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It was the decade after the Civil War.
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Those first years of freedom
were a time of change...
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...for Tom Harvey and his family.
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But freedom was only the beginning.
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Hold your horses!
l got me a dumb nigger making trouble.
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l gots the right to vote!
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Papa, this here's Will Palmer.
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-Mr. Palmer.
-Do you love me?
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This ain't the time nor the place
to be talking about a thing like that.
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And things had changed
for Col. Warner and his family.
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-We were married.
-As far as l'm concerned...
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...you are a nigger.
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Your father'd never forgive me
if he knew l came at all.
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What's that white lady doing here?
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l support with my heart's blood...
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...any action to safeguard...
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...the purity of white civilization.
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Roots: The true story
of an American family.
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This family gonna go forward.
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From the end of innocence,
to the easy times of a new era.
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l wish you could stay with me now.
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Through the war overseas
and hard times at home...
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He's Alexander Murray Palmer Haley.
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...the family,s dream of freedom survived.
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Haley. Alex Haley. l'm a writer.
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We call your race "niggers."
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l have been called "nigger" many times...
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...and this is the first time
l'm being paid for it.
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The fulfillment of a dream
that lasted 200 years.
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You old African!
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l found you!
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Kunta Kinte!
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One family,s triumph
is a triumph for us all.
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And now,
Roots: The Next Generations.
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Cincinnati scored one run
home half of the third.
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Pete Sommers dropped
a fly ball for the Giants.
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A man got to third, and Jud Smith
bunted him home on a sacrifice.
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See there?
That's what l'm talking to you about.
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-There's your science for you.
-What's that got to do...
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...with whether a colored man can
play as good as a major-leaguer?
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Well, you take a darky.
Ain't no way in the world...
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...he's gonna be as good a
baseball player as a white man is.
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Y'all recollect what happened
a few years back...
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...when that colored Cuban Giant team...
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...played the regular
Cincinnati major-league team?
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Red Stockings whupped
them niggers 1 1 -5. That's a fact.
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Unless l've been mistook...
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...ain't that the same year
the colored Gorhams...
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...played the regular national league
New York Metropolitans...
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...and whupped them 2-1 ?
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That's a horse on you, Harry.
Can't have it both ways.
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You sure Elizabeth's
gonna be on that train?
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Papa, l read you the letter six times.
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Well, she write that
slanty spider writing.
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You could be mistook, Cynthia.
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Well, that's Palmer method.
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All schoolteachers write like that.
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Well, anyway...
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...Kansas City a long way off.
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She could miss that train
at some junction.
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Don't you want Elizabeth
to be on that train?
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lt's all right with me.
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-Papa, she been gone 1 0 years.
-Was her choosing.
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You ain't gonna ruin Elizabeth's
homecoming for no old grudge.
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Now, you watch
how you talk to your father.
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As big as you is....
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Now, that train be
1 4 minutes late already.
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Now, look here.
This here ain't gonna vex me none.
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There she is at Ripley Crossing.
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Cynthy.
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Liz!
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Cynthy.
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-Liz!
-Cynthy!
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Why, you're a young lady already!
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Oh, Lizzie!
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You gonna stay home with us now?
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Well, for a while
until l get another job teaching.
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How are you keeping yourself, Elizabeth?
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Well, Papa, l'm glad to be home.
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All aboard!
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Papa, l'll be along.
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l'll just ask Mr. Hapgood
if the parlor organ you expecting...
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...from Brattleboro, Vermont
come in the freight.
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Come on, boys.
You're causing more work.
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Yes, sir, massa.
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We getting it fast as we can.
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Noontime!
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Man called noontime.
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Morning, Mr. Palmer.
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Morning, Miss Harvey.
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Miss Harvey...
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...l was wondering--
l mean....
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Maybe--
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Well, l don't know is it proper...
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...for a young lady to be seen
in the company of a gentleman...
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...that's a member
of this section gang.
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lt say in the gospel:
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"Comfort ye the laborer in the field...
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...in the heat of the day."
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Where in the gospel it say that?
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Matthew.
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What verse?
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l don't know.
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l just made it up.
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Anyways, l didn't
come round here to see you.
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l was just asking
about a freight order for my daddy.
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And if you don't want to talk to me,
Will Palmer, l can go on home.
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No! l mean...
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...l wanna talk to you...
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...but....
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Hey, you.
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Hey, Lee Garnet.
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Thought l seen you here.
What you doing here?
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Working part-time.
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ln the first place, l don't want
niggers working on my place...
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...working for nobody else.
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And what's this l hear
about you going around...
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...telling people
l done you out of money?
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Well, look here, Mr. Owens.
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Now, l've been working for you
for over five years now.
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And this is the first time
l ever been ahead on a debt.
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l mean with the seeding
and furnishing and everything.
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Truth is, Mr. Owens,
you owe me $38 for a year's work.
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You're a black liar, Garnet.
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l ain't no liar, Mr. Owens.
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You go around bad-mouthing me
and you're gonna be one sorry black boy.
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Come on.
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Well, l ain't never said nothing...
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...but you owe me $38.
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Point is, Miss Harvey...
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...before l can walk you home
from church and like that...
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...l gotta ask your daddy permission.
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Well, why don't you ask, then?
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Miss Harvey...
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...l means on going forward
in this here life.
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l ain't about to ask him for permission
to take up with his daughter...
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...whilst l ain't nothing
but a member of a section gang.
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Well...
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...Mr. Will Palmer,
you better get to be something else...
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...because when you ready...
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...well...
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...maybe l'll just be long gone.
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And Mr. W.W. Felts...
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...well, he sold out to Fletcher,
who opened a barber shop...
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...across from my smithy.
And over here--
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Papa, before we go another step...
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...it wasn't your fault.
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l mean, not all of it.
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John Dolan asked me
to go away with him that night...
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...and l could have.
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l can't blame you
for what l couldn't bring myself to do.
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Child...
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...those long years gone...
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...l said my word...
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...because l was sure in my mind.
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But if it were wrong...
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...if l done a hurt to you
out of some meanness in my soul...
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...then that's an evil...
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...and l got to bear the sin.
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There ain't nothing you say
gonna lift the burden...
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...if l were wrong.
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We best go on home.
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Your mama will be fretting about you
till we get there.
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Lucy, it is time for you
to retire to the bedroom.
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Oh, shoot. l ain't done
crimping my hair. Can't you wait?
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We're expecting a gentleman.
Now, go on...
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-...and drag your drawers out of here.
-l like that.
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-This here is my boudoir, ain't it?
-lt certainly is your place of business.
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Now go on.
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You can start without me.
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Go on now.
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Who's coming?
Who we waiting on?
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Good evening, sir.
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-Good evening, Mr. Warner.
-Won't you join us?
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Populist of the farmers' alliance? That's
who we're waiting on? Matthew Holmes?
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Now, wait a minute right here.
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Earl, why don't you listen
to what Matthew's got to say?
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Gentlemen, l have come
to a practical conclusion.
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The only way to keep conservatives
like your father...
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...from winning elections
with black votes...
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...is to take the vote away...
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...from the blacks.
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You gonna take the vote
away from the nigger?
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This is the time.
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There's an election coming up...
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...and the Supreme Court
of the United States has shown us the way.
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They said the Mississippi Plan for
wiping out black votes is constitutional.
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And the Senate refused to pass the Force
Bill controlling elections in the South.
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They're handing it to us on a platter.
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Andy, you gonna back
our Democrats in the election?
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l will do more.
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l will, with a suitable show
of modesty, allow you...
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...to place my name in nomination
on your slate.
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Good. Against your own pa.
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The key is the Negro vote.
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Now, there's a poll tax already
in the state constitution.
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There's the literacy
and understanding clauses.
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The ingenuity of man is boundless.
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Now, if we can get the darky vote
away from your pappy...
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...we got him where it hurts.
lt's been a long time coming.
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Gentlemen, l think we may drink
to a new winning political combination.
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Earl, here's to keeping the Negro
where he belongs:
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-Beneath you.
-God's truth.
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And, Matthew...
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...here's to removing the divisive factor
of the black vote from politics.
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Andy...
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...to you...
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...and your nomination.
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This here is a white man's country.
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And come next election...
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...we're gonna put them niggers
back where they belong.
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Oh, yeah!
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l told that Harry Owens this morning...
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...l said, "This is the last crop
l'm gonna make for you ever."
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-You know what he said?
-What?
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"Get off my land."
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l said, "With pleasure. With pleasure."
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Where you gonna stay?
Wanna move in with me? l got room.
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Oh, no, thank you, Will.
l don't wanna be beholden to nobody.
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Ain't beholden. Besides,
we almost like brothers, anyways.
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Yeah. Well, l'll be all right.
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Hey. Harry Owens paid me
that $38 he owed me.
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We're gonna get four bits
for working here, for sure.
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So that'll tide me over for a while.
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But, Lee, then there ain't no money.
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Besides, that's only when
there's a flatcar to unload.
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The way Campbell run this place...
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...it might be weeks
before another flatcar come in.
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Champ!
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Champ Sugrue,
where the devil are you?
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-Champ!
-Right here, Mr. Bob.
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Damn you for a no-account,
wooden-headed dummy!
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What is it that you want, Mr. Bob?
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l give you Sam Cavanaugh's order
first thing this morning.
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Now, where the hell is it?
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But it ain't my fault, Mr. Bob.
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That little pile is so higgledy-piggledy,
l can't find anything.
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Now, it took me an hour to lay my hand
on four dozen, two-by-four 1 2-footers.
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Why don't you go back in the office
and rest yourself.
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Don't you tell me what to do!
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l am sick and tired of you
presuming on my good nature.
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l warn you.
l warn you every other day.
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l've fired you and taken you back
a dozen times.
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Mr. Bob, l'm only trying to do my job.
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00:18:13,638 --> 00:18:16,638
Now, l can't get anything done
if you keep me here talking.
246
00:18:16,707 --> 00:18:19,609
You putting me in the wrong?!
247
00:18:19,610 --> 00:18:22,610
Well, now you are fired,
you hear me? You are fired!
248
00:18:28,686 --> 00:18:30,420
Go on.
249
00:18:30,421 --> 00:18:32,656
l'll give you a fair chance.
250
00:18:32,657 --> 00:18:35,625
You tell me why l should take you back.
251
00:18:35,626 --> 00:18:38,626
You done fired me
one time too many, Mr. Bob.
252
00:18:39,764 --> 00:18:42,764
Well, maybe l better think about it.
253
00:18:43,701 --> 00:18:45,702
No, l got me a better job...
254
00:18:45,703 --> 00:18:48,338
...at a sawmill in Dyersburg.
255
00:18:48,339 --> 00:18:51,141
Now, you owe me two weeks' pay.
256
00:18:51,142 --> 00:18:54,142
l'll come for it Saturday.
257
00:18:56,714 --> 00:18:59,714
What did l say?
Where are you going?
258
00:19:00,084 --> 00:19:03,084
Champ, who's gonna get out
Sam Cavanaugh's order?
259
00:19:05,189 --> 00:19:08,189
What's the matter
with that crazy nigger?
260
00:19:33,751 --> 00:19:36,751
Mr. Campbell?
261
00:19:44,595 --> 00:19:47,595
Mr. Campbell.
262
00:19:56,006 --> 00:19:59,006
Mr. Campbell?
263
00:20:01,278 --> 00:20:03,546
Would you oblige me, sir,
by stepping outside?
264
00:20:03,547 --> 00:20:05,215
What for?
