And On yesterday, the youth council of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the Maricopa County chapter, sat in and
picketed Earl Ray's restaurant on South Central under the supervision of
Mrs. Estelle Williamson, the director. At this time, we want to present to
you a man who was a part of the all-day sit-in, Mr. Lincoln J. Ragsdale,
Vice President of the Maricopa County chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People. Mr. Ragsdale will speak on the
stepped up integration movement. Mr. Ragsdale.
The stepped up integration movement. Since the march on City Hall in
Phoenix on July the twenty-sixth. The Negro has stepped up his demands.
And he's going to demand his rights. He wants his right to have a decent
job. He wants the right to for his children to receive a decent education.
And to have and to own and maintain a decent home. Yesterday, over 100
young people convened and sit in at a small Mexican restaurant on South
Central Avenue. The purpose of the setting and demonstration was one
reason to demonstrate to the people that everybody has the right to eat
any place that he would want to. He has a right to go into any restaurant
, hotel, a place of public accommodation. We were there all day. Reverend
Brooks, who came back from Washington DC from the greatest march the world
has ever known, where over 200,000 people demonstrated, came in after
driving for 48 hours, and he took his position. He took his place right
alongside of all the other marches out front. He walked inside and took
his seat. The lady had turned off the cooler on us. The temperature. It
was 110 degrees, but we stayed there and kept on waiting and praying and
asking God to give us the strength to hold out knowing that we shall
overcome.