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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.78,0:00:16.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am Awele.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.33,0:00:18.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daughter of Alice, granddaughter of Ruth,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.71,0:00:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great-granddaughter\Nof Big Momma Alice and Madir Corine,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.18,0:00:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great-great-granddaughter\Nof Anna and Zitii Benyen.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.36,0:00:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is my hope
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.34,0:00:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find my best possible self\Nin the service of others.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.59,0:00:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, my daddy, he used to tell me stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.22,0:00:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My daddy, he would say,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.03,0:00:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want you to know who you are\Nand where you come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.68,0:00:48.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That will guide you as you discover
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.02,0:00:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who you must be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.08,0:00:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you listen to this story,\Nyou hear me, baby girl?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.65,0:00:55.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not going to be in a book.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.18,0:00:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your teacher is not going to tell it,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.99,0:00:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you need to understand who you are."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.78,0:01:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That became a guiding principle
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.39,0:01:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the stories that I wanted to tell.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.01,0:01:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories about legacy of who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.61,0:01:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to hear all the time\Nthat children are the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.29,0:01:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what does that cliché really mean
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.08,0:01:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how are we preparing them?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.33,0:01:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I looked for narratives\Nabout young people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.02,0:01:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the legacy that they bring\Nas agents of change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.46,0:01:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The power that you have right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.97,0:01:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, March 2, 1955 --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.48,0:01:32.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story that I want to share with you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.87,0:01:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes from 1955, March 2.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.14,0:01:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about a courageous 16-year-old girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.08,0:01:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Claudette Colvin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.63,0:01:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it comes full circle today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.21,0:01:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because a week ago today,\Nin San Francisco,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.73,0:01:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my middle school students,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.50,0:01:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they performed a program\Nthat I had written,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.07,0:01:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Agents of Change,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.88,0:01:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starting with the reenactment\Nof Plessy v. Ferguson
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.54,0:01:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from 1892 to 1896,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.59,0:02:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moving to Brown v. Board\Nand a student-led strike
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.46,0:02:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Barbara Rose Johns,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.48,0:02:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jumping to Claudette Colvin\Nand the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.07,0:02:09.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ending in 1960\Nwith the Sit-In Movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.66,0:02:12.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the non-violent movement led by students.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.72,0:02:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm going to share the story,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.30,0:02:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would like to also share\Nthe work I do with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.18,0:02:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a case study.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.40,0:02:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I paid my dime at the front of the bus,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.54,0:02:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I ran to the back door
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.56,0:02:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the rest of the colored kids
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.34,0:02:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the driver wouldn't take off\Nbefore we got on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.13,0:02:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, well, whites don't want us\Nwalking down the aisle next to them.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.83,0:02:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got back on the bus,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.43,0:02:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colored section was full,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.82,0:02:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, I sat in the middle section.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.78,0:02:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took the last row seat on the left,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.58,0:02:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was right by the window,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.23,0:02:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't thinking\Nabout anything in particular.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.32,0:02:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hey."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.91,0:02:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know the girl\Nnext to me either, this older girl.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.83,0:02:57.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I just looked out the window.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.56,0:02:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Driver went more stops,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.84,0:03:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more people were getting on,\Ncolored and white.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.54,0:03:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pretty soon, no more seats were available.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.15,0:03:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Give me those seats,"\Nthe driver called out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.28,0:03:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colored folks just started getting up.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.13,0:03:09.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,White folks started taking their seats,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.02,0:03:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I stayed seated.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.23,0:03:13.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Girl next to me\Nand the other two across --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.60,0:03:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they stayed seated.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.43,0:03:17.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew it wasn't the restricted area.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.90,0:03:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Make light on your feet!"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.39,0:03:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Girl next to me got up immediately.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.08,0:03:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She stood in the aisle,\Nthen the other two girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.80,0:03:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I told myself,\Nthis isn't the restricted area.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.88,0:03:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The driver, he looked up,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.49,0:03:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked in the window,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.08,0:03:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that mirror.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.05,0:03:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He pulled over.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.75,0:03:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A pregnant lady, Mrs. Hamilton,\Ngot on the bus.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.44,0:03:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She ran to the back and got on,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.16,0:03:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not knowing he was trying\Nto have me relinquish my seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.20,0:03:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she sat right next to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.48,0:03:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The two of you need to get up\Nso I can drive on."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.34,0:03:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sir, I paid my dime, I paid my fare.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.71,0:03:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my right, you know,\Nmy constitutional --"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.90,0:03:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Constitutional?\NHa-ha, let me get the police."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.94,0:04:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well he got off and he flagged down\Ntwo motormen, and they came.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.44,0:04:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those motormen,\Nthey came onto the bus.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.93,0:04:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looked at Mrs. Hamilton.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.76,0:04:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Now the two of you need to get up\Nso the driver can drive on."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.74,0:04:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sir, I paid my dime. I'm pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.49,0:04:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If I were to move right now,\NI'd be very sick, sir."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.51,0:04:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sir, I paid my dime too,\Nyou know, and it's my right,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.06,0:04:19.