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00:00:00Although fictionalized, this film is inspired by three decades of the life and career of Hazel Brannan Smith.
00:00:42She's going to be awful tired.
00:00:44She stopped overnight in New York.
00:00:46New York? London and Paris and Rome? I'd give anything to see Rome.
00:00:52You expect Mr. Jones and Mr. Wiley going to show up?
00:00:55Hardly. I expect they're still off licking their wounds somewheres.
00:00:58That Clarence was a good catch, too.
00:01:02You know, Ruth's sake, Miss Brannan's been in more laps than a napkin.
00:01:05Oh, shut up.
00:01:11There she is.
00:01:17Honey, close your mouth for all the flies escape.
00:01:21Well, what you think?
00:01:23You look great.
00:01:25You sure do, Miss Brannan.
00:01:27Oh, Riley, I'm afraid you can't call me that anymore.
00:01:30I'm married now.
00:01:31What?
00:01:32And, Riley, I meet my husband, Walter Dias Smith.
00:01:36Hi. My friends call me Smitty.
00:01:38Well, hallelujah and amen, brother.
00:01:40I never thought I'd see the date.
00:01:42So you must be in, huh?
00:01:45It's very nice to meet you.
00:01:46Hazel says you're the next best thing since past your eyes note.
00:01:49Hush, Smitty. Next thing you know, she'll be asking for a raise.
00:01:52How did you do it?
00:01:53Every man in this county's been trying for near a decade.
00:01:56Well, I convinced her marriage was a noble institution and that she should be institutionalized.
00:02:00Don't start now, Smitty.
00:02:01No, I said, why suffer the attentions of so many men when you can have the inattention of just one?
00:02:06Besides, we're in love and there's only one cure for that, marriage.
00:02:09He stole all the lines.
00:02:11I said she wouldn't be complete until she was married.
00:02:13And now she's finished.
00:02:15Come on, kids.
00:02:17I want to get these pencil shortings off my feet and wiggle my toes in some Delta dirt.
00:02:21All right, you get that.
00:02:22All right, you get that.
00:02:53Accident up ahead.
00:02:54Looked like that truck took a hit on.
00:02:56Oh, my Lord, it's a bad one.
00:02:59Start the car.
00:03:01Get out of here, boy.
00:03:04Come on, boy, move that car along.
00:03:06We ain't got company.
00:03:07Come on.
00:03:09Can you hear me?
00:03:11Yeah.
00:03:13Yeah, now.
00:03:14See you there, Miss Brannon.
00:03:16Stay back.
00:03:18You all right, sweetheart?
00:03:24Where's the ambulance?
00:03:26Someone's way.
00:03:27Let's go. Stay back, bro.
00:03:32That man's drunk.
00:03:35Ned says he's in the wrong lane.
00:03:37Well, any fool can see that's a lie.
00:03:39I'll take Ned's word over some poor white trash any day.
00:03:42I don't care.
00:03:43You're not going to arrest him?
00:03:45I'll conduct an investigation.
00:03:48How'd you sleep at night?
00:03:50With my eyes closed.
00:03:54I don't think you understand what I...
00:04:05Get that ambulance in here.
00:04:32She was here today.
00:04:44Wait, wait, wait.
00:04:47And here we go.
00:04:53Surprise!
00:04:57Well, it looks like the surprise is on us.
00:05:00Did we come at a wrong time?
00:05:02Oh, everyone, meet my husband, Smitty.
00:05:05Oh, my God.
00:05:06Oh, my God.
00:05:08Oh, my God.
00:05:09Oh, my God.
00:05:09Well, congratulations.
00:05:10I've known Hazel since she was just a twinkle in her daddy's eye.
00:05:13Oh, my God.
00:05:15Smitty, how are you?
00:05:16Oh, my God.
00:05:18Oh, my God.
00:05:29I ate all over Europe.
00:05:30Nothing came close to you, fried chicken.
00:05:33I've been waiting 20 years to throw you a wedding and you go and eat little.
00:05:36You're going to love him.
00:05:38One more person to cook for.
00:05:40But no kitchen help?
00:05:44We're going to get us our dream house.
00:05:46We're going to have lunches and barbecues and cocktail parties.
00:05:50I might even join the bridge club.
00:05:52I'm married now, Ruth.
00:05:54I'm going to settle down.
00:05:56I had time, too.
00:05:58Be nice.
00:05:59And I might give you the earpops I bought you in Paris.
00:06:08He's six years younger than her.
00:06:09He was a porter, you know.
00:06:11He was a purser.
00:06:13And who cares?
00:06:14She's married now.
00:06:16Well, at least our men are finally safe.
00:06:18Phoebe, that is not fair.
00:06:20Hazel has never gone after a married man.
00:06:22She sure went after all the single ones, though.
00:06:24I wonder if it was a shotgun wedding.
00:06:26You are a big boss.
00:06:28Do you know that?
00:06:30My ears are burning.
00:06:32Which one of you flibbity-jibbis is talking about me now?
00:06:35We just love your hair, Hazel.
00:06:38Is that one of those new perms?
00:06:40No, it just curled up like that after Smitty ravished me down in the engine room.
00:06:46How could you stand those two hypocrites kissing up like that?
00:06:49Oh, I think she envies them.
00:06:51Those jealous old tongue-waggers?
00:06:52Sure.
00:06:54Hazel pretends that she likes to be different.
00:06:56But deep down, she just wants to belong.
00:06:58Just like everybody else.
00:07:00Is this a party?
00:07:01Or is everybody posing for a portrait?
00:07:04Tell Ruth to spark the lemonade.
00:07:06If it gets any dinner, we'll have to hire an organ player.
00:07:09Miss Hazel?
00:07:09Hmm?
00:07:10I put the suitcases in your room.
00:07:12Thanks, Riley.
00:07:12Now, stop by the kitchen for your leave.
00:07:14Ruth's fixed your plate.
00:07:16I tell you, the storm is gathering.
00:07:19The time back is before it strikes.
00:07:21Right.
00:07:22Is this the same storm that was gathering before I left town?
00:07:26I'd have thought you'd have taken care of it by now, Earl.
00:07:28My kids will stay home before I see them go to school with Negris.
00:07:32Oh, Lyle.
00:07:33This storm will blow over like all the rest.
00:07:36I don't believe it will.
00:07:38Well, everybody's got to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.
00:07:44This is supposed to be a party and many good news.
00:07:46Well, you got the county printing contract.
00:07:49Does that count?
00:07:52Can I cat-link his whiskers?
00:08:01Come on, boys.
00:08:02Let's kick up our shoes and tear up some turf.
00:08:06Come on, Lyle.
00:08:08Come on.
00:08:08Come on there, Lyle.
00:08:09Get up there.
00:08:12Yeah, that's some woman you marry.
00:08:14Hmm.
00:08:15I mean, you must be some kind of man to tame Hazel Vanden.
00:08:18Oh, I didn't say Merv.
00:08:20I hope I never do.
00:08:22Isn't that Lyle?
00:08:23Dancing like a meal on Crushing.
00:08:26Must be hard, huh?
00:08:28Giving everything up.
00:08:30Moving to a strange place.
00:08:33I'd follow that woman into hell itself.
00:08:37Mississippi shouldn't be too bad.
00:08:39Woo!
00:08:40That's it, Lyle.
00:08:41Come on, Lyle.
00:08:43Shake your ankle.
00:08:44Come on.
00:08:46Woo!
00:08:48Yeah!
00:08:51Come on!
00:08:57Woo!
00:09:01It was an awful fun party.
00:09:04Thank you so much.
00:09:05Bye, Diane.
00:09:06Nice to meet you.
00:09:07Congratulations.
00:09:07Y'all take care.
00:09:08Nice to meet you, Smitty.
00:09:09Nice to meet you, finally, Anne.
00:09:10Bye-bye.
00:09:10Bye.
00:09:11Bye.
00:09:12Bye.
00:09:15Bye.
00:09:22Bye.
00:09:27Bye.
00:09:30Bye.
00:09:31Bye.
00:09:33Bye.
00:09:35Bye.
00:09:36Bye.
00:09:36Bye.
00:09:37Bye.
00:09:38Bye.
00:09:39Bye.
00:09:45Hi, John.
00:09:46Morning, Nathan.
00:09:47Morning, Mary.
00:09:49Looking good.
