Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [195]
226 “If we can get enough people”: Charles Miller Papers, SHSW.
227 “I just stood there”: SNCC Papers, reel 67.
227 “Why did Harriet Tubman”: Liz Fusco, “Deeper Than Politics,” Liberation 9 (November 1964): 18.
228 “I am Mississippi fed”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 279.
228 “We’re not black slaves!”: Washington Post, July 20, 1964.
228 “I think you’re lying”: Adickes, Legacy of a Freedom School, p. 68.
228 “Some of them are beginning to realize”: Ibid., p. 264.
228 “We’re giving these kids a start”: Washington Post, July 20, 1964.
229 “I saw the rug pulled out”: Watkins, interview, June 16, 2008.
229 “about time something happened”: Chude Pamela Allen, “Watching the Iris,” in Erenrich, pp. 419-420.
229 “the project was polarized”: Ibid.
229 “to give abortions”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 389.
229 “And get raped?”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 185.
230 “My Summer Negro”: Rothschild, Case of Black and White, p. 56.
230 “Every black SNCC worker”: Evans, Personal Politics, p. 80.
230 “I didn’t see any white women”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 263.
230 “Now, Dad”: Winn, correspondence, mid-July 1964.
230 “jus’ one boy touch”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 45.
230 “fluttered like butterflies”: King, Freedom Song, p. 44.
230 “All these black guys”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 106.
231 “I’m sure I wasn’t the only white woman”: Chude Pamela Allen, “Thank You,” in Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 502.
231 “There’s a very good chance”: Chude Pamela Allen, personal interview, November 12, 2007.
232 “we’re all dreamers”: O’Brien, correspondence, July 28, 1964.
232 “I could stay longer”: Ibid.
232 “Don’t worry,” she was told: Fran O’Brien, “Journey into Light,” in Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 285.
233 “Now you just be a good little girl”: Ibid., p. 286.
233 “No you don’t, little lady!” Ibid.
233 “That’s a good little girl”: Ibid.
234 “Oh hi, Fran”: Ibid.
234 “It’s okay”: Ibid., p. 287.
235 “After recent developments”: O’Brien, correspondence, August 4, 1964.
235 “The whole pattern”: “The Evangelists,” Newsweek, August 24, 1964, p. 30.
236 “begin action”: WATS line, August 19, 1964.
CHAPTER TEN: “The Stuff Democracy Is Made Of”
238 “They start anything”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 108.
238 “You better put your feet on the gas”: Ibid.
238 “Negroes carefully picked”: MDAH SCR ID # 9-32-0-6-2-1-1.
238 “We can’t open the door!” Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Papers (hereafter MFDP Papers), SHSW.
239 “assemblage of people”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
239 “Until the killing of black mothers’ sons”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 391.
239 “the stuff democracy is made of”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, pp. 250-51.
240 “coronation”: New York Times, August 25, 1964.
241 “alien philosophy”: New York Times, August 22, 1964.
241 “If you seat those black buggers”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 290.
241 “If our case is fully heard”: SNCC Papers, Reel 41.
241 “go fishing on Election Day”: Washington Post, August 22, 1964.
241 “definite supporter”: MFDP Papers, SHSW.
241 “Who is YOUR sheriff?”: Ibid.
242 “eleven and eight”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 279.
242 “And who are we?”: MFDP Papers, SHSW.
243 “I was just talking to Joe Rauh”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 403.
243 “move heaven and earth”: Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1964.
243 “They’ve screwed you, Joe!”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 457.
243 “only an hour”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 389.
243 “white power structure”: Washington Post, August 23, 1964.
243 “I have been imprisoned”: Ibid.; and Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 415.
244 “Girl, you reckon I ought to tell it?”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 111.
244 “Mister Chairman”: Fannie Lou Hamer, testimony before the Democratic National Convention, American Radio Works Web site, http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/flhamer.html.