Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [196]
244 “There’s Fannie Lou!”: Len Edwards, personal interview, October 29, 2008.
244 “We’re gonna get the job done tonight”: WATS Line, August 20, 1964.
245 “Your time is short!”: Ibid.
245 “every nigger in town”: Whitehead, Attack on Terror, p. 163.
245 “comedy of terrors”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 383.
245 “If you people leave us”: WATS Line, August 20, 1964.
245 “I can simply no longer justify”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 265.
245 “I wasn’t going to stay”: Winn, correspondence, September 1, 1964.
246 “Standard Operating Procedure”: Ibid., August 14, 1964.
246 “COME ONE, COME ALL”: Jerry Tecklin Papers, SHSW.
247 “What’s this all about?”: Winn, interview, November 13, 2007.
247 “We all knew”: Ibid.
247 “I didn’t try to register for you”: Hamer, testimony.
247 “On the tenth of September 1962”: Ibid.
247 “We will return to this scene”: Hampton, “Mississippi—Is This America?”
247 “On this day nine months ago”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 460.
248 “ for it is in these saints”: Ibid.
248 “power-hungry soreheads,” their “rump group”: Murray Kempton, “Conscience of a Convention,” New Republic, September 5, 1964, p. 6.
248 “vote for the power structure”: Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 312.
248 “I was carried to the county jail”: Hamer, testimony.
248 “And he said, ‘We’re going to make you wish’ ”: Ibid.
249 “And I was beat by the first Negro”: Ibid.
249 “All of this is on account of”: Ibid.
249 “I don’t think that if this issue”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
250 “honored guests”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 201.
250 “back of the bus”: Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1964.
250 “because he was on our side”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 289.
250 “Tell Rauh if he plans”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 208.
251 “way out of line”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 461.
251 “SUPPORT THE FREEDOM DEMOCRATS”: Christian Science Monitor, August 26, 1964.
251 “1964, NOT 1864” and “STOP HYPOCRISY, START DEMOCRACY”: Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1964.
252 “Mississippi Terror Truck”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
252 “Don’t you understand?”: Los Angeles Times, August 26, 1964.
252 “Alabama’s done gone”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 523.
252 “Atlantic City’s White House”: Washington Post, August 25, 1964.
252 “You better talk to Hubert Humphrey”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 200.
253 “ for Negroes to speak for Negroes”: Ibid., p. 211.
253 “Then democracy is not real”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 211.
253 “The time has arrived”: Joshua Zeitz, “Democratic Debacle,” American Heritage , June/July 2004, online edition.
253 “Senator Humphrey,” she began: Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), p. 93; and Olson, Freedom’s Daughters, p. 320.
253 “We can win on the floor”: New York Times, August 25, p. 23.
253 “listened patiently . . . argued fervently”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 211.
253 “that the Negroes have taken over”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 527.
254 “The Freedom Party,” Johnson told a friend: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 213.
254 “an excuse to say I turned”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 525.
254 “Bobby’s trap”: Ibid., p. 525.
254 “The times require leadership”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 468n.
254 “This would throw the nation”: Ibid., p. 468.
254 “These people went in and begged”: Ibid., p. 471.
254 “But we’re going to ignore that”: Robert David Johnson, All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), p. 186.
254 “take a tranquilizer”: Kotz, Judgment Days, pp. 212-13.
254 “a wholesale walkout”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 471.
254 “It looks like we’re turning the Democratic party”: Ibid.
255 “By God, I’m going to go up there”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 473.
254 “Beloved,” she began: Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970), p. 192.
255 “Is the Credentials Committee meeting”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p.