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Oakland, California, 1966 Behind the racial upheavals in northern cities is the story of Negroes trapped in urban ghettos in Oakland. More than one third of the residents or Negro. They came to work in the defense industries around San Francisco Bay. But with the end of World

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War Two, the jobs ended. The people, however, remain. And what began for many as an escape to jobs and freedom has ended in poverty. Amidst all the symbols of affluence, this documentary moves within the two overlapping worlds of the ghetto, the day to day physical reality

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in the world of dreams and fantasies of escape. It is a story of people caught in a lifelong struggle between their hopes and their abilities and their discovery that no matter how hard they try, they will be losing just the same Cadillac. Ah, home, my own

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home, my own home and put my mother. And while I'm on the road and I would also come back to West Oakland and let them know that I did make it in Harlem, they have tenement houses. They have these big, big building, but the same dirt,

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the same horrors, the same bars same pond shop, whiskey stores right here on seventh Street. Just same thing. I grew up in 118th Street. It's not on 18th Street all over again. Anything the power structure want. I don't want anything they don't want. I want it.

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Mhm money. That's what. Everybody needing money. Yeah, it's hard for him to grow up in the slum because they see so much action going on. I've had more trouble since I've been in West Oakland than I ever had. Okay, right. Mhm Social

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study case s 2614 Agnes John's recipient under the FDC program, July 1966. Assessment of areas of functioning. Agnes Johns is the mother of 10 minor Children. She is 34 years of age and has separated from her first spouse, who deserted the home in 1960. Since arriving

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in Oakland from Louisiana, she has had three additional offspring. The monthly welfare budget is $392. The oldest child, Robert Leigh Johns, 17.5 years of age. He stopped attending classes at MK Lyman's high school toward the end of his 11th year. School authorities doubt that he will

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re enroll. He has a juvenile arrest record of three arrests dating from 1964. Robert, social, personal, functioning inside the family, he appears to perform adequately. His economic functioning is poor able to find. Okay, We don't even allow people to talk to us to use the word

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slumming, uh, or get him because we feel that this has been a stigmata. And we say that it is an older section on older historic section of Oakland. Mm hmm. Mhm. We have have care of this name is Slum Street in Slum West Oakland. And we

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don't have that name a Z. They have all given as the slum area, because we have nice homes in this area and we have intelligent people. Way have people with with, uh, middle income. And we don't have all people as a state, as on welfare. Thank

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you. Yeah. Do well, Mom. Oh, yeah. Again. Oh, Rogers over Arizona. Oh, come on, now. That's a great John Wilson. Mhm. Look, I'm thirsty. I need a beard, But somebody go to store for me. The town, The motion. You must Oh, understood my mom.

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No. What would you do with it? Okay. Wouldn't go spinning, mark. Well, then what need would you have, boy Mathis? You gonna put in the bank? Well, you know, just in my pocketbook, I know where I had left. No one had my pistol but you I

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know you had my pistol. Brad, drills. Do you have a call? Because, like you, you're talking about the environment. A summer? Well, I woke up. I don't get over there on top of these, you're nothing. Yeah, I know, brother. But if I ever catch you doing

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something like that again, it will be too bad cause there ain't nothing but true. Put me on a level Didn't do it. You did something that didn't How did you find a little sign that you love your family? You in look, always staying here. And I

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have it right in my public day and night here, where I keep it there. Mhm. I'll be trapped. You don't know about you. So that's why I have for protection. Leaving alone, get okay. Oh, I just hate it now. You know what feel like I'm nothing

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living here. Why do I have to live here? I can't find nowhere else to go. Nobody wants you When you when you have Children, especially many Children's. I have. Oh, change between West Oakland, Louisiana. It's not very much different because Louisiana The only thing you have

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to say Yes, sir. No, sir. Back there. But the living is just not any different. I'd rather say yes and those and live comfortable than to live in the slums. And you could say yes and no, it really It really disturbs me when I hear my

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people calling. What? Something get to slums and so on. And I've lived around here for 45 years, and I've traveled quite extensively, but I've never found any slums in West. Over. Theo City enforces the law to keep a property, but they didn't bother with West Oakland

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because they knew that people that used to live in West Oakland had moved out. They let open one run down because they knew someday they were gonna come back until we're gonna come back and take this property and run us out. We'd like to call the