00:10:00Steerish service for us, metal and bail.
00:10:04Three years in the building court.
00:10:07Why did you run a paper route, Sam?
00:10:09I'm sure you can find something better than that.
00:10:11No, ma'am, I can't.
00:10:12I've been taking some odd jobs here and there,
00:10:15but I've got a family to feed.
00:10:17I need some steady work.
00:10:18Well, it's a sorry state when a war hero can't even find work.
00:10:25I'm doing renovation on the old Harbour mansion.
00:10:28I'll give you minimum wage plus 10% to oversee it.
00:10:34Ma'am, I take it.
00:10:36I take it.
00:10:37Good.
00:11:06Well, have Raleigh give you directions.
00:11:07Mr. Rollins, can I call you right back?
00:11:11Hazel, they didn't get us set well with our regular advertisers.
00:11:15You know, Jackson's is colored.
00:11:17Well, his money's green.
00:11:20So, they do have the best ribs to decide in Mississippi.
00:11:24Oh, why, Lily, what a pleasant surprise.
00:11:27Hazel, I have a favor to ask.
00:11:29Well, come on in.
00:11:32Come on, Lily.
00:11:33How are you?
00:11:33Come on.
00:11:36Mr. Jackson, this is Ann Sinclair at the advertiser.
00:11:39We'd be happy to run that ad for you.
00:11:42So, if you can provide the ad space, we're hoping to be able to raise enough money to replant the
00:11:48Riverbanks Park before the 4th of July gala.
00:11:51I'd love to.
00:11:53Well, in the meantime...
00:11:56Why, Hazel, you are too generous.
00:12:00Not at all.
00:12:01I love what the Historical Society's been doing.
00:12:10Can you keep a secret?
00:12:13You have been nominated for membership.
00:12:16Well, they must be desperate for new blood.
00:12:18I thought hell would freeze over if they'd let me join.
00:12:20But you're married now.
00:12:22There are a few detractors who think you're a little bit bohemian.
00:12:25But you're a dear friend.
00:12:28And I want to sponsor you personally.
00:12:30I guess I have to act respectable now.
00:12:33Damn.
00:12:34Bad reputation is so much easier to maintain.
00:12:42This roast is turning into jerky.
00:12:44I can't imagine what's keeping him.
00:12:47I'll clean up if you want to take Selena on home.
00:12:50Oh, her mama's going to pick us up on her way home from work.
00:12:59That is mighty fine printing, Selena.
00:13:02You been practicing?
00:13:03Yes, ma'am.
00:13:08Now, for a dime, who was the first president?
00:13:11George Washington.
00:13:13That's too easy for someone so smart.
00:13:16Now, for a quarter, we invented the light bulb.
00:13:23Well, I'm going to put this quarter right there.
00:13:25And when you know the answer, you're going to have it.
00:13:41Honey, my new cherry, Earl got me a great deal.
00:13:44What do you think?
00:13:46It's beautiful.
00:13:48You smell like a brewery.
00:13:51Oh, just a couple of toasts for Memorial Hospital's new administrator.
00:13:55What?
00:13:56I am now gainfully employed.
00:13:58Well, that's incredible.
00:13:59Well, that's a little shot.
00:14:00It's bad for my image.
00:14:01And I was worried you would end up drinking beer and chasing bar girls with all the old veterans.
00:14:05Do I still have my evenings free?
00:14:07Not while I'm around.
00:14:08I'll have Ruth set another place.
00:14:09Oh, no.
00:14:10I know for a fact that Lily is at the Historical Society tonight.
00:14:15And you are not leaving until you've had something to eat.
00:14:17Well, all right.
00:14:20That was a mighty fine dinner, Hazel.
00:14:23My daughter's here.
00:14:26See you tomorrow.
00:14:27Good night, Ruth.
00:14:28Good night, Selina.
00:14:30Say good night, Priscilla.
00:14:31Good night.
00:14:32Good night, Mrs. Smith.
00:14:34Let's clean your hands.
00:14:38Let her bring a little girl here while she works, huh?
00:14:44Her mother's working late tonight.
00:14:50Integration will never succeed.
00:14:53Not down here.
00:14:55I don't think you're in any immediate danger, Earl.
00:14:58Someone should probably tell the Supreme Court.
00:15:02Yankee intellectuals have never set foot south of the Mason-Dixon.
00:15:05No offense.
00:15:07Oh, don't worry.
00:15:07No one ever accused me of being an intellectual.
00:15:10They got the NAACP organizing them in Atlanta, Little Rock, now here.
00:15:16We need our own committee.
00:15:18Think we're going to fight him?
00:15:20Well, if the hospital supply of white sheets suddenly dwindles, you'll know where to find him.
00:15:24I'm not talking about marauding hooligans.
00:15:27I'm talking about concerned citizens trying to preserve this county.
00:15:32I think I'll leave local politics to you locals.
00:15:37Getting in on the ground floor wouldn't hurt your ambitions, Hazel.
00:15:42Well, if I attend, it would be in my capacity as a journalist.
00:15:48You come to the first meeting.
00:15:50Then you make your decision.
00:15:53Hmm?
00:15:58Hmm?
00:16:25Don't you dare go to sleep on me.
00:16:30Latitudes of lovely land.
00:16:33That is how Nathaniel Willis described Mississippi.
00:16:37You can drip honey better than any man I ever knew.
00:16:40I have a feeling we're talking big numbers.
00:16:44It doesn't matter how many men you dance with.
00:16:46It's only who takes you home.
00:16:49You happy here?
00:16:51I am happier than I have ever been in my whole life.
00:16:56No more.
00:16:57What now lost?
00:16:59Lost the wonder part.
00:17:04Hmm.
00:17:18It was a lovely sermon this morning.
00:17:20Thank you again.
00:17:21Thank you, sir.
00:17:23Now, I realize it's the 4th of July, but was that a sermon or a filibuster?
00:17:28Reverend Moffitt, it takes him a half hour to say hello.
00:17:31He's right, though.
00:17:33Communism's a threat to Christianity.
00:17:36Not as long as we've got Joe McCarthy.
00:17:38All this talk of Reds under the bed, I was starting to feel conspicuous in this dress.
00:17:44See y'all at a picnic.
00:17:46Come on, ladies.
00:17:48Let's go home.
00:17:50Let's go home.
00:18:30Hey.
00:18:35Yadora?
00:18:37I can't get over the job society's done over at the rest.
00:18:39Tom, it's never a little better.
00:18:41It's due in large part to the generous donation.
00:18:44I thought it might help when the membership vault came up.
00:18:47Your social contributions will count for a lot more than your monetary wins, Hazel.
00:18:52Well, nobody's more social than me.
00:18:56I enjoyed your special Founding Father's Day edition, Hazel.
00:18:59Well, everybody's so full of ancestor worship around here, I knew couldn't lose.
00:19:02Hank thought you could have done just a tiny bit more on the Confederacy.
00:19:06Well, I remember next year.
00:19:08Don't forget my party now.
00:19:10Oh, of course.
00:19:11Bye-bye.
00:19:14I don't know you, Dora.
00:19:16A leopard doesn't change spots just because it's found on mate.
00:19:19She may be a little wild, but she's honest.
00:19:23I find that refreshing.
00:19:39Hi, Hazel.
00:19:40Isn't this fun?
00:19:42Hi.
00:19:43Fireworks in a few minutes.
00:19:45Hi.
00:19:47Oh, you're polishing more apples than a campaigner and politician.
00:19:51Oh, it's good for business.
00:19:52You know, bull.
00:19:53You'd wash their feet and drink the water to get in their silly club.
00:19:56Well, there's no need to act ugly.
00:19:58Now, wait.
00:19:58I just hate seeing you grovel to those women.
00:20:01I mean, hell, if they were fish, every one of them would have been thrown back in.
00:20:07They don't deserve you.
00:20:09I just want to belong, Smitty.
00:20:11Right.
00:20:12And then what?
00:20:14Maybe I'll run for office.
00:20:18I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:26they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:31I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:34they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:35I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:35they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:35I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if
00:20:35they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but
00:20:38I don't know if they were fish, but I don't know if they were fish, but I
00:21:08Oh, look at that one, look at that one, look at that one.
00:21:31Don't try to cause an accident.
00:21:32No, sir.
00:21:39The boy's drunk, ain't you?
