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The Long Walk Home Page #5
- PG
- Year:
- 1990
- 97 min
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base who do.
I come to find
out from Odessa,
they are drivin' these maids
around on a regular basis.
- What? - There are white
women drivin' for the carpool.
- Are you sure? - Yes. Odessa says
they're from Maxwell Field.
I should have known
they were Yankees.
But they had police out there,
and they were followin' people around.
For a while, Odessa and I
thought they were followin' us.
- Miriam, are you drivin' your
maid to work? - No, Laura Ann.
Two days a week I go to the Curb Market,
and I just pick her up on those days.
And you were talkin' like you thought those
white women drivin' the carpools were wrong.
You're just as bad. Robert says this
whole boycott would end tomorrow if
- people like you would stop drivin' their
maids to work. - Is that what Robert says?
Well, my maid has a car,
so I don't have to worry about it.
Well, I told Cathy,
that if she wanted to boycott,
that was fine, but she'd be on her own.
She fed me all this junk about:
"Oh, I's not wantin' to boycott.
I's just walkin' 'cause I can't ride
with all these police and stuff. "
I told her, "Fine. Just be at work
on time and don't leave early. "
One club.
Well, you better well believe
- she's sittin' up front at those
church rallies. - Pass.
- One spade.
- Pass.
I don't really care what happens to
the boycott, but I do care if I have a maid,
and if that means drivin' her sometimes,
well, that's what it means.
Two clubs.
to walk and ride in carpools,
as the city buses roll
without passengers.
An announced settlement with Negro
ministers proves to be an empty promise.
In day 49 of the
Negro Bus Boycott,
dramatic new developments
from City Hall.
Good evening.
I'm Carl Stephens, WSFA News.
Mayor Gayle announced today he was calling
off negotiations in the Negro bus boycott.
Must be Tunker.
I have to go.
Honey, that's not polite.
Sit at the table when
we have company. Hi!
- How's my little Boo-boo? - Oh, she doesn't
like to be called Boo-boo anymore.
- They make fun of her at school.
- Aw...
Well then...
I will never call you that again.
If you just...
Give your Uncle
Tunker a little
- ... sugar.
- ... sugar.
Catherine better anyway.
That's the type of name you'd
expect for a princess or a queen.
- 'Cause you are a princess. My beautiful
little princess. - We better be off.
- Well, good luck.
- Luck?
Citizens' Council don't need luck.
Not with men like your daddy.
Oh, I thought you were going
to a business meeting.
- No. Citizens' Council meeting.
- Oh.
Norman, could I talk to you
for a minute, please?
Norman. These are the people
you said couldn't count to 10.
You're gonna go to
one of their meetings?
just gotten out of hand.
And now the mayor, the city commission,
they've all joined.
So for me, it's either joining
this group or the Klan.
Oh, honey.
That's not true.
The mayor and the commission
are politicians.
They'd join the circus if they
thought it'd get 'em reelected.
You're beginnin' to let your little
brother lead you around by the nose.
Listen, I don't care whether you like Tunker
or not, but don't you tell me what to do.
I'll make up my own mind, and I'll join
- Are you ready?
- Sure.
- Well, this is not at all what
I expected. - Yeah.
See. No white sheets.
No secret oaths.
You mean I don't get to
learn a coded handshake?
- Is that what you're tryin' to tell me?
- Norm Thompson. - Yeah.
Oh, hi. Jeff Sewell with
Avalon Brothers here in town.
- Oh, right. Nice to see ya.
- Glad you could be out tonight.
- Thank you. - By the way, I've just
been put on the planning commission.
- Uh-huh. - If you ever have a
zoning problem, you give me a ring.
- I can put you right.
- Thanks, Jeff.
Over half the small business owners
in town are members of the council.
You mean half the white
small businesses.
If you call what the n*ggers do business,
Commissioner Sellers.
- How you doing, Clyde?
- Holdin' on.
Didn't think you'd be
out here after that
phone call I got from
your wife a while back.
She was right though. The police
department's gotta keep its nose clean.
Hope you can get the rest of that country
club crowd to some of these meetings.
If the n*ggers keep pushin'
the way they are,
- we'll get 'em off the golf
courses for ya. - No, no.
What I want is to get
'em on the course.
Best caddy I ever had
was a n*gger.
Testing.
One, two, three.
Testing.
One, two, three.
- I know the journey... has been hard.
- Yes. Yeah.
- Many of you are tired.
- Right. Yeah.
- Still tired.
- We've seen the city,
and it's turned its back
on its black children.
We've seen the mayor
and city commission,
which has taken a stand...
- for injustice...
- Yes. Amen.
- and bigotry.
- Yes.
- Moses.
- Moses.
- Moses!
- Yes. Moses.
and hard for his people. - Yes.
- What? Oh!
- But Moses stood tall for his people.
Tall, yeah.
When the children of Israel...
were led out
into the wilderness,
- they didn't walk for just
one month or two. - No.
- They walked for 40 long years.
- All right. All right.
They just bombed
Reverend King's house.
Wait.
Let us pray.
- Father, I've just heard
terrible news. - Yeah.
I've heard that a bomb
was thrown at the house...
of a young man
so full of spirit.
Father, we pray...
- in thanks, for sparing the life of
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. - Yes!
- Lord, be by our side.
- Yeah.
These dark days... hold our hand
as we walk through the night.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Lord, don't pass Montgomery by!
- Yes.
- Don't pass Montgomery by tonight.
- Yeah.
Oh.
- Is there anything you need, honey?
- No, no.
When's Odessa gettin' here?
Well, she's probably gonna be a
little late on account of the rain.
Isn't she usually
here by now?
Not really.
You mean she
comes in late a lot?
Odessa gets here just fine every day.
Now, I've got to go.
She'll be here soon enough.
Miriam.
Yeah.
Just how does Odessa
get to work?
Well, I was goin' over to
and that's over on Madison
- and I was just gonna go ahead and
pick her up. - You're gonna do what?
How often do you
drive her around?
Well, I go to Curb Market
twice a week.
- That's it. - Here I am tryin'
to hold my head up as a
white man in this town,
and you're cartin' a n*gger maid.
No wonder none of 'em are ridin' the buses.
They have you to carry 'em around.
What should I do?
Odessa walks to work three days
a week. She can walk five.
You can just get on the
phone and call her now.
- Norman.
- Now, damn it!
Hello.
Yes, ma'am, I can be to work.
I'll just be a little late.
- Oh.
- Miriam?
Damn.
I'm sorry I got
so upset before.
- Can I talk to you for a minute?
- Yeah.
I know you don't
keep up with things.
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