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bandstand. Curtis Baker. Black Jesus. Do you think Okay, I did not name myself Black Jesus. This was dead by poor peoples. Who who that I have help. I am black. I think I have much pride and dignity. I think I have much self control. We know

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we got a white bigots. Atheist hypocrites. We've got white dogs who have never did anything for us. Curtis Bakers on the front page again with his private poverty program. But we get all of the publicity to individuals who are at the edge where they are threatening

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something all the time. But solid, constructive work, such as being a Z being done by the bloc leaders rarely gets any publicity. We can represent Black Power. We need it. What is Black power? Mr Joe Thinker. That's Mr Joe the bartender. What's Black Power Joe? Black

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power mean that black people will leave their own problems. Black people will drive their own cause. 20 words still haven't. But you're my answer If you give me a time, baby with black power. Well, your black power mean that we're tired of the white people's driving,

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getting in the front seat, driving out of a car and we sat in the back and when it break down and when it break down Joe, then they say we break it down. You know why you're dangerous? You're dangerous because you're constantly preaching black power black

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supremacy. Well, Joe, I don't know. Are you gonna kill all the whitey's Joe Black Power me in this, Joe, if I have to kill all white Is Joe Thio in all the way? I could get freedom, Joe, I'm willing. Todo

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Kenny is in trouble. Kenny's only shoots another to the chest. He's in trouble. Kidneys in trouble, Ladies and germs. He's in very much trouble if you don't fight back. Oh, shoot! Wanted. Can you run? The mother gets the wild shoot to the mid second. We wanted

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the arm wanted to short ribs shooting mighty like older shooting hard to the chest. Getting very pain for Kenny Wanted the job up to the job. Shoot wanted. Just today with two back to back middle. Rank those ones. Well, back again. Old shit. You're trying to

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kind of both boys tired of way. What you're gonna do tonight, Lincoln? No. So to us. You know, monsieur, what you gonna do tonight when your health falls over your about what time I get home, but don't let it, uh, What's it? Boom. My little lamb.

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Oh, I told him if he want to get to be a nice young man, you have his hair trim low, get him a job buying some nice clothes and go to mostly any kind of employment off and try to find him a job. I didn't get

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your girlfriend. Oh, okay. Well, if you don't catch a girlfriend, I do it over free, free blows. Hey, said it makes no difference about your hair, but I think it does make a difference with people's. We're gonna hire you. If I heard this older radio about,

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they weren't high on board with these long hair with the processes on the head. Which one of these bad key? I don't know. Oh, the back age bad case. But blah gets up in the morning. Call me. Lay down. Call me people.

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Nowadays, when they speaking of processing years ago, it was known as conch car Colleen, and this was done by lie a strong washing soap, an egg. It was put on your hair and with what we call take the kinks out and give you that straight hair

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appearance. Then we'd slick it down with some heavy Greece and at that time it was called. I believe it was Murray's Murray's her Murray Murray's hair preparation or something like that. And now is it the got refined. They have a better chemical that they put in,

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and it doesn't leave sores in your hair like it used to do, because years ago used to come up with big swords if you left it in your here too long and all your hair would fall out. But now they have this refining process that they

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use and the fellas straighten your hair and put on going to the dryer. He's still in the dryers, and this drives their hair and toe the waves that the barber is put in there with his finger what they call finger waving. But you see most of

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the kids today. They like this idea of having processing the reason I stopped processing. Uh, I seemed to me that just came to me overnight. I took pride in race and I wanted to identify with being a Negro. I didn't wanna be something other than what

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I was really supposed to be. Now they're doing it more to identify with being an entertainer or or Hustler, I'd give them that appearance of her. Uhh! Being slick wise. Uh, have a process. Now you more. You more readily identify a man with a process. Now,

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uh, as a hustler. Uh huh. If Mhm e boy, you will try to make some money yourself before it's too late. But the next day seems like the same old dog date.