265
00:20:05,216 --> 00:20:08,216
Well, there's something out there
l think you should see.
266
00:20:35,312 --> 00:20:37,781
l'll be damned.
267
00:20:37,782 --> 00:20:40,049
-You do that?
-Yes, sir.
268
00:20:40,050 --> 00:20:43,050
Who the devil do you think you are?
269
00:20:43,788 --> 00:20:46,523
What'd you do that for?
270
00:20:46,524 --> 00:20:49,524
Well, l sort of figured
you gonna be needing a new yard boy...
271
00:20:50,728 --> 00:20:53,728
...to kind of take the place
of Champ Sugrue.
272
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,700
Well, sir...
273
00:20:57,701 --> 00:21:00,701
...l'm applying for that job.
274
00:21:05,576 --> 00:21:08,576
Well, if that don't beat the Dutch!
275
00:21:10,014 --> 00:21:13,014
You can't hardly tell
what a darky gonna do next.
276
00:21:14,819 --> 00:21:17,819
By Jim, you got the job.
277
00:21:25,796 --> 00:21:27,931
Will Palmer...
278
00:21:27,932 --> 00:21:30,932
...l do believe you done
start to go forward.
279
00:21:31,569 --> 00:21:33,069
Lee!
280
00:21:33,070 --> 00:21:36,070
l got the job!
281
00:21:38,142 --> 00:21:39,576
Lee!
282
00:21:39,577 --> 00:21:42,577
Move along, Garnet. You're under arrest.
Now, just come along quietly.
283
00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:44,414
l got the papers all legal.
284
00:21:44,415 --> 00:21:47,415
Told you you'd be one sorry black boy.
285
00:21:50,788 --> 00:21:53,788
lf there had been time, we could've
sent to Memphis for a lawyer.
286
00:21:54,992 --> 00:21:56,893
There ain't no difference.
287
00:21:56,894 --> 00:21:59,894
lt Lee Garnet word
against a white man.
288
00:22:01,866 --> 00:22:04,866
To tells you the truth...
289
00:22:04,902 --> 00:22:07,902
...a Memphis lawyer maybe
get Judge Peters riled.
290
00:22:08,706 --> 00:22:11,706
He'd put a five-
or ten-year sentence on that boy.
291
00:22:17,581 --> 00:22:20,283
Papa...
292
00:22:20,284 --> 00:22:23,284
...this here's Will Palmer.
293
00:22:25,823 --> 00:22:28,823
Evening, Mr. Harvey.
294
00:22:29,093 --> 00:22:32,093
-Mr. Palmer.
-Ladies.
295
00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:38,799
Mr. Warner, Mrs. Warner.
296
00:22:41,171 --> 00:22:44,171
These here is for you, Mrs. Harvey.
297
00:22:46,644 --> 00:22:48,945
Ain't that nice?
298
00:22:48,946 --> 00:22:51,946
Thank you.
299
00:22:52,149 --> 00:22:55,149
And, Mr. Harvey, l done
brung you these here...
300
00:22:57,121 --> 00:22:59,022
...cigarettes.
301
00:22:59,023 --> 00:23:01,958
They's factory-made.
They all the way from North Carolina...
302
00:23:01,959 --> 00:23:04,959
...and they's the newest things.
303
00:23:11,802 --> 00:23:14,802
Thank you.
304
00:23:24,648 --> 00:23:27,648
Papa?
305
00:23:27,651 --> 00:23:30,651
Will got something he want to
talk to you about.
306
00:23:37,027 --> 00:23:39,529
Well, l'm afraid we must be running on.
307
00:23:39,530 --> 00:23:42,530
-Ain't going yet.
-Yes, we must go. There's homework.
308
00:23:43,067 --> 00:23:46,035
-Sister Carrie.
-Good night, Mr. Warner.
309
00:23:46,036 --> 00:23:48,538
Now, you tell Mrs. Harvey
thank you very much.
310
00:23:48,539 --> 00:23:51,507
Good night, Miss Elizabeth.
lt was a delight to see you.
311
00:23:51,508 --> 00:23:54,508
Take care. Nice to see you both.
lt was a delightful dinner.
312
00:23:54,545 --> 00:23:57,545
Come on, darling. Let's go.
313
00:24:03,854 --> 00:24:06,854
Mama...
314
00:24:07,224 --> 00:24:10,126
...l swear to you, Papa say no,
l just gonna run off.
315
00:24:10,127 --> 00:24:12,729
Cynthy!
316
00:24:12,730 --> 00:24:15,730
He just gotta say yes.
317
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Mama, l ain't gonna be
no dried-up old maid just because Pap--
318
00:24:24,575 --> 00:24:27,343
Lizzie...
319
00:24:27,344 --> 00:24:30,344
...l'm sorry.
320
00:24:31,982 --> 00:24:34,982
Now, l don't want you to worry.
That was another time.
321
00:24:36,687 --> 00:24:39,687
Why didn't you just go to Memphis...
322
00:24:40,624 --> 00:24:43,624
...and marry him?
323
00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:46,295
Cynthy...
324
00:24:46,296 --> 00:24:49,296
...two months after he left Henning,
that John Dolan was married.
325
00:24:51,435 --> 00:24:54,435
l met him a few years back.
He had four children.
326
00:24:55,739 --> 00:24:58,007
Now, l don't want you to worry...
327
00:24:58,008 --> 00:25:01,008
...because this here
is gonna be different.
328
00:25:01,578 --> 00:25:04,578
Now you just stop that.
329
00:25:09,953 --> 00:25:12,953
l'm a member of the CME New Hope
Church, which you already knows.
330
00:25:13,424 --> 00:25:16,424
And l's been working for Mr. Bob
Campbell's lumberyard now for 5 weeks.
331
00:25:16,860 --> 00:25:19,362
l studies on getting me some
of that old lumber...
332
00:25:19,363 --> 00:25:22,363
...building some houses
and renting them out to other folk.
333
00:25:23,133 --> 00:25:25,568
Mr. Harvey...
334
00:25:25,569 --> 00:25:27,503
...l means on going forward.
335
00:25:27,504 --> 00:25:30,206
And...
336
00:25:30,207 --> 00:25:33,207
...l guess l's here
to ask your permission...
337
00:25:33,410 --> 00:25:36,410
...to see Miss Cynthia home from church
on Sunday evenings and...
338
00:25:37,081 --> 00:25:38,681
...to...
339
00:25:38,682 --> 00:25:41,682
...generally take up with her.
340
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,720
l thinks on it.
341
00:25:55,599 --> 00:25:58,034
-Why don't you play something for us?
-No.
342
00:25:58,035 --> 00:26:01,035
Oh, come on. We ain't had us
a good sing in a long time.
343
00:26:01,105 --> 00:26:04,105
Come on now, Mr. Palmer.
You sit right on down here.
344
00:26:21,692 --> 00:26:24,692
He asked me what l could do
about his friend Lee Garnet again.
345
00:26:26,330 --> 00:26:28,698
ls there anything?
346
00:26:28,699 --> 00:26:31,699
Ain't no way to turn around
a prison sentence l know...
347
00:26:33,537 --> 00:26:36,537
...but he gonna keep after me.
348
00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:39,740
He asked you could he
take up with Cynthy too.
349
00:26:40,511 --> 00:26:43,511
-Why didn't you just say yes?
-l will, l will...
350
00:26:47,217 --> 00:26:50,217
...after l think on it.
351
00:26:51,622 --> 00:26:54,622
Might as well.
What that boy want, he gonna get.
352
00:27:25,155 --> 00:27:28,124
Oh, Jimmy.
Are you all right, son?
353
00:27:28,125 --> 00:27:30,159
-Are you all right?
-Yes, Mama. l'm fine.
354
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,395
Your note said
there was something urgent.
355
00:27:32,396 --> 00:27:34,697
-ls the boy all right?
-The boy is just fine.
356
00:27:34,698 --> 00:27:37,698
Don't you worry about that.
Sit down. Please, Mama. Sit down.
357
00:27:37,868 --> 00:27:40,868
l saw him last Tuesday
in his schoolyard.
358
00:27:42,039 --> 00:27:44,407
l was driving by with Sarah Hewlett.
359
00:27:44,408 --> 00:27:47,408
l couldn't even
ask the coachman to slow down.
360
00:27:47,844 --> 00:27:50,844
Frankie is just fine.
He's asleep in there.
361
00:27:51,949 --> 00:27:54,949
Carrie's at church,
a meeting of the sisterhood.
362
00:27:57,187 --> 00:28:00,187
Mama, l do wish that someday
you would call when she's here.
363
00:28:00,958 --> 00:28:03,025
Oh, it's very difficult, Jimmy.
364
00:28:03,026 --> 00:28:05,962
Your father'd never forgive me
if he knew l came at all.
365
00:28:05,963 --> 00:28:08,564
-l know.
-He's at Judge Peters' tonight.
366
00:28:08,565 --> 00:28:11,565
Something about the Democratic primary.
367
00:28:12,469 --> 00:28:15,469
Do you need money? l have those
bank shares in my own name.
368
00:28:16,873 --> 00:28:19,873
No, Mama. l work when l can,
and we have Carrie's salary.
369
00:28:21,445 --> 00:28:24,445
We're considered reasonably affluent...
370
00:28:24,681 --> 00:28:27,681
...for this end of town.
371
00:28:27,884 --> 00:28:30,884
Are you ever sorry?
372
00:28:34,524 --> 00:28:37,524
Mama, it's funny.
373
00:28:38,996 --> 00:28:41,996
l miss the most trivial things.
374
00:28:42,766 --> 00:28:45,766
New things, like new clothing
and new books from Cincinnati...
375
00:28:48,138 --> 00:28:50,773
...and Papa's imported claret...
376
00:28:50,774 --> 00:28:53,774
...and the absolute,
God-given assurance of being white.
377
00:28:58,015 --> 00:29:01,015
You can't speak to her
about it, can you?
378
00:29:02,452 --> 00:29:04,420
Not really, no.
379
00:29:04,421 --> 00:29:07,421
When you married her,
l thought it was spite...
380
00:29:09,293 --> 00:29:12,293
...that somehow you were angry
at me and your father...
381
00:29:13,397 --> 00:29:16,397
...and that was the way
you could hurt us most deeply.
382
00:29:16,733 --> 00:29:19,733
lt was simpler than that, Mama.
l was in love with her.
383
00:29:19,736 --> 00:29:22,736
l still am, even more now...
384
00:29:23,907 --> 00:29:26,907
...but there are some things that
l just can't seem to share with her.
385
00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:32,079
You should have gone North,
Jimmy, or to Europe.
386
00:29:32,949 --> 00:29:35,949
Mama, there's no hiding place.
Besides, this was home.
387
00:29:36,019 --> 00:29:38,954
Her family was gone.
The black people here were all she had.
388
00:29:38,955 --> 00:29:41,955
-They accepted her. They accepted me.
-Papa, who's there?
389
00:29:45,062 --> 00:29:48,062
Mama home yet?
390
00:29:50,267 --> 00:29:53,267
-No, honey. She's not home yet.
-What's that white lady doing here?
391
00:29:58,308 --> 00:30:00,376
Frankie...
392
00:30:00,377 --> 00:30:03,377
...this lady....
393
00:30:05,982 --> 00:30:08,982
This lady is just visiting.
394
00:30:16,660 --> 00:30:19,462
-Go on back to bed now.
-l want Mama to tuck me in.
395
00:30:19,463 --> 00:30:22,463
-Mama's not home yet. Now, please--
-Frankie...
