name is Cher dead man I am here because my

Lynch in 1912 in Shreveport Louisiana so I'm here in Montgomery

the opening or furthest opening of clenching Museum

Justice Memorial but obviously there are reasons that I'm going to take to calling it

and Museum it's a pretty amazing being here in Montgomery Alabama

in my wildest dreams that I think I'd be here I've been

about my grandfather was born in Shreveport Louisiana he was 6 when his family had to

of the lynching and I don't know I have so

thoughts in terms of why you know why is Museum still needs to exist

issues of hate in this country and why people like me who

in Oakland California and I had such fear ever stepping foot

now that I'm here I think about the impact of hate in terms of you know how

a sense of Courage being here feeling the courage of the people

know terrorism the people who left because that's just a scary leaving something that you

see that with abusive relationships you see how people sometimes it's easier stay when you

the unknown and so the courage of our people who stayed the courage of our people who left the courage of our

fought I feel it in my soul here I'll be real

created the space where I feel welcome in a place I never ever thought

appreciate that and I also before I get off I'm going to say that

on this phone so I didn't feel Minato maker I just thought that maybe and it's called you in

the reason why I'm bringing this up is because I have been sort of struggling with this

know why it's important to see this film and even

made it because I've dealt with so much displacement and I can definitely know it was I

tie it into the overall experience of what it means to be African-American and

this chronic displacement why we are these for lack of a better phrase American Gypsies

to me and that is connecting lynching two modern-day gentrification

a story of our economic struggle our struggle for racial

is unwavering to my soul yell surnames Bullitt County the birthplace of my family the

choose not to dwell their call out his name so that he knows we know the place is overwhelming

with your own eyes so that you feel what you feel in your own heart today I was surrounded by

matter dreams that would never fulfilled plans never kept and hope that

of the many reasons I ended up coming here to Montgomery and then in part in search of work is that

in law school I heard Brian Stevens and speak and the he said something very important

to my graduating class in law school he said go back and look at the essay you wrote

remember why you ended law school and I remembered how the first year of law

that tiny little manousheh and thinking like a lawyer that I forgot that what I really wanted to see was

Justice I wanted to be wanted to do the only thing that really mattered in this world which is to do right by other people

his life to doing that sort of thing that you actually remind me that that was the only reason

Street Fighters for people's rights you know I was at a

this well-worn copy of Robert F Kennedy's pursuit of Justice in my

I take it out and read it occasionally to remind me you know why I do what I do

read one of the most important essays or part of one of the most important essays about book

the practice of public law after 13 years and if I'm looking over the materials in this

occasion to reflect the phone with Burke would have called the cause of our present discontents the essential causes poverty

consequences are loss of Health loss of dignity loss of simple Justice and loss of respect

is that for the first time in history we have every resource necessary to conquer all forms of poverty and their symptoms

of problem not a production but of distribution the property of goods is a matter of a more rational

understanding and respect is a problem of University education and guidance in the rights and duties of man what I have to say in the

reasons I felt it necessary to speak out can be summarized in a few short sentences I believe that as long

plenty poverty is evil government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in

the instruments of peas are available war is madness government must be strong whatever Madness

long as most men are honest corruption is twice vicious it hurts men and it undermines their fundamental

as a single man may try any unjustifiable barriers against his efforts is a barrier against

destroy such a barrier without erecting any others in the process is a good Force the government to week for

only a waist but it's evil because it holds out a for a false hope President Kennedy said our

men and a man could be as big as he wants no problem of human Destiny is beyond human beings

spoke on his behalf on behalf of men's reason and spirit he also acted for them as free men and women

have a story to tell about cardiac table and this is her day my

move about a receipt in order for the white person to take the seat

course he sat there never looked around she just said never got up so

telling her you have got to move do you hear me you

moved hookah set there so he drove the bus down Commerce Street got off the

and called the police next thing I knew the police is coming in the back door of the

out of the seat carrier to the patrol car and carried her to Ju

the meantime as neighbors we will all went to her mom's house to tell her

there all night until maybe the next day Grant attorney free great

get her out today I'm here because this has been one of the days that was

my name is Bethany and I'm here just reflecting a little bit of my experience

Montgomery in the past just a few years of my life in the

I guess is led me here I grew up in Florence Alabama and

school there for all of my 12 years kindergarten through 12th grade

I went on a class trip to a Confederate Battle

foot in a Civil Rights Museum or any of the memorials and I

few of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was tired that

was not until later in my life that I really started reconciling

with my own experiences my eyes were opened a lot

was out of college and back home in Florence on for a little bit during the summer

