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paused, just as the huge
Greenwood crowds had
done earlier and the jam-
packed Masonic Temple
crowd had done the night
before in Jackson. There
were many uniformed and
plain-clothed policemen
pressing close to insure
his safety.
The King had finally
come to darkest America
to be among the people.
He recalled his mournful
visit a little more than
a year ago to pay his respects to the late CR
leader, Medgar Evers,
whose murderer or murderers have yet to be
punished.
An overflowing crowd
of about three thousand
who had braved an electric
storm, sparotic showers
and threatening heavy
rain, waited over three
hours to hear the dynamic
leader at the Masonic
Temple Wednesday night.
Dr. Martin Luther's
counterpart in Mississippi and founder of the Free-.
dom Democratic Party,
Bob Moses told the crowd
that the Freedom Democratic Pa'rty grew out of
tlvg_Negro's need for some
place to turn politically in
a state where both National parties excluded him.
Mrs. Donna Moses foT-
lowed her illustrious husband and told the people
that "every citizen, has
a right to choose his leader." Whether he had been
enabled to learn to read
and write did not really,
matter. Citizenship should
be the only yard stick for
measuring the right to
vote. "Nobody has aright
to select your leaders,"
she said, "only you have
that right."
Then the Rev. Ralph
Avernathy of Montgomery,
Alabama told the roaring
crowd that "God's children left Egypt for the
promist land, but WE
AIN'T GOING NO WHERE!
They say send us back to
Africa, but how the hell
can we go back to where
we ain't never been!	
Until the white man goes
back where he came from
and let the Indians have
their country back, WE
AIN'T GOING NOWHERE!"
As Dr. King began to
speak, the hushed audience seemed to hang to
every word.
"I hate to call a senator a liar, but the senator
from Mississippi didn't
tell the truth when he said
the Freedom Movement
is communist inspired",
King said. "We are here
because we are tired of
humlliuLiuti and we will
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are to be free, we must
desegregate our minds.
The tragedy of segrega-
tion is what it has done to
• the NejJfo, nut just physically, out psychological-
ly", he said.
Some Negroes are sitting back letting others
carry the ball for them,
but when freedom comes,
they will be the first to
jump out front, hollering,
"Look at what WE did",
King told the crowd.
If you want to be free,
you must be willing to go
to jail and to suffer physical harm. Whenever a man
refuses to stand up for his
rights, he is dead, regardless of how much
longer he continues to
breathe.
He told his anxious listeners that they must remain  non-violent hate
is never the way, for hate
is too great a burden to
bear.
The present rate of vo-
tor registration in Mississippi would required
135 years to register half
of those presently eligible
to register.
Dr. King told his listeners that they must become registered with the
Freedom Democratic
Party. It provides the best
way to break down the barriers to official registration of voters.