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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These new movements are around and they're doing their job," Ahern said. To prove his point, he cited Gus Hall, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, as saying "We've got a good thing going...
...very small number of youths. Even at the peak of the movement there couldn't have been over a couple of thousand white northern kids actually living and working in the South. Secondly, that was all a long time ago. The Civil Rights workers were college students then. They've almost all (except for a few press-publicized movement "leaders") grown up and gotten married or something. They've drifted away. Hardly any of the new generation of rabble rousers have ever had anything to do with that meritorious Civil Rights Movement in the South...
...then there's the more complicated, less conscious evil of the Federal government. The U.S. isn't supposed to do business with companies that discriminate. But they've got contracts up to here with The American Can Company. The American Can Company has its own little company-run town in Bellamy, Alabama. Stores, schools, churches, and neighborhoods are segregated in Bellamy. There's no plumbing in the Negro homes, their streets aren't paved, they get paid less. It's a really tough town. Jim Peppler, the Courier's dare-anything photographer who took pictures of some of the meanest...
...fatter, pale, and old. They sweat people are rugged, skinny, and tired but tough. When we were hitchhiking into Montgomery, Ala., the air conditioned guys used to zap by with their windows rolled up not even looking at us, not even looking at anything, not even existing. While we've been in the South, we've stayed places where there's been only fans. It is much better without air conditioning even if you're here in New Orleans where it's ninety something everyday with the humidity so heavy you can touch it in the air. Walking from...
...ve got a headache...