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Nothing. Do it just like my dad used to. John. He says, if you have dreams and you never realized one of them during your lifetime, then you've lost You lose out. So you get start making false dreams, false plans. One day you're gonna be a Maybe

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you gonna be a big pimp, C. We never thought that we're gonna be a big school teacher or a doctor or a lawyer. We start thinking on the lines of hustling. We're going to be a good hustler. We're gonna be a good thief. I see myself

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average everyday Miracle boy trying to make it like everybody else, trying to beat somebody out of something. Somebody trying to beat me on something You feel like kind of empty. And you wasted all your time. All this time when you could have had your job. You

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know, spending money coming, coming to school. They spend useless lunch money. Just come to school evening, going back home. Just like going to a big party. A silent party where everybody, he's quiet. Pretend that working and everything. I'm gonna get me a car. I'm gonna get

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me some money. Give me my mother or something. Mhm. The Not me. Yeah. Come on. No, you should never wear little thing here, man. And then now that I got down that my dad stepmom there was that hard. Come on, Black. Well,

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you've been sleeping. Would you do why? You wonder you Oh, let me to make a wall May not stand here. Do they work? Not all about the house. Look, you know Oh, man, I want he just took Why don't you feel like I get tired? How

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do you want me to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. You'll just have to get up off a little while. Hit mama something. I that Yeah. Uh huh. Come on. Fast money. Yeah, I've been let down a couple of times. And when you beat, when you get let

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down two or three times you feel that out? I'm just I'm just afraid. I'm just getting I'm afraid of being let down again. I was let down the first time. No, my husband left me with stuck with seven Children. I never heard from again in seven

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years. So when he left, I had no job or nothing. No. I turned to how to make a living for these kids by 11. Came to California, went unemployment office, and they sent me to work. Me and Mrs got good way. After we got good, we

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started living together and every when he got angry with me and he'd move all this stuff 1000 part of mine, that's a problem. And this last time he didn't leave me. Nothing in the house. I had to go from Stretch. Yeah, on that. Where you so

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I just I've been let down and I just don't know how to go around getting me someone else. I would like to find a man was gonna be interesting. My Children and innocent and me too, and helped me keep the kids from school. This is the

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kind of man I won't I drink about the time that I would see my kids walking across the floor graduating, and then they would go to college. No man is an island at one time or another. All of us are faced with the question. Should I

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hate my transgressors are forgive them if we forgive them. We can't go on living with them. But if we begin our continue hating them, we cannot live with them and therefore must draw ourselves delete, thus forming an island. Jerry

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Lyons. Billy. Hey, judging um, yeah, yeah. Oh, how I wish I could see Robert walking, But one of those long robes on and one of those graduation caps I feel so proud to see him. I would like a rabbit

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to be a lawyer. Impossible. And I'd like voters to be electricity in Ramona. I would like for her to play a piano And Shirley, I would like her to be a teacher. I would say, Michael, I would also like for him to be a teacher and

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Drew Hill. She want to be a nurse? E. It would send me reports on Robert at all time that he didn't come to school and I went to Mr Hargraves and I talked with. We have several youngsters like Robert in our school youngsters who youngsters who

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really want really feel that they want to receive a high school diploma but who have so many deficiencies not only academic deficiencies but a lack of self discipline that they really don't know how to go about doing that will show these things to him and recommend

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that he did go to school because I wanted him to finish, you know. So, Robert said, was no need of him going dismissed out because he felt like if if he would stop and get him a job, do he'd be prepared to go next section. I'm

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sure Robert, like most of the youngsters, want a job. Someone would have to give him a job. If you're going to send him down somewhere to apply, to fill out the application form and make and to apply and to meet certain criteria, you can forget about

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it. I think someone needs to give him a job and say, I believe in you. I think you could do this. Hold his hand if necessary. Watch him tell him he has to produce on the job and everything else on I think he'll he'll be on

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his way. I really feel that with a youngster like Robert, Uh, his chances of finishing school under the normal procedure of going to school for six periods every day without anything else. I don't think he's gonna do it this way. Mhm

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this Robert Chance, the Robert his mail me from the youth employment. So the jury for you, you can ask your surgery baby hustling paper. Just a minute. Yeah. Yeah. You make an injury. Cool. Clip, E. Okay. All right. Thank you for

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calling people. Hey, Mama. Mama! Mama, Come here. Who's that on the ground? Come here. I finally got a job interview. A job interview you. What's your job? Um, listen, effective. Did you ask Mama T pain? No, they're all come my name. They have to pay me

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enough to know, you know, just they can't pay me a dollar corner. I wouldn't go for that. Have you figured out how you're gonna get transportation, land back transportation there and back? I'm a ride the bus from the interview, but when I make enough money to

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buy me a car, I have a presentation over there back anything What do you think about school? What about school schools along coming with? Yeah, but I still want you to keep school in your mind. Well, you want me sitting around here, Mama Jamas out there

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until school starts? Well, it don't mean sit around your pajamas, but I'm not gonna stand for you to get a job and not to go back to school. Yeah, well, school held, even start. I'm gonna go back to school when school starts. I'm going back to

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school, huh? Yeah, I feel afraid that won't make it sometimes. Why? Hey, guys. Yeah, I think in there. Yeah, yeah. Wait when You Okay. So you know that that okay? Yeah. Thank you. Mhm.

