American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with Catherine Burks-Brooks, 4 of 4

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people in that in the church who were not there's none out on as we were and some had done decided that that they were not going to that their own without a fight with because of things that they were going to break up the news i stand i had heard that yes that that there was a song with those and then that runs family was told that their base bill should be put away ha ha ha ha ha ha's music we don't know when as a juror is lucknow i heard that people had gone and in fact the church and our they had been told to put those awake

now i suppose we put away and then they would be rich dr would make it something that they would break up and use it to market broke in and richard iii if the church had been set afire now we did i can i couldn't recall smell in the uk or what were the two days are something that the wrist i use an outside on the barn in the summer the cause la who were downstairs and then later when they own nest and i got there when we told stay on inside and i can remember tangled to door to look out and i seldom regard point or the

statistical the door in which i felt was strange because we closed the door and then later to allow too go out in the back and andy and just walk around and that this was after that the other crowd was gone yes i went outside and as i'm as a mess that we just said nonetheless outside as we were holes or so why wait well ah i know or when they went to the lender to look out of the window i don't recall why i didn't look apple and the maid are rocking through their are so famous and i knew not to go and look at the us capitol and

i could anything that was not tall enough to look back to lend to sea who wants the big crowd milled around out there and in the end of course shows where gang flick around we had read and i think it was that they're back that point this is no hero for a moment and how do you know as potpourri i'm on the mind of the cane on yes i think none of the kenyan spoke about the time the rocks and things

started coming through our the wind and that a time we began to allison allison they only a few days an end and non va we were just our mill around the singing it has not they were tied i don't recall exactly what time it was but when buffett to to leave the church where ufc couldn't leave including internet when the national got a rat and we were told that we couldn't leave the church and stay only inside now some of us will have to still want to see and we went to the door and open the door and then they told us to close a deal and it seems that the gauntlet pointed in our direction which i thought was strange and but what made his sticks out in my

mind so is our when all of us start at the opportunity to leave the church and they put us on the back of these huge on the drugs that call on the trains and i felt to me was that when vietnam vietnam war was going on a good time and so that that's that's what was running through my mind they are and it of course it was just about dow or maybe a fourth our class before we all left church crusade to take a saturday and those would be on the trucks we know the mask off the mark the market's gone they can i don't know how long the mob state that after the national guard that they could you know i'm not quite loud yes well all we could hear but of course we couldn't make out what he was saying oh we could just that we could just hear the chanting they give occasion

you're welcome and yet this is the next day now i was not in that dial house not in that meeting but now was there in the house and we were are we would endure for meetings and i love you know that they're not things i think of wall street i'll play word in mind i met the next day a group of us decided that we would go back to tennessee state to take a half hour exam and i hadn't graduated from here and the car was set for us to go back to nashville to take out ids and so i

went back to maggie stands and then i live another group afridi matters into jackson mississippi so is on the worst i was on to freedom act where you're allowed as captain ray arrested all of us that the jackson and no doubt the bus while put the white waiting room and he said the key walk in and then we doubt we'll keep walking so he saved ooh ah you under arrest disturbing the peace and the carousel own two hands county jail major one thing that sticks out to man man in the past and penchant for books and these of what now i call center it was so small that they will come through this growing they kept alive on this are all night and i we had

to walk arm so i suppose they took that shields and i can remember rap and up in a sheet and they will still get in the sheet with you and so i can stand both right now you find the world around me mr fay butchers got a funny i remembered the er the governor's birthday they gave us some cake and to allow a solid nest that sticks with me and time getting out of our parchment called the attorney they came to get us and he carried us to his house and his wife have made some spaghetti here was because it is so we would delay and so she said the last five weeks or resell tallies again it's probably was going on whoa whoa whoa

well but we felt that it was a possibility that we were not going to make it our allies and we decided that bill would i will now most of us don't have anything to work with and you know do it with their data it didn't look adolf hitler below the age of one thing is that sticks a man man it allows a senior black tie him and our anti war message might die books mr massa says i want to have my diet

coke and there pope has to talk about a creeping in the movie i'm good when i get back to nancy and i found out that i had been expanding and how the head than nine hours to do before graduating and i'm so i knew i had to graduate and i if i wanted the uk was my father mad that you understood that by the end the city state had accepted us but we went to

court and what actually is there was a good attorney loopy one eye cases we got that back into tennessee state nine graduated and this one time in four years when i got back to business they found out they had been its bail because i had been on arrested in dawn jackson mississippi for breach of the peace we went to court and won that case and now one that it is the state and graduated