00:21:41Oh, so we're just celebrating a bit, that's all.
00:21:43Don't lie to me, boy.
00:21:45I heard you hollerin' half a block away.
00:21:47You're just havin' a little fun.
00:21:48Well, I suggest you get your black butts outta here, before I have to haul them in.
00:21:55Calm, man.
00:21:56Calm, man, just havin' a little fun like everybody else.
00:21:58What did you say?
00:21:59You're gonna shoot.
00:22:00You didn't know-
00:22:01No, man!
00:22:02Marge!
00:22:03Marge!
00:22:05No, man!
00:22:07No, man, you didn't have to shoot him!
00:22:34Yeah, hi, Maple, 4-4-2-8, please.
00:22:39Hi, hi, it's me.
00:22:41Uh, no, no, I'm fine.
00:22:42Uh, could you come down here for a second?
00:22:46No, no, uh, there's just something that I would like you to see.
00:22:50Okay, thank you.
00:22:54What's the big secret, am I?
00:22:56No secret.
00:22:57I just want you to see this for yourself.
00:23:13Hey, Marge.
00:23:14Feeling a little better?
00:23:18I want you to tell her exactly what you told me.
00:23:22No, it's all right.
00:23:24She's my wife.
00:23:34Not a bunch of animals.
00:23:36There's just a lot of tension in the air right now.
00:23:38You've been defending this town for the last ten minutes, Hazel.
00:23:40I have not made one accusation, all right?
00:23:42I know what you're thinking.
00:23:43Well, excuse me for thinking so loud.
00:23:46There are a few hateful men in any town, Smitty.
00:23:49A shark hole just happens to lead the pack in here.
00:23:52Rotten firemen.
00:23:53Are you referring to him or me?
00:23:56No, it's him!
00:23:58Bring him in here.
00:23:59Watch this.
00:24:01You're going to be just fine.
00:24:04Um, get Doc Callen.
00:24:06His hand is gone.
00:24:07This man's critical.
00:24:08I said get Doc Callen.
00:24:10Oh, he's an operating runner.
00:24:12I'll be right there.
00:24:14Excuse me, Doctor.
00:24:17Maybe you didn't hear me?
00:24:21Didn't I just say I'd be right there?
00:24:23And while you finish with your white patient,
00:24:25that negro's going to bleed to death?
00:24:28Well, since I'm in charge of emergency,
00:24:30why not let me worry about that?
00:24:31Because I'm in charge of this hospital, Doctor.
00:24:33Now get over there.
00:24:37That's why I need some newcomer.
00:24:39He only got the job because of his wife
00:24:42telling me how to handle emergency.
00:24:51Hazel.
00:25:15Well, what a pleasure.
00:25:18I'm here about Sheriff Cole.
00:25:20I need your help, Earl.
00:25:22Yeah.
00:25:23Yeah.
00:25:24Yeah, we all heard about that incident yesterday.
00:25:26He, he was resumed.
00:25:27I need to resist an arrest.
00:25:28That's a lie, Earl.
00:25:29There was no crime, no charges made.
00:25:32Sheriff Cole was just in a bad mood
00:25:34and it wasn't the first time.
00:25:35He's been reprimanded.
00:25:37Warned to restrain himself in the future.
00:25:39That's it?
00:25:41That's his punishment?
00:25:42We got bigger fish to fry.
00:25:44Let me remind you,
00:25:45the Supreme Court outlawed segregation
00:25:47in the schools this week.
00:25:49The Cullens are real cocky.
00:25:51That's not the point.
00:25:52You're one of us, Hazel.
00:25:54They'll just spare us the liberal hogwash.
00:25:57Is Sheriff Cole one of us?
00:25:59Cole said those boys are agitators.
00:26:01N-A-C-P, probably.
00:26:03If you start defending them,
00:26:05you're gonna make some enemies.
00:26:06Damn it, Earl.
00:26:07That isn't you talking.
00:26:08He can't get away with this scot-free.
00:26:11We've known each other a long time, Hazel.
00:26:14But I can't help you.
00:26:17Not on this.
00:26:20I see you at the meeting.
00:26:30Talking!
00:26:31Talking don't do no good, Earl.
00:26:34Might as well try talking to a stump.
00:26:38Don't underestimate them, buddy.
00:26:40They were smart enough to join the N-A-A-C-P.
00:26:43I got three colored hands working my farm.
00:26:46If they try to send their kids to the white school,
00:26:49I'll fire them.
00:26:52Hey, I'll tell you another thing.
00:26:55Half my customers are colored.
00:26:56Now, if I cut off their credit,
00:26:58they'll come around.
00:26:59You better believe that.
00:27:02Wait a minute.
00:27:03We can't fight integration with more ranting.
00:27:08We need a plan.
00:27:09Well, I plan to stop it.
00:27:11With a bullet if I have to.
00:27:15Sit down, you fool,
00:27:17before I have your bodily removed.
00:27:18Now, listen, I got just as much...
00:27:20Appreciate it.
00:27:22Why don't you sit down?
00:27:28Now, does anybody have a more intelligent suggestion?
00:27:39Y'all know that I've always supported segregation.
00:27:44Time has come to face the facts.
00:27:47The college have lousy schools,
00:27:49lousy wages, and no opportunity.
00:27:51Well, they've accepted this so far.
00:27:54But they won't sit still
00:27:56if they can't even expect equal protection under the law.
00:28:00Or, in some cases, from the law itself.
00:28:03All hell's gonna break loose
00:28:04unless we start making some changes.
00:28:06And the first one should be the removal of
00:28:07that man from office.
00:28:11Pete Cole and his deputies
00:28:12is what stands between them and us.
00:28:15It's his job to uphold the law.
00:28:17Well, what are they gonna think if we fire him?
00:28:19They'll think they won!
00:28:23Sit down, buddy. Let her talk.
00:28:27Is this what we're becoming?
00:28:29Since Brown versus the Board of Education,
00:28:32there's been more than a hundred
00:28:33racially motivated arsons and bombings in the South.
00:28:37Decent, church-going citizens
00:28:39have been driven from their homes in the middle of the night.
00:28:42Their children terrorized.
00:28:45Simply because they're coming.
00:28:48Well, if we don't speak out against the trash doing this,
00:28:51then we're accomplices.
00:28:53The ministers who fail to preach.
00:28:55The teachers who fail to teach.
00:28:58The lawmen and judges who fail to uphold the law.
00:29:02And the plain informed citizens
00:29:05who knows what's going on is wrong,
00:29:06but doesn't speak out.
00:29:08We are all to blame!
00:29:15This meeting is adjourned.
00:29:33Hazel!
00:29:35That was a idiotic thing to do.
00:29:38I hope you're talking about the sheriff's actions, not mine.
00:29:40You made a fool of me in there.
00:29:42Well, I couldn't have done it without you, Hale.
00:29:44You're caught in the devil, Hazel.
00:29:46I was thinking the same thing about you.
00:29:48Don't you expect any support from the committee.
00:29:51In fact, you can expect trouble.
00:29:53We've already got trouble, Earl.
00:29:55And most of it, we're cooking up our sails.
00:30:20Oh, Smitty.
00:30:22I dreamed of this house as I was a little girl.
00:30:25Come on, I'll show you.
00:30:31Well, what do you think?
00:30:32Oh, I think it's right.
00:30:34I want you to say something. Come on.
00:30:39Hey, Sam.
00:30:40Hey, Mr. Smith, how you doing?
00:30:42Not you, Miss Smith.
00:30:44Hazel, this man is on time and under budget
00:30:46and he should be in Congress.
00:30:47Well, I tell you, work just begun, Mr. Smith,
00:30:50so it's too soon for anything to go wrong.
00:30:52This here is my oldest boy, Ray.
00:30:54He wants to be in carpentry.
00:30:55Oh, I hadn't been still.
00:30:57Well, it's summer, Miss Smith.
00:31:02Your daddy said you want to be a carpenter.
00:31:05Oh, you give me the name of one famous carpenter
00:31:09and I'll give you this corner.
00:31:16Jesus was a carpenter.
00:31:17Now, you come up with one other name
00:31:19before the next time I see you and I'll give you a dollar.
00:31:21Thanks, Miss Smith.
00:31:24Now, listen, I'm going to build you that closet upstairs
00:31:27and I'm going to line the whole thing in cedar.
00:31:29I hope she's got enough room for all those hats and shoes.
00:31:31Well, she do dress to kill now, don't she?
00:31:33Yeah, it cooks that way too.
00:31:37Oh, I got a truckload of flowers I need to have planted this weekend.
00:31:39You know anyone needs to work?
00:31:40Well, now, Miss Smith, you know I could use the extra money,
00:31:43but why do you want to do all that work uptown
00:31:45when you're going to be moving down here in a couple of months?
00:31:47I'm going to have a big party.
00:31:49She's trying to impress a bunch of old babies she can't stand on the first one.
00:31:53Well, that's not so.
00:31:54Well, it's just that I got a husband now, so I'm respectable.
00:31:57This is my coming out party.
00:32:00All right, see y'all.
00:32:04Okay, let me see here now.
00:32:07It's time Sheriff Cole learned we are all members of the same human race.
00:32:12Perhaps his removal will result in more serious consideration being held
00:32:16for the personal rights of all men, white or black.
00:32:21Well?
00:32:23I don't know, Miss Hazel.
00:32:25You've always been one for causes, but this is like poking at a bad tooth with a bobby pin.
00:32:30It's going to cost us advertisers.
00:32:32I know you're going to help, but it's just going to make things worse.
00:32:36I'm not doing this to help.
00:32:39This is the truth, isn't it?
00:32:42This is a newspaper, isn't it?
00:32:45Run it.
00:32:59She's biting off more than she can chew this time.
00:33:08Phone rang all day.
00:33:11You should have heard someone speak if you bet my language is bad.
00:33:14You're expecting a medal?
00:33:16Well, I wasn't expecting less.
00:33:18God, my mouth is dry as an old man's kiss.
00:33:24I've written tonight's meeting.
00:33:25The flowers call.
00:33:27If you want roses, it's going to be another $50.
00:33:29Fine.
00:33:31I want this party to be special.
00:33:32I want them to be thinking about it for months.
00:33:35I'll call them back.
00:33:43I don't deserve you.
00:33:45You're right.
00:33:46Hey!
00:33:47We're right!
00:33:59We're right, we're right!
00:34:03We're left.
00:34:05We're right!
00:34:07Well done...
00:34:14Now to Mak.
00:34:16Sheriff, even hussies are allowed in church
00:34:19Well, this is a private meeting
00:34:22Besides, your name ain't on the list
00:34:24I want to speak with Earl Claiborne
00:34:26He's the one who gave the orders
00:34:29Well, you tell Earl
00:34:31The better men than him have tried to stop the press and failed
00:34:37Do you think you can remember all that?
00:34:39I should have write it down
00:35:08I should have write it down
00:35:23Darn that Lily Claiborne
00:35:25She's responsible for this
00:35:29I'm so sorry that Lyle couldn't have made it
00:35:31He was coming down with the flu or something
00:35:36I guess we should feel lucky the epidemic hasn't reached us yet
00:35:43Why don't we get this all loaded up and send it on to the orphanage
00:35:57You think you're helping, but you're only stirring things up
00:36:02I didn't create the situation, Ruth
00:36:03You tell that to them decent folk who stood you up today
00:36:07They're just scared
00:36:09They'd rather face the devil they know and the devil they don't know
00:36:12Scared?
00:36:13They've been trying to scare us for a hundred years
00:36:17You don't know what it's like
00:36:19Waiting for your man to come home at night
00:36:22Worried he'd be lynched
00:36:23Beat to death, shot in a pack
00:36:27That's not just scared
00:36:29That's snakes in the pit of your stomach
00:36:33What the sheriff did was wrong
00:36:35Where you been?
00:36:37That isn't the first time a white man has done something like this
00:36:41Well, what do you want me to do?
00:36:42You do what you want to do
00:36:45Like always
00:36:46But in the meantime
00:36:48Your friends are spitting on my feet
00:36:52Like I put you up to all of this
00:36:54You want me to hush up too?
00:36:57No
00:36:58No
00:37:03Times are changing
00:37:04Like it or not
00:37:06And for the first time in my life
00:37:09I got hoped
00:37:10Maybe things will be better
00:37:12If not for me
00:37:14Then maybe for my granddaughter
00:37:34What on earth?
00:37:40Oh no
00:37:51Get in again, you cowards
00:37:53No
00:37:53Take that for more of a gigi
00:37:56Take it, Lava
00:37:57Oh no
00:38:00Oh no
00:38:01Oh no
00:38:01Oh no
00:38:01Oh no
00:38:02Oh no
00:38:04Oh no
00:38:05Oh no
00:38:05Oh no
00:38:06Oh no
00:38:07Oh no
00:38:09Oh no
00:38:09Oh no
00:38:10Oh no
00:38:24Hey buddy
00:38:28Hey Mr. Kleber
00:38:30Woo
00:38:32Kind of hot, huh?
00:38:33You bet
00:38:35I hear that
00:38:38Hazel had some trouble
00:38:40Out of her way last night
00:38:42Well
00:38:43Boys will be boys
00:38:44Yeah
00:38:48You put them up to it?
00:38:51What if I did?
00:38:54Now you let me make one thing
00:38:56Perfectly clear
00:38:58I don't cotton to vandals
00:39:01I don't condone
00:39:02I don't condone petty harassment
00:39:03I don't condone petty harassment
00:39:03And I can't abide lawlessness
00:39:05And by God
00:39:06I won't tolerate it
00:39:07From any member
00:39:08Of the citizens committee either
00:39:11We supposed to sit around
00:39:12Like a bunch of old ladies, huh?
00:39:14They had a meeting last week
00:39:15Too
00:39:15Over 200 of them showed up
00:39:16We'll devise an intelligent
00:39:18And effective strategy
00:39:19We're not a mob
00:39:22Now you conform to the dictates
00:39:23Of this committee
00:39:24That you're out
00:39:26Count me out
00:39:38Well, you gotta do something, Hazel
00:39:41They destroyed your property
00:39:43What?
00:39:43Call the police?
00:39:45How about if you call the marshal?
00:39:49This kind of conduct
00:39:51On the part of our highest elected
00:39:53Peace officer
00:39:55Has done serious injury
00:39:57To relations between the races
00:40:00I just thank God
00:40:04We got men like him around here
00:40:06To keep them folks in line
00:40:07Things a waste of paper
00:40:09Not really, Carl
00:40:11I use mine to line the cat box
00:40:17You'd think some people
00:40:18Would be ashamed
00:40:19To show their face
00:40:20Some people ought to keep
00:40:21Their stupid opinions
00:40:22To themselves
00:40:24Thanks for the free advice
00:40:25I guess you get
00:40:26What you pay for
00:40:30Maybe you should write
00:40:31An article about
00:40:32Commie trash
00:40:33Reba, I see you finally
00:40:34Developed a sense of humor
00:40:36This is a private conversation
00:40:38Oh, yeah?
00:40:38Well, it's just too bad
00:40:39That your IQ
00:40:40Isn't as big as those falsies
00:40:42I am
00:40:43Don't go getting into
00:40:44A battle of wits
00:40:45With these women
00:40:46They're not armed
00:40:52The reign of terror
00:40:53Must be stopped
00:40:54Along with the countless
00:40:56Floggings, assaults, bombings
00:40:58Cross burnings
00:40:59And other acts of intimidation
00:41:01It is not enough
00:41:02To remain aloof
00:41:03From the mob
00:41:04We must create
00:41:05A climate
00:41:05Of public opinion
00:41:06In which they cannot operate
00:41:09What do you think?
00:41:10I'm not the one
00:41:11That you're convincing
00:41:13Let it be, Miss Hazel
00:41:15You ought to go on home
00:41:18Your eyes look like
00:41:19Two chairs in the snow
00:41:21I'm almost done
00:41:24Thanks, Riley
00:41:26For everything
00:41:46Let me reiterate
00:41:48The man was critical
00:41:49And in my opinion
00:41:51Dr. Barnseer
00:41:52Was misdirecting his energies
00:41:56If this were the only incident
00:41:58You keep mentioning
00:41:59Other incidents
00:42:00Other complaints
00:42:01Well, what were they
00:42:01And who made them?
00:42:03Because certainly
00:42:04No one has confronted me directly
00:42:07We're not at liberty to say
00:42:09You are not at liberty to say
00:42:12Then how am I supposed
00:42:13To answer these charges?
