What Mississippi Was Like For Him In 1955

Lawrence Goyot was a great civil rights leader and back in 1964, an activist in Mississippi helping Black Americans to fill out all the forms so they could get the right to vote. I will be posting other clips from his interview, done by me in 1989, as a part of my 6 part PBS television series, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Back in the mid-sixties I did several films on the civil rights movement and the voter registration drive and found the black church totally supportive and many white churches equally supportive. Here we are again, with the murder of George Floyd, dealing with the issues of equality, and fairness, and justice, with the police and with the economic inequalities still confronted by black Americans.