and then william pickens got up and spoke. william pickens worked for aacp and born into slavery in about north carolina and he grew up in arkansas and graduated from yale university. and this is what he said. the good man is in error who thinks he can endorse disenfranchisement and sexually oppose the mob. mob members may be ignorant in some ways, but they are too severely logical to overlook and inconsistency like that. i think we do an injustice to civil rights history to african-american history when we assume that the 20th century was just a steady march towards freedom and that that's the story that we tell and that we sort of insert our little contributions into. this is a story of three generations in which real people faced real challenges and made real choices. and certainly a white man in 1918 in mississippi was just as capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time as a civil rights activist in 1960s. they understood then this they understand later that violence undergirded civil rights drama. it undergirded t

william pickens got up and spoke.william pickens worked for the naacp, his parents were born into slavery in south carolina. he grew up in arkansas, later graduated yale university and this is what he said. the good man is in error who thinks he can endorse the franchise and comedy segregation and jim crow and successfully oppose the mob. mob members may be ignorant in some ways but it too severely logical to overlook an inconsistency like that. we do an injustice to civil rights history and african-american history and mississippi history when we assume the 20th century was a steady march toward freedom. that is the story we tell and make our little contributions. this is a story of three generations in which real people face real challenges and made real choices and a white man in 1918 in mississippi was just ask capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. they understood then, they understood later that violence, the civil rights drama is undergirded the struggle. wh