[Washington, DC; late 1963, or August]
name: label: Collection Creator
content: McNamara, Norris
label: Collection Creator
content: Moon, Moses
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
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content: Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection / Series 1: Original Tapes
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content: Box 7, Item AC0556-OT_N21, Box 6 (CD)
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Ella Baker continued:
-We have done much to penetrate the mystery of life
-Where we have failed is the mastery of life
-We must help people (racists) understand what their true value is
-Only then can we truly say we live in a democracy for the people and by the people
Brenda Travis:
(sent to jail in McComb, Mississippi and spent six months in juvenile reform school)
-Brief statement
James Baldwin:
-Introduces and describes the Freedom Singers
Unidentified speaker:
-We are being kept from a valuable thing -- our vote
-Introduces Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer:
-August 31st, 1962- the day she tried to become a first-class citizen
-SNCC has done a wonderful job in bringing food to Mississippi, helped her survive
-I'm not working for equal rights because what the white man has he stole from me, I want true democracy
"Come By Here"
Unidentified speaker:
-Fundraising activity
-Audience "Freedom" chant
Cut to Americus Four, one member:
(spent eighty-five days in jail without bond)
-Eighty-five days don't compare to years of black suffering
-Jail experience

Digital reference copy in Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).