WEBVTT 00:00:31.339 --> 00:00:33.339 Good morning radio friends. This is Austin Coleman for the Ragsdale 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:40.436 mortuary where funeral services began at $195 complete. And the valley 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:44.427 life and casualty insurance company offering new policy service at a new 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:48.086 low premium rate, bringing you another in a series of sunday morning 00:00:48.119 --> 00:00:54.076 programs designed especially for your listening pleasure. Last sunday we 00:00:54.109 --> 00:00:58.527 dedicated our program to the ladies on our staff. This sunday, we would 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:03.906 like to dedicate our program to you, Our wonderful listeners. 00:01:03.939 --> 00:01:09.346 We will feature this morning, the man of the year. The reverend dr martin 00:01:09.379 --> 00:01:17.016 Luther king Jr we would like to play for you as our first selection a 00:01:17.049 --> 00:01:22.536 number from the faith temple church choir of new york city. They will sing 00:01:22.569 --> 00:01:30.569 for you. Tis the old ship of Zion Jis 00:01:31.109 --> 00:01:39.109 B 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:48.796 shit, 00:01:48.829 --> 00:01:55.206 okay. Yeah, yeah. 00:01:55.239 --> 00:02:03.239 Yeah, 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.207 I am. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:18.606 Yeah. 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:25.506 Yeah. 00:02:25.539 --> 00:02:31.506 It has landed 00:02:31.539 --> 00:02:39.006 many thousands. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.606 Yeah. 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:48.807 Yeah. 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.307 Yeah. 00:02:52.340 --> 00:02:57.406 Me. 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:02.606 Yeah, yeah, 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:08.707 yeah, 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:14.606 it has landed 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:19.506 my mother. 00:03:19.539 --> 00:03:21.807 Yeah. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:29.840 Yeah. 00:03:31.939 --> 00:03:39.939 Yeah, 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:49.707 yeah. 00:03:49.740 --> 00:03:57.740 Yeah. 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:08.840 The gospel all stars are next with it's me. Oh lord me. 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:16.759 The roberta martin singers. Since I met jesus. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:25.240 Mhm. Since I've met jesus, 00:06:30.540 --> 00:06:34.546 there's a bedding 00:06:34.579 --> 00:06:37.707 set a burning 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:43.806 deep within me. 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.517 He who's 00:06:46.550 --> 00:06:54.550 me with and I'm stealing a heart. Oh 00:06:56.310 --> 00:06:58.986 and it tears 00:06:59.019 --> 00:07:01.606 me away 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:09.639 from all sin 00:07:12.579 --> 00:07:14.967 from 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.317 day 00:07:17.350 --> 00:07:25.350 to day. Wait, 00:07:27.110 --> 00:07:35.110 this man, wait, 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:50.406 makes me want to run all hallelujah. 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.906 Uh huh. To blend. 00:07:53.939 --> 00:08:01.939 Mm, mm hmm. 00:08:50.139 --> 00:08:58.139 I'll keep with 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:09.006 world. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:14.006 Yeah. Mhm 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:20.307 mm. 00:09:20.340 --> 00:09:22.606 Yeah, 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.106 I me 00:09:27.139 --> 00:09:30.407 the 00:09:30.440 --> 00:09:36.776 three out 00:09:36.809 --> 00:09:41.146 great sha 00:09:41.179 --> 00:09:45.606 long 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:51.756 I would like to make a special announcement at this time. The family of Mr 00:09:51.789 --> 00:09:59.126 Alex Nord 1521. West Pema wishes to express their sincerest gratitude for 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:04.047 those friends who call during the illness and passing of their beloved 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:08.307 husband and father. 00:10:08.340 --> 00:10:14.037 I nisi nisi 00:10:14.070 --> 00:10:16.707 whoa. 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:23.506 Yeah. 00:10:23.539 --> 00:10:28.427 Every. 00:10:28.460 --> 00:10:34.207 Oh uh huh. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:40.516 Yeah. Friends. Remember the Ragsdale mortuary is just large enough to 00:10:40.549 --> 00:10:45.457 serve you sacred lee and beautifully. Just small enough to know you and to 00:10:45.490 --> 00:10:51.077 help you. No one has ever turned away for lack of funds at the Ragsdale 00:10:51.110 --> 00:10:58.707 mortuary. 00:10:58.740 --> 00:11:06.740 Our next election will be by the sally morton singers. I need him. 00:11:09.740 --> 00:11:16.246 I 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.526 I 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:22.396 know that he knows 00:11:22.429 --> 00:11:30.429 that I 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:38.639 I a 00:11:48.809 --> 00:11:56.809 just like 00:12:08.539 --> 00:12:16.539 two. 