396
00:30:23,533 --> 00:30:26,533
...would you like me to tuck you in?
397
00:30:42,386 --> 00:30:44,687
Mama...
398
00:30:44,688 --> 00:30:47,390
...l need something from Papa.
399
00:30:47,391 --> 00:30:50,391
There's a colored boy who was
convicted in Judge Peters' court.
400
00:30:50,527 --> 00:30:52,928
We need a pass to visit the prison camp.
401
00:30:52,929 --> 00:30:55,929
-Papa's the only one who can get it.
-l can't ask your father.
402
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,800
l promised this boy's friend
that l would get it.
403
00:31:00,203 --> 00:31:02,938
You can tell Papa
that a colored woman asked you.
404
00:31:02,939 --> 00:31:05,939
Minnie or lrene Harvey.
He'd understand that.
405
00:31:06,376 --> 00:31:08,210
Asking your white folks for help.
406
00:31:08,211 --> 00:31:11,211
He doesn't like me to concern myself
with that sort of thing.
407
00:31:11,748 --> 00:31:14,748
The man's name is Garnet.
He's in camp number seven.
408
00:31:15,719 --> 00:31:18,354
Tennessee lron and Coal Company.
409
00:31:18,355 --> 00:31:21,355
-Oh, l don't know. l don't know--
-l promised Will Palmer.
410
00:31:25,662 --> 00:31:28,662
l'll try.
411
00:31:28,865 --> 00:31:31,600
Oh, Jimmy.
412
00:31:31,601 --> 00:31:34,470
My poor Jimmy.
413
00:31:34,471 --> 00:31:36,205
My poor boy.
414
00:31:36,206 --> 00:31:39,206
These are my people now, Mama.
l have to do what l can.
415
00:31:47,050 --> 00:31:50,050
l'll try.
416
00:32:14,911 --> 00:32:17,911
All right, Bert.
Run them on up to camp.
417
00:32:24,721 --> 00:32:27,721
-See you next trip.
-Hope you do better by me next time.
418
00:32:28,525 --> 00:32:31,525
Let's go.
419
00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:43,170
-You want something, uncle?
-You the chief engineer?
420
00:32:44,541 --> 00:32:46,308
Yeah. Why?
421
00:32:46,309 --> 00:32:49,309
Gots me a permit
to see one of the men here.
422
00:32:49,513 --> 00:32:52,513
Lee Garnet.
423
00:32:54,918 --> 00:32:57,918
That from the state prison board.
424
00:32:58,755 --> 00:33:01,755
-You Tom Harvey?
-Yes, sir.
425
00:33:03,727 --> 00:33:06,727
He's working down the tote road.
426
00:33:08,031 --> 00:33:11,031
You can see him noontime.
427
00:33:41,965 --> 00:33:44,965
Now, Lee, l done
brung along Mr. Harvey here...
428
00:33:45,302 --> 00:33:48,302
...because he the most important colored
man in the politics and like that.
429
00:33:49,739 --> 00:33:52,739
-Well, he's gonna help you.
-l ain't promised nothing like that.
430
00:33:53,610 --> 00:33:55,778
This here's a matter of influence.
431
00:33:55,779 --> 00:33:58,779
Who be knowing who amongst
the big white men of the state and all.
432
00:34:01,084 --> 00:34:04,084
Now, l've got to know from your mouth.
433
00:34:04,287 --> 00:34:07,022
What happened about the money
you supposed to stole...
434
00:34:07,023 --> 00:34:10,023
...from Mr. Harry Owens' cashbox?
435
00:34:17,467 --> 00:34:19,001
Well, you remember, Will.
436
00:34:19,002 --> 00:34:22,002
That Mr. Harry Owens, he told me to
come and make my complaint to his face.
437
00:34:23,173 --> 00:34:26,173
Well, l done that. l went to him
that morning, and l told him...
438
00:34:26,276 --> 00:34:28,544
...that he owed me $38.
439
00:34:28,545 --> 00:34:31,180
He said he don't
and say l been calling him a liar.
440
00:34:31,181 --> 00:34:34,181
l said, "l ain't done that." l told him
l was gonna go talk to Col. Warner.
441
00:34:35,418 --> 00:34:38,418
Col. Warner?
What's he got to do with this?
442
00:34:38,788 --> 00:34:40,756
Col. Warner own the land.
443
00:34:40,757 --> 00:34:43,757
Harry Owens, he just
sublease it out to sharecroppers.
444
00:34:44,527 --> 00:34:47,496
So anyway, when l said
Col. Warner's name...
445
00:34:47,497 --> 00:34:50,497
...then Mr. Owens say, "That different,"
for me to go on in the house...
446
00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:53,102
...get my money out the cashbox.
447
00:34:53,103 --> 00:34:56,103
And you done that?
448
00:34:57,207 --> 00:34:59,541
Yeah, like a damn fool.
449
00:34:59,542 --> 00:35:02,542
Put the sheriff on me
for stealing that same morning.
450
00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:05,180
He say he put his mark
on the money and l stole it.
451
00:35:05,181 --> 00:35:08,181
l ain't never stole nothing. He owed me
that money for a whole year's work.
452
00:35:09,853 --> 00:35:12,154
Mr. Harvey, you got to
make them see the truth.
453
00:35:12,155 --> 00:35:15,155
l mean, you got to get Lee
out of this here place.
454
00:35:42,986 --> 00:35:45,986
l don't see what l can do
for this boy, Tom. He....
455
00:35:46,356 --> 00:35:49,356
He was convicted in
Judge Peters' court according to law.
456
00:35:50,026 --> 00:35:53,026
-l know that. Yes, sir.
-Received a very light sentence.
457
00:35:54,164 --> 00:35:57,164
Tom, you know
l can't interfere with the law.
458
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600
l know that, colonel. That's what
l told all the coloreds in town.
459
00:36:01,438 --> 00:36:04,438
"Col. Warner is a man
what uphold the law."
460
00:36:05,041 --> 00:36:07,543
Ten years now, l've been saying:
461
00:36:07,544 --> 00:36:10,544
"Col. Warner and his Democrats,
they gonna look after the colored."
462
00:36:11,247 --> 00:36:14,247
But now with this here
election coming up soon...
463
00:36:14,417 --> 00:36:17,417
...there's two kinds
of Democrats running...
464
00:36:17,620 --> 00:36:20,620
...and if we all don't vote for you,
maybe you're gonna lose to some...
465
00:36:21,958 --> 00:36:24,626
...no-account, white trash Democrats.
466
00:36:24,627 --> 00:36:27,627
Well, just a minute, Tom. You know
l value your support politically...
467
00:36:28,665 --> 00:36:31,665
-...but this is something else.
-Well, l told them:
468
00:36:31,935 --> 00:36:34,403
"That's the mark of a gentleman.
469
00:36:34,404 --> 00:36:36,305
He look after his own people."
470
00:36:36,306 --> 00:36:38,941
What are you driving at, Tom?
471
00:36:38,942 --> 00:36:41,942
Mr. Harry Owens lease from you...
472
00:36:42,545 --> 00:36:44,947
...but this was your land.
473
00:36:44,948 --> 00:36:47,948
Lee Garnet
was making a crop on your land.
474
00:36:48,485 --> 00:36:51,485
l told him, "Lee, a high
gentleman like the colonel...
475
00:36:51,955 --> 00:36:54,955
...with all the power
of Lauderdale County in his hands...
476
00:36:54,958 --> 00:36:57,958
...he ain't gonna try and cheat
one of his people out of $38."
477
00:36:59,662 --> 00:37:02,662
But this man, Harry Owens...
478
00:37:02,832 --> 00:37:05,832
...scratching by the best he can,
he would.
479
00:37:07,737 --> 00:37:10,737
l don't want this to go any further...
480
00:37:11,174 --> 00:37:14,174
...but l've suspected Owens for a long
time of cheating with the accounts...
481
00:37:15,478 --> 00:37:18,478
...and that is not inconsistent with
the story that the Garnet boy told you.
482
00:37:20,850 --> 00:37:23,850
That's the truth, colonel.
l told him, "Trust in a gentleman...
483
00:37:25,221 --> 00:37:28,221
...to set things right."
484
00:37:28,224 --> 00:37:31,224
Well, l'm not sure what l can manage, but...
485
00:37:33,163 --> 00:37:35,697
...l may know someone
in the penitentiary system...
486
00:37:35,698 --> 00:37:38,333
...might be able
to do something for that boy.
487
00:37:38,334 --> 00:37:40,235
l knew it.
488
00:37:40,236 --> 00:37:43,236
l got the confidence in you, colonel...
489
00:37:43,339 --> 00:37:46,339
...and l'm gonna leave it
in your hands.
490
00:37:46,976 --> 00:37:49,976
Morning to you, sir.
491
00:37:50,513 --> 00:37:53,513
Morning.
492
00:38:02,826 --> 00:38:05,460
Good man, that Tom Harvey.
493
00:38:05,461 --> 00:38:08,461
-He's one smart man, Papa.
-Solid, honest...
494
00:38:08,965 --> 00:38:11,533
-...forthright.
-Papa...
495
00:38:11,534 --> 00:38:14,534
...that old darky played you
like a trout on a line.
496
00:38:14,804 --> 00:38:17,639
Your generation just doesn't understand.
497
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,640
A properly controlled work force
of decent colored people...
498
00:38:21,711 --> 00:38:24,711
...is the cornerstone
of our prosperity.
499
00:38:24,948 --> 00:38:27,948
They will be loyal as long as we are
decent and honest with them and--
500
00:38:28,718 --> 00:38:31,653
Papa, you negotiated the contract...
501
00:38:31,654 --> 00:38:34,654
...leasing convicts to Tennessee
lron and Coal and to the railroad.
502
00:38:35,859 --> 00:38:38,859
How come you didn't tell
forthright old Tom that?
503
00:38:39,662 --> 00:38:42,364
As long as l do my duty
to those dependent on me...
504
00:38:42,365 --> 00:38:45,365
...l see no need to make them
privy to my affairs.
505
00:38:45,401 --> 00:38:47,936
Well, it won't be so privy, Papa...
506
00:38:47,937 --> 00:38:50,839
...if folks find out about
the convict lease system.
507
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,875
State officials taking kickbacks...
508
00:38:52,876 --> 00:38:55,876
...companies making a fortune
working convict labor.
509
00:38:55,912 --> 00:38:58,912
-Whiskey, Papa?
-Not at 1 1 :00 in the morning.
510
00:39:00,350 --> 00:39:03,350
That late?
You know, the white trash Democrats...
511
00:39:03,987 --> 00:39:06,987
...have entered a slate against you in
the election. You might have problems.
512
00:39:08,124 --> 00:39:10,225
l think not.
513
00:39:10,226 --> 00:39:12,694
Everyone knows them
for what they are.
514
00:39:12,695 --> 00:39:15,695
Men of no property or tradition.
515
00:39:16,065 --> 00:39:18,667
What happens if folks
find out all you fine gentry...
516
00:39:18,668 --> 00:39:20,903
...been stealing everything
not nailed down?
517
00:39:20,904 --> 00:39:23,904
Y'all make those Yankee carpetbaggers
look like Presbyterian deacons.
518
00:39:24,741 --> 00:39:27,741
l am shocked at you, Andrew.
519
00:39:27,744 --> 00:39:30,312
Not only have you
made nothing out of your life...
520
00:39:30,313 --> 00:39:33,313
...but you see fit
to subject your own father...