the other side of the river in Tuscumbia I went there as part of the protest

and horrified to see white robes in in modern-day

would have been 2008 2009 absolutely appalling in since then I've I have

a lot of books including and Brian Stevenson's book and have

the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum I visited the Memphis Civil Rights Museum and I'm today in

but after what I've visited the Dexter Avenue

I stepped outside and didn't realize how close it was to the Capitol and I walked up to the capital in

right in front of the the capital of Alabama was of Jefferson

her that we still have a lot of work to do and I look forward to to joining the

my name is Dorothy Wright Tillman I was born in Montgomery Alabama May 12th

met a man my grandmother carry me to the Holt Street Baptist Church I never knew one that would be working for this man

freedom for the rest of my life and that man was dr. Martin Luther King jr. dr. King

the bus I never understood what my grandmother care of me instead of anybody else at all she Baptist Church that

she carried me there because I've always said why can't I sit there I

the front of the bus you know you put your money and you walk back out to go to the back and she would never allow me to sit in the

in that front I thought I could sit in the front my clothes with me she made me beautiful

do something one day she's I know you will as I grew up on the stool while I'm with you my

those free Baptist Church growing up I do miss Parker was a member of the Mia all of those different

I started out at 9 years old in the movement as a child with the Montgomery Bus Boycott

so the pills that were organizing for dr. Martin Luther King jr. if they're full of sin in the crest bill because this

direct action on the Reverend James bevel we had some sitting on Dexter Avenue we were out here I

that point we wasn't clear where we were going to go to fight for the right to vote

the dresses from the Crescent building with the protest and demonstration in 1964

my the rest of the protesters they put me in a bad Montgomery County Jail with

told me that Belleville and dr. King and all of his left and I need to give it up but of course I did.

sit here at the Crescent building and remember 1964 as a student organizer along with Leon

went to the Booker T Washington High School I was responsible for organizing those young

to be here I grew up in growing up in Montgomery community that taught

64 was among the first 10 people on the southern Christian leadership conference staff

Selma to fight for the right to vote of course Nick was already there and I

when we were trying to figure out where we're going to go to lunch voter ID

Rights bill of the right to vote and Diane Nash she said that we should

Wallace with a declaration of freedom straight up and down on Dexter Avenue

the people here Leon Hall, High School Booker T Washington all of us

it no more than two colors could be on the corner of the dark and I was at that point that rubber Bella made a

Selma to Dallas Cowboy that was a time that I was

work in Selma that was among the first people that said really but also I would have been pissed. You're

Sunday for blood flow like a river left side of bus was the Alabama River on the right side of us

Alabama River no problem and we move forward blood flow like rivers that day that I thought it

was I was flying to Chicago to work an open house and

Montgomery it all started in Montgomery had not been the Montgomery Bus Boycott would not have been a

Montgomery what we would demonstrate with Bella and Diane you would have had a Selma hello

Montgomery is like the mother of the movie just as busy as part was a mother of the

always remember that the importance of Montgomery Alabama Black

for America's we fought to redeem the soul of America and I live in Chicago Illinois I was in all of them for 25 years

your operation movement operation wouldn't 12 ways to ever fight for the liberation of all

I grew up in the movie and I thank God that I'm from Montgomery Alabama and I think God that I was raised by

dr. King in my father my grandmother and grandfather and all the other people I'm very proud of this building I'm glad that

being told from you because Chris is a very important part always remember the day that I was

is Rev dr. William J Barber II I'm president founder of repairers of the breach

the Poor People's campaign and a call for more reliable and I'm here to tell my story in this

have various struggles Health struggles and disability I'm a preacher in

things I noticed that everyone in the scripture that God ever used in a mighty way have some

a stutterer Elijah at times of rape trauma mentally

a thorn in the flesh ones have different problems that was a woman in the Bible who

say but she ended up being the great preacher preacher on Resurrection

as one who suffered in the movement Fannie Lou Hamer was beaten and suffered from that beating

