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Soundtrack for a Revolution

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May 9, 2011  ·  American Experience (PBS)  ·  原文

Slate: "You can cage the singer, but not the song." Harry Belafonte

Slate:“你可以囚禁歌手,但不能囚禁歌曲。”哈里·贝拉方特

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: The first time I got arrested, I felt so free.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我第一次被捕时,我感觉很自由。

I felt so liberated.

我感觉很自由。

I felt like I had crossed over.

我感觉自己好像穿越了。

I had been told over and over again, "don't get in trouble." But I got in trouble, like so many of my colleagues and friends.

有人一遍又一遍地告诉我:“不要惹上麻烦。”但我遇到了麻烦,就像我的许多同事和朋友一样。

And we felt like it was good trouble, it was necessary trouble.

我们觉得这是好麻烦,这是必要的麻烦。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: It was the music that gave us the courage, the will, the drive to go on in spite of it all.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:正是音乐给了我们勇气、意志和动力,让我们克服一切困难继续前进。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: Policeman can't stop you from singing.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:警察无法阻止你唱歌。

They can put you in jail but they can't stop you from singing...unless he puts a rag in your mouth or something, and then you can hum it.

他们可以把你关进监狱,但他们不能阻止你唱歌……除非他把一块抹布塞进你嘴里什么的,然后你就可以哼唱了。

Bernard Lafayette, Freedom rider: They could take away everything else except our songs, which meant we kept our souls.

自由骑士伯纳德·拉斐特:他们可以拿走除了我们的歌曲之外的一切,这意味着我们保留了我们的灵魂。

Anthony Hamilton and the Blind Boys of Alabama (singing): And this may be my last time May be my last time, children, I don't know.

安东尼·汉密尔顿和阿拉巴马盲人男孩(唱):这可能是我最后一次,孩子们,我不知道这可能是我最后一次。

This may be the last time we sing together May be the last time.

这可能是我们最后一次一起唱歌可能是最后一次。

This may be the last time we join together It may be the last time for this It may be, the very last time!

这可能是我们最后一次聚在一起这可能是最后一次这可能是最后一次!

Oh, children, may be the last time The last time, I don't know I really don't know what tomorrow will bring.

哦,孩子们,可能是最后一次最后一次,我不知道我真的不知道明天会带来什么。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: It was the music that created a sense of solidarity.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:是音乐创造了团结感。

And when there was some concern about the possibility of violence, of someone being beaten, of someone being arrested and jailed -- or even after we were thrown in jail -- someone would sing a song.

当人们担心发生暴力、有人被殴打、有人被逮捕和监禁的可能性时——甚至在我们被投入监狱之后——有人会唱一首歌。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: You can break my arm, you can break, you know, my bones, but you cannot break my spirit.

琳达·洛厄里,民权抗议者:你可以折断我的手臂,你可以折断我的骨头,但你不能折断我的精神。

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: Long before the movement you must remember that for negroes, colored as we were called then, in slavery, songs were our way of communicating.

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:早在运动发生之前,你就必须记住,对于黑人(当时我们被称为有色人种)来说,在奴隶制下,歌曲是我们的交流方式。

Singing was also our method of expressing inner emotions.

唱歌也是我们表达内心情感的方式。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: All of the songs were inspirational.

哈利·贝拉方特,歌手和活动家:所有歌曲都很励志。

All of the songs had one purpose, and that was to reach deep into our moments of the greatest anguish and to say "we have had worse than this, we can endure."

所有歌曲都有一个目的,那就是深入我们最痛苦的时刻,并说“我们经历过比这更糟糕的事情,我们可以忍受。”

"The Message From Mississippi," Official Mississippi State Film, 1960 (archival): This is Mississippi, the central state, the heart of the south.

“来自密西西比州的消息”,密西西比州官方电影,1960 年(档案):这是密西西比州,中部州,南方的心脏。

Today, forty-five percent of the population of Mississippi is colored.