521
00:39:33,349 --> 00:39:35,584
...to scurrilous innuendo.
522
00:39:35,585 --> 00:39:37,920
You are right, Father.
523
00:39:37,921 --> 00:39:40,921
And l'm gonna take your kindly
criticism of my character to heart.
524
00:39:41,991 --> 00:39:44,991
lt is time l stopped
being a wastrel and a layabout.
525
00:39:46,095 --> 00:39:49,095
l more or less decided
that what l want to do...
526
00:39:50,233 --> 00:39:53,233
...is politics.
527
00:39:54,671 --> 00:39:57,671
Well...
528
00:39:57,874 --> 00:40:00,275
...that is gratifying, Andrew.
529
00:40:00,276 --> 00:40:03,245
l'm sure l can arrange something.
530
00:40:03,246 --> 00:40:05,714
Some appointment or state office.
531
00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:08,715
-l shall inquire of my friends--
-Don't bother, Papa.
532
00:40:12,555 --> 00:40:15,555
l don't need you.
533
00:40:15,558 --> 00:40:18,558
l can make my own contacts.
534
00:40:27,870 --> 00:40:29,905
Mr. Bob,
that Mr. Calloway out there.
535
00:40:29,906 --> 00:40:32,906
-He getting mighty testy--
-l believe l was telling you a story.
536
00:40:33,209 --> 00:40:36,111
Yes, sir, but he out there
inquiring about the lumber--
537
00:40:36,112 --> 00:40:39,112
There was this old darky on my Aunt
Eliza's place. This was before the war.
538
00:40:40,650 --> 00:40:43,650
He's supposed to get 2000
board feet of pine last Tuesday--
539
00:40:43,686 --> 00:40:46,686
Uncle Cudjo. That's what we
children called him. Uncle Cudjo.
540
00:40:47,857 --> 00:40:50,559
Yes, Mr. Bob.
That there Mr. Calloway, he getting--
541
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,095
He was always telling about Brer Rabbit.
542
00:40:53,096 --> 00:40:55,998
Funniest little stories
you ever did hear...
543
00:40:55,999 --> 00:40:58,934
...about Brer Rabbit
and this fox and all.
544
00:40:58,935 --> 00:41:01,470
Yes, Mr. Bob.
Mr. Bob, you got to go.
545
00:41:01,471 --> 00:41:04,172
You see, Mr. Calloway,
he is the bank. He holding--
546
00:41:04,173 --> 00:41:07,173
All right, all right.
Don't pull on me now, hear?
547
00:41:10,847 --> 00:41:13,847
What l'm gonna do
is just take 40 winks.
548
00:41:15,418 --> 00:41:18,418
-Yes, sir, but Mr. Calloway out--
-You take care of it, Will.
549
00:41:20,623 --> 00:41:23,623
Yes, sir, Mr. Bob.
550
00:41:24,460 --> 00:41:27,460
God, how l miss old Uncle Cudjo.
551
00:41:41,411 --> 00:41:44,346
Where's Mr. Campbell, Will?
552
00:41:44,347 --> 00:41:47,347
He ain't here. He went home early,
wasn't feeling too good.
553
00:41:48,718 --> 00:41:51,620
-Now look here, Will--
-Mr. Calloway...
554
00:41:51,621 --> 00:41:54,621
...last load of pine come in
was all knot and weeping slashes.
555
00:41:55,658 --> 00:41:58,160
Why, it just wasn't fit for your order.
556
00:41:58,161 --> 00:42:00,228
You tell him...
557
00:42:00,229 --> 00:42:03,229
...l just better have
my lumber by Wednesday, hear?
558
00:42:03,766 --> 00:42:06,766
Mr. Calloway, we expect
our next flatcar in Monday.
559
00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:10,770
Your 2000-foot order
will be on your job first thing...
560
00:42:11,908 --> 00:42:14,476
...8:00 Tuesday morning.
561
00:42:14,477 --> 00:42:17,477
Mr. Calloway, l....
562
00:42:17,547 --> 00:42:20,547
l give you my word.
563
00:42:23,119 --> 00:42:26,119
All right, Will. l'll take your word.
564
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,080
What you doing here, girl?
565
00:42:54,150 --> 00:42:57,052
He's been feeling poorly
most of the week.
566
00:42:57,053 --> 00:43:00,053
You know perfectly well
Mr. Bob Campbell lying in there...
567
00:43:00,256 --> 00:43:03,256
-...drunk as a polecat.
-You hush your mouth, girl.
568
00:43:03,493 --> 00:43:05,427
You can't tell Mr. T.J. Calloway that.
569
00:43:05,428 --> 00:43:08,428
He owns the mortgages
to this whole lumberyard.
570
00:43:09,632 --> 00:43:12,632
-What you laughing at?
-"Mr. T.J. Calloway...
571
00:43:12,835 --> 00:43:15,835
...l gives you my word on that."
572
00:43:16,038 --> 00:43:18,540
Just go on away from me.
l ain't got time to talk.
573
00:43:18,541 --> 00:43:20,675
Ain't even got time
for my own lunch pail.
574
00:43:20,676 --> 00:43:22,978
You got time for Hattie Summers.
575
00:43:22,979 --> 00:43:25,979
-When l talk to Hattie Summers?
-Choir meeting, Wednesday night.
576
00:43:27,183 --> 00:43:30,152
l never did. She just dropped
her hymn book, and that's all.
577
00:43:30,153 --> 00:43:33,153
Everybody ask me,
"How come your Will Palmer...
578
00:43:33,389 --> 00:43:36,124
...standing next to the altos
and you a soprano?"
579
00:43:36,125 --> 00:43:37,792
Well, how you think l feel?
580
00:43:37,793 --> 00:43:40,793
l drop my hymn book, and where are you?
You way across the tenors from me.
581
00:43:42,798 --> 00:43:45,798
Expect me to sing alto
so's you can pay some heed to me?
582
00:43:48,204 --> 00:43:51,204
-Are you listening to me, Will Palmer?
-l hear you talking, girl.
583
00:43:54,577 --> 00:43:57,577
You so tongue-tied.
584
00:43:57,980 --> 00:44:00,980
How am l gonna know
how you feel about me?
585
00:44:08,257 --> 00:44:11,257
Here. Go on and take it now, girl.
l ain't got all day.
586
00:44:11,494 --> 00:44:14,329
Here.
587
00:44:14,330 --> 00:44:16,565
"Miss Cynthia Harvey.
588
00:44:16,566 --> 00:44:19,566
Kindness of bearer."
589
00:44:20,369 --> 00:44:21,836
What do that mean?
590
00:44:21,837 --> 00:44:24,837
That mean l was gonna
bring it by your house this evening.
591
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,081
"Dear Miss Cynthia:
592
00:44:33,082 --> 00:44:36,082
l feel we have kept company
long enough for me to propose...
593
00:44:38,788 --> 00:44:41,788
...to you that we discuss
the contract of marriage.
594
00:44:51,033 --> 00:44:53,668
l would appreciate it...
595
00:44:53,669 --> 00:44:56,504
...if you would give me your reply...
596
00:44:56,505 --> 00:44:59,505
...when l come to
call upon you as usual...
597
00:45:00,576 --> 00:45:03,576
...the coming Sunday.
598
00:45:03,846 --> 00:45:06,846
Sincerely, W.E. Palmer."
599
00:45:48,891 --> 00:45:50,859
l told that school committee...
600
00:45:50,860 --> 00:45:53,860
...there's no way l'm not staying on
for my sister's wedding.
601
00:45:54,163 --> 00:45:56,298
Now, l'll be right back--
602
00:45:56,299 --> 00:45:59,299
-l said, suck in your breath, honey.
-l am!
603
00:46:07,543 --> 00:46:10,543
l couldn't hold it.
604
00:46:10,546 --> 00:46:13,546
Need Papa's tongs.
605
00:46:13,816 --> 00:46:16,816
Well, that Will Palmer
is gonna have to marry me...
606
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,320
...without no wasp waist.
Lizzie, you tie this corset...
607
00:46:21,357 --> 00:46:24,357
...and l ain't gonna have
the breath to say "l do."
608
00:46:26,629 --> 00:46:29,629
Liz?
609
00:46:29,665 --> 00:46:32,665
Liz, honey.
610
00:46:32,735 --> 00:46:34,636
What is it?
611
00:46:34,637 --> 00:46:37,637
Nothing.
612
00:46:38,074 --> 00:46:39,974
You gonna make me cry.
613
00:46:39,975 --> 00:46:42,975
Oh, it's nothing.
614
00:46:43,479 --> 00:46:46,479
l'm just so happy for you, Cynthia.
615
00:46:47,516 --> 00:46:50,516
You know, l feel like
it my wedding day too.
616
00:46:51,987 --> 00:46:54,987
Oh, Lizzie.
617
00:46:55,391 --> 00:46:58,391
Lizzie, l loves you.
618
00:47:11,907 --> 00:47:14,576
Mr. Bob?
619
00:47:14,577 --> 00:47:16,344
l'm gonna be going now.
620
00:47:16,345 --> 00:47:19,214
l done took care of everything.
621
00:47:19,215 --> 00:47:22,215
l just gonna lock up...
622
00:47:23,819 --> 00:47:26,819
...and....
623
00:47:34,397 --> 00:47:37,397
Mr. Bob, you done forgot
to bring this here note money...
624
00:47:37,533 --> 00:47:40,533
...down to Mr. Calloway at the bank.
625
00:47:42,104 --> 00:47:44,272
Mr. Bob.
626
00:47:44,273 --> 00:47:45,907
Mr. Bob...
627
00:47:45,908 --> 00:47:48,908
...you done forgot to send
this here due money to the bank.
628
00:47:49,712 --> 00:47:52,712
You got to get up.
629
00:47:53,048 --> 00:47:56,048
Now, you know Mr. Calloway say
you late one more time and....
630
00:47:58,721 --> 00:48:01,721
l guess the bank already closed anyway.
631
00:48:02,892 --> 00:48:05,892
Where you keep your
money at, you old mule?
632
00:48:22,178 --> 00:48:25,178
l got to be at the church by 7:00.
633
00:48:31,053 --> 00:48:33,655
Come on now. Don't make
no fuss now, you old horse.
634
00:48:33,656 --> 00:48:36,656
l got enough trouble as it is.
Come on over here.
635
00:48:37,293 --> 00:48:40,293
Hold it. Good boy.
636
00:48:40,830 --> 00:48:43,830
Good boy. Good boy. Good boy.
637
00:48:54,043 --> 00:48:57,043
We're gonna be late at the church.
638
00:49:01,884 --> 00:49:04,118
What you doing barefoot
on your wedding day?
639
00:49:04,119 --> 00:49:07,119
l'll put them on in the carriage, Papa.
640
00:49:13,329 --> 00:49:15,296
Come on, Lizzie.
641
00:49:15,297 --> 00:49:17,465
Come on up here.
642
00:49:17,466 --> 00:49:20,466
Go along now and come back
for us in the second load, hear?
643
00:49:20,736 --> 00:49:23,736
Bye-bye!
644
00:49:41,757 --> 00:49:44,757
Now you be still. Stay there.
645
00:49:54,503 --> 00:49:57,503
-What you want?
-l gots to see Mr. T.J. Calloway.
646
00:49:57,806 --> 00:49:59,274
What for?
647
00:49:59,275 --> 00:50:02,275
Just tell him that Will
from the lumberyard is here.
648
00:50:09,685 --> 00:50:11,986
Will, what are you doing
all the way out here?