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my constitutional right.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.67,0:04:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a citizen of the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.36,0:04:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just read the 13th\Nand 14th Amendment, it'll tell you so.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.56,0:04:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know the law. My teacher,\Nshe taught it at school."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.23,0:04:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, my teacher,\Nshe taught the Constitution,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.55,0:04:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Bill of Rights,\Nthe Declaration of Independence,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.04,0:04:34.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patrick Henry's speech --\NI even memorized it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.33,0:04:38.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My teacher, she would prick our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.66,0:04:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to see what we thinking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.46,0:04:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would say, "Who are you? Hmm?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.25,0:04:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you, sitting right here right now?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.41,0:04:48.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The person that people think they see\Nfrom your outside?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.66,0:04:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you on the inside? How you think?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.64,0:04:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you feel? What you believe?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.67,0:04:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would you be willing to stand up\Nfor what you believe in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.33,0:04:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if someone wants to hold you back\Nbecause you're different?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.97,0:05:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you love your beautiful\Nbrown skin, children? Hmm?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.14,0:05:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you American?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.41,0:05:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to be an American? Huh?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.69,0:05:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Homework tonight, write me an essay:\N"What does it mean to be an American?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.83,0:05:14.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need to know who you are, children!"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.76,0:05:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My teacher, she would teach us\Nhistory and current events.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.02,0:05:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said that's how we can understand\Neverything that's going on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.40,0:05:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we can do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.52,0:05:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Sir, all I know is I hate Jim Crow.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.30,0:05:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also know if I ain't got nothing\Nworth living for,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.79,0:05:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ain't got nothing worth dying for.\NSo give me liberty or give me death!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.26,0:05:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ouch! I don't care! Take me to jail."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.70,0:05:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They dragged her off the bus.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.72,0:05:41.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next thing, Claudette Colvin\Nwas in a car seat,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.24,0:05:42.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,backseat of the police car,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.82,0:05:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,handcuffed through the windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.51,0:05:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following year,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.07,0:05:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May 11, 1956,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.77,0:05:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Claudette Colvin was the star witness
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.30,0:05:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the federal court case\NBrowder v. Gayle.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.73,0:06:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her, an 18-year-old teenager
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.23,0:06:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two others, women, Mrs. Browder.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.17,0:06:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their case, Browder v. Gayle,\Nwent up to the supreme court.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.16,0:06:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the heels of Brown\Nv. Board of Education,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.31,0:06:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the 14th Amendment\Nand her powerful testimony that day,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.32,0:06:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest is history.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.37,0:06:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, why is it we don't know this story?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.09,0:06:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Montgomery Bus Boycott --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.49,0:06:30.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we hear Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.68,0:06:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will forever be lifted up.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.76,0:06:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the role women\Nplayed in that movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.58,0:06:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the role of Claudette, as an up-stander,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.12,0:06:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it teaches us important lessons\Nthat challenge us today.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.85,0:06:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to be a participant?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.17,0:06:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A responsible citizen in a democracy?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.17,0:06:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And lessons of courage and of faith?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.29,0:06:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I find freedom movement history\Nthat includes young people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.41,0:07:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can explore these big ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.77,0:07:04.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of identity, your chosen identity,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.92,0:07:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the imposed identity.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.06,0:07:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does membership in society mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.11,0:07:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who has it? How do we make amends?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.81,0:07:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Race and violence in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.04,0:07:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as participatory citizenship.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.82,0:07:23.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So these stories allow me\Nto have conversations,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.97,0:07:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak the unspeakable,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.30,0:07:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that many are afraid to have.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.18,0:07:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once in Eugene, Oregon,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.86,0:07:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a young, blond-haired,\Nblue-eyed boy, middle schooler,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.80,0:07:36.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end of a performance\Nin the dialogue said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.11,0:07:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But Ms. Awele, racism's over, right?"
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.00,0:07:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not wanting to answer for him, I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.02,0:07:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Turn to the person sitting next to you.\NSee if you can come up with evidence."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.78,0:07:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I gave them four minutes to talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.89,0:07:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soon, they began to tell stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.10,0:07:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evidence of racism in their community.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.15,0:07:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A girl wrote to me,\Na high school student in San Francisco:
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.65,0:07:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was going to skip school
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.98,0:08:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then I heard\Nwe had an assembly, so I came.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.00,0:08:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And after listening to the students talk
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.44,0:08:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing your performance,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.59,0:08:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I should organize my friends
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.50,0:08:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we should go down to a board meeting
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.96,0:08:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tell them that want\Nto have advanced classes
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.31,0:08:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for A through G requirements."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.10,0:08:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I tell you this story today
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.59,0:08:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in honor of the legacy of young people\Nthat have come before,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.83,0:08:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they will have\Nguideposts and signs
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.62,0:08:30.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be the change\Nthat they want to see in this world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.78,0:08:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Claudette Colvin was.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.71,0:08:35.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because she struck down\Nthe constitutionality
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.64,0:08:37.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of segregated seats
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.52,0:08:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.10,0:08:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.27,0:08:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.02,0:08:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.86,0:08:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)