also, from outside al bany came ministers and ra buys to demonstrate in street prayer. >> all right. we offer our prayers to god. >> what's your purpose? >> our purpose is to offer our prayers to god. >> i'm asking you to disperse, your normal way. go back to your normal places of livelihood. preach to your own congregation and play your own city of sin and of lawlessness before you come here to try to convert us. anyone else here to be heard from? >> praise the name of the lord, blessed be the name of the lord from this time forth and forever more. >> the clergymen like other demonstrators were arrested and as albany became a bigger national story, city officials continued an area of refusal to negotiate with the negroes, a condition which brought comment from president kennedy. >> i find it wholly inexplicable why the city council of albany will not just sit down with the citizens offalny, maybe negroes in an attempt to secure them in a peaceful way in their rights. the united states government is involved in sitting down with geneva in the soviet union. i can't imagine why they ca