00:42:14You're not
00:42:17We have taken a vote
00:42:18And decided to terminate
00:42:19Your position here
00:42:22Effective
00:42:23Immediately
00:42:28God help the man
00:42:30Who holds up a mirror
00:42:31To this town
00:42:32You get two weeks severance
00:42:36It's ironic, isn't it?
00:42:38The greatest democracy
00:42:40In the history of mankind
00:42:41Has produced this pathetic
00:42:42Room full of bums
00:42:44We all know what this is about
00:42:46It has nothing to do
00:42:48With my performance
00:42:48Now, if any of you
00:42:49Had an ounce of guts
00:42:50You would have called it
00:42:51Like it was
00:42:52And spared me
00:42:53To this silly little
00:42:53Kangaroo court
00:42:56Gentlemen
00:43:14Hank
00:43:16You scared the putting out of me
00:43:19Sorry
00:43:23I'm glad she's a cat
00:43:25I've been hearing things all night
00:43:29What's wrong?
00:43:31They fired me
00:43:35It isn't about you, you know
00:43:38Yeah, who the hell cares
00:43:40I wasn't cut out for a desk job anyway
00:43:45Come on
00:43:50Let's go home
00:44:09Well, it's a blessing anyway
00:44:11Now you can supervise
00:44:13The renovation
00:44:16Back, back, back
00:44:18Get down
00:44:24Go, go
00:44:25Go, go
00:44:25Go, go
00:44:56it's just my daddy's desk
00:45:00he gave it to me when I got the loan
00:45:02to buy the paper
00:45:05that's all I had left of him
00:45:09thanks sweetie
00:45:11this paper, glass, wood
00:45:13it's alright
00:45:14it's not alright
00:45:1520 years of your life was in that desk
00:45:18the last 20 years don't mean a thing
00:45:19you weren't part of it
00:45:27it's Hazel
00:45:31how's the printing equipment?
00:45:32I'm going to need a lot of new parts
00:45:33but I think I can save it
00:45:35Mr. Smith, could you loan me a hand
00:45:37at the back door, it's kind of stuck
00:45:44will you be okay?
00:45:56some mean folks in this world
00:45:59expect we ought to call the sheriff
00:46:02what for?
00:46:04he spent about 5 minutes
00:46:05on his investigation of our fire
00:46:07there'll get worse
00:46:08before getting it better
00:46:09yeah
00:46:11help me get this down before Hazel sees it
00:46:20I think that's a great idea
00:46:24look what I found
00:46:25good
00:46:27hey Ray
00:46:28do you think any more famous carpenters?
00:46:30yes ma'am
00:46:31my daddy
00:46:33why don't you go down to Lucy's
00:46:35and pick up some burgers
00:46:36and some of the spray of the water
00:46:37and keep a dollar for yourself
00:46:42oh Ray
00:46:43get some fries too
00:46:45well well
00:46:51you here to help or just to clump?
00:46:53just passing by
00:46:55how's the investigation coming?
00:46:57any new leads?
00:46:58still looking into
00:47:00of course
00:47:01you stop to think
00:47:03the property owner
00:47:04is always the prime suspect
00:47:05in any arson
00:47:06don't stop to think sheriff
00:47:08you might never get started again
00:47:14but you've been advertising with us
00:47:16for 14 years Della
00:47:19business is double
00:47:20you said so yourself
00:47:21I don't want to give him any excuse
00:47:23to shop in those new stores
00:47:24over in Jackson
00:47:25you're not just hurting Hazel Della
00:47:27you're hurting everybody
00:47:28that works at the paper
00:47:29oh Ann honey
00:47:30I'm sorry
00:47:32the committee is organizing a boycott
00:47:34no one's going to advertise
00:47:36no one's going to subscribe
00:47:37I just can't go against my own husband
00:48:02committee's organized a boycott
00:48:04told us at least 60% of my advertising
00:48:06what kind of people are these?
00:48:09we sure do appreciate
00:48:10what you're doing for us
00:48:11miss Smith
00:48:11don't make me out of be so noble
00:48:13Sam
00:48:13I would have done the same thing
00:48:14if Morris Jones had been white
00:48:15well it wouldn't have happened
00:48:16if he had been white
00:48:17well one bad apple
00:48:18didn't spoil the whole bunch
00:48:31what do you want sheriff
00:48:37got something for you Hazel
00:48:41wanted to deliver it myself
00:48:46have a nice day
00:48:51he just filed a label suit against me
00:48:53for a hundred thousand dollars
00:48:55I guess things can't get much worse
00:49:01yes they can
00:49:03my sister's coming to visit
00:49:09Smitty
00:49:16why Lily
00:49:18what a surprise
00:49:19hello Hazel
00:49:21I haven't seen you lately
00:49:22I hope you haven't come down
00:49:24with that flu that's been going around
00:49:27I was going to call you
00:49:28but I've just been real
00:49:31oh that's alright
00:49:32seems I'm very difficult to reach lately
00:49:35yeah
00:49:35now that flu's left you looking a bit peevish
00:49:38or is it the hair?
00:49:41it does start dragging the face down
00:49:43when you get older
00:49:44maybe you should consider wearing it up
00:49:46something a bit like this
00:49:48yes that's lovely
00:49:49thank you
00:49:50oh by the way
00:49:51I'm afraid I'm going to have to
00:49:53withdraw my membership
00:49:53of the historical society
00:49:55I'm sure everyone will be devastated
00:49:58can't be helped
00:50:00but with rebuilding the paper and all
00:50:02I just don't have a minute
00:50:04bye
00:50:41be the jury
00:50:42fine for the plaintiff
00:50:44sheriff cold
00:50:45for libel
00:50:46damage is awarded
00:50:48in the amount of $10,000
00:51:01justice
00:51:03that man needs to bully
00:51:04the way a flea needs a dog
00:51:06you're going to appeal?
00:51:07the constitution guarantees
00:51:08freedom of the press
00:51:09doesn't it?
00:51:10yeah
00:51:10well I'd rather eat bugs
00:51:12than give that parasite a dime
00:51:16but everyone here
00:51:17would love to see me
00:51:17dragged over hot coals
00:51:19and I already owe you
00:51:20a fortune in legal bills
00:51:26Vern
00:51:27can I call you right back?
00:51:31what's wrong?
00:51:33Sam's wife
00:51:34Henrietta just called
00:51:35he was arrested this morning
00:51:37for stealing the saddle
00:51:39it's ludicrous
00:51:41Sam's as honest
00:51:42as they come
00:51:45I'll arrange bail
00:51:46I'll get a lawyer
00:51:47it's too late
00:51:48Miss Hazel
00:51:49the man that had him arrested
00:51:51posted his bond
00:51:52about an hour ago
00:51:53what?
00:51:55where's he now?
00:51:56nobody's seen him
00:51:57since they let him go
00:51:58oh god
00:52:07oh god
00:52:08God is hated
00:52:08isn't it?
00:52:09hey Errol
00:52:10what can I do you for?
00:52:12well
00:52:13you know
00:52:15I've been thinking
00:52:15about getting me
00:52:16a set of those
00:52:17white walls
00:52:18well now
00:52:19you can't buy
00:52:19a finer tire
00:52:20huh?
00:52:22yeah
00:52:22and then I'm gonna
00:52:23need me a new battery
00:52:25for my tractor
00:52:27the problem is
00:52:28Lyle
00:52:30you're still advertising
00:52:31in Hazel's paper
00:52:34I never thought
00:52:35you'd line up
00:52:35with them Lyle
00:52:36well you know
00:52:37that ain't true
00:52:38it's just
00:52:39maybe you happen
00:52:39to forget
00:52:40I sell advertising
00:52:41for Hazel's paper
00:52:42not much
00:52:42from what I hear
00:52:43you all certainly
00:52:44made sure of that
00:52:45haven't you
00:52:45sneaking around
00:52:46like rats
00:52:47nobody's sneaking around
00:52:48what we're doing
00:52:49is completely
00:52:50above board
00:52:51what is?
00:52:53blackmailing people
00:52:53and forcing them
00:52:54to join you?
