte 6:28 Well, civil rights are something that I inherited, at least the struggle for civil rights, I got it from my mother, and my father, and they got it from their mother and their fathers. And to be in Washington today was, for me an accumulation of a number of generations of black Americans who have been trying to appeal to the conscience, of white supremacy, and a superior force that has denied and disenfranchise the Negro for so long. And that to be in Washington, was for me today. A, a beginning, really a kind of a climax to generations of hope. And having been deeply immersed in the civil rights struggle, and having been at the beginning of so many important civil rights issues in this country and demonstrations. It was indeed, a powerful moment to see 200,000 people, mostly black people, but also white people, and to know that a nation such as America, and the reason that I struggle with it so hard, and I grapple with it so hard is because I really believe in the potential of this country. And this country has not realized its potential, it has not even begun to scratch its surface in the humanities. And because I do feel strongly about that potential. And because of the kind of Inheritance Inheritance I've had, it was necessary for me to be there today. David Schoenbrun 8:00 Mr. Belafonte you are, I think one of the lieutenants of Martin Luther King, most respected leaders of movement. We all heard Mr. King say today that this was perhaps the greatest day for freedom in modern American history. Perhaps we could ask Mr. Brando to say, tell us what that means to him. Do you think then, if it's the greatest day for freedom, if this is the beginning of some tremendous change in our country? And if so, how do you see it developing? Marlon Brando 8:32 Well, this is a revolution. Of course, it is sweeping our country now and that if it ends up properly, perhaps Indians will be given some of their land back that they have rightful claims on by treaty. Certainly, the benefit of all minorities, Jews, Filipinos, Chinese, negros, Hindustani Koreans, all people will benefit. Today was an unprecedented event in that it is the only time in history I believe, in America when to over 200,000 people have gathered to say, with one voice and with one spirit. One cause and I think that it's easy to oversimplify this problem. The problem seems to me a subtler one, and it has to do with hatred is true the Ovimbundu tribe which roamed from an area of I think Tanzania to Angola, was responsible for the acquisition of 15 million of their fellow negros citizens and sold them in the slavery. Certainly the cruelty that have gone on in between the white races will testify to this inherent anger that all men feel and no matter where you look Whether it's in Franco Spain, or Chiang Kai Shek government or in some of the South American countries, they the distress that you see in Haiti today gives evidence to the fact that we are all as human beings filled with anguish and hatred and fear. And I think that that is what we are expressly addressing ourselves here to today, here in this moment, I think it's one step closer to trying to understand the human heart to try to understand what is it that has produced this? What excuses that we give ourselves to give the expression to burning children with cattle prods and destroying people

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Dr. Martin Luther King 16:02 I think so. I think he should, I think he should give fireside chats on it. And then I think more than one would be necessary. I think the president should also have conferences with congressmen and get them try to persuade them to see the necessity of passing this bill. And I think he would need to talk with certain groups across the country. So that it will create a climate of civil rights concern will be created. And people all over the country will be writing their senators and their representatives in Congress on this issue. I think these things are absolutely necessary. And I think the the devotees or civil rights will have to do something. I mean, I think the civil rights leaders and all of the the Negroes in the country, as well as allies in the white community will have to do something and I don't throw out the idea of the necessity of a march on Washington. Even sit ins and Congress to get this issue dramatize so much that it cannot be ignored. David Susskind 17:22 March on Washington by negros and whites. Dr. Martin Luther King 17:26 Yes, all citizens. Yes, I'm thinking now of, of all people of goodwill, who are concerned about the American dream and the implementation of the basic principles of our democracy. And this would include negros and whites, and I think it would have more power, if it is an interracial March, calling upon our nation to bring into being these just laws which will take us on a long, long way toward the American dream. David Susskind 18:00 In the recent meeting between James Baldwin, you know, on Harry Belafonte and other prominent negros with the Attorney General, the suggestion was made that the President could make a very dramatic contribution to the issue. By taking the University of Alabama Negro applicants to the school himself, the Attorney General was reported to recoil at this idea to been stung or horrified or taken aback. Do you think the President United States should go to that dramatic degree by way of using moral power of his office? Dr. Martin Luther King 18:35 Yes, I think so. I, I have said on several occasions in recent days, that this would