Good morning radio friends. This is Austin Coleman for the Ragsdale
mortuary where funeral services began at $195 complete. And the valley
life and casualty insurance company offering new policy service at a new
low premium rate, bringing you another in a series of sunday morning
programs designed especially for your listening pleasure. Last sunday we
dedicated our program to the ladies on our staff. This sunday, we would
like to dedicate our program to you, Our wonderful listeners.
We will feature this morning, the man of the year. The reverend dr martin
Luther king Jr we would like to play for you as our first selection a
number from the faith temple church choir of new york city. They will sing
for you. Tis the old ship of Zion Jis
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Yeah,
I am.
Yeah.
It has landed
many thousands.
Yeah.
Me.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah,
it has landed
my mother.
Yeah.
Yeah,
yeah.
Yeah.
The gospel all stars are next with it's me. Oh lord me.
The roberta martin singers. Since I met jesus.
Mhm. Since I've met jesus,
there's a bedding
set a burning
deep within me.
He who's
me with and I'm stealing a heart. Oh
and it tears
me away
from all sin
from
day
to day. Wait,
this man, wait,
makes me want to run all hallelujah.
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I'll keep with
world.
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Yeah,
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I would like to make a special announcement at this time. The family of Mr
Alex Nord 1521. West Pema wishes to express their sincerest gratitude for
those friends who call during the illness and passing of their beloved
husband and father.
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whoa.
Yeah.
Every.
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Yeah. Friends. Remember the Ragsdale mortuary is just large enough to
serve you sacred lee and beautifully. Just small enough to know you and to
help you. No one has ever turned away for lack of funds at the Ragsdale
mortuary.
Our next election will be by the sally morton singers. I need him.
I
know that he knows
that I
I a
just like
two.
I need him.
Mm I would like to dedicate this number to the family of mrs Bernice nord.
Bless this house. Mm hmm. Uh
His house.
No. What do we pray
make
it? See
I not. And in me next
these walls
support for a man to keeping
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and love
love
like I. P.
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uh huh.
Yes,
all that the maisy
well with.
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Mhm. The vice president of the National Association for the Advancement of
colored People. Mr Lincoln J Ragsdale would like to speak with you briefly
about the National Association for the Advancement of colored People at
this time. Let us here. Mr Lincoln J Ragsdale, thank you. Mr Coleman 1963
was the emancipation year. We celebrated the 100th anniversary with two
big programs in phoenix, one of the first institutional baptist church in
april
their life insurance company sponsored the masturbation celebration at
East Lake Park. We brought dr hell and reverend jerry w ford here. Then in
July the 26 we have the July 26 movement and we marched 5000 strong on
city hall and presented to the mayor of the city of Phoenix and two other
officials a list of our grievances and we told them and told the city of
phoenix our problems. Then the next month we marched at El Rey Cafe, a
small mexican cafe on South Central Avenue that refused service to negroes
because of our color. Then we closed the year out with the city election
and over 26,000 persons came out in, gave us a vote now that the
celebrations are over. We had a good time celebrating our emancipation. We
marched on city hall with 5000 people in the whole city knows our problem
and Yellow Ray cafe has been integrated and we can all eat there but we
still need a job now the election is over and we found that we want a
victory but we lost the election because we didn't have enough negroes and
other people who were interested in our cause registered to vote
and reverend brooks, the president of the N. A. C. P. And I have been
meeting together for the last few days and trying to work out a solution
to solve our problems and we'll come up with some ideas and we want you to
pray for us in the next few days and next week we're gonna tell you how we
believe we can solve some of our problems. You know. Last year we organize
a school trying to help people go back and finish the high school
education. But listen to us next week and I'll tell you the answer that
reverend brooks and I have come up with, we ask you to pray for us and we
want our next election is I believe by Mahalia Jackson.
Yeah, highly for every drop of rain that far.
Yeah, flowers grow.
I believe that somewhere in the dog is nine
can
blow.
I believe for everyone
go the string.
Someone
will call
a man, wait,
Oh,
oh
I want that for you. I believe above the storm. A smallest bread. We'll
still be heard.