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My father used to change cars almost every two months. He had the best car that he had. It was a trickery. 57 59 57 56 Mercury. And it was out of sight. But he traded any in for some other old junk first removed from the country.

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The town They were moved from the town back to the country. We got in the country and way could run Wild Way wanted to, and we go back for that. These people out here they go bad for them. But it hurt the feet. Oakland looked just

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like any other place to me that I see in pictures and things. When I was in Louisiana, they used to always say California was rich and everything. You know, everybody was which having a good time, you know, a baby natural and have to work hard and

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make good money. I came out here and they were living just like everybody else. Waas Not no different no better. No worse. Yeah. If you don't pay better down, the court ain't gonna take Yeah? Mm hmm. Yeah. Can I help you? What is your degree, Robertson,

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Would you kind of take a seat tomorrow? Okay. There's Mr Robert. John here to see you. Thank you. That's coming, baby. Only 17. Have you ever been arrested? Yes, I've been arrested. I was picked up for suspicion of battery. Oh, yeah, but I didn't do it.

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You know, they let me go, huh? Yeah. Ah, So your your job will be Ah, sweep the factory after After the plant closes at 4. 30 in the afternoon to sweep this area to put all the scraps in big boxes and run them down the freight

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elevator to the alley for two laboratories here. The men's and women's laboratories clean today. Fucking hell. Um, okay, well, let's, uh, plan on coming here next Monday at nine o'clock and we'll get started. Knitting machine. No, you haven't lived in the same thing. That's how it

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za Same way your socks air made. So we'll see you. Uh, we'll see you next Monday at nine o'clock. Oh, yeah. Okay. I do bothers you. Pay check. Just, uh let's make it. You know,

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deficit located, cause me more money to San Robert. Actually the work and they dio keep me at home home. So I didn't see no reason why he shouldn't quit. Yeah, but he still want to go on and work. Well, he said he was gonna try to

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get part time and go to school for our time. But as I say, he'll be losing just the same if he do this. My mother, she always fussing and fussing. I'd be glad to get out the house and walk. She just be worried a lot. She

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can She don't mean the hollow like that, but it gets me, burn me up. Then when I come here, sometimes she'll be talking. I've been drinking. I had never I ain't had nothing And I won't be drinking Nothing miss with no dope in that no more.

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Just think she got 10 kids and she's been doing it ever since for a long time. That's how come I got to make sure about myself. I'm gonna make the school, make sure about myself, but take care of. I feel lousy because whenever I'm going down

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there, I never have enough murder, get what I really would want. My name is already bad because I feel like they think I'm trying to steal something and I never sold anything in my life. And I've often wondered why they feel like a snake closer. Go

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in the store and steal something they don't do. Most white people like that, I see them get their clothes in the arms and walk all around and just only don't bother them when I go in. This story will tell me they'll take this until I come

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to the check out place to pay for it. Robert, you always Mama, he was mama's baby when he was born. That brought him with with these overall suits. And I thought it was so cute on a little baby. I

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used to be looking all right. Thank you, brother. Oh, went down so much. I used to have hips now went out so bad. Really? Yeah. They always tell me how to pick up me some extra money, but if you go out and pick up them something,

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I think I think a woman is lower. No stuff. When she get out on the streets and do a thing like that, I feel like she have a personal man. Um, maybe she got to. It might be fine if she's a woman and got cheering. He

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knows she needs something and he feel he should give her something dollars. Some of them like to do it. Some don't like to work. And in another way, sometime, just thinking. Make him look nice to do this and want that one reason why I really people

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don't wear if I don't get enough money and it goes out what you call a turn these little things and and get it. If they don't get $5 they feel like they can buy a little food with that. Something like that. But I don't feel like