King was stabbed and from that point he had a breathing problem so far down to the history

of them in so many more ways to make a difference I myself found myself a

people I know the story and the power of people getting together when my family got together with prayer

service my swim coach and all those things people came together and my own faith and commitment

but nothing for justice and doing things for justice as one of the reasons why I believe this

Injustice crippled with the lack of healthcare and I believed that all people have a place in this

our disability as we have abilities somebody called it disabled

are differently abled people I want to share that as a message of Hope in the story this morning with those

of things can happen when Moses and the people of Israel got together with him despite his stuttering

Goliath Goliath had to come down with Esther got together with her Uncle though she was a young

whose parents died before she was 12 years old she became Queen everybody

history when Rosa Parks and others white and black got together Jim Crow came down

and Frederick Douglass truth. Together they saw abolition started

it is 2 today I believe when we all get together the gods about race eye colors are Creed II

disabilities we can form of Truth and continue to bring the walls of racism

allowing me to tell the story from my own personal stories from history but I hope it

is a fascinating opportunity city of Montgomery to offer such a

to the Equal justice initiative peace and Justice Summit thus far I'm enjoying your

and looking forward to seeing the city on a sunny day tomorrow the weather looks to be better

believe I recently rewatched the first Friday the 13th movie

was in 1958 there was a drowning a death at the camp and then there was a murder I think the following

the camp in 1980 in Residence of that little time Missouri stated that there was a death curse on that cat

dealing with them at the present time I think we are still victims of our past every year in this

this 75,000 suicide 45,000 what the fuck a logical Civil Wars happening

think that feeling we have As Americans that week because we live by the sword we actually made I buy it as well we look at

a civilization is broken that would yield and Bow Wow cells and I needed by the rain

my family like their blood is in the soil I'm at lyrics Jackie from that help fund

Great Britain that I believe that if we reckon with our past we can actually build a much better future

is Michelle Summers this piece was inspired by a poem by David Whyte

the song It Ain't Fair which was performed by the law and the roots for the soundtrack

a collaboration of the two that I entitled mess we forget the face

streams have flowed and rivers of Earth have moved beneath your feet

never looked into the air movability of stone quite like

the brush of an angel's Wing cried Let Freedom Ring and the

we saw her Mike and granted one does there beneath the touch of times honoring

in the sand the way it holds gives you not a way forward but a doorway

to leave because faithful by going nowhere

here and look back the weather by what comes to you like the way you to have

have found but until we reach a common ground and become a

the well is running dry racial tensions are running High under 21

said it's hard when you're looking for love but it ain't there and we all know that what

who do know on you because whoever loophole we going to leave

walking in their sleep I pray the Lord your souls to keep

out so free Let Freedom Ring My Country Tis of Thee without the

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my name is Luke DeMarco and the best way to tell my story is through

is a poem I wrote called the frother I was 12 I told my family I needed

Harry Potter which was entirely false but I was convinced something about my vision was something about my

underwater so after much convincing my parents took me to the doctor and it turns out I

closed calculations of optometrists who sat me down in the chair and told this massive thing in front of my

lenses different ways of viewing the world around me he would flip through these pieces of glass and ask which

couldn't tell the difference but other times it made all the difference in the world sometimes

with are color-blind prejudice Our Daily Grind Vines our minds with Lies We Tell ourselves like

White Knuckles claiming I have the correct perspective when my corrective spectacles are nothing but a crappy excuse

to realize I've been wearing the wrong prescription the whole time sometimes we need to change the

our lives need eye exam sometimes our perspectives need Proctor's

one looks clear one or two one eye in the oldest

a short time the only sibling I was the darling of my family tree I was the apple of my

alone my Throne my only child status had been usurped Suddenly by a small

the arms of my parents Luke meet your new brother I was mystified by the small like that laid

the first time I was no longer the center of attention and it felt beautiful

gives us a fracture in our world becomes wonderful sometimes and alternative autobiography is the only

life is truly sound only when we lay hours in the dust one or two which

clear one I grew up in a beautiful home filled with a family who loves me I never knew what

the audacity to get mad when my mom told me to finish my food to a hunger for the first

was six we were in the Streets of San Francisco handing out hamburgers for the Christmas season I approach the man who

a cold slice of pizza from a garbage bin I gave him a burger he said God bless you that was the first time that

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