如今,密西西比州 45% 的人口是有色人种。

This situation has brought problems, it has created challenges, but most important of all, it has inspired a social system to meet the challenge.

这种情况带来了问题,带来了挑战,但最重要的是,它激发了社会制度来应对挑战。

In Forest, as in every community in Mississippi, there is segregation of the races.

在森林里,就像在密西西比州的每个社区一样,存在种族隔离。

Drinking fountains are segregated; restrooms are segregated; the local theater is segregated -- negroes sit in the balcony.

饮水机是分开的;卫生间是分开的;当地的剧院是隔离的——黑人坐在阳台上。

There is only one swimming pool in Forest -- for white only.

森林里只有一个游泳池——仅限白人。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: I would ask my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents: "why segregation, why racial discrimination?" And they would say, "that's the way it is.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我会问我的母亲、父亲、祖父母、曾祖父母:“为什么种族隔离,为什么种族歧视?”他们会说:“事情就是这样。

Don't get in the way."

别挡道。”

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: I never understood why graveyards had to be segregated, I still don't.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:我从来不明白为什么墓地必须隔离,我仍然不明白。

Because dead people get along well -- they don't bother each other, they don't bother anybody else.

因为死人相处得很好——他们不会互相打扰,也不会打扰别人。

Hank Thomas, Freedom rider: You're walking down the sidewalk, and especially if it's a young white woman, you gave her wide berth.

汉克·托马斯,自由骑士:你走在人行道上,尤其是如果是一位年轻的白人女性,你对她敬而远之。

Dorie Ladner, Civil rights protestor: They had a law called 'Reckless Eyeballing.'

多里·拉德纳,民权抗议者:他们有一项名为“鲁莽眼球”的法律。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: You could be accused of looking at someone -- a black man looked at a white woman in a certain way -- could get you killed.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:你可能会被指控看某人——一个黑人以某种方式看一个白人女性——可能会导致你被杀。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: When I was seven years old my mother passed, and I remembered the grown people talking about if she hadn't been colored, she could have gone to the white hospital, and she would be alive.

琳达·洛厄里(Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:当我七岁的时候,我的母亲去世了,我记得成年人说,如果她不是有色人种,她本可以去白人医院,而且她会活着。

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protester: I knew that we had to make some changes.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:我知道我们必须做出一些改变。

I didn't know how changes were gonna be made, but I knew that whatever took place I had to be a part of it.

我不知道将如何做出改变,但我知道无论发生什么,我都必须参与其中。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: The buses in Montgomery were segregated, and Martin King had just come to Montgomery, and he really didn't want to be involved in politics or any kind of activity, but he said he wanted to go someplace that was a little more quiet and a little more sedate, where he could finish his dissertation.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:蒙哥马利的公交车是隔离的,马丁·金刚来蒙哥马利,他真的不想参与政治或任何类型的活动,但他说他想去一个安静一点、稳重一点的地方,在那里他可以完成他的论文。

He finished his dissertation about two weeks before Rosa Parks sat down on the bus.

他在罗莎·帕克斯坐上公交车前大约两周完成了论文。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: She became the torchbearer against bus segregation in Montgomery.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:她成为蒙哥马利反对公交车种族隔离的火炬手。

The leadership in the community called a meeting.

社区领导召开了会议。

They decided to pick this newcomer in town, Martin Luther King, to head the boycott.

他们决定挑选镇上的新人马丁·路德·金来领导抵制活动。

I think in part because if it failed the established leadership wouldn't be blamed for this, and as the new guy he could take all the blame, nobody cared.

我认为部分原因是,如果失败了,既定的领导层不会因此受到指责,而作为新人,他可以承担所有责任,没有人在乎。

And he turned out to be the absolutely perfect person.

事实证明他是一个绝对完美的人。

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: Dr. King starts talking about, "you don't need to wait for somebody else to bring you your blessing.

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:金博士开始谈论,“你不需要等待别人给你带来祝福。

You've got to get off of the shore of comfort, self-satisfaction and complacency, and you got to get out there.

