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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE Civil Rights History Project Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History & Culture and the Library of Congress, 2011 Lawrence Guyot oral history...
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Bond, Julian - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Guyot, Lawrence
Date:2010
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01:00:40 which was tremendous; and you had a population of 100,000 white people, 19,000 black people. The Catholic Church in 1957 or '58 made a decision that they were going 01:00:56 to...
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INTERVIEWER: Bidwell Adams. MR. GUYOT: Who is lieutenant governor when Bilbo was governor. I was born in Harrison County. Bilbo was born in Hancock County. Bidwell 01:03:12 Adams after leaving the lieutenant...
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He and I read the newspaper together every day. We also listened to two people on the radio. Whenever FDR spoke, he gathered the family to listen to our president. Another guy...
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01:07:40 was a black, wealthy political person and I did that. Now I did it not because it had anything to do with nonviolence. I did it because my father would've killed...
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INTERVIEWER: Before we jump this far ahead, tell me the names of some of the students you went to school with whom we know as movement people. MR. GUYOT: I went to...
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MR. GUYOT: Let me add one other thing to it and I'll respond to your question. You also had Keesler Air Force Base, which was a major dynamo. 01:12:40 Yes. I consider...
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01:15:08 issues and collapse them in 25 words and bring it all together. She's a woman who walks into churches and who takes over. If the minister is a good minister, she...
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01:17:33 chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. I'm in jail in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I couldn't have given a speech as good as Fannie Lou Hamer did. I couldn't have led the...
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01:19:47 courts, which meant that there would be more power. History proves me right on that. We have reached a point in this country where we have an excellent power and scope...
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01:22:10 and support. That's not supposed to happen. What is the one thing black people learn? Don't go to jail. Don’t be associated with those who go to jail. If you're their...
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INTERVIEWER: Couldn't we say that one of the reasons that happened is because of somebody like John Doar. Not because of the department itself, but because somebody like John Doar stood out...
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MR. GUYOT: No, it's not painful. 01:27:41 It's factual. INTERVIEWER: Tell us about these two cases of where you were beaten. MR. GUYOT: One of them was in Winona. Fannie Lou Hamer,...
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01:29:24 What I found was that I knew that I wasn't going to get out of Winona alive. I didn't think any of us that were there. They left my cell door...
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01:31:55 then. MR. GUYOT: She was a lawyer. Yes. INTERVIEWER: She said you walked right into terror. What did she mean by that? MR. GUYOT: She said that at a dinner that...
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01:34:19 with people who were in the movement and then go back and talk to their ministers, their bishops, and their senators and their congressman. We also create the Freedom Schools, 01:34:30...
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01:36:53 can be. You would need 20 complaints and the president may authorize. We needed a greater trigger mechanism. Section 5 was that trigger mechanism, but Section 5 wouldn't have been created...
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01:39:18 groups and the young people's project headed by Moses' children. They are doing the kind of organizing we did. What we must do is use the mantra of pull the power...
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I'm astounded that the political commentators look at a sense of equivalence between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. There is none. The Republican Party 01:42:19 is by definition obstructionist and...
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MR. GUYOT: I would stay in contact with people who were organizing. I would-- INTERVIEWER: [Interposing] Where 01:44:49 would you be located in the summer of '64? MR. GUYOT: I would be...
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It is the ability of SNCC to continue to bring in forces to be used in its political methodology. We bring in the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights under the law. I'm...
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INTERVIEWER: This is before you were married? MR. GUYOT: That's right. INTERVIEWER: Did you get married while you worked for SNCC? MR. GUYOT: Yes. INTERVIEWER: Did your salary go up? MR. GUYOT:...
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01:51:30 congressional challenge?" They said, "What you can do is open doors. Where we don’t have a civil rights movement, we have churches." James Farmer of CORE and I got to talk...
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01:3:58 quickly pass the Voting Rights Act so we can then bring blacks into the Democratic Party. I just wanted to say that to say, "Look at how many other forces we...
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01:56:35 to the country the fact that we don’t have congressional or senatorial representation. We get the first primary, but quite a few of the Democrats don't participate in it. 01:56:45 Then...
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01:58:27 for SNCC. She comes to Mississippi. We leave there. We get married in Washington in '67. She supports me in everything I've done. She gets the job to help pay my...
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02:01:57 sacrifice lives for that." The vote should be used to build, to strengthen. It should be used affirmatively. Quite a few people agreed with me on that. 02:02:11 I think the...
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MR. GUYOT: Medgar Evers was the executive director of the NAACP. He 01:00:37 was a person who went disguised to get information about the Emmett Till case. He was the political leader...
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MR. GUYOT: He was the assistant attorney general to Robert Kennedy, who was the U.S. Attorney General. John Doar was a Republican, very perceptive, very creative. I watched John Doar represent the...
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01:04:43 INTERVIEWER: You also mentioned a couple of times the Ladner sisters. Flesh them out a little bit more. MR. GUYOT: Joyce and Dorie Ladner come out of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They are...
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01:07:16 Circuit Court of Appeals follows and joins the Department of Justice in making sure that whatever they can do to back up the movement in Mississippi, they do it. We knew...
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MR. GUYOT: Griffin Bell did some things worse than that. Griffin Bell said to Andy Young, "Don't testify 01:09:46 against Bork [phonetic]." Of course, as you know, Andy Young to his credit...
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01:11:59 Fannie Lou Hamer calls and she says, "Mike, you know the man who's the postman?" He said no. She said, "Well, he brings me this big envelope from the White House."...
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01:14:22 thought of themselves. Robert Moses was a person who was totally committed to social change, who was able to work with anyone. He was able to be both an intellectual and...
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I think it pivoted on two things. 01:17:30 One, our style of operation. Two, the church. Three, the need for people to create a better way of life for their children. We...
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01:20:11 have a copy of every deposition taken by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and I got it all from him. INTERVIEWER: When all is said and done, what would you like...
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01:22:43 We should declare those who are not organized and following empowerment and from the political change in the next two years as social pariahs. They no longer function on our 01:22:56...
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