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 And On yesterday, the youth council of the National Association for the

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Advancement of Colored People, the
Maricopa County chapter, sat in and

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picketed Earl Ray's restaurant on
South Central under the supervision of

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Mrs. Estelle Williamson, the director.
At this time, we want to present to

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you a man who was a part of the
all-day sit-in, Mr. Lincoln J. Ragsdale,

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Vice President of the Maricopa County
chapter of the National Association

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for the Advancement of Colored People.
Mr. Ragsdale will speak on the

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stepped up integration movement. Mr.
Ragsdale.

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The stepped up integration movement.
Since the march on City Hall in

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Phoenix on July the twenty-sixth. The
Negro has stepped up his demands.

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And he's going to demand his rights.
He wants his right to have a decent

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job. He wants the right to for his
children to receive a decent education.

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And to have and to own and maintain a
decent home. Yesterday, over 100

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young people convened and sit in at a
small Mexican restaurant on South

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Central Avenue. The purpose of the
setting and demonstration was one

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reason to demonstrate to the people
that everybody has the right to eat

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any place that he would want to. He
has a right to go into any restaurant

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, hotel, a place of public
accommodation. We were there all day. Reverend

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Brooks, who came back from Washington
DC from the greatest march the world

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has ever known, where over 200,000
people demonstrated, came in after

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driving for 48 hours, and he took his
position. He took his place right

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alongside of all the other marches out
front. He walked inside and took

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his seat. The lady had turned off the
cooler on us. The temperature. It

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was 110 degrees, but we stayed there
and kept on waiting and praying and

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asking God to give us the strength to
hold out knowing that we shall

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overcome.