你必须离开舒适、自我满足和自满的彼岸,你必须走出去。

Wade on in the water, come on in the water, come.

涉水而行,涉水而行,来吧。

Come on, get in -- struggle with the rest of us."

来吧,进来吧——和我们其他人一起奋斗。”

Dorothy Cotton, Aide to Martin Luther King: God's gonna be there with you (singing)...

马丁·路德·金的助手多萝西·科顿:上帝会与你同在(唱)...

Angie Stone (singing): Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water

安吉·斯通(演唱):韦德在水中 韦德在水中,孩子们 韦德在水中 上帝会给水带来麻烦

Well, some say Peter and some say Paul But God's gonna trouble the water There ain't but one God that made us all God's gonna trouble the waters

好吧,有人说彼得,有人说保罗,但是上帝会搅乱水,只有一位上帝创造了我们所有人上帝会搅乱水

Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Oh, wade in the water God's gonna trouble the waters You can...

涉水涉水涉水,孩子们哦,涉水上帝会麻烦水域你可以......

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protester: We had rallies almost nightly.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:我们几乎每晚都举行集会。

We be singing and clapping and going up.

我们唱歌、鼓掌、向上走。

We were excited!

我们很兴奋!

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protester: These were people that were not afraid.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:这些人并不害怕。

They were standing up.

他们站了起来。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): It is more honorable to walk in dignity than ride in humiliation...

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):尊严地行走比屈辱地骑行更光荣……

Mary Williams, Civil rights protestor: We would actually stand out there and look at the buses in the morning and evenings to see if any black people were riding them, and when the bus would come through and the bus would be empty we would go "yeah, yeah, good!"

玛丽·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:我们实际上会在早上和晚上站在公共汽车上,看看是否有黑人乘坐它们,当公共汽车通过并且公共汽车空着时,我们会说“是的,是的,很好!”

Jamila Jones, Civil rights protestor: We were determined that we weren't gonna go on the bus.

贾米拉·琼斯,民权抗议者:我们决定不上公共汽车。

That was just out.

那是刚出来的。

We never thought of getting on that bus.

我们从来没有想过要上那辆公共汽车。

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Ed King, Civil rights organizer: The general opinion in the white community was shocked that black people were standing together and doing anything, because white people wanted to say black people are satisfied.

民权组织者埃德·金:白人社区的普遍观点对黑人站在一起做任何事情感到震惊,因为白人想说黑人感到满意。

News interview with Alabama State Senator Engelhardt (archival): "Senator Engelhardt, just was is the Citizen's Council trying to do?" "We are trying to make every white man in Alabama stand up and be counted."

阿拉巴马州参议员恩格尔哈特的新闻采访(档案):“恩格尔哈特参议员,公民委员会正在努力做什么?” “我们正在努力让阿拉巴马州的每一个白人都站起来并受到重视。”

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: During the course of the boycott, Martin Luther King was presiding over a mass meeting and someone passed him a note that said your house had been bombed.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:抵制期间,马丁·路德·金正在主持一次群众集会,有人递给他一张纸条,说你的房子被炸了。

Coretta Scott King: I was in the house with my child, Yolanda.

科雷塔·斯科特·金:我和我的孩子约兰达在家里。

They had called us a few days earlier and warned us that they were gonna bomb the house.

他们几天前打电话给我们,警告我们他们要炸毁房子。

They told Martin that if he didn't leave town in three days they were gonna bomb the house and kill his wife and baby.

他们告诉马丁,如果他三天内不离开小镇,他们就会炸毁房子并杀死他的妻子和孩子。

Well now, you know...how much plainer could it be?

现在好了,你知道……还能简单多少呢?

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Farrell Duncombe, Civil rights protestor: I wanted to hit somebody, I mean -- lets go for it.

法雷尔·邓科姆(Farrell Duncombe),民权抗议者:我想打某人,我的意思是——让我们打吧。

You've done this, you know, enough of this peaceful protest.

你知道,你已经做够了这次和平抗议。

Lets hit somebody.