be the kind of meaningful Act and the kind of dramatic thrust that would make it clear all over the world that we mean business when we talk about basic human rights and democracy and guaranteeing these basic rights to all citizens. And I think we have come to the point in our nation that we need this kind of moral witness on the part of the highest official and the most respected citizen in our nation. It would, it would give a sense of hope to the Negro, it would give a sense of support to the many, many white people of goodwill north and south who had been working in this area. And it would do a great deal to lift the image of the United States, in the eyes of the world, people of all countries who are looking and they are seeing all of these bad things, but to see this as a great Moral Act would do a great deal, I think to give us a better image all over the world. David Susskind 19:56 Dr. King, we must pause for just a brief moment. We'll be right back. David Susskind 20:01 Is the President United States to date wanting in the way in which he has used the moral power of his office moral suasion. And if you do find him wanting in your remarks up to this time seem to suggest that you do. What has been his motive? Do you think in holding back? Dr. Martin Luther King 20:21 Well, I must honestly confess that the President hasn't done all that he could do. And we would like to see him do in the area of civil rights. I don't want to be unfair. In my criticism, I want to say on one hand that the President has done some significant things in civil rights. And I think he is basically a man of genuine goodwill. Who wants to do the right thing. And I could point to some of the things that he's done that have been helpful. On the other hand, the president Kennedy has not yet given the leadership that the enormity of the problem demands, he has failed to live up to his campaign promises. He has not gone on record calling for any meaningful civil rights legislation up to now. And if he does, in the coming days, we would welcome this, but he has not done it in the past. And, of course, that is still the need to use the power of moral persuasion to a greater degree than he has in the past. This is one area where the President has has not moved with, with a great sense of urgency.

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Peter Yarrow: I'm the one who has not the definitive answer at all, but the most biased answer Uh, because I loved Albert very much, even though I found him to be extremely difficult, in certain ways that he was a great teacher to me, and somewhat of a father figure in ways, because I grew up without a father in my life. And he was one of the sort of people that helped to really educate me and take me away from my rather comprehensive, square point of view in life. And I was that and he cured that a little bit, the comprehensive square...So, so let me tell you about Albert, from my perspective, I don't think that the Folk Renaissance would have happened in the way that it happened had it not been for Albert, because he not only nurtured talents like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and and Peter, Paul and Mary, and Odetta and Richie Havens. Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot. Yeah, he also gave all of his artists the opportunity to make their own decisions. He always said, You, I believe that artists have a right to destroy their own careers if they so desire. And when he would always weigh in, and his opinion was so respected. It was he that suggested we do stewball. It was he that suggested we do take off your old coat, Jane Jane, it was he that suggested in fact, the chorus idea for the great Mandela. Albert was, it was the person who sat in the recording studio and said instead of putting all the voices in the center, to Bill Schwarzkopf put the, you know, the three voices completely left, right and center, which gave a new intimacy, to, to the to the singing. And the contract that he drew up for us was indeed not a big part. It was a multi record contract. And it did give us every single artistic prerogative that we needed to continue to believe in ourselves. Whereas Colombia wanted us to go there, Colombia became Sony. And they said, well, they sing well, but they have all the wrong repertoire. And if they can change that, now they they're talking about the wrong repertoire being wherever the flower is gone. 500 miles if I had a hammer, lemon tree, I mean, Albert Grossman, to me, was outside of the musicians themselves and the artists, the most profound influence in protecting the integrity, the taste integrity, that I didn't always do it with, with with gentleness, and he was a tough adversary. But I'll tell you something. He he was remarkable. Pete Fornatale: I'm glad I asked the question. Listen, I remember when 10th anniversarys were a big deal. In fact, your first Greatest Hits was called 10 years together, then 25 became the magic number. And you celebrated that one with a PBS special. I am awash in memories of 40 year anniversaries this year. And I want to ask you, about a couple of them in chronological order. August 1963, the civil rights march on Washington. How did you come to be involved with that? Did you mark the 40th anniversary this past summer in any special way? Peter Yarrow: Well, first, we got a call from Harry Belafonte to come down to the March on Washington, or maybe that was the Montgomery march. Otherwise, I don't remember who else would have done it. But I think it was Harry was the central