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a I would put myself in that position. I would want this public, but nothing on Earth with the meeting. Please come to order. The secretary will read the minutes of the last meeting. July 25th 1966. 18. Present meeting was held at Mrs Ballots home 15 03

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Magnolia Street meeting open minutes. Read and approved. Mrs. Many weather reported a riot. Um, started on Chestnut Street last Thursday evening. The bloc leaders reported to the police and a crowd yelling, Let's have another What were dispersed by members of Oak Center before the police got

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there. That's all right. Well around change. Ryan, too. Mr Mr Bell reported undesirable tenants moved on the block, notified police, retrieved a gun in purse and gave police Let's go to work and make money. And then I don't see where it go or where it wasa

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where it went. Nothing. And oh, I quit my girlfriend. I've just been snapping at people lately, just mad about about that myself and everything else, you know. And I'm getting tired of not having no money in my pocket, you know? And my brother don't even working.

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We have a little money in this package. About six years from the day you could look back and say, I told you the truth that I was gonna be something mixed up my stuff. Yeah. Money. That's what everybody needs. Money. No, I'm not going on with

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Liza. Yeah, thanks. We start could call back to be a little girl. I put every day of my life in school that schools going on, get me a little job, would have to look up for nobody. I feel like I just get this running away and

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just go leave him. Although I know I wouldn't get for sometimes I feel like I should go to the bar and just sit there and this drink till I get happy. It's about your mother saying I see you do All my life I've been living in

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a fantasy. A dream world lying to myself. This is the only way you could make it. You can't make it by uhh. Just normally I think you need something to hold onto. I've dreamed I was a bull or something, like I was trying to get to

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someone I was running. I was after someone and I never could get this person. It looks like we is enough. Feel the open field and I'd run them Soto He would talk to him because he jumped a fence on me and I couldn't make it. Then

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I woke up shaking Wonder Why did I have to be a book for you? You Were you cheering? Please turn off the record player. I'm so tired. Want to goto Sleep? Yeah. Yeah. I was playing on going back to school and really making

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it in a good way, But I was gonna be clean when I went. I was gonna learn everything I could read everything I get my hands on. I read now, but enough. I got to find some way to give me some money. I don't like to

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steal nothing, but if I just keep it on my man, I'm gonna get me some money, some kind of way. And maybe if I get it out of me. Sorry. I took it from whoever took it from when I would be glad I got it. Not

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afraid to go to gym when I'm making up in my mind to do something. I go do it. No second thoughts about it. I go do it. I will have to do is drink three or four bills and I'll be able to do it. I don't

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know, but I know it's gonna be something. I know it. E don't think I know this effect. It's fit a secret of a person. Strength is identification with While the most dangerous source of a person's weakness is alienation from life, the game of life is hard

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and must be played by all with everyone working together with patience and long suffering. We are out to win because we are afraid of suffering eternally. In the Inferno, the opposite team is made up of only four players. Defeat the catcher, Faith, the field men. Destiny.

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It's the basement At times the picture. It is a hard gang and many strikeout because they wait too long and are caught unprepared. Many pop out to fake and don't have a chance. I tell you what I do. I tip some of them big stores and

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ah, I would, um maybe Luke. Why? Why? You know why you got a chance to get some of those big stores you know, get it because they can always replace it. The and far as I'm concerned, San Francisco should've had a ride a long time ago.

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It's been on edge for a long time, and people have been looking looking for this, you know, And in Oakland, the same thing will occur. Two police department called me about 3. 30 this morning and told me they had picked up Robert. They told

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me he was setting far around Rose department store in Oakland. I think they had just made up before we even got here. This because they don't have the evidence. And I don't see why they should hold him up, get a life with the boy. Didn't keeping

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them out of school. They said they want to get out and you want to get education. Now, how can you get education up here? Well, certainly Robert had had made every effort Thio keep himself a wide on While he had dropped out of school for a

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while yet re enrolled in school was attending classes. Yes, he wa and really by the police hidden. If I don't feel, I don't feel right overhead. It all. I really want something to be denied on to suspend him. I want him to pay for what he

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did to my son. We're going to register protest regarding the police brutality. We're gonna do everything we can on the Let's go see Robert. Okay, then. Mm hmm. Yeah. Rapidly. John's mother tomorrow. Just a moment. And attorney, I'll have you in a moment, Robert. Very, very

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concerned about being held over. And I think that we should encourage him. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna try to work, not to cry, baby. The only thing they holding me on right now is what that witness said, You know, as the witness word against

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my word, you know? So I guess they'll take the witness words. You know, I don't see what I was behind this other point. It was pouring this stuff when I came in the street, you know? Asked me, was he with him? And I just said, Yeah,

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you know, because I thought the three was with him, you know, I didn't know what they might do. It better said no. So I went on around back of the cat and he was pulling do kerosene, you know? So he told me run, and he had

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already pulled on the other side street. And he just threw a match and struck up. And I was going, you know, Then on the other side street, I was wondering which way to go on. This man was coming back in a Cadillac, you know? And I

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asked him, what was he looking at? You. And he lied and said, That's it. Something else, Something I don't know. And so the other guy lift the other side, The thing? I just started running, you know? And I got on the other street and I just

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stopped, You know, I said, I ain't Dean. I'm going. What the hell I'm running for. So as I walked down the street gang, the Cadillac pointed me out to the police, all these guys to come with searching me, and no, he didn't find them. But some

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lunch tickets I had in my pocket, you know, he didn't find no matches or nothing. And no, he's put me in the con, smell my hands, and it wasn't in the carolcnn smell on gasoline Smell at all. You know and so still took us downtown on

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the cop made me stand up. I pulled ahead over my head and one catch. One cop slapped the head off my head. You know, I started to hit him, you know? But I was thinking about later on, You know, when I get in court what what

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they might say. You know, I was just We get uptown. No cop told me, asked me, he asked me something I didn't hear Whatever you say. And I asked him. I said, Uh huh. You want me to take him off? And I said, Yeah, I want

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you to take him out, and he came over and hit me in the stomach, you know? Well, then I started drag over, hit him back, you know, But I still thinking about resisting, because every time they picked me up, you know, I had fought with the

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police. You know, this time I thought I would take the look, you know, easier. But anyway, this other cop shelled me off from the sale and called me a monkey. And now I wanted to get him bad. I ran to I went to the I tried

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to push the door, but he tried to lift, and I tried to push the door and get at him. But he closed it up, you know? And so they came in. And when they came in, you know, when they when they came and hit me in

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the stomach, they came in and pulled my clothes off, you know? Then through old jumpsuit in there, you know? Well, when one cop had his feeding my back, I forgot to forget to mention that he had his feeding my back when it was taking the handcuffs

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off and e was on the floor, you know? Then, uh, I put on the no jumps to keep warm, and then, uh then I fail out. Then next e fell off the bench. And next thing I know, it was morning and two cops came in there,

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you know, and ask me for a statement. You know, I told him what happened, but they didn't want to hear about what the cops did. They only want to hear about my experience on the streets. They didn't want to hear about what the cops did up

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there, so I went over to the they took no June at all. Nice cop took me over there then, um, it took me in over there. I had a feeling I wasn't coming home. Even put my job to come to come back to school. You know,

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probably if I had to quit my job. I wouldn't really know stuff now. But I quit my job, came on back to school, tried to get the diploma. I don't know what they're gonna try to do. The cop to think of something, you know, did think

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of something. I'm not a loser, but the people trying to make it that way uptown, you know? But they can't. They can't do it. Not if I don't want him to. They're gonna put me in the hole. Not even in this whole. Oh, he looked terrible.

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You don't even get a comb to comb your head. You know that's lousy. There's some damn lousy cops, that's all. Yeah, maybe new. Yeah, Talking Marshall everything where you don't be so mad that we're talking fine, man. What's that? Mhm. Why did you living with that?

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Why don't you give me that? Why don't you give me that? Thank you. Mhm e No, that? Yeah. Mhm. Oh, yeah. Okay. Hey, Follow up. Report on welfare case as to 614 Agnes John's October 1966. Recommendation for monthly budget cut from 3.

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92 to 3. 50 due to the detention of one of the Children formally living in the household. Okay, line it up. Marked down. The rooms remain there. You are right after that point. Yeah. 17 year old Robert Johns is being held by juvenile authorities on a

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charge of arson. He will be given a hearing and if found guilty, may, under the provisions of California law, be kept at state facilities until he reaches age 23. This has been any t journal weekly report on people issues and events.