我们来打某人吧。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: King rushed home, an angry mob gathered.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:金赶回家,一群愤怒的暴民聚集在一起。

He's standing on the porch with the mayor and the police comissioner, and he calms the crowd.

他与市长和警察局长一起站在门廊上,安抚人群。

He says, "go home, we're fine.

他说:“回家吧,我们很好。

We don't want to hate our enemies, we want to love them."

我们不想恨我们的敌人,我们想爱他们。”

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Farrell Duncombe: And when he said "none -- violence" we all dropped whatever, you know, sticks, brass knuckles, knives, or...I think I myself may have had a brick, but just doing that single act he changed the mind of the nay-sayers.

法雷尔·邓科姆:当他说“没有——暴力”时,我们都扔下了任何东西,你知道,棍子、指节铜套、刀子,或者……我想我自己可能有一块砖头,但仅仅做了这一件事,他就改变了反对者的想法。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: He diffused what could have been an explosive movement, and it's sort of a typical moment when he uses this new idea of non-violence to push forward the notion that "we can fight this evil in a different kind of way than we've fought in the past."

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德(Julian Bond):他传播了一场可能是爆炸性的运动,这是一个典型的时刻,他利用这种新的非暴力理念来推动“我们可以用一种不同于过去的方式来对抗这种邪恶”的观念。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): We the negro citizens of Montgomery, Alabama do now and will continue to carry on our mass protests.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):我们阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利的黑人公民现在并将继续进行大规模抗议活动。

All in favor let it be known by standing on your feet...

所有人都赞成,请站起来让大家知道......

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir (singing): This little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine...

卡尔顿·里斯纪念团结合唱团(演唱):我要让它发光……

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: Martin King comes to the scene at a time when not only black folk but the nation needed to hear that now is a time for change.

国会议员约翰·刘易斯,学生运动领袖:马丁·金来到现场的时候,不仅是黑人,而且整个国家都需要听到现在是变革的时刻。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): This is a non-violent protest.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):这是一次非暴力抗议。

We are depending on moral and spiritual forces...

我们依赖道德和精神力量......

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 365+ days.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:蒙哥马利巴士抵制运动持续了 365 天以上。

It almost bankrupted the bus company, but in the end it wasn't the boycott that integrated the buses...

差点让公交公司破产,但最终整合公交的不是抵制……

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: The Supreme Court decided that bus segregation is unconstitutional.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:最高法院裁定公交车种族隔离违宪。

For us, it was a political miracle.

对我们来说,这是一个政治奇迹。

It was something we could not have anticipated.

这是我们无法预料的。

But it gave us the faith and the courage to work with him to continue this non-violent process of social change.

但这给了我们与他合作继续这一非暴力社会变革进程的信念和勇气。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: And from Montgomery forward you saw in town after town a repetition of what he had done.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:从蒙哥马利开始,你会在一个又一个的城镇看到他所做的事情的重复。

The Montgomery lesson was learned in other towns and other cities, and so a whole movement grew up following the Montgomery example.

其他城镇和其他城市都吸取了蒙哥马利的教训,因此,一场以蒙哥马利为榜样的运动兴起了。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: The sit-ins took the movement from the bus protest to the lunch counters, the place that's reserved for white people.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:静坐将运动从公交车抗议带到了午餐柜台,这是为白人保留的地方。

The owner of the restaurant either gotta serve me, or arrest me; and if he arrests me somebody else is gonna take my place at that lunch counter, and if they arrest them, somebody's gonna take their place.

餐馆老板要么招待我,要么逮捕我;如果他逮捕了我,其他人就会取代我在午餐柜台的位置,如果他们逮捕了他们,就会有人取代他们的位置。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: We was prepared to sit-in.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我们准备静坐。

We just didn't wake up one morning and say, "we were gonna go and sit-in." We studied.

我们只是没有有一天早上醒来说:“我们要去静坐。”我们研究了。

We studied the philosophy and discipline of non-violence.