649
00:50:11,987 --> 00:50:14,987
Mr. Calloway,
l done brung you this here.
650
00:50:15,057 --> 00:50:18,057
That there's the due money
on Mr. Bob Campbell's note.
651
00:50:21,864 --> 00:50:24,864
Well, why didn't he send it
over to the bank this afternoon?
652
00:50:25,467 --> 00:50:28,467
Well, sir, he sort of forgot.
But it's all there. You can count it.
653
00:50:29,038 --> 00:50:31,406
Will, look at you.
You're soaked clear through.
654
00:50:31,407 --> 00:50:34,208
Opaline, bring a
whiskey bottle and a glass.
655
00:50:34,209 --> 00:50:37,209
No, sir. Thank you.
Fact is, l's temperance.
656
00:50:37,713 --> 00:50:40,713
Then we'll fix you some supper,
Will, set up a pallet...
657
00:50:40,716 --> 00:50:43,484
...so you can sleep here
tonight till the rain stops.
658
00:50:43,485 --> 00:50:46,485
Well, sir, l appreciate that,
but l best be going along now.
659
00:50:47,590 --> 00:50:50,091
Will, it is teeming out there!
660
00:50:50,092 --> 00:50:53,092
Yes, sir.
See, fact is, Mr. Calloway...
661
00:50:53,395 --> 00:50:56,395
...l gots me a little bit of business
to tend to back in town...
662
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,600
...but thank you, and you
have yourself a good night, sir.
663
00:51:30,966 --> 00:51:33,966
-lt's still raining.
-He'll be here.
664
00:51:36,572 --> 00:51:39,273
Ain't nobody at the lumberyard, Tom.
665
00:51:39,274 --> 00:51:41,075
l gonna kill him.
666
00:51:41,076 --> 00:51:44,076
Ain't nobody seen him nowhere in town.
667
00:51:45,347 --> 00:51:48,347
Ten minutes more,
then we all going home.
668
00:51:54,590 --> 00:51:57,590
Don't you worry, sister.
669
00:52:07,236 --> 00:52:10,236
Tom!
670
00:52:35,130 --> 00:52:38,130
Dearly beloved, we are gathered
here tonight--
671
00:52:42,304 --> 00:52:45,304
Good evening.
Evening.
672
00:52:48,143 --> 00:52:51,143
Mama, should we serve the turkey?
673
00:52:53,348 --> 00:52:56,348
Mr. Jim. Carrie.
674
00:53:11,066 --> 00:53:14,066
Miss Carrie, is what you're playing
proper for a Christian wedding?
675
00:53:14,570 --> 00:53:16,337
Of course, Tom.
676
00:53:16,338 --> 00:53:18,873
We sent to Memphis for it.
lt's the latest song.
677
00:53:18,874 --> 00:53:21,874
Written by a colored man.
"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" ...
678
00:53:22,077 --> 00:53:24,912
...by James A. Bland,
as sung in London, England...
679
00:53:24,913 --> 00:53:27,913
-...by Haverly's European Minstrels.
-lt ain't sinful?
680
00:53:28,217 --> 00:53:31,217
lt's joyous! Joyous!
681
00:53:39,027 --> 00:53:42,027
Okay.
682
00:53:45,434 --> 00:53:47,902
Where was you?
683
00:53:47,903 --> 00:53:50,903
Leave me standing
in the church for hours.
684
00:53:51,173 --> 00:53:53,875
And how'd you get your suit all wet?
685
00:53:53,876 --> 00:53:56,876
You smell all horse.
686
00:53:58,380 --> 00:54:01,249
lt was business for the lumberyard.
687
00:54:01,250 --> 00:54:04,250
You let that whiskey-drinking fool,
Mr. Bob Campbell...
688
00:54:05,454 --> 00:54:08,422
...keep you in the rain
on your wedding night?
689
00:54:08,423 --> 00:54:11,423
-l got there. We's married, ain't we?
-May l kiss the beautiful bride?
690
00:54:12,261 --> 00:54:14,562
-Of course, Mr. Warner.
-Thank you.
691
00:54:14,563 --> 00:54:17,563
l know you'll be very,
very happy, Mrs. Palmer.
692
00:54:18,834 --> 00:54:21,834
Thank you.
693
00:54:22,771 --> 00:54:25,771
Will?
694
00:54:26,575 --> 00:54:29,575
Do you love me?
695
00:54:30,412 --> 00:54:33,412
This ain't the time nor the place
to be talking about a thing like that.
696
00:54:35,284 --> 00:54:38,284
Will Palmer...
697
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:41,720
...you are gonna tell me
you love me, right now.
698
00:54:43,225 --> 00:54:46,225
And you gonna kiss me
right this minute...
699
00:54:46,795 --> 00:54:49,795
...or l'm gonna walk out that door and
spend the night at my cousin Georgia.
700
00:54:55,237 --> 00:54:58,237
l loves you. Now, for Lord's sake,
girl, you behave yourself.
701
00:55:16,792 --> 00:55:19,460
lt's about time
you brung out the jug, Tom.
702
00:55:19,461 --> 00:55:22,461
-What's a wedding without a toast?
-Well, l promised lrene...
703
00:55:22,664 --> 00:55:25,664
-...it'd be a Christian wedding.
-Well, Christian is fine...
704
00:55:26,068 --> 00:55:29,068
...but bone-dry is against my religion.
705
00:55:31,506 --> 00:55:34,506
Well, it be my baby's wedding day.
706
00:55:37,012 --> 00:55:40,012
Who out there?
707
00:55:41,316 --> 00:55:43,784
Lee!
708
00:55:43,785 --> 00:55:46,785
My God, Lee Garnet.
709
00:55:47,756 --> 00:55:50,756
What you doing here?
You run off?
710
00:55:54,796 --> 00:55:57,796
No, they turn me loose.
711
00:56:00,535 --> 00:56:03,535
Here, have some of this.
712
00:56:04,273 --> 00:56:07,273
That Col. Warner say he gonna
put in the word with the prison board...
713
00:56:08,677 --> 00:56:11,677
...and he done that.
714
00:56:13,849 --> 00:56:16,849
Shirt's stuck to me.
Gotta pull it off.
715
00:56:17,085 --> 00:56:20,085
What happened?
716
00:56:20,989 --> 00:56:23,658
My papers came
for them to turn me loose...
717
00:56:23,659 --> 00:56:25,726
...and that camp boss...
718
00:56:25,727 --> 00:56:28,727
...kept my papers in his pocket...
719
00:56:28,830 --> 00:56:31,499
...till after they whupped me.
720
00:56:31,500 --> 00:56:34,500
He say he do it
for example to the others.
721
00:56:38,607 --> 00:56:41,607
-Sweet Jesus, Lee, they turned you loose!
-Look out.
722
00:56:42,244 --> 00:56:45,244
The blood clot open.
Let's get him inside.
723
00:56:45,380 --> 00:56:48,380
Take him on in the back bedroom.
724
00:56:50,018 --> 00:56:53,018
Come on.
725
00:57:06,969 --> 00:57:09,969
Come on. Bring him
on in here to the bed.
726
00:57:10,172 --> 00:57:11,939
Okay, now.
727
00:57:11,940 --> 00:57:14,940
Be careful. Come on.
728
00:57:18,046 --> 00:57:21,046
Take your arm over here.
729
00:57:26,054 --> 00:57:29,054
Elizabeth, go get that
bottle of croton oil from the cupboard.
730
00:57:29,324 --> 00:57:31,192
Y'all stay back and out the way.
731
00:57:31,193 --> 00:57:34,193
l remembers what to do
from the old days.
732
00:57:39,468 --> 00:57:42,136
Lord, Lord.
733
00:57:42,137 --> 00:57:45,137
l thought l'd never have to
look on nothing like that...
734
00:57:46,341 --> 00:57:49,341
...not ever again.
735
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,520
Andy Warner,
you can't just throw me out.
736
00:58:01,790 --> 00:58:04,790
Well, my dear girl,
that is exactly what l am doing.
737
00:58:06,628 --> 00:58:09,628
Easy for you, Col. Warner's son.
738
00:58:12,300 --> 00:58:15,169
There was 1 1 kids in my family.
739
00:58:15,170 --> 00:58:18,170
Little to eat. Pa drunk all the time...
740
00:58:20,409 --> 00:58:23,409
...going after the girls soon as they
was old enough to notice.
741
00:58:26,481 --> 00:58:29,481
Andy.
742
00:58:30,085 --> 00:58:33,085
We've been fine for near 1 0 years,
on and off.
743
00:58:34,956 --> 00:58:37,956
-What do we got to change for?
-Now, Lucy...
744
00:58:38,093 --> 00:58:41,093
...today l embark on a noble civic career
in the body politic...
745
00:58:42,264 --> 00:58:45,264
...and l can no longer afford
to be associated in the public mind...
746
00:58:46,735 --> 00:58:49,735
-...as your consort.
-What does that mean?
747
00:58:50,338 --> 00:58:53,140
You always wanted to go to Memphis.
748
00:58:53,141 --> 00:58:56,141
Well, l'm gonna give you
a fine letter of recommendation...
749
00:58:56,645 --> 00:58:59,645
...and a heartfelt introduction...
750
00:58:59,981 --> 00:59:02,981
...to a fine businesswoman
of my acquaintance.
751
00:59:05,020 --> 00:59:08,020
You mean Mrs. Burkhart?
Runs the parlor house in Memphis?
752
00:59:09,724 --> 00:59:12,059
"When l was a child,
l spoke as a child.
753
00:59:12,060 --> 00:59:15,060
When l became a man,
l put away childish things."
754
00:59:16,965 --> 00:59:19,533
l'll see you when l'm in Memphis.
755
00:59:19,534 --> 00:59:22,534
On and off.
756
00:59:34,249 --> 00:59:37,051
-Welcome.
-Andy.
757
00:59:37,052 --> 00:59:40,052
lt's time to go out there.
758
00:59:40,822 --> 00:59:43,822
My father's
gonna be in a real quandary.
759
00:59:43,859 --> 00:59:46,859
This crowd is crazy to get the vote
away from the nigger...
760
00:59:47,329 --> 00:59:50,329
...and Papa's wing of the party
made a deal for black votes 1 0 years ago.
761
00:59:52,067 --> 00:59:55,067
My papa's an honorable man.
So are they all, all honorable men.
762
00:59:59,174 --> 01:00:01,242
You got your speech ready?
763
01:00:01,243 --> 01:00:04,243
Andy, l have read the orations
of Cicero...
764
01:00:05,347 --> 01:00:08,347
...the political theory of Henry George...
765
01:00:08,817 --> 01:00:11,817
...and studied
the Haynes-Webster Debates.
766
01:00:11,820 --> 01:00:14,820
Trust me, l have prepared an address...
767
01:00:15,023 --> 01:00:17,258
...which will appeal to the logic...
768
01:00:17,259 --> 01:00:20,259
...and the reasoning power
of our constituency.
769
01:00:22,531 --> 01:00:25,531
Niggers!
770
01:00:27,202 --> 01:00:30,202
l'm telling you, my friends,
that there is an unholy alliance...
771
01:00:31,606 --> 01:00:34,606
...between the rich, the powerful,
the corrupt...
772
01:00:35,243 --> 01:00:38,243
...masquerading as redeemers
of the South...
773
01:00:38,780 --> 01:00:41,780
...and the blacks
that they are in bed with!
774
01:00:44,219 --> 01:00:47,219
They use black votes
to pick your pockets.
