Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Ballot and Me: The Negro's Part in Suffrage, An Historical Sequence (1956), by Langston Hughes

NARRATOR: Yes, and black women--representatives of the strength and calibre of those who served so nobly and so well in the dark and dangerous days of Reconstruction. Fellow citizens, your ballot has great value. Use it! When election time comes, to paraphrase by extension a young Negro leader in the South today, the Reverend Martin Luther King of Alabama, "If you can't fly, run! If you can't run, walk! If you can't walk, crawl--to the polls and vote!"

SAMUEL FRAUNCES: Vote!

SOJOURNER TRUTH: Vote!

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Vote!

JOHN M. LANGSTON: Vote!

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: Vote!

NARRATOR: Vote!

ALL TOGETHER: Vote! . . . . . . Vote! . . . . . Vote! . . . . . . . . . . Vote! . . . . . Vote . . . VOTE!

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