我们研究了非暴力的哲学和纪律。

We studied what Ghandi attempted to do in South Africa, what he accomplished in India.

我们研究了甘地在南非尝试做的事情以及他在印度取得的成就。

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: In Nashville, we were trained for non-violence.

维维安,民权领袖:在纳什维尔,我们接受了非暴力培训。

Jim Lawson was our main trainer...

吉姆·劳森是我们的主要教练......

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Jim Lawson, Civil rights leader (archival): If someone is playing a segregationist's role, then by all odds you must try to feel as much as you can the emotional life of a segregationist for this particular moment...

吉姆·劳森,民权领袖(档案):如果有人扮演种族隔离主义者的角色,那么无论如何,你必须在这个特定时刻尽可能多地感受种族隔离主义者的情感生活......

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Jim Lawson, Civil rights leader: We recruited students and clergy and laity who took these training workshops...

民权领袖吉姆·劳森:我们招募了参加这些培训研讨会的学生、神职人员和平信徒......

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Ed King, Civil rights organizer: I was asked to role play a white policeman ordering some black people to leave a counter, and I said OK.

民权组织者埃德·金(Ed King):有人要求我扮演一名白人警察,命令一些黑人离开柜台,我说好的。

And I went to the counter and I said, "please, sir, it's illegal for you to be here.

我走到柜台前说:“先生,请注意,您来这里是违法的。

Won't you move?" And everybody in Lawson's workshop collapsed in laughter and said, "the Southern white police are not gonna say 'please' and they're not gonna say 'sir' and 'maam.'"

你不动吗?”劳森工作室里的每个人都笑倒了,说道:“南方白人警察不会说‘请’,也不会说‘先生’和‘女士’。”

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: And when it came time for us to sit-in we went into the downtown area, and we occupied seats at a lunch counter of a Woolworth store.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:当我们静坐的时候,我们走进市中心,在一家伍尔沃斯商店的午餐柜台占据了座位。

And we'd be sitting there in an orderly, peaceful non-violent fashion waiting to be served.

我们会以一种有序、和平、非暴力的方式坐在那里等待服务。

Some of us would be doing our homework, reading a book, writing a paper; and some of us would look straight ahead, just waiting and waiting, but never served.

我们中的一些人会做作业、看书、写论文;另一些人则在做作业、看书、写论文。我们中的一些人会直视前方,只是等待、等待,但从未得到服务。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: As in Montgomery, these things are typically accompanied by regular scheduled mass meeting where people speak and tell us how we've done from the last meeting till now, how things are going.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:就像在蒙哥马利一样,这些事情通常伴随着定期举行的群众会议,人们在会上发言并告诉我们从上次会议到现在我们做得如何,事情进展如何。

And it's always accompanied by singing, which pulls the group together.

而且总是伴随着歌声,这将团队凝聚在一起。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: Singing got us involved.

琳达·洛厄里,民权抗议者:唱歌让我们参与其中。

I remember this very hippy white couple named Guy and Candie, and they came and they taught us a lot of songs.

我记得有一对非常嬉皮的白人夫妇,名叫盖伊和坎迪,他们来了,教了我们很多歌曲。

Candie Carawan, Sit-in protester: So Guy taught "I'm gonna sit at the welcome table," and it was during the sit-ins.

Candie Carawan,静坐抗议者:所以盖伊教导“我要坐在欢迎桌旁”,那是在静坐期间。

You taught it to the sit-in students that first weekend, let...do a little bit of it now so we can hear how it sounds.

你在第一个周末教给静坐的学生,让……现在做一点,这样我们就能听到它的声音。

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protester: If they had served us, then we probably would've went on to another store.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:如果他们为我们服务,那么我们可能会去另一家商店。

But if you keep denying us, then we gonna keep going back, and that's what we did.

但如果你继续否认我们,那么我们就会继续回去,这就是我们所做的。

Young white segregationist (archival footage): Well, it's just not the same as we're used to down here.