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:45.039 I need him. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:10.396 Mm I would like to dedicate this number to the family of mrs Bernice nord. 00:14:10.429 --> 00:14:16.307 Bless this house. Mm hmm. Uh 00:14:16.340 --> 00:14:19.006 His house. 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:26.047 No. What do we pray 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.677 make 00:14:28.710 --> 00:14:31.407 it? See 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:39.440 I not. And in me next 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:42.707 these walls 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:50.740 support for a man to keeping 00:14:52.889 --> 00:14:55.407 whoa 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.886 and love 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:06.919 love 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.606 like I. P. 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:29.639 Dies. Oh 00:15:49.539 --> 00:15:57.539 uh huh. 00:16:10.250 --> 00:16:12.606 Yes, 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:20.207 all that the maisy 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:27.907 well with. 00:16:27.940 --> 00:16:32.707 Yeah 00:16:32.740 --> 00:16:40.740 well wow! 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:54.639 Yeah. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:11.556 Mhm. The vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of 00:17:11.589 --> 00:17:16.707 colored People. Mr Lincoln J Ragsdale would like to speak with you briefly 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:21.107 about the National Association for the Advancement of colored People at 00:17:21.140 --> 00:17:29.140 this time. Let us here. Mr Lincoln J Ragsdale, thank you. Mr Coleman 1963 00:17:31.589 --> 00:17:39.589 was the emancipation year. We celebrated the 100th anniversary with two 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:44.427 big programs in phoenix, one of the first institutional baptist church in 00:17:44.460 --> 00:17:46.607 april 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:52.826 their life insurance company sponsored the masturbation celebration at 00:17:52.859 --> 00:18:00.226 East Lake Park. We brought dr hell and reverend jerry w ford here. Then in 00:18:00.259 --> 00:18:07.286 July the 26 we have the July 26 movement and we marched 5000 strong on 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.697 city hall and presented to the mayor of the city of Phoenix and two other 00:18:11.730 --> 00:18:17.556 officials a list of our grievances and we told them and told the city of 00:18:17.589 --> 00:18:25.377 phoenix our problems. Then the next month we marched at El Rey Cafe, a 00:18:25.410 --> 00:18:30.627 small mexican cafe on South Central Avenue that refused service to negroes 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:38.660 because of our color. Then we closed the year out with the city election 00:18:39.470 --> 00:18:45.276 and over 26,000 persons came out in, gave us a vote now that the 00:18:45.309 --> 00:18:50.957 celebrations are over. We had a good time celebrating our emancipation. We 00:18:50.990 --> 00:18:56.707 marched on city hall with 5000 people in the whole city knows our problem 00:18:56.740 --> 00:19:02.107 and Yellow Ray cafe has been integrated and we can all eat there but we 00:19:02.140 --> 00:19:07.266 still need a job now the election is over and we found that we want a 00:19:07.299 --> 00:19:13.526 victory but we lost the election because we didn't have enough negroes and 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:20.006 other people who were interested in our cause registered to vote 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:23.347 and reverend brooks, the president of the N. A. C. P. And I have been 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:28.847 meeting together for the last few days and trying to work out a solution 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:33.796 to solve our problems and we'll come up with some ideas and we want you to 00:19:33.829 --> 00:19:38.957 pray for us in the next few days and next week we're gonna tell you how we 00:19:38.990 --> 00:19:44.197 believe we can solve some of our problems. You know. Last year we organize 00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:48.086 a school trying to help people go back and finish the high school 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:53.286 education. But listen to us next week and I'll tell you the answer that 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:57.887 reverend brooks and I have come up with, we ask you to pray for us and we 00:19:57.920 --> 00:20:05.920 want our next election is I believe by Mahalia Jackson. 00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:15.740 Yeah, highly for every drop of rain that far. 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:26.839 Yeah, flowers grow. 00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:35.339 I believe that somewhere in the dog is nine 00:20:38.470 --> 00:20:40.937 can 00:20:40.970 --> 00:20:46.506 blow. 00:20:46.539 --> 00:20:52.207 I believe for everyone 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:57.766 go the string. 