I
believe that someone in the great somewhere
okay He is every
one.
Every time I hear a newborn baby crown a
really?
Yes,
I believe, I believe we shall overcome because the bible is right. They
shall reap what they sold. And I believe if we keep on working in heaven,
faith in God that he'll never fail us. There's only one thing if God
cannot do, he will never fail you is put your hand in God's hand and be
thankful of this cold sunday morning for the opportunities that we have to
work and to do something to help our people. And I ask you again to pray
for us because I believe dr brooks myself, we will be able to work out
something that can help our people to help ourselves
and we want to play for you to sunday morning. Another special
programmed by Dr martin Luther King the man of the year. First time in the
history of negro has been named the outstanding citizen regardless of his
color is the outstanding man of the United States. Let's listen to Dr
martin Luther King fun town. Usa DR King now relates an experience
bemoaning the injustice of bigotry upon the heart of a little negro child.
He explains the evils of segregation to his daughter of adolescent age.
My
little daughter loves to ride to the airport with me, she says to miss off
and daddy, you just go over and over and over again. So one of the ways
she consoles herself and the fact that her daddy has to be away so much is
to ride to the airport whenever I'm going in a coming back into town or
going out of town and she can do it if she isn't in school. And as we pass
on the expressway, going to the airport in Atlanta, we pass by what is
known as fun town. Now this is an amusement center where little Children
go to play and where they go for recreation, something like Disneyland and
something like the very fine amusement centers across the country for
young people. And as we pass fun town so often in the car, she would look
over to me and say, Daddy, I want to go to fun time.
Well I could always evade the question when we were going by in the
automobile because we were passing by and I could jump to another subject
and I didn't want to have to tell my little daughter that she couldn't go
to fun town because of the color of her skin.
But then the other day we were at home and light most Children, she likes
to look at television and she was looking at television and they were
advertising fun town and she ran downstairs and said, Daddy, you know,
I've been telling you, I want to go to fun town And and they were just
talking about fun town on the television and I want you to take me to fun
town. Yeah, yeah. No, I stood there speechless.
How could I explain to a little six years old girl that she couldn't go to
fun town because she was colored. I've been speaking across the country
talking about segregation and discrimination and I thought I could answer
most of the questions that came up, but I was speechless for the moment. I
didn't know how to explain it. Then I said to myself, I've got to face
this problem once and for all. And I took a you call over, my wife was
sitting on the other side of the table and I took my little daughter and
told her to have a seat on my knees
and she jumped up in my lap and I looked at and I said, you Orlando, we
have a problem.
Said you know, some people don't do the right things and they are
misguided.
And so they have developed a system where white people go of certain
places and colored people go certain places and I said they have fun town
like that so that they don't allow colored Children to go to fun town.
Then I looked at at that point because I didn't want her to develop a
sense of bitterness. I didn't want her to grow up with a sense of hatred
and bitterness in her heart. And so I had to rush on and say, but now all
white people out like this as and white people right here in Atlanta who
would like for you to go to fun town and there are some all over the
country who are right on this issue right still. There are those who have
been misguided. Then I looked down into our eyes and I said to her at that
point and I saw tears flowing from my eyes at that point I said, Yoki,
even though you can't go to fun time, I want you to know that you are as
good as anybody who goes into from town. Yeah,
yeah.
And I want you to know Yoki that some of us are working hard every day to
get fun town open and to get many other places open. And I say to you that
in the not too distant future from town and every other town will be open
to all of God's Children because we're going to work for yes dr king,
we're gonna work for jobs and freedom here in phoenix to this sunday
morning, I'm gonna leave now and go to mount calvary baptist church in
Tucson Arizona. And we're gonna worship with reverend T. S. Jackson and
we're asking you to pray for us as we travel upon the highway this sunday.
And we ask and encourage you to go to the church of your choice this
morning and worship and ask God to give you strength and give us all
strength enough to keep on fighting on behalf of the rights del mortuary.
And the Valley Life Insurance company, we say good morning to you and
which God speed be upon you and his blessings upon you. And until next
sunday morning we actually listen again at nine o'clock to this program
where we will give you the announcement from reverend George brooks.
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