年轻的白人种族隔离主义者(档案片段):嗯,这和我们在这里习惯的不一样。

I mean, they come in and they sit down, and we're not used to them sitting down beside us, because I wasn't raised with em, I never have lived with em, and I'm not gonna start now.

我的意思是,他们进来然后坐下,我们不习惯他们坐在我们旁边,因为我不是和他们一起长大的,我从来没有和他们一起生活过,我现在也不打算开始。

Chuck McDew, Student movement leader: You see these white people are crazy...they're absolutely clinically insane.

学生运动领袖查克·麦克杜(Chuck McDew):你看这些白人都很疯狂……他们绝对是疯了。

News report (archival): In some places such as Memphis and here in Jacksonville, Florida, the sit-ins led to violence...

新闻报道(档案):在孟菲斯和佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔等一些地方,静坐导致了暴力……

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: Someone would come and spit on us.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:有人会过来向我们吐口水。

They'd put a lit up cigarette in our hair or down our backs.

他们会把点燃的香烟放在我们的头发或背上。

Pour hot water on us.

给我们泼热水。

Pull us off the lunch counter stools...or beat us.

把我们从午餐柜台的凳子上拉下来……或者打败我们。

But we kept coming back, over and over again.

但我们还是一次又一次地回来。

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: We absorbed the pain in our own bodies rather than fight back.

维维安,民权领袖:我们吸收了自己身体的痛苦,而不是反击。

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Jim Lawson, Civil rights leader: No one ran, no one swung a fist back, no one balked at being arrested.

民权领袖吉姆·劳森:没有人逃跑,没有人回击拳头,没有人在被捕时犹豫不决。

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: We wanted to show ourselves that the non-violent approach was a winning approach.

维维安,民权领袖:我们想向自己表明,非暴力方法是一种成功的方法。

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protestor: You know I haven't always been non-violent.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:你知道我并不总是非暴力的。

We had to work hard on that.

我们必须为此努力。

We knew things were gonna happen.

我们知道事情会发生。

You know the only thing you had to do was just pray you weren't killed in the process.

你知道你唯一要做的就是祈祷自己没有在这个过程中被杀。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: The strategy of the Freedom Rides was to find a way to get the movement out of the cities and into the rural south, where the problem was far more serious and complex.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:“自由乘车”运动的策略是找到一种方法,将运动从城市转移到南部农村,那里的问题要严重和复杂得多。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: And the idea was to have integrated teams ride two buses from Washington D.C. to New Orleans, Louisiana.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:这个想法是让综合团队乘坐两辆巴士从华盛顿特区到路易斯安那州新奥尔良。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: So when the call went out for the Freedom Ride I volunteered.

国会议员约翰·刘易斯,学生运动领袖:所以当自由乘车的号召响起时,我自愿参加了。

For a group of white and black citizens of America to even discuss the possibility of boarding a Greyhound bus...it was very dangerous.

对于一群美国白人和黑人公民来说,甚至讨论登上灰狗巴士的可能性……这是非常危险的。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: The Freedom Riders attacked a basic premise of White Supremacy, that is black and white cannot be physically together.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:自由乘车者攻击了白人至上的基本前提,即黑人和白人不能在身体上在一起。

And the only way they could think of stopping it was by beating the people within an inch of their life, and they did.

他们能想到的阻止这一切的唯一方法就是殴打那些距离他们生命仅一步之遥的人,他们做到了。

It's in Alabama where they face what you can only consider as chaos.

在阿拉巴马州,他们面临着你只能认为是混乱的情况。

Hank Thomas, Freedom rider: In Anniston, the bus pulls over at a little country store.

汉克·托马斯,自由骑士:在安尼斯顿,公共汽车在一家乡村小商店停下。

They started breaking the windows and within seconds some incendiary device was shot aboard the back of the bus.

他们开始打破车窗,几秒钟之内,一些燃烧装置就被射到了巴士后部。

And I heard them holler, "lets burn them niggers alive, lets burn em alive." I'm hitting hard against the door -- they wouldn't let us off.