00:20:57.799 --> 00:20:59.847 Someone 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:02.556 will call 00:21:02.589 --> 00:21:10.589 a man, wait, 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:24.207 Oh, 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:28.806 oh 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:36.839 I want that for you. I believe above the storm. A smallest bread. We'll 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:47.506 still be heard. 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:51.117 I 00:21:51.150 --> 00:21:58.707 believe that someone in the great somewhere 00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:03.887 okay He is every 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:09.407 one. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:17.440 Every time I hear a newborn baby crown a 00:22:40.069 --> 00:22:48.006 really? 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:51.417 Yes, 00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:57.367 I believe, I believe we shall overcome because the bible is right. They 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:02.097 shall reap what they sold. And I believe if we keep on working in heaven, 00:23:02.130 --> 00:23:06.187 faith in God that he'll never fail us. There's only one thing if God 00:23:06.220 --> 00:23:11.667 cannot do, he will never fail you is put your hand in God's hand and be 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:17.246 thankful of this cold sunday morning for the opportunities that we have to 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.736 work and to do something to help our people. And I ask you again to pray 00:23:22.769 --> 00:23:29.907 for us because I believe dr brooks myself, we will be able to work out 00:23:29.940 --> 00:23:35.607 something that can help our people to help ourselves 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:41.306 and we want to play for you to sunday morning. Another special 00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:47.326 programmed by Dr martin Luther King the man of the year. First time in the 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:52.917 history of negro has been named the outstanding citizen regardless of his 00:23:52.950 --> 00:23:58.417 color is the outstanding man of the United States. Let's listen to Dr 00:23:58.450 --> 00:24:06.450 martin Luther King fun town. Usa DR King now relates an experience 00:24:06.710 --> 00:24:13.207 bemoaning the injustice of bigotry upon the heart of a little negro child. 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:20.447 He explains the evils of segregation to his daughter of adolescent age. 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:27.796 My 00:24:27.829 --> 00:24:34.187 little daughter loves to ride to the airport with me, she says to miss off 00:24:34.220 --> 00:24:41.207 and daddy, you just go over and over and over again. So one of the ways 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:46.927 she consoles herself and the fact that her daddy has to be away so much is 00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:53.506 to ride to the airport whenever I'm going in a coming back into town or 00:24:53.539 --> 00:25:01.539 going out of town and she can do it if she isn't in school. And as we pass 00:25:02.029 --> 00:25:08.907 on the expressway, going to the airport in Atlanta, we pass by what is 00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:15.746 known as fun town. Now this is an amusement center where little Children 00:25:15.779 --> 00:25:21.367 go to play and where they go for recreation, something like Disneyland and 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:26.707 something like the very fine amusement centers across the country for 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:33.937 young people. And as we pass fun town so often in the car, she would look 00:25:33.970 --> 00:25:40.006 over to me and say, Daddy, I want to go to fun time. 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:44.357 Well I could always evade the question when we were going by in the 00:25:44.390 --> 00:25:51.006 automobile because we were passing by and I could jump to another subject 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:57.086 and I didn't want to have to tell my little daughter that she couldn't go 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:03.707 to fun town because of the color of her skin. 00:26:03.740 --> 00:26:09.607 But then the other day we were at home and light most Children, she likes 00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:12.776 to look at television and she was looking at television and they were 00:26:12.809 --> 00:26:18.177 advertising fun town and she ran downstairs and said, Daddy, you know, 00:26:18.210 --> 00:26:22.046 I've been telling you, I want to go to fun town And and they were just 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:26.927 talking about fun town on the television and I want you to take me to fun 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:34.707 town. Yeah, yeah. No, I stood there speechless. 00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:40.407 How could I explain to a little six years old girl that she couldn't go to 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:46.976 fun town because she was colored. I've been speaking across the country 00:26:47.009 --> 00:26:51.056 talking about segregation and discrimination and I thought I could answer 00:26:51.089 --> 00:26:56.157 most of the questions that came up, but I was speechless for the moment. I 00:26:56.190 --> 00:27:01.766 didn't know how to explain it. Then I said to myself, I've got to face 00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:09.799 this problem once and for all. And I took a you call over, my wife was 00:27:09.859 --> 00:27:14.167 sitting on the other side of the table and I took my little daughter and 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:18.207 told her to have a seat on my knees 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:24.627 and she jumped up in my lap and I looked at and I said, you Orlando, we 00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:27.006 have a problem. 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:33.467 Said you know, some people don't do the right things and they are 00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:36.107 misguided. 00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:41.496 And so they have developed a system where white people go of certain 00:27:41.529 --> 00:27:47.867 places and colored people go certain places and I said they have fun town 00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:55.306 like that so that they don't allow colored Children to go to fun town. 00:27:55.339 --> 00:28:00.296 Then I looked at at that point because I didn't want her to develop a 00:28:00.329 --> 00:28:05.046 sense of bitterness. I didn't want her to grow up with a sense of hatred 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:09.586 and bitterness in her heart. And so I had to rush on and say, but now all 00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:12.957 white people out like this as and white people right here in Atlanta who 00:28:12.990 --> 00:28:17.397 would like for you to go to fun town and there are some all over the 00:28:17.430 --> 00:28:24.576 country who are right on this issue right still. There are those who have 00:28:24.609 --> 00:28:32.357 been misguided. Then I looked down into our eyes and I said to her at that 00:28:32.390 --> 00:28:39.107 point and I saw tears flowing from my eyes at that point I said, Yoki, 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:46.857 even though you can't go to fun time, I want you to know that you are as 00:28:46.890 --> 00:28:54.890 good as anybody who goes into from town. Yeah, 00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:58.316 yeah. 00:28:58.349 --> 00:29:04.707 And I want you to know Yoki that some of us are working hard every day to 00:29:04.740 --> 00:29:11.157 get fun town open and to get many other places open. And I say to you that 00:29:11.190 --> 00:29:18.566 in the not too distant future from town and every other town will be open 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:23.576 to all of God's Children because we're going to work for yes dr king, 00:29:23.609 --> 00:29:28.607 we're gonna work for jobs and freedom here in phoenix to this sunday 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:31.967 morning, I'm gonna leave now and go to mount calvary baptist church in 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:37.647 Tucson Arizona. And we're gonna worship with reverend T. S. Jackson and 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:42.107 we're asking you to pray for us as we travel upon the highway this sunday. 00:29:42.140 --> 00:29:45.056 And we ask and encourage you to go to the church of your choice this 00:29:45.089 --> 00:29:49.687 morning and worship and ask God to give you strength and give us all 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:55.756 strength enough to keep on fighting on behalf of the rights del mortuary. 00:29:55.789 --> 00:30:01.967 And the Valley Life Insurance company, we say good morning to you and 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:06.397 which God speed be upon you and his blessings upon you. And until next 00:30:06.430 --> 00:30:11.127 sunday morning we actually listen again at nine o'clock to this program 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:17.707 where we will give you the announcement from reverend George brooks. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:22.806 Oh yeah, 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:26.847 thank God I'm 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.607 uh 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:37.506 Oh 00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:45.539 Oh 00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:50.006 mm 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:53.707 mm. 00:30:53.740 --> 00:30:58.306 See 00:30:58.339 --> 00:31:06.339 mm 00:31:06.339 --> 00:31:14.339 Oh 00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:23.539 mhm, mm. 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:44.640 Mhm, mm hmm, 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:53.440 mm hmm. 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:10.440 Yeah. Oh mmme