775
01:00:47,756 --> 01:00:50,756
And in return, they turn lascivious
black rapists loose...
776
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:54,795
...on your wives and daughters!
777
01:00:54,796 --> 01:00:57,796
l say, turn these hypocrites out!
778
01:00:59,668 --> 01:01:02,668
Vote the true Democratic slate!
779
01:01:02,837 --> 01:01:05,837
Vote for Andy Warner!
780
01:01:07,475 --> 01:01:09,810
-Andy Warner!
-Andy Warner!
781
01:01:09,811 --> 01:01:12,811
-Andy Warner!
-Andy Warner!
782
01:01:15,584 --> 01:01:18,584
Join the men all over the South
who are taking justice into their own hands.
783
01:01:20,922 --> 01:01:23,922
-l say, God bless those men.
-God bless them!
784
01:01:24,226 --> 01:01:26,493
l say, this hand...
785
01:01:26,494 --> 01:01:29,494
...this hand would hold the rope
to punish any black beast...
786
01:01:31,766 --> 01:01:34,766
...that would violate white womanhood!
787
01:01:35,770 --> 01:01:38,770
-That's our man!
-Andy Warner!
788
01:01:39,207 --> 01:01:42,207
Andy Warner!
789
01:01:49,918 --> 01:01:52,918
-Congratulations there, Andy Warner.
-Looking out for us.
790
01:01:53,555 --> 01:01:56,555
-You got the old man boxed out cold.
-l'm voting for you!
791
01:01:59,861 --> 01:02:02,861
l carried this with honor
through the war.
792
01:02:03,398 --> 01:02:06,000
Hold it for me, sir.
793
01:02:06,001 --> 01:02:09,001
l cannot wear it now.
794
01:02:15,977 --> 01:02:18,779
To all honorable men.
795
01:02:18,780 --> 01:02:21,780
My friends!
796
01:02:21,950 --> 01:02:24,585
My friends and neighbors.
797
01:02:24,586 --> 01:02:27,586
There has been a great deal of talk here
about the Negro.
798
01:02:29,024 --> 01:02:31,458
l should like to quote to you...
799
01:02:31,459 --> 01:02:34,459
...from a learned professor from one of
our great Southern institutions in Virginia.
800
01:02:37,065 --> 01:02:40,065
The old fool's gonna bury himself
for sure.
801
01:02:40,101 --> 01:02:43,101
This is what
this scholarly gentleman says:
802
01:02:44,539 --> 01:02:46,573
"The Negro race...
803
01:02:46,574 --> 01:02:49,574
...is essentially a race
of peasant farmers and laborers.
804
01:02:51,746 --> 01:02:54,746
As a source of cheap labor
for warm climate...
805
01:02:55,650 --> 01:02:58,650
...he is beyond competition."
806
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:01,720
Now, l believe that.
That is the Negro's place...
807
01:03:02,757 --> 01:03:05,757
...to work loyally in his humble position...
808
01:03:08,430 --> 01:03:11,430
...under the tutelage
of the superior white race.
809
01:03:11,966 --> 01:03:14,966
Are you for darkies voting
or ain't you?
810
01:03:15,236 --> 01:03:18,236
l am and l have always been...
811
01:03:18,873 --> 01:03:21,873
...against any form
of Negro domination.
812
01:03:26,548 --> 01:03:29,548
As for the ballot, the good Negroes
don't want the vote...
813
01:03:30,185 --> 01:03:33,185
...the bad ones must be barred from it!
814
01:03:39,227 --> 01:03:42,227
l categorically support any measure...
815
01:03:42,597 --> 01:03:45,597
...to totally disenfranchise the Negro.
816
01:03:45,667 --> 01:03:48,667
Who says l do not, lies in his teeth!
817
01:03:49,070 --> 01:03:52,039
l support with my heart's blood...
818
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:55,040
...any action to safeguard...
819
01:03:56,044 --> 01:03:59,044
...the purity of white civilization.
820
01:04:06,888 --> 01:04:09,888
That lying old man
is trying to out-nigger us.
821
01:04:15,597 --> 01:04:17,998
You was born stubborn,
you gonna die stubborn.
822
01:04:17,999 --> 01:04:20,801
What you send for Miss Carrie
and Jim for?
823
01:04:20,802 --> 01:04:23,771
To talk some sense
into your hard head, that's why.
824
01:04:23,772 --> 01:04:26,772
lt ain't no business of nobody but me!
825
01:04:27,842 --> 01:04:30,842
l'm going down Main Street to Fletcher's
Barbershop to register to vote.
826
01:04:32,914 --> 01:04:35,749
Brother Jim,
will you talk some sense to him?
827
01:04:35,750 --> 01:04:38,552
Tom, this time
they're gonna enforce the poll tax.
828
01:04:38,553 --> 01:04:41,553
And the literacy test
and the understanding clause.
829
01:04:41,756 --> 01:04:44,756
What the point on going out to let them
redneck crackers make a mock of you?
830
01:04:46,161 --> 01:04:49,161
l done vote every year
since the war been over.
831
01:04:50,732 --> 01:04:53,732
l votes in Alamance County,
North Carolina...
832
01:04:54,068 --> 01:04:56,403
...and l votes in Henning, Tennessee.
833
01:04:56,404 --> 01:04:59,404
l votes with the guns of the Yankee soldiers
behind me, and when they gone...
834
01:05:00,975 --> 01:05:03,975
...the old Bedford Forrest and the Ku Klux
Klan riding around in their bed sheets.
835
01:05:05,213 --> 01:05:08,213
Tom, honey, them times is long gone.
836
01:05:08,716 --> 01:05:11,716
First time l marked the ballot,
l dropped it in the box, and l say:
837
01:05:13,087 --> 01:05:14,922
"Tom Harvey...
838
01:05:14,923 --> 01:05:17,923
...now you know you is free."
839
01:05:18,059 --> 01:05:20,794
Tom, nowadays that's just
an empty symbol.
840
01:05:20,795 --> 01:05:23,795
l is a free man!
841
01:05:24,165 --> 01:05:26,433
l got the right to vote.
842
01:05:26,434 --> 01:05:28,936
They gonna have to tell me
to my face.
843
01:05:28,937 --> 01:05:31,937
Ain't no use.
Ain't no use, Tom.
844
01:05:32,574 --> 01:05:35,574
That Col. Warner that you been
voting for all these years...
845
01:05:36,411 --> 01:05:38,979
...talks so fine about being friend
to the colored.
846
01:05:38,980 --> 01:05:41,980
Push come to shove, he the one hollering
"nigger" louder than anybody else!
847
01:05:42,817 --> 01:05:45,817
Even so, Tom, there's no point in it.
They're gonna stuff the ballot box.
848
01:05:46,354 --> 01:05:49,354
They're gonna count the votes any way
they like. l've watched them do it.
849
01:05:50,058 --> 01:05:53,058
-lt's a futile, dirty business.
-And anyways...
850
01:05:53,261 --> 01:05:56,261
...both sides holler "nigger," look like
choosing twixt the boils and the toothache.
851
01:05:57,565 --> 01:05:59,800
That don't matter.
852
01:05:59,801 --> 01:06:02,801
A vote belongs to me because l is free.
853
01:06:03,705 --> 01:06:06,273
They gonna have to look me
in the face.
854
01:06:06,274 --> 01:06:09,274
Tom, Miss lda Wells wrote the truth about
that lynching in Memphis...
855
01:06:10,812 --> 01:06:13,812
...in her paper, Free Speech, and because
of that, the mob burnt down her office.
856
01:06:15,817 --> 01:06:18,817
-That is Memphis.
-No, it's all over, all over the South.
857
01:06:20,722 --> 01:06:23,722
ln New Orleans and in St. Louis.
858
01:06:23,958 --> 01:06:26,958
Tom, over the last few years...
859
01:06:26,995 --> 01:06:29,995
...more than a thousand colored people
have been murdered by mobs.
860
01:06:31,032 --> 01:06:33,700
lt can happen right here
in Henning, Tom.
861
01:06:33,701 --> 01:06:36,701
Oh, the respectable people like the colonel,
they won't dirty their hands with it...
862
01:06:37,739 --> 01:06:40,739
...but they give the word,
and it doesn't take much.
863
01:06:41,276 --> 01:06:44,276
They say, "That fellow
sure is getting out of line.
864
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,680
l reckon he deserves
whatever he gets."
865
01:06:49,117 --> 01:06:51,852
And then the others know
that they've got permission.
866
01:06:51,853 --> 01:06:54,853
Tom, you gonna lose.
867
01:06:55,657 --> 01:06:58,657
Honey, you bound to lose.
868
01:06:59,727 --> 01:07:02,727
What you think you doing?
869
01:07:03,798 --> 01:07:06,133
What he done.
870
01:07:06,134 --> 01:07:08,569
The African.
871
01:07:08,570 --> 01:07:11,570
-He kept on.
-Sweet Jesus, Tom, that old African.
872
01:07:11,873 --> 01:07:14,873
He live 1 00 years ago!
Now, what he know about these days?
873
01:07:17,645 --> 01:07:20,645
He know his name.
874
01:07:21,316 --> 01:07:24,316
Kunta Kinte.
875
01:07:25,153 --> 01:07:28,153
He know enough
to keep fighting to be free...
876
01:07:28,189 --> 01:07:31,189
...no matter what they done to him,
till he can't fight no more.
877
01:07:34,195 --> 01:07:37,195
Now, l be a free man.
878
01:07:38,099 --> 01:07:41,099
They gonna have to tell me
to my face.
879
01:08:31,119 --> 01:08:34,119
That's the troublemaker.
880
01:08:38,159 --> 01:08:41,159
Now, where you think you going, uncle?
881
01:08:41,229 --> 01:08:44,097
You see, you let one in,
they all want in.
882
01:08:44,098 --> 01:08:47,098
He sure got his nerve.
883
01:09:01,382 --> 01:09:03,817
What you want, uncle?
884
01:09:03,818 --> 01:09:06,720
My name is Tom Harvey.
885
01:09:06,721 --> 01:09:09,156
l come to register to vote.
886
01:09:09,157 --> 01:09:11,825
Well, why don't you just
run along, uncle.
887
01:09:11,826 --> 01:09:14,826
Go on, get out of here.
You don't want to get in no trouble.
888
01:09:14,829 --> 01:09:17,829
l come like l do every year...
889
01:09:18,266 --> 01:09:20,701
...to register for the vote.
890
01:09:20,702 --> 01:09:23,702
-You'd better go on, get out of here.
-Well, the point is, uncle...
891
01:09:24,205 --> 01:09:27,205
...you can't vote. The new law says
you got to have the poll tax paid up...
892
01:09:28,209 --> 01:09:30,677
...before you can even register.
893
01:09:30,678 --> 01:09:33,678
l got me my paid-up receipt...
894
01:09:34,482 --> 01:09:37,482
...for the poll tax, last 1 0 year.
895
01:09:38,519 --> 01:09:41,519
That don't make no never mind
because of the literacy requirement.
896
01:09:41,756 --> 01:09:44,756
You got to be able to read and write.
897
01:09:45,827 --> 01:09:48,827
l can write, and l can read.
898
01:09:49,564 --> 01:09:52,564
Good. Then it won't be
no trouble at all...
899
01:09:52,867 --> 01:09:55,867
...for you to read this here section of
the constitution of the state of Tennessee.
900
01:10:11,352 --> 01:10:14,352
"Acts which...