我听到他们喊道:“让我们把这些黑鬼活活烧死吧,让我们把他们活活烧死。”我用力敲门——他们不让我们走。

At that instance the fuel tank of the bus blew up.

就在这时,公交车的油箱爆炸了。

When it exploded, the crowd scattered and that was the only way we were able to get out of the bus.

当爆炸发生时,人群四散,这是我们能够下车的唯一方法。

I remember coming out of that bank of smoke, and a guy came up to me and said, "boy, you alright?" And I'm thinking, "okay...

我记得从烟雾中出来时,一个人走过来对我说:“孩子,你还好吗?”我在想,“好吧......

yes, yes, I'm okay," I'm thinking, almost "thank you for asking." And then he hit me with something.

是的,是的,我很好,”我想,几乎是“谢谢你的询问。”然后他用什么东西打了我。

John Patterson, Alabama Governor, 1961 (archival): And you can't just guarantee the safety of the fool, and that's what these folks are, just fools.

约翰·帕特森,阿拉巴马州州长,1961 年(档案):你不能只保证傻瓜的安全,而这些人就是傻瓜。

Bernard Lafayette, Freedom rider: Mississippi had a reputation that dwarfed Alabama.

伯纳德·拉斐特,自由骑士:密西西比州的声誉使阿拉巴马州相形见绌。

And when we got to the Mississippi line, we didn't know what to expect.

当我们到达密西西比线时,我们不知道会发生什么。

But the first billboard we saw -- huge billboard -- "Welcome to the State of Mississippi." The next billboard right behind that said "Prepare to meet thy God."

但我们看到的第一个广告牌——巨大的广告牌——“欢迎来到密西西比州。”后面的下一个广告牌上写着“准备好迎接你的上帝”。

Hank Thomas, Freedom rider: For whatever reason people thought that I should always lead the singing, and I usually did.

汉克·托马斯(Hank Thomas),自由骑士:无论出于何种原因,人们都认为我应该一直领唱,而我通常也是这么做的。

We would constantly be singing and you'd start making up lyrics.

我们会不断地唱歌,而你会开始创作歌词。

(singing)...

(唱歌)...

We got into Jackson, and the Jackson police could not wait to get their hands on us.

我们进入了杰克逊,杰克逊警察迫不及待地想要抓捕我们。

They had an assembly line arrest of the Freedom Riders.

他们在装配线上逮捕了自由乘车者。

My case was one of the first ones, and a judge wanted to know how I'd plea.

我的案子是第一批案件之一,法官想知道我将如何辩护。

And before I could say anything the judge said, "You're guilty, don't waste my time.

我还没来得及说话,法官就说道:“你有罪,别浪费我的时间了。

Six months."

六个月。”

Joss Stone (singing): Paul and Silas bound in jail Had no money let 'em go on bail Keep your eyes on the prize, and hold on Hold on, why don't ya

乔斯·斯通(唱):保罗和塞拉斯被关进监狱 没有钱让他们保释 盯着奖品,坚持住 坚持住,为什么不呢

Paul and Silas began to shout The jail doors opened and they walked right out Keep your eyes on the prize, and hold on Hold on, why don't ya Hold on, Hold on

保罗和塞拉斯开始大喊 监狱门打开了,他们径直走了出去 盯着奖品,坚持住,为什么不坚持住,坚持住

Keep your eyes on the prize, and hold on Hold on, why don't ya...

眼睛盯着奖品,坚持住,坚持住,为什么不...

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Other people joined the Freedom Ride and the end result was the government began to enforce the laws that said that these facilities have to be integrated.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:其他人加入了自由乘车,最终结果是政府开始执行法律,要求这些设施必须整合。

But hundreds of people were arrested over the course of all this.

但在这一切过程中,数百人被捕。

Joss Stone (singing): ...Hold on, hold on Keep your eyes on the prize, and hold why don't ya hold on Hold on, hold on Keep your eyes on the prize, and why don't ya hold right on...