00:52:55nobody's forcing you
00:52:56you don't want to join
00:52:58go ahead
00:52:59look Earl
00:53:01I got to advertise
00:53:02whether I like it
00:53:04or not
00:53:04she's the only
00:53:05game in town
00:53:10it's your choice
00:53:11Lyle
00:53:17no you're right
00:53:18Lyle
00:53:20Lexington needs
00:53:21there's an alternative
00:53:22to Hazel Smith
00:53:31sorry
00:53:31Haze
00:53:34sorry
00:53:48this town
00:53:48can't sport
00:53:49one paper
00:53:49much less two
00:53:52they'll be back
00:53:52in a month
00:53:53looking for their jobs
00:53:55citizens chronicle
00:53:56who they think
00:53:56they're kidding
00:53:58they're scared
00:54:00they just want
00:54:01to make sure
00:54:01they have a job
00:54:02in another year
00:54:03and you're not
00:54:08I got no choice
00:54:09Hazel
00:54:11if I don't take
00:54:12the new job
00:54:12they're gonna put
00:54:13Lyle out of business
00:54:14save your breath
00:54:15I understand
00:54:16Hazel
00:54:17you can't win
00:54:18spare me the lecture
00:54:19I am
00:54:20I've already heard
00:54:21it a dozen ways
00:54:25Hazel
00:54:35I'll let you know
00:54:38you Judas
00:54:49not you too
00:54:51no
00:54:52no
00:54:53never
00:54:53miss Hazel
00:54:56they found
00:54:57Sam's body
00:54:58in the river
00:55:00he was beaten
00:55:01to death
00:55:02oh no
00:55:04no
00:55:06thank you
00:55:07this biggest
00:55:07to me
00:55:09it's my fault
00:55:29this is just a hearing
00:55:30Mrs. Burke
00:55:31what we want
00:55:32are just the facts
00:55:32tell us what happened
00:55:36after Mr. Dodd
00:55:37senior
00:55:39paid his bail
00:55:41Sam
00:55:42called me
00:55:44and what did
00:55:45your husband say
00:55:50he
00:55:51said that
00:55:53Mr. Dodd
00:55:55was getting him
00:55:56out
00:55:57so that
00:55:58he could settle
00:55:59things
00:56:00personally
00:56:01for stealing
00:56:04a saddle
00:56:05Sam didn't take
00:56:07that saddle
00:56:10they found
00:56:11they found it
00:56:11on two kids
00:56:12a week later
00:56:14and you never
00:56:15saw or heard
00:56:16from your husband
00:56:17again
00:56:25not till I
00:56:26identified
00:56:27his body
00:56:35I want you
00:56:36to know
00:56:36your daddy
00:56:36didn't do
00:56:37nothing
00:56:37for
00:56:38pull your
00:56:39head up
00:56:39and you
00:56:40cry
00:56:41he was a good
00:56:42man
00:56:43hi Ray
00:56:49I know
00:56:50I saw you
00:56:51at the funeral
00:56:53he was so
00:56:54brave
00:56:54of you
00:56:55to come
00:56:56I never
00:56:57got to tell
00:56:57you personally
00:56:58how sorry
00:56:59I am
00:57:00Sam's a fine
00:57:01man
00:57:05you talking
00:57:06to this woman
00:57:06what if I am
00:57:08she's under
00:57:08a gag order
00:57:09that's what
00:57:10you're in
00:57:11contempt
00:57:12and you're
00:57:13coming with
00:57:13me
00:57:17for your
00:57:18information
00:57:19a gag order
00:57:20means you
00:57:21can't talk
00:57:22to a witness
00:57:22I was unaware
00:57:23that she was
00:57:24in the custody
00:57:25of the court
00:57:25I was talking
00:57:26to her as my
00:57:26friend
00:57:26even if I
00:57:27chose to
00:57:28believe you
00:57:28which I
00:57:29don't
00:57:30ignorance
00:57:30is no
00:57:31excuse
00:57:32therefore
00:57:33I find you
00:57:34in contempt
00:57:35of court
00:57:35and ordered
00:57:36you to pay
00:57:37a $50
00:57:37fine
00:57:38and serve
00:57:3915 days
00:57:40in the
00:57:40county jail
00:57:44sentences
00:57:44suspended
00:57:45provided you
00:57:46behave yourself
00:57:47for the next
00:57:47two years
00:57:49Miss Smith
00:57:51I'm going to
00:57:51be frank
00:57:52with you
00:57:52and speak
00:57:53my mind
00:57:53well why
00:57:54don't you
00:57:54you got
00:57:55nothing to
00:57:55lose
00:57:59before you
00:57:59go trying
00:58:00to clean
00:58:00up somebody
00:58:01else's house
00:58:02you best
00:58:03look after
00:58:03your own
00:58:04there are
00:58:05so few
00:58:06fewer of us
00:58:07left
00:58:11dismissed
00:58:18at least
00:58:18it's only
00:58:1915 days
00:58:20you have to
00:58:20take your
00:58:20shoes off
00:58:21to count
00:58:21any higher
00:58:21than that
00:58:22pompous idiot
00:58:23there isn't
00:58:24another court
00:58:25in the country
00:58:25that will
00:58:25uphold it
00:58:27you're going
00:58:27to appeal
00:58:27this one
00:58:28too
00:58:28it's the
00:58:28supreme
00:58:29court
00:58:29if I
00:58:29have to
00:58:30Hazel
00:58:30what do
00:58:30you think
00:58:30you're doing
00:58:31it's not
00:58:32going to
00:58:32make any
00:58:32difference
00:58:33these people
00:58:34are so
00:58:34narrow-minded
00:58:35they do
00:58:35not want
00:58:36to change
00:58:36these people
00:58:37happen to
00:58:38be my
00:58:38people
00:58:38and this
00:58:39is still
00:58:39my home
00:58:40all right
00:58:41I'm on
00:58:41your side
00:58:41remember
00:58:42so is
00:58:42my
00:58:42pimmocks
00:58:43Hazel
00:58:44wait
00:58:44wait
00:58:46I'm wrong
00:58:47you're right
00:58:47is that good
00:58:48enough
00:58:50Hazel
00:58:50I cannot stand
00:58:51to see them
00:58:51hurt you
00:58:52like this
00:58:53I would
00:58:54I would
00:58:54much rather
00:58:54that they
00:58:55hurt me
00:58:57silver
00:58:57toned
00:58:58devil
00:59:01can I
00:59:02buy you
00:59:02a drink
00:59:03drink
00:59:05hell
00:59:06buy me
00:59:06the bottle
00:59:09and until
00:59:10the white
00:59:10south
00:59:11refuses
00:59:11to tolerate
00:59:12the bombings
00:59:13the shootings
00:59:13the beatings
00:59:14and murders
00:59:16southerners
00:59:16will continue
00:59:17to be hailed
00:59:17in scorn
00:59:18as barbarians
00:59:19to the rest
00:59:19of the nation
00:59:21it's brilliant
00:59:22what do we
00:59:23have to lose
00:59:28what now
00:59:35they've cancelled
00:59:36our printing
00:59:37contracts
00:59:37all of them
00:59:47I don't know
00:59:48how much
00:59:48longer
00:59:49I could
00:59:49pay you
00:59:49Ruth
00:59:51you should
00:59:52probably start
00:59:52looking for
00:59:53something else
00:59:53I don't
00:59:54want to look
00:59:54for nothing
00:59:55else
00:59:55I'm too
00:59:56old
00:59:56and too
00:59:57spoiled
00:59:58don't be
00:59:59still
00:59:59in there
00:59:59you're gonna
01:00:00pay the rent
01:00:01I've been
01:00:02trying to
01:00:02tell you
01:00:02for 20
01:00:03years
01:00:03but you
01:00:04don't
01:00:04listen
01:00:04the Lord
01:00:05will provide
01:00:11don't you
01:00:11worry about
01:00:12a thing
01:00:12we're gonna
01:00:12make it
01:00:15I'll
01:00:16oh hi
01:00:30and here she is
01:00:34I've been so looking forward to this
01:00:35Smitty's told us such wonderful things about you
01:00:37Not that he had to
01:00:38The one who could have come after 36 years had to be pretty special
01:00:41Well he's told me so much about you too
01:00:43I can't wait to find out how much of it's true
01:00:52Smitty's been telling us about some of the troubles you've been having lately
01:00:55The violence and harassment are bad enough
01:00:57But to have it be done by the very people you go to church with
01:01:00And to lose your friends
01:01:01None that really mattered
01:01:03It's the best argument there is for better education
01:01:06You can't end racism until you end ignorance
01:01:09Y'all ended all your socials in Massachusetts?
01:01:11No
01:01:12Weren't there protests in Boston last year?
01:01:15Yes
01:01:15And what about the riots in Philadelphia?
01:01:17Well sure, but that's...
01:01:18We're not all a bunch of provincial hayseeds here
01:01:25I'll go see how the coffee's doing
01:01:38Smitty
01:01:42I'm sorry if I embarrassed you
01:01:45John just doesn't know when to shut up
01:01:49I guess that makes two of us
01:01:52He'll get over it
01:01:56It's not bad, it's the printing contract
01:02:02We'll figure something out
01:02:04What?
01:02:06There's nothing left
01:02:08Paper can't go on without money
01:02:12Well, we'll get a loan or sell the car
01:02:16Maybe we should move on
01:02:18There's a paper for sale in Arizona
01:02:21You've never run from a fight in your life
01:02:23Well maybe it's time that I did
01:02:28It's not the fight I'm afraid of
01:02:32It's being shut out
01:02:34Not having any friends
01:02:37Always that, Smitty
01:02:39They're not gonna run us off, Hazel
01:02:42This is our home too
01:02:46They'll come around
01:02:47You'll see
01:02:50Besides
01:02:51I just can't see you in a cowboy hat
01:03:00Too bad we gotta go all the way to Jackson for a loan
01:03:09Mortgage to the health
01:03:10We still haven't finished the renovation yet
01:03:12That'll teach me to marry for money
01:03:14Mr. Smith
01:03:16My name is Davis Franklin
01:03:17I called Riley Sims this morning
01:03:19He told me where I could find you
01:03:21Why'd you want to find me?
01:03:23Uh, the church is just down the way
01:03:25The pastor's letting us use it for a meeting place
01:03:28Maybe we can talk there
01:03:29About what?
01:03:30That's a group of us
01:03:32Well
01:03:34We want to publish our own newspaper
01:03:36We got the financial backing
01:03:37Only
01:03:39We can't find anyone to print it
01:03:42What makes you think I will?
01:03:44Riley said you're fair-minded
01:03:47And you need the business
01:03:51That's right about that
01:03:56Why not?
01:03:59We want to hear it
01:04:04We want to hear it
01:04:05Who's the one to often miss
01:04:09When you close your earthly story
01:04:13Will you join them in their bliss?
01:04:18Will the circle be unbroken
01:04:23High and low and high and high
01:04:28In a better home awaiting
01:04:32In the sun, in the sky
01:04:50But if we think the present situation is serious
01:04:52We should take a long, hard look at the future
01:04:56It can and will get infinitely worse
01:04:59Unless we find the character
01:05:01And guts to change things that need changing
01:05:05No man, white or black
01:05:08Should live in fear
01:05:10Or be compelled to sleep with a loaded gun by his bedside
01:05:15That will raise some hackles
01:05:18It's your paper
01:05:20Say a word and I'll rewrite it
01:05:27It's time to stand up and be counted
01:05:29In the sky, oh my Lord, in the sky
01:05:33Sleep on mother
01:05:35Hope and trust my God you'll save
01:05:39I'm gonna meet you
01:05:41In the judgment
01:05:43When you leave your dust
01:05:46He prays
01:05:48I'm gonna do the circle
01:05:50Me and your kind
01:05:51Oh bye and bye
01:05:53Oh bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
01:06:12Bye and bye mandami
01:06:14Oh my Lord, my lord, oh my Lord in the sky
01:06:21I think Laura Stewart will be named debutante of the year.
01:06:26Lily's hired a band from New Orleans, too.
01:06:28Everyone will be there.
01:06:34Let's do something special, maybe up in Chignon.
01:06:38Chignon?
01:06:39Isn't that those little braids that the pickaninnies wear?
01:06:44That's enough.
01:06:45Look, I've always been proud to say I come from Mississippi.
01:06:52You make me ashamed.
01:07:00The silence in these times is just as ugly as their words.
01:07:04I apologize.
01:07:07I'd like for you and Smitty to come to the ball as my personal guest.
01:07:13Thank you, Eudora.
01:07:15But we already have another invitation for tonight.
01:07:20You have dignity and grace under pressure, Hazel.
01:07:25That's a quality very few ladies have these days.
01:07:48Hi.
01:07:49Just a minute.
01:07:50Hey, I'm glad you made it.
01:07:51Follow me.
01:07:52Your baby feels good tonight.
01:07:54Watch out now.
01:07:55Hey, Elroy, don't hurt nobody now, all right?
01:07:59Oh, this is Ad Lane of the American Civil Liberties Union and Brewster Conway of the NAACP.
01:08:06Hazel and Walter Dyer Smith.
01:08:08Now, Smitty, please.
01:08:09Eugene, these two people, drive.
01:08:12Take a martini and a scotch up, please.
01:08:15So you're the one who's causing every cracker in the South for all of themselves.
01:08:19You look more like fraternity boys than revolutionaries to me.
01:08:22You hardly look the crusading editor.
01:08:25Well, I'm no crusader.
01:08:27That's someone that goes out looking for trouble.
01:08:29I can barely keep up with the trouble coming to my door.
01:08:31Well, we appreciate you printing our paper.
01:08:33No one else would touch it.
01:08:35Well, I'm being paid.
01:08:36Well, regardless of that, we are awfully glad you're on our team.
01:08:41I'm a journalist, boys.
01:08:43I don't take sides.
01:08:44Like it or not, I'd say you have.
01:08:49Gentlemen, if you will excuse us, I'm about to pull up on politics.
01:08:52I would like to cut loose and dance with my wife.
01:08:54Sugar, put it away.
01:08:57In the next couple hours, I want the carefree brat I'm married.
01:09:12Oh, forget those stuff shirts back on, baby.
01:09:15This is living.
01:09:16Well, I know you think of chili.
01:09:17Oh.
01:09:32Read this.
01:09:50Before you put down payment on that lake house you've been eyeballing,
01:09:53you better listen to this.
01:09:55Today, the Mississippi State Supreme Court held
01:09:58that editor Hazel Smith's right to publish the truth
01:10:02with good motives and just ends
01:10:04is inherent in the Constitution.
01:10:07Looks like telling the truth falls under my First Amendment rights.
01:10:15Score one for the nigger lovers.
01:10:19Get used to it.
01:10:26My brother sent this from Ohio.
01:10:29Now, they are printing Hazel's editorials in here.
01:10:34And that's not the only place.
01:10:36Baltimore, Wilmington, let me tell you.
01:10:38They're trying to make her high and mighty.
01:10:40And us look like a bunch of fools.
01:10:41That is right.
01:10:42Now, Earl, she's gone too far.
01:10:45Well, what do you suggest, Lyle?
01:10:48Her advertising's gone.
01:10:49She's got no subscriptions.
01:10:50The county contracts dried up six months ago.
01:10:54How does she keep printing, then?
01:10:55I don't know.
01:10:56I'm tired of waiting.
01:10:58If you've got a rotten tooth, pull it.
01:11:00Yeah, that's right.
01:11:01That's right.
01:11:03Wait a minute.
01:11:04Listen up here.
01:11:06I want Hazel Smith out of business as much as anybody.
01:11:09But you go to breaking the law, you're no better than those newspapers say you are.
01:11:13Earl's right.
01:11:14We're not hooligans.
01:11:15No, we're not.
01:11:17Now, let's just see if we can figure out how she's staying in business.
01:11:25Wake up, sleepyhead.
01:11:32Hey, I sure do appreciate this.
01:11:37The truck will be fixed by tomorrow.
01:11:38Oh, it's no problem.
01:11:39We had to come up for a meeting with the bank anyway.
01:11:40Okay.
01:11:41Oh, come on.
01:11:50There you go.
01:11:54Isn't this something?
01:11:58Come on, boss.
01:11:59You know what to do.
01:12:00All right, Earl.
01:12:14What about the insurance?
01:12:16What are they covered?
01:12:18Couldn't afford the premiums.
01:12:31They don't let up for one minute, do they?
01:12:34I would use a picture that makes my behind look as big as a truck.
01:12:37I'll get them for that.
01:12:40First, I'm going to get us a couple of beers.
01:12:42We're going to be here all night.