901
01:10:15,790 --> 01:10:18,790
...repeal...
902
01:10:19,660 --> 01:10:21,695
...revise...
903
01:10:21,696 --> 01:10:24,696
...and amend this...
904
01:10:26,934 --> 01:10:29,934
...provision...
905
01:10:30,805 --> 01:10:33,805
...of the...
906
01:10:36,978 --> 01:10:39,978
...constitution...
907
01:10:49,457 --> 01:10:52,159
...applies...
908
01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:55,160
...only to these...
909
01:10:56,798 --> 01:10:59,798
...statutes...
910
01:11:01,035 --> 01:11:04,035
...which expressly...
911
01:11:06,541 --> 01:11:09,541
...purport...
912
01:11:10,311 --> 01:11:13,311
...to repeal...
913
01:11:14,081 --> 01:11:16,249
...revise...
914
01:11:16,250 --> 01:11:19,085
...and amend...
915
01:11:19,086 --> 01:11:22,086
...4 LEA 650.
916
01:11:24,659 --> 01:11:27,659
lt has no reference to...
917
01:11:32,433 --> 01:11:35,433
...statutes...
918
01:11:35,436 --> 01:11:38,436
...which repeal by...
919
01:11:48,216 --> 01:11:51,216
...implication."
920
01:11:52,119 --> 01:11:55,119
Good. Real good.
921
01:12:05,499 --> 01:12:08,499
Now, suppose you explain it to me.
922
01:12:09,770 --> 01:12:12,770
Well, go on, uncle.
Explain it to my satisfaction.
923
01:12:19,247 --> 01:12:22,247
How you expect to qualify
if you can't even explain a simple thing...
924
01:12:23,017 --> 01:12:26,017
...like the constitution
of the state of Tennessee?
925
01:12:26,187 --> 01:12:29,187
l rule officially that this applicant
has failed to read and understand...
926
01:12:30,157 --> 01:12:33,059
...the constitution
of the state of Tennessee.
927
01:12:33,060 --> 01:12:35,462
Now go on along, uncle.
lt's all over.
928
01:12:35,463 --> 01:12:38,463
l done voted every year since the war.
929
01:12:38,566 --> 01:12:41,566
Now, l ain't time to waste all day
on a stubborn old man.
930
01:12:41,736 --> 01:12:43,904
Go on, uncle!
Get on out of here...
931
01:12:43,905 --> 01:12:46,905
-...before you get yourself in trouble.
-l'm a free man! l gots the right to vote.
932
01:12:49,277 --> 01:12:52,277
Now, you get this through your thick skull,
boy. Times have changed.
933
01:12:52,780 --> 01:12:55,780
Colored don't vote no more. This is a white
man's county in a white man's state.
934
01:12:57,285 --> 01:13:00,285
You get out of here before
the sheriff comes by and takes you in...
935
01:13:00,655 --> 01:13:03,655
...for disturbing the peace.
936
01:13:09,330 --> 01:13:12,330
You tell me to my face l can't vote?
937
01:13:24,378 --> 01:13:26,980
Fool old man.
938
01:13:26,981 --> 01:13:29,981
Go on, get out of here
before you get hurt.
939
01:14:02,550 --> 01:14:05,550
-Let's get him!
-No! No!
940
01:14:07,355 --> 01:14:09,556
-What you got in your shirt?
-l got my gun.
941
01:14:09,557 --> 01:14:12,557
Well, you leave it be.
They're looking for an excuse. Let's go.
942
01:14:12,727 --> 01:14:15,727
Did they hurt you?
943
01:14:17,465 --> 01:14:19,666
We gonna have to do something
about that now.
944
01:14:19,667 --> 01:14:22,667
-Yeah, l saw it. Come on, let's get him!
-No.
945
01:14:22,870 --> 01:14:25,870
Tom's going home,
that's the end of it.
946
01:14:28,409 --> 01:14:30,877
The niggers will settle down.
947
01:14:30,878 --> 01:14:33,878
l'm telling you, colonel, listen to me.
948
01:14:35,683 --> 01:14:38,683
Word gonna get around the nigger had
the brass to walk in here to register to vote.
949
01:14:39,887 --> 01:14:42,055
-But he didn't.
-One pushed his way in...
950
01:14:42,056 --> 01:14:45,056
-...another tried to assault a white man.
-You gonna stand for a black boy...
951
01:14:46,060 --> 01:14:49,060
...with a bad name, on parole from the state
prison, pulling a gun on a white man?
952
01:14:49,997 --> 01:14:51,698
Colonel, you for black or white?
953
01:14:51,699 --> 01:14:54,699
You're gonna have to show
which side you're on.
954
01:14:55,736 --> 01:14:58,736
-Garnet drew a pistol on a white man?
-Yes, sir, he sure did...
955
01:15:00,241 --> 01:15:03,043
...and he pointed it right at me.
956
01:15:03,044 --> 01:15:05,645
Of course, that is different.
957
01:15:05,646 --> 01:15:08,646
lf he did that, he will deserve anything
that might happen to him.
958
01:15:10,851 --> 01:15:13,686
You heard him, boys!
959
01:15:13,687 --> 01:15:16,089
-Let's go!
-Hey, Fred, go get your dogs!
960
01:15:16,090 --> 01:15:18,825
-Chester, we'll get horses.
-Meet back at the station!
961
01:15:18,826 --> 01:15:21,826
-Everybody that's got a gun, bring one.
-Come on!
962
01:15:34,442 --> 01:15:37,442
lt won't work, Papa.
You're gonna lose anyway.
963
01:15:38,512 --> 01:15:41,512
You can't really out-redshirt Earl Crowther.
You haven't got the talent for it.
964
01:15:42,783 --> 01:15:45,783
That's why l'm gonna win.
965
01:15:48,856 --> 01:15:51,856
You look like
you could use a drink, Papa.
966
01:15:52,793 --> 01:15:54,761
No, thank you, sir.
967
01:15:54,762 --> 01:15:57,762
l will not drink with you.
968
01:16:00,901 --> 01:16:03,901
Hell, Papa.
969
01:16:05,773 --> 01:16:08,773
Will you drink with yourself?
970
01:16:18,185 --> 01:16:20,653
Lee!
971
01:16:20,654 --> 01:16:22,722
Lee, you gotta run.
972
01:16:22,723 --> 01:16:25,658
Yeah, l know.
But where l gonna go?
973
01:16:25,659 --> 01:16:28,394
Even if l gets away,
they gonna take the parole back.
974
01:16:28,395 --> 01:16:31,395
And l ain't going back to that prison.
Not live, l ain't.
975
01:16:31,832 --> 01:16:34,734
-Lee, we gots to get running.
-We ain't got to go nowhere.
976
01:16:34,735 --> 01:16:37,036
l mean, they ain't after you,
they after me.
977
01:16:37,037 --> 01:16:40,037
-Plus, you got a wife and a baby coming.
-We's been raised brothers.
978
01:16:40,374 --> 01:16:43,374
l ain't gonna just run off
and leave you here. Ain't no way.
979
01:16:43,544 --> 01:16:46,544
Then we got to be sly like old
Brother Rabbit, like your daddy told us.
980
01:16:47,014 --> 01:16:49,249
Here's what l want you to do.
You go on--
981
01:16:49,250 --> 01:16:51,050
No. No!
982
01:16:51,051 --> 01:16:54,051
Will you listen?
Just listen to me now.
983
01:16:54,321 --> 01:16:57,321
Now, l want you to make a false trail
for them.
984
01:16:57,525 --> 01:16:59,859
Draw them off for a while, and then--
985
01:16:59,860 --> 01:17:02,128
You know, kind of roundabout
like the rabbit.
986
01:17:02,129 --> 01:17:05,129
You'll come right after?
987
01:17:05,866 --> 01:17:08,601
Yeah, l gonna be all right, Will.
988
01:17:08,602 --> 01:17:11,602
We gonna clear you.
989
01:17:12,072 --> 01:17:15,072
We gonna get you clear, Lee.
990
01:20:59,633 --> 01:21:02,633
He told me to make a false trail.
991
01:21:03,270 --> 01:21:05,471
l would have stayed...
992
01:21:05,472 --> 01:21:08,472
-...but he told me.
-He right.
993
01:21:08,742 --> 01:21:11,742
You gots a wife.
You gonna have a child.
994
01:21:13,347 --> 01:21:16,149
That's what he said.
995
01:21:16,150 --> 01:21:19,150
They should have come after me.
996
01:21:19,153 --> 01:21:22,153
l's the one stood up in their face.
997
01:21:44,745 --> 01:21:47,745
I,m afraid for Will.
What are we gonna do?
998
01:21:48,449 --> 01:21:50,450
We gots to tell him.
999
01:21:50,451 --> 01:21:53,019
Minnie.
1000
01:21:53,020 --> 01:21:55,588
Will...
1001
01:21:55,589 --> 01:21:57,123
...Col. Warner send for you.
1002
01:21:57,124 --> 01:22:00,124
He wants you, Will.
He say you to come to his house right now.
1003
01:22:01,762 --> 01:22:03,563
He say what for?
1004
01:22:03,564 --> 01:22:05,298
Gotta be about Lee.
1005
01:22:05,299 --> 01:22:08,299
Will, one man dead is enough,
now don't you go.
1006
01:22:09,503 --> 01:22:11,437
Ain't no way out.
1007
01:22:11,438 --> 01:22:13,473
l don't come when the colonel ask...
1008
01:22:13,474 --> 01:22:15,741
...he gonna mark me.
1009
01:22:15,742 --> 01:22:18,742
l gonna lose everything
we've worked for.
1010
01:22:19,413 --> 01:22:22,413
They gonna lynch you too?
1011
01:22:23,183 --> 01:22:26,183
-l go with you, son.
-No.
1012
01:22:27,421 --> 01:22:30,421
Ain't gonna put this here
off on nobody else.
1013
01:23:29,249 --> 01:23:32,249
Come in, Will.
1014
01:23:34,087 --> 01:23:36,889
Will.
1015
01:23:36,890 --> 01:23:39,890
l imagine you have no idea
why we called you here.
1016
01:23:40,227 --> 01:23:43,195
No, sir.
1017
01:23:43,196 --> 01:23:46,196
There's a serious and troubling situation
in town...
1018
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:49,168
...and you've been deeply involved in it.
1019
01:23:49,169 --> 01:23:50,603
You're aware, of course...
1020
01:23:50,604 --> 01:23:53,604
...that Campbell's Lumberyard has been
in difficulties for some time now.
1021
01:23:55,742 --> 01:23:57,910
You say the lumberyard?
1022
01:23:57,911 --> 01:23:59,579
Yes.
1023
01:23:59,580 --> 01:24:02,580
Well, the bank has decided
to call the notes, foreclose the mortgage.
1024
01:24:04,084 --> 01:24:07,084
However, that lumberyard
is the key to business growth...
1025
01:24:07,821 --> 01:24:10,656
...in this whole end of the county.
1026
01:24:10,657 --> 01:24:12,625
Now, Will...
1027
01:24:12,626 --> 01:24:15,626
...we know you've been running
the lumberyard for some time now.
1028
01:24:16,763 --> 01:24:19,763
And l admire you for it.
1029
01:24:19,766 --> 01:24:22,766
l have not forgot how you rode
that old gray plug out to my place...
1030
01:24:23,437 --> 01:24:25,738
...in the pouring rain
to bring that payment.
1031
01:24:25,739 --> 01:24:28,739
And you rascal, you never once let on
it was your wedding night.