organizing person for the performers that sang and if you see the new, the DVD, on the box set, you'll see Ossie Davis come up there and say the most wonderful make the most wonderful introduction before we sang blowing in the wind, he said, and now here to express musically. What has brought us together today is the folk singing group, Peter, Paul and Mary and that's, you know, a paraphrase. So the, it was, it was an extraordinary event. I myself, sang it Abyssinian Baptist Church in Atlanta, with Coretta Scott King and some other people I'd never been there to this year as part of the the events of Martin Luther King Day and his birthday, etcetera, etcetera. And it was interesting because they were saying at the gathering and the march thereafter, what would Martin have said, what would he have done in response to what's going on today with the Ashcroft debacle and the bush, debacle, et cetera, as we see it Paul Stookey: and the pre emptive incursion into Iraq Peter Yarrow: present preemptive strike as a policy to the absence of habeas corpus or due process for Guantanamo Bay detainees, etc. What would Martin have done? Paul Stookey: And what would he have said standing in a circle of students at Northfield Mount Hermon high school students where my wife is a chaplain on Martin Luther King Day, was to reiterate the hope you know, they bring a kind of innocence and awareness that this is a day in history that has figured in their lives and their parents lives, but to sing blowing in the wind with them holding hands, you know, and to reiterate, the hopefulness for the country is very special. Pete Fornatale: The song on the DVD is if I had hammer let's listen to that one on mixbag radio

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INTERVIEW BEGINS: Announcer 0:31 In a television studio in Washington on August 28 of 1963. As a small group from Hollywood, California joined to give their own personally held views of the Civil Rights gathering which took place on that day. Here as citizens committed to the cause of civil rights are James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Joseph Mankiewicz and Sidney Poitier. The moderator, David Schoenbrun. David Schoenbrun 1:19 I think that it's about time to begin our discussion. We're here in the studio today with seven men who have two things in common. They are entertainers and artists, and they've all come to Washington, there are seven out of some 200,000 American citizens who came to the Capitol to march for freedom and for jobs. They came from many states of the Union. And in many states of mind. They came with many different involvements. Some of them who came here to Washington were long term fighters for civil rights. Some of them have joined only very recently, but perhaps just as intensely. Perhaps we can start with these men and ask each and every one of them to tell us very succinctly to begin the discussion. What brought them to Washington, and how long they've been on this road this march for Jobs and Freedom. Let's begin with a very well known American novelist, one of our best writers, James Baldwin, Mr. Baldwin, what brought you to the March on Washington? James Baldwin 2:20 I could say the fact that I was born a negro in this country, more concretely, I felt there was no way for me not to be involved with what impressed me has been the most significant, the most important, most loaded demonstration to free Americans that has ever happened in this country. David Schoenbrun 2:42 Well we'll talk more about that later. But first, let's quickly get from each and every one of you. Mr. Brando, have you been on this road for a long time? Marlon Brando 2:50 I don't know. There was a time when nobody was on the road, really. And it was time when Rosa Parks stood up on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. And from that date, the Montgomery Bus Boycott took place. And some were in the 50s 18 Negroes in a Georgia prison camp broke their leg with sledgehammers to bring attention to the condition that they were in. And slowly, bit by bit I became involved in this issue and I guess my Springboard was listening to Martin Luther King speak about the woe and distress in California. David Schoenbrun 3:29 Joe Malkovich writer, producer, director. Joseph Mankiewicz 3:34 Well, I've like all Americans, I've been involved in what I call human rights ever since I was born in this country. I think that what has happened to me recently is that I've become violently aware of the urgency of human rights in America now. The fact that this is an inalienable thing, and something that must exist if America is to exist in our images to exist and our moral fibers to exist. And this urgency and my awareness of it brought me here. David Schoenbrun 4:10 I felt this sense of urgency myself, Mr. Poitier And I noticed today all day long, and all of the speeches and all of the placards, I saw the word or heard the word now now now repeated with insistency. Was it for you a case of urgency, and now or has this been something that you've been fighting for a long time? Sidney Poitier 4:30 Well, the nature of my life over the last 36 years, has been such that an urgency the urgency that was evident today has been bubbling in me personally, for most of these years, at least most of the years, I came into adulthood. I became interested in civil rights struggle out of a necessity to survive. And I think my interest started many years ago, never as intensely however, as it exists today.

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