01:12:50Well, if I didn't, my dear friend, Earl Clayton.
01:12:54Hazel, I...
01:12:57Oh, my God.
01:13:01Hazel, I want you to know I had absolutely nothing to do with this.
01:13:04You had everything to do with it.
01:13:06Hazel, I'm not a barbarian.
01:13:08I'd never be a party to anything like this.
01:13:11Of course not, Earl.
01:13:12That'd be the slimy tactics of the downtown clan.
01:13:15And everybody knows you're strictly uptown clan.
01:13:29How you doing, Earl?
01:13:32Hazel called you a brute and a bully.
01:13:36And this whole town stood up to defend you.
01:13:40I stood up to defend you.
01:13:42What the hell are you talking about?
01:13:44Last night, you proved her right.
01:13:49So, who cares?
01:13:50This whole town's going to care.
01:13:53I'm going to see to that.
01:13:55You nothing but a sniveling hypocrite.
01:13:57You and all your blue-nosed friends.
01:14:00That may be.
01:14:02But you shouldn't have made us so aware of it.
01:14:20You really gave them a run for your money, Miss Hazel.
01:14:23No one can ever say you went out without a fight.
01:14:25I'm not out, Riley.
01:14:28And I'm not about to give up the fight.
01:14:30We can't print without a press.
01:14:32And then I will beg, I will borrow, I will steal
01:14:35until I have enough money to buy a new one.
01:14:37They can burn, they can boycott,
01:14:39they can tear me down a hundred times.
01:14:41But if they want to stop me from telling the truth,
01:14:44they're going to have to kill me.
01:14:47Uh-huh.
01:14:47I'll sign a personal note.
01:14:49Well, the Atlanta Herald, New Orleans Times,
01:14:51Miami Troop, they're all running our editorials.
01:14:54Okay, well, how about Hazel on the 23rd?
01:14:56We'll arrange transportation.
01:14:58That's highway robbery.
01:14:59Right.
01:14:59Make it prime plus 1%.
01:15:02Done.
01:15:04That's 5,500 so far.
01:15:06Well, people must be reading your articles,
01:15:07because I've got eight speaking engagements lined up.
01:15:09That's at least, what, another 5,000?
01:15:11I hate this.
01:15:12I feel like I'm standing on a street corner
01:15:13with a cup in my hand.
01:15:19The congregation at my church
01:15:21took this up yesterday.
01:15:23Oh, Riley.
01:15:24$2,832.
01:15:29I won't cry.
01:15:32I promised I wouldn't cry.
01:15:35If this doesn't work, maybe the new boycott will.
01:15:37What's new about it?
01:15:39They'd be boycotting me for months.
01:15:40Not that boycott.
01:15:42We figured two could play at this game.
01:15:44Not a colored person in this town
01:15:46going to buy from anybody boycotting you.
01:15:48Well, those people will have to drive
01:15:49all the way to Jackson to shop.
01:15:51I expect they're doing what they think is right.
01:15:53Just like you.
01:16:11Even if we can sell this house, it's just not enough.
01:16:14Oh, fine work.
01:16:16We've been through that.
01:16:17No one's going to hire you.
01:16:19Besides, I'll need your help.
01:16:20If we don't scrape together enough to rebuild.
01:16:23If?
01:16:24What happened to when?
01:16:26Well, there's just nothing left.
01:16:28That's right.
01:16:29You're out of place, too.
01:16:32What new horror makes me...
01:16:37Yes?
01:16:40Of course.
01:16:44Right.
01:16:46I know where that is.
01:16:49Half an hour.
01:17:02Who was that?
01:17:05I don't know.
01:17:06A man.
01:17:08What do you want?
01:17:10He said he wanted to help me.
01:17:15I'm going to meet him down at the old cotton mill
01:17:17in half an hour.
01:17:18What?
01:17:20He said he'd been following our story.
01:17:22Fine.
01:17:22I'll go with you.
01:17:22No.
01:17:23He said it had to be anonymous.
01:17:26I have to go alone.
01:17:27You're actually planning to go?
01:17:28He mentioned other journalists I know.
01:17:31People I've worked with.
01:17:32So what?
01:17:32He did his research.
01:17:33This could be one of the sheriff's thugs.
01:17:35This man is no thug.
01:17:37He was too intelligent.
01:17:38He was sincere.
01:17:39No way.
01:17:40I won't allow it.
01:17:41I was on my own for 20 years
01:17:43before I met you, mister,
01:17:44and I took care of myself just fine.
01:17:45Those were entirely different circumstances.
01:17:48Don't you walk out that door.
01:17:50I'm a big girl, Smitty,
01:17:51and I'm sick and tired of everyone
01:17:53telling me what to do.
01:17:57You are acting like a lunatic
01:17:58just to prove how tough you are.
01:18:00Get out of my way, Smitty.
01:18:01Don't make me prove how mean I am, too.
01:18:05Fine.
01:18:08It's going to be all right.
01:18:11Please, don't go.
01:18:13You'll be a trap.
01:18:14No, it's not.
01:18:16How can you know that?
01:18:19Female intuition.
01:18:23I have to.
01:18:25I have to.
01:18:27I have to.
01:19:12Who are you?
01:19:14A friend of your friends.
01:19:16I can count the friends I got left on one hand and none of them knows you.
01:19:20Your friends are over, Miss Smith. People you don't even know.
01:19:23I wish to God people would quit making me out to be some kind of crusader.
01:19:26I never wanted this damn battle in the first place.
01:19:37Where are you from? Why are you doing this?
01:19:40Let's just say I'm somebody who doesn't want the bad guys to win.
01:19:44What's with all the cloak and dagister?
01:19:47Perhaps I just don't have the courage you do.
01:19:56You're a newspaper man.
01:20:01Would you like me, Miss Smith?
01:20:07Look, I don't...
01:20:09I don't know.
01:20:11I don't know.
01:20:15I don't know.
01:20:32Oh, it's me, it's me, it's me.
01:20:35For God's sake, Smitty, what are you doing here?
01:20:38You followed me.
01:20:40Actually, I was just running into town for some bread.
01:20:44Well, don't bother.
01:20:47We got all the bread we need.
01:20:50He gave us thousands and thousands of dollars.
01:20:54What?
01:20:57Let's go.
01:21:01It's ready.
01:21:05Here goes nothing.
01:21:17Now we're ready for them.
01:21:20Now we're ready for them.
01:21:47It ain't even Thanksgiving.
01:21:49I don't know any Thanksgiving songs, do you?
01:21:51Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.
01:21:57How about a joke?
01:21:58How do you know when a politician's lying?
01:22:03Watch out.
01:22:04It's all right.
01:22:13Paul, get the ambulance.
01:22:17Go.
01:22:19Push me still.
01:22:21Oh, don't this just beat all.
01:22:25We've been bombed, burned, boycotted, and bankrupted.
01:22:29I might have to go and die in a ladder.
01:22:31Oh, if you think you're getting away from me that easy, you can forget it, mister.
01:22:37Think of some really clever last words.
01:22:40It's okay.
01:22:46Smitty?
01:22:48Smitty?
01:22:50Smitty?
01:22:50Smitty?
01:22:52I got you.
01:22:53Oh!
01:22:54You damn fool.
01:22:57You damn fool.
01:23:05Smitty.
01:23:23Carol?
01:23:36There's supposed to be a picket line outside.
01:23:39Hazel's paper. Should we cancel? What do you think? Jim Bob thinks we ought to have a meeting
01:23:49this afternoon instead. Think up a new plan, maybe write a new editorial. Do whatever you like.
01:24:03I got other plans for this afternoon.
01:24:21Deal with courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, and open the Lord. For just as troubles
01:24:30and earthly suffering are over for our brother Walter,
01:24:58I came for Sneddy. No, Miss Hazel. They came for you.
01:25:17As surely as he gave us life, heaven awaits us after death, a place where hunger is fed,
01:25:28fear forgotten, hatred, and tired. And all God's children in peace. Let us pray.
01:25:40My Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
01:25:47on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses
01:25:55as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
01:26:03from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, ever and ever. Amen.
01:26:24In 1964, Hazel Brannon Smith became the first woman to receive the nation's highest honor in editorial
01:26:33writing, the Pulitzer Prize.
01:27:32I gotta make an alumnus diaries.
01:27:32Have a great day.
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