1032
01:24:33,780 --> 01:24:36,780
Will, we've decided to give you the chance
to take over the lumberyard.
1033
01:24:37,351 --> 01:24:39,218
We'll refinance Campbell's notes...
1034
01:24:39,219 --> 01:24:42,219
...lend you whatever money you need
to put the business back on its feet again.
1035
01:24:43,557 --> 01:24:46,557
Now, you have a reputation for honesty
and hard work.
1036
01:24:47,227 --> 01:24:50,227
And by George, we are not ones
to let color stand in the way...
1037
01:24:51,198 --> 01:24:54,198
...of sound business judgment.
1038
01:24:55,402 --> 01:24:57,770
Well, what do you say, Will?
1039
01:24:57,771 --> 01:25:00,771
Shall we shake on it?
1040
01:25:16,156 --> 01:25:19,125
Not much left.
1041
01:25:19,126 --> 01:25:21,293
Well...
1042
01:25:21,294 --> 01:25:24,230
...suppose we drink to the new owner.
1043
01:25:24,231 --> 01:25:26,966
No, thank you, sir.
l don't drink much none.
1044
01:25:26,967 --> 01:25:28,501
That's right.
1045
01:25:28,502 --> 01:25:30,903
That's right, you don't.
1046
01:25:30,904 --> 01:25:33,172
Well, l'll drink to you, Will.
1047
01:25:33,173 --> 01:25:36,173
l ain't got no hard feelings.
No, sir.
1048
01:25:36,610 --> 01:25:39,111
By God, you know the lumber business.
1049
01:25:39,112 --> 01:25:41,380
And you a good man.
1050
01:25:41,381 --> 01:25:44,381
And you gonna do fine.
1051
01:25:47,354 --> 01:25:50,354
l better hustle
if l'm gonna catch my train.
1052
01:25:55,996 --> 01:25:58,996
Well....
1053
01:26:03,403 --> 01:26:06,403
You take care of yourself, Mr. Bob.
1054
01:26:15,282 --> 01:26:18,282
Morning.
1055
01:26:20,287 --> 01:26:22,688
That what it was like...
1056
01:26:22,689 --> 01:26:25,689
...when you went around that table
at the colonel's...
1057
01:26:26,893 --> 01:26:29,893
...and shook all them
fine white gentlemen's hands?
1058
01:26:30,864 --> 01:26:33,833
What you getting at, Mr. Harvey?
1059
01:26:33,834 --> 01:26:36,834
What it feel like?
1060
01:26:36,970 --> 01:26:39,970
lt feel like a hand.
1061
01:26:42,409 --> 01:26:45,409
lt was the redneck trash
that done the lynching.
1062
01:26:47,681 --> 01:26:50,681
Wouldn't dare without
the say-so of the colonel...
1063
01:26:51,551 --> 01:26:54,019
...Mr. Calloway, and all that.
1064
01:26:54,020 --> 01:26:57,020
You think of that when you're saying,
"Thank you kindly, sir" ...
1065
01:26:58,492 --> 01:27:01,492
...for them giving you the lumberyard?
1066
01:27:01,928 --> 01:27:04,928
lt's a hard world, Mr. Tom.
1067
01:27:05,632 --> 01:27:08,632
And you makes it the best way
you knows how.
1068
01:27:08,869 --> 01:27:11,869
Now, ain't no white man
gave me nothing.
1069
01:27:13,507 --> 01:27:16,507
They just grab at the chance
to get their money back.
1070
01:27:18,178 --> 01:27:21,178
Now, l took on every one
of Mr. Bob Campbell's mortgages.
1071
01:27:22,682 --> 01:27:25,682
And l got to pay it back
at high interest.
1072
01:27:25,752 --> 01:27:28,487
You hear me?
When l pay it back.
1073
01:27:28,488 --> 01:27:31,056
Oh, and l am going to.
1074
01:27:31,057 --> 01:27:34,057
Because l ain't gonna owe
nobody for nothing!
1075
01:27:37,864 --> 01:27:40,864
See, there's different ways to fight...
1076
01:27:41,668 --> 01:27:44,668
...and you do it likes you can.
1077
01:27:44,771 --> 01:27:47,771
Now, there was a--
There was a time...
1078
01:27:49,009 --> 01:27:51,944
...when you should bust out
with a blacksmith's hammer.
1079
01:27:51,945 --> 01:27:54,380
And there was a time...
1080
01:27:54,381 --> 01:27:57,381
...when you thought you can do it
with a vote. Now maybe, just maybe...
1081
01:27:57,984 --> 01:28:00,984
...that time come again,
but not now!
1082
01:28:02,856 --> 01:28:05,856
See...
1083
01:28:06,259 --> 01:28:09,259
...l'm going to make a success
out of this business.
1084
01:28:09,996 --> 01:28:12,898
That's my way of winning
this here fight.
1085
01:28:12,899 --> 01:28:15,899
l means on making do
for my family.
1086
01:28:16,436 --> 01:28:19,405
And l means on going straight forward.
1087
01:28:19,406 --> 01:28:21,040
Mr. Will!
1088
01:28:21,041 --> 01:28:24,041
Miss lrene say-- Miss lrene
say you gotta come home.
1089
01:28:24,211 --> 01:28:26,912
Why, it-- lt the middle
of the day. l just can't...
1090
01:28:26,913 --> 01:28:29,913
-...take off in the middle of the day.
-Young fool!
1091
01:28:30,016 --> 01:28:32,751
lt her time. That's why
lrene sent for you.
1092
01:28:32,752 --> 01:28:35,752
Now, you better start going forward
and get yourself home to your wife.
1093
01:28:38,158 --> 01:28:41,158
You're about to be a father.
1094
01:29:08,588 --> 01:29:10,689
Tom!
1095
01:29:10,690 --> 01:29:13,690
Tom Harvey!
1096
01:29:16,963 --> 01:29:19,963
My cook tells me you have
a brand-new grandchild.
1097
01:29:20,567 --> 01:29:23,567
-Congratulations, Tom.
-Thank you, colonel.
1098
01:29:24,604 --> 01:29:27,604
lt must be a great pleasure,
Tom, to be a grandfather.
1099
01:29:28,975 --> 01:29:31,975
Generations growing, not to feel
that your line has been cut off forever.
1100
01:29:35,415 --> 01:29:38,415
l'm gonna see the baby now,
if you excuse me, colonel.
1101
01:29:40,353 --> 01:29:42,354
We're both getting old, Tom.
1102
01:29:42,355 --> 01:29:45,355
We both remember times the
young ones have forgotten.
1103
01:29:46,459 --> 01:29:48,294
This is true.
1104
01:29:48,295 --> 01:29:51,295
Well, l-- l've lost now.
1105
01:29:52,098 --> 01:29:55,098
My son, Andrew, he's the power
in Lauderdale County.
1106
01:29:57,404 --> 01:30:00,404
God help us all.
1107
01:30:00,473 --> 01:30:03,473
lf you excuse me please, colonel.
1108
01:30:09,916 --> 01:30:12,916
At least you and l, Tom,
we have the old time in common.
1109
01:30:15,956 --> 01:30:18,956
l don't understand
these new politicians.
1110
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:22,960
My own son, l don't understand him.
1111
01:30:23,763 --> 01:30:26,763
Tom, at least you and l
understood each other. We...
1112
01:30:27,534 --> 01:30:30,534
...knew what was
in each other's minds.
1113
01:30:31,972 --> 01:30:34,972
Now, that ain't true, colonel.
1114
01:30:35,709 --> 01:30:38,709
You never understood me.
1115
01:30:39,145 --> 01:30:42,145
You never knew what was in my mind.
1116
01:30:42,482 --> 01:30:44,917
But l understand you...
1117
01:30:44,918 --> 01:30:47,918
...and always knew what
was in your mind.
1118
01:31:02,769 --> 01:31:04,803
And your grandpa...
1119
01:31:04,804 --> 01:31:07,804
...is Tom Harvey.
1120
01:31:09,042 --> 01:31:11,377
And his papa...
1121
01:31:11,378 --> 01:31:14,378
...was Chicken George Moore.
1122
01:31:16,149 --> 01:31:18,450
His mama...
1123
01:31:18,451 --> 01:31:21,451
...was called Kizzy.
1124
01:31:21,988 --> 01:31:24,988
And her papa was the first one.
1125
01:31:25,291 --> 01:31:28,291
The African.
1126
01:31:28,828 --> 01:31:31,828
And his name was Kunta Kinte.
1127
01:32:47,474 --> 01:32:49,374
Tom?
1128
01:32:49,375 --> 01:32:52,375
Crazy old man.
What you doing with Bertha George?
1129
01:32:53,613 --> 01:32:56,613
You just like your daddy,
old Chicken George.
1130
01:32:56,883 --> 01:32:59,883
When he done wandering
and my Cynthia just born...
1131
01:33:00,253 --> 01:33:03,253
...that scoundrel took that baby
right out of my arms...
1132
01:33:03,623 --> 01:33:06,623
...took her out in the cold night air.
1133
01:33:07,093 --> 01:33:10,093
What you do that for?
1134
01:33:10,497 --> 01:33:12,431
l don't know.
1135
01:33:12,432 --> 01:33:15,432
Just something in the family.
1136
01:33:16,369 --> 01:33:18,370
Old woman...
1137
01:33:18,371 --> 01:33:21,371
...this here our grandchild.
1138
01:33:22,008 --> 01:33:25,008
This family gonna go forward.
1139
01:33:42,929 --> 01:33:44,096
Next on Roots:
1140
01:33:44,097 --> 01:33:47,097
-Be careful now. We love you.
-You be good, baby. Bye.
1141
01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:49,401
Bye!
1142
01:33:49,402 --> 01:33:52,402
Pop, l'm not gonna be like the--
Like the ox in the bible.
1143
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:56,439
Blinded, gelded and going round and
round, grinding somebody else's corn...
1144
01:33:57,710 --> 01:33:59,845
...and muzzled so you live and die hungry!
1145
01:33:59,846 --> 01:34:02,846
"Vengeance is mine," sayeth the Lord!
1146
01:34:03,383 --> 01:34:04,816
Kill them niggers!
1147
01:34:04,817 --> 01:34:07,817
Now, you listen to me, old man--
1148
01:34:07,820 --> 01:34:10,820
Lead this fool not into temptation, Lord.
1149
01:34:11,891 --> 01:34:14,660
Else l may just have
to cut him everywhere...
1150
01:34:14,661 --> 01:34:17,229
...excepting under
the bottom of his feet.
1151
01:34:17,230 --> 01:34:19,965
l will earn the money
for the rest of the term.
1152
01:34:19,966 --> 01:34:22,966
Now, what makes you think
you owe any money for tuition?
1153
01:34:23,169 --> 01:34:24,336
Well, l--
1154
01:34:24,337 --> 01:34:27,337
Your entire year's been
paid for in advance.
1155
01:34:28,107 --> 01:34:31,076
l'm afraid, Simon.
1156
01:34:31,077 --> 01:34:34,077
l promise you l won't let those
Germans do anything to me.
1157
01:34:34,380 --> 01:34:36,682
l ain't worried about Germans.
1158
01:34:36,683 --> 01:34:39,683
l read in papa's newspaper about terrible
things happening to the colored in the army.
1159
01:34:41,354 --> 01:34:44,354
Let's move it!
1160
01:34:44,791 --> 01:34:47,791
l love you.
1161
01:35:35,174 --> 01:35:38,174
I love you.
88027
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