The Long Walk Home Page #2
- PG
- Year:
- 1990
- 97 min
- 306 Views
I'll read it to you.
"This is for...
Monday the"...
Boy, you can't read. We're gonna
die of consumption waitin' for you.
- Can so! Give it back! - Franklin, give
him the paper and let him read it.
Watch it.
been arrested and thrown in jail
because she refused to get up
out of her seat on the bus...
for a white person
to sit down.
It is the second time
since the Colvin case...
arrested for the same thing.
This has to be stopped. "
"We're therefore asking
every Negro...
to stay off the buses Monday
in protest of the arrest and trial.
Don't ride the buses to work,
to town, to school...
or anywhere on Monday.
You can afford to stay
out of school for one day,
if you have no other
way to go except by bus.
You can also afford to stay
out of town for one day.
If you work,
take a cab or walk.
- Please, children"...
- I heard about that last night.
- That woman was Miss Parks.
- Rosa Parks?
Yep. They had to bail her out
of jail for sittin' in the bus.
- See, the problem is...
- I'll tell you what the problem is.
I ain't never seen people get so
worked up over a piece of paper.
- I think it's dumb.
- I think you're dumb!
- Shut up, Franklin.
- Franklin, sit up.
- Well, if that don't get all.
Here we are without a car,
and somebody tellin' us not to ride the bus?
Theodore and Franklin ready
to follow along like lap dogs.
If that ain't cuttin' your
nose off to spite your face.
She's mad 'cause she ride the bus
out to Newtown on Saturday,
- to see that boy she think like her.
- Shut up.
I'm tired of hangin' my head
in the shadow of crackers.
I wanna ride at the
front of the bus.
Lord, we thank you for this
food we're about to receive.
Watch over our
souls tonight...
and help us live your
word tomorrow.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Right around the fence.
That bus is as empty
as my grave.
It starts to rain,
people get on that bus.
No, they won't,
not unless they stupid as you are.
Mama! If we can't ride the bus,
then do we have to go to school?
Boy, you ain't never
took the bus in your life.
Now get in there and help
me clean off that table.
Hello, Mrs. Thompson?
This is Odessa.
Mrs. Thompson, I think I'm gonna
be awfully late to work today.
Odessa, this is Monday. You know
how badly I need you on Monday.
Yes, I know, Mrs. Thompson,
but, as I said, I...
Well, this wouldn't have anything to do
with the boycott business, would it?
Well, Mrs. Thompson, the buses usually
come past my house pretty near full,
on 'em except the driver,
and this last one had
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