Freedom Never Dies Lake Orienta 2/19/13

1. Freedom Never Dies Lake Orienta 2/19/13

2. June 27, 1950 Born in Manhattan, NY Adopted – age 10 days Raised in Sanford, FL Only child Mother died at age 5

3. Winifred Dorsett, Birth Mother, Brooklyn, N.Y. Gave me up for adoption (deceased)

4. Ulysses and Edna Burton, who buried Civil Rights Activist Harry T. Moore, adopted me in 1950. (deceased) Winifred Dorsett, Birth other, Brooklyn, N.Y. Gave me up for adoption (deceased)

7. Cleo Alexander Burton my stepmother. She raised me from age 11 to 18. Harry T. Moore was her 1st grade teacher. (She will be 93 in March 2013)

8. Burton’s Funeral HomeSanford, Florida This was my home. I grew up here.

9. I found some compelling statistics on racismin America athttp://www.teamwmi.org/educational-information/racism-statistics/

10. Jan. 2, 1944 – Willie James Howard killed in Live Oak, Florida. My mother knew of him and his family. • 1950 – Baby Alleyne (Ingrid Burton) born and adopted • Dec. 25, 1951 – Harry T. Moore and wife are murdered in Mim, FL • May 17, 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education ; segregation in public school is unconstitutional • Aug. 1955 – Emit Till, age 14 was killed • Dec. 1, 1955 – Rosa Parks went to jail

11. Harry T. Moore • Paved the way for the '60s civil rights movement by championing equal pay for black teachers, • Organized the black vote, and • Publicly condemned racist attitudes and actions of local, state and national officials.

12. On Christmas Day 1951 On Christmas Day1951, the Moores’ house was bombed. He and his wife were killed. It was “the bomb heard around the world.”

13. Harry T. Moore’s Funeral He was buried in Mims, Fla. by Burton’s Funeral Home.

14. The Ballad of Harry T. Moore By Langston Hughes Sung by “Sweet Honey In the Rock” http://youtu.be/_wEPZ0rTsHs

15. Sept. 1957 – Little Rock 9 attempted to integrate Central High School in Little Rock Ark. • Fe b. 1961 – Sit ins begin • May 4, 1961 – Freedom Riders begin to ride through the south on busses • June 12, 1963 – Medgar Evers is murdered

16. April 28, 1963 – March on Washington “I Have A Dream” • July 2, 1964 - Civil Rights Bill signed by the President • March 7, 1965 - Bloody Sunday • Sept. 24, 1965 – Affirmative Action • July 16, 1960 – Greenville 8 go to jail

17. The Little Rock 9 - 1957http://www.centralhigh57.org/index.html

18. Joan Maddison Jesse Jackson • July 16, 1960 The Greenville 8 go to jail

19. June 5, 1964 I was 14 • The glass door of M. L. K.’s rented beach cottage in St. Augustine, Fla., was shot into. • This was the summer before I integrated schools.

20. My Godfather, Dr. George H. Starke, The only black doctor in Seminole County

21. Fall 1964 I was asked if I wanted to go to the “white” school. I replied, “Yes!” without really thinking about it.

22. “integrate” • mingle • socialize • Associate • Jumble • Muddle up

23. 1964 ; Mid Year One day my daddy said, “Baby, how would you like to go to the “white” school?” I replied, “Yes!” without really thinking about it.

24. My mother was opposed because she knew that people were being killed for participating in the Civil Rights movement.

25. Advice for your enemies: “Just look at them and smile.”

26. The night before… I received an anonymous phone call from a white woman warning me not to go to the “white” school.

27. The very next day… My daddy drove me to Sanford Jr. High. I was escorted into the building by the Police. I told no one about the phone call.

28. Sanford Jr. High, 1964 I remember the very long sidewalk in front of the school.

29. “courage” A perfect sensibility to the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

30. “Non-voilence” I was never trained for it, but I went through as if I had been. Someone else carried me through.

31. Courage & Non-Violence

32. COURAGE

33. If you can keep your head…

34. “If” by Rudyard Kipling • If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;

35. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too:

36. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,

37. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much:

38. If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

39. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, • And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

40. “Ignorance is bliss.”“Ignorance is bliss.”“Ignorance is bliss.”“Ignorance is bliss.”“Ignorance is bliss.”

41. Courage: Eight of us integrated Seminole High School in 1965.

42. Courage: The Water Incidentthat I never told anyone about.

43. “My definition of a racist is simply a person who has not met me yet.”

44. INVICTUS • Out of the night that covers me,Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

45. I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul. I thank whatever gods may beFor my unconquerable soul.

46. In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.

47. Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.

48. Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,

49. And yet the menace of the yearsFinds, and shall find, me unafraid.

50. It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll.