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to not work against it.

The president is planning

new legislation

that will bring

a huge federal intervention

to poverty, hunger, and jobs.

Think what that will do

for our people.

- 40 acres and a mule.

- Moses:
That's right.

What if he's serious?

Okay, we will not campaign

against the bill,

but we're not gonna sit

on our hands either.

What does the visionary

Bob Moses propose?

Freedom Summer.

We are going to flood

the state of Mississippi

with hundreds

of student volunteers

- to educate and register Negro voters.

- Abernathy:
You crazy.

- Mississippi?

- Not just Negro volunteers.

White students, too.

If just one of your white

volunteers gets hurt,

you will do irreparable

damage to the cause.

- Abernathy:
That's right.

- Whereas if one of our Negro volunteers gets hurt,

who gives a f***?

There may be trouble,

but if it takes some white kid

getting smacked around

to shed a little light on the

darkness that is Mississippi,

- then why not?!

- Because people will die in Mississippi!

- Roy, people are dying in Mississippi.

- Exactly!

- We're not asking...

- All right, all right, calm down.

Nobody in here gonna do

anything they can't get behind.

But we should respond to the

elimination of voting rights,

and Freedom Summer is the

perfect way to do that.

At the same time, Roy,

you are right.

The bill still does

give us a lot.

No one in this room has your

legislative experience.

So clearly, you and the NAACP

should lead our

lobbying efforts in DC.

Hmm.

All right?

Yes, okay.

Gentlemen.

Lord have mercy.

One of these days, Stokely and

Wilkins gonna kill each other

right there in the middle

of the room.

King:
In that case, we

should sell tickets

so I can stop giving speeches.

I know that's right.

First thing tomorrow,

let's reach out and get

our membership mobilized

on this new campaign.

Yeah.

You need anything else?

I'm okay.

Good night, then.

Give me a minute.

Whoo!

The sex-mad preacher.

His hypocrisy is disgusting.

The man is a flagrant adulterer.

Oh, my.

A Southern preacher

who fucks his choir.

Who ever heard of that?

Oh, Edgar,

if you arrested every politician

and every preacher who ever

strayed from the marital bed,

wouldn't be nobody

in politics or the pulpit.

His moral turpitude is just

the tip of the iceberg.

Why, his... his Communist

connections...

Edgar,

far be it from me to tell

you how to do your job.

So keep an eye on him, sure,

but the House is about to

vote on my civil rights bill.

And this...

is not helpful.

- You understand me?

- Yes, sir.

Reporter on TV:

As part of Freedom Summer,

the Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee, or SNCC,

is recruiting and training black and

white college students from the North

and bussing them into Mississippi

to register black voters.

Police have confronted the activists,

leading to violent clashes.

Moses:
For two weeks,

we've been training

to join other Freedom Summer

organizers in Mississippi,

but I cannot

emphasize enough to you

the dangers you will face.

The federal government

will not protect you

and the Mississippi government will

do everything it can to stop you.

If at any time you wish to quit,

you should do so, including now.

All right.

Let's get started.

Get on board

Children, children,

get on board

Children,

children, get on board

Children, children

Let's fight for freedom now

Get on board

Children, children,

get on board

Children,

children, get on board.

We will now call the House

of Representatives to order

to consider House Bill 736,

the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

- Smith:
Mr. Speaker.

- Can you hear that?

This bill is nothing less than

an assault on the Constitution

by the federal government.

Who are we

to tell the owner of a cafe

who he can hire

or who he can serve?

Who are we to tell a state

that they may not pass

segregation laws?

As a conservative Republican,

I believe that state authority

should not be

needlessly usurped.

Hear, hear.

But I also believe

that the Constitution

doesn't say that whites alone

shall have our basic rights.

Didn't see that coming.

McCulloch is just playing

to the peanut gallery.

Well.

Are you, Lyndon?

Is this just still so much red

meat for Humphrey and his gang?

People aren't gonna stand for

Jim Crow anymore, Uncle Dick.

I'm not saying the Negro

hasn't been put upon.

He has been put upon

most disgracefully.

But you can't rush these things.

Look at the mess in Mississippi

with all those agitators

going down there

getting in people's business.

Folks are gonna get hurt.

And whose fault would that be?

Smith:
Mr. Speaker,

I would like

to introduce an amendment

that would exempt

local businesses

in public accommodations.

For instance,

if you were a podiatrist

- and had your office in a hotel...

- Man:
Come on!

If I were cutting corns,

I would wanna know whose feet

I was gonna have to be

monkeying around with.

Boo!

Unbelievable.

I would want to know whether

they smelled good or bad.

- Boo!

- God's honest truth.

Podiatrists, like other

minorities, got rights, too.

- That's nonsense!

- Yes, sir!

To force them to work

violates the 13th Amendment's

prohibition against slavery

or involuntary servitude.

You know, if that's the best

the judge has to offer,

he should've lost his

chairmanship a long time ago.

- Lyndon.

- Man:
Mr. Speaker...

I, for one, am fed up

with amendments

that suddenly or blatantly

defeat the purpose of this bill.

And to my esteemed

colleague Judge Smith,

if you're going to trim the

stinky, smelly white corns...

you're gonna have to do the

same thing to the black ones.

That's telling him.

My goodness, man.

Call for a vote,

for God's sakes.

McCormack:
With no more

amendments to be offered,

the Speaker calls

for a final vote

on House Bill 736.

- Abbitt.

- Nay.

Mr. Abbitt votes nay.

Abele.

- Yea.

- Mr. Abele votes yea.

- Adair.

- Yea.

- Albert.

- Nay.

Mr. Andrews from Alabama?

- Nay.

- Mr. Andrews votes nay.

Mr. Andrews from North Dakota.

- Yea.

- Mr. Andrews votes yea.

290 votes for

and 130 votes against.

The bill passes and will

now go to the Senate.

We got it, Walter. Thank you.

General Burnside thought he'd

crush Lee at Fredericksburg.

His overconfidence

cost him his army.

And only three years later,

Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

Nobody's surrendering,

Mr. President.

Thank you, Matthew. Most kind.

Reporter on TV:

In St. Augustine, Florida,

Negro demonstrators

were attacked today

by an estimated 500 angry whites

when they broke through

police lines.

The conflict began

when 200 Negro demonstrators

led by Andrew Young and other

civil rights leaders...

"Trust L.B.J. He's one of us."

Is this the first time

a civil rights bill

made it through the House?

So the bill goes to the Senate.

All right? So what?

How many civil rights bills

have you buried

in the last 10 years?

That graveyard of yours

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