乔斯·斯通(唱):……坚持住,坚持住,把你的眼睛放在奖品上,坚持住,为什么你不坚持住?坚持住,坚持住,把你的眼睛放在奖品上,为什么你不坚持住……

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: Well, a lot these songs were negro spirituals, music that we had dismissed but when we revisited that music...it was some powerful stuff!

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:嗯,这些歌曲很多都是黑人灵歌,我们已经放弃了这些音乐,但当我们重新审视这些音乐时......这是一些强大的东西!

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: These are songs of protest, these are songs of rebellion.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:这些是抗议之歌,这些是反叛之歌。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: The music coming out of the Civil Rights Movement was not created by us.

哈利·贝拉方特,歌手和活动家:民权运动中产生的音乐不是我们创造的。

It was throughout our entire stream of history.

它贯穿于我们整个历史的长河中。

Oral tradition has been the only tradition that has been able to sustain black life in America, the only tradition through which we are able to know who we are.

口头传统是唯一能够维持美国黑人生活的传统,也是我们能够了解自己是谁的唯一传统。

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: So when the movement comes, being that there is that spiritual quality, what do you do?

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:那么当运动来临时,由于存在这种精神品质,你会做什么?

You take that which is expressed your innermost feelings over the centuries and you use it as the vehicle to express where you are and the oppression and the suffering that you feel at this given time.

你接受了几个世纪以来表达你内心最深处的感受,并用它作为表达你所在位置以及你在此时感受到的压迫和痛苦的工具。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: If you were in a mass meeting in the church, and they [white segregationists] were coming to those churches with dogs, they would come in those churches.

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:如果你在教堂参加群众集会,而他们(白人种族隔离主义者)带着狗来到那些教堂,他们就会进入那些教堂。

And somebody would say -- and people would be frightened -- and somebody would say, "ain't scared of your dog cuz I want my freedom." And people started singing, "I ain't scared of your dog cuz I want my freedom" (singing)...

有人会说——人们会害怕——有人会说,“不怕你的狗,因为我想要我的自由。”人们开始唱歌,“我不怕你的狗,因为我想要自由”(唱歌)......

And somebody else would come up with another verse, "I ain't scared of your gun, I ain't scared a nobody, I ain't scared of no cops," and the whole congregation would start singing, "I ain't scared."

其他人会想出另一首诗,“我不害怕你的枪,我不害怕任何人,我不害怕任何警察,”整个会众会开始唱歌,“我不害怕。”

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protester: I remember all the times when we'd be out there in the streets and folks would be trying to tell us "those children need to go home," you know, "they don't need to be out there marching." We would be looking at 'em and am like "this little light of mine" (singing)...

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:我记得每次我们走上街头时,人们都会试图告诉我们“那些孩子需要回家”,你知道,“他们不需要出去游行。”我们会看着他们,就像“我的一点光”(唱歌)......

And then we would go home because we weren't afraid of anybody, and we were gonna make sure that they knew we weren't afraid.

然后我们会回家,因为我们不害怕任何人,我们要确保他们知道我们不害怕。

And the more they would tell us to, you know, that they [child protestors] need to be at home, the louder we would get.

你知道,他们越多地告诉我们,他们(儿童抗议者)需要呆在家里,我们的声音就会越大。

George Wallace, Alabama Governor, 1963 (archival footage): I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.

乔治·华莱士,阿拉巴马州州长,1963 年(档案片段):我在尘埃中划定界限,向暴政的脚下发出挑战,我说现在实行种族隔离,明天实行种族隔离,永远实行种族隔离。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: They were all great songs from the movement, but none spelled out our sense of future like "We Shall Overcome."

哈里·贝拉方特,歌手和活动家:这些都是这场运动中的伟大歌曲,但没有一首像《我们将克服》那样阐明了我们对未来的感觉。

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: I hear my friends saying that the movement song "We Shall Overcome" came out of the labor struggle and...but "We Shall Overcome" came out of the old black church when we used to sing "I'll overcome, I'll overcome." I can't sing but at least that was that feeling -- "I'll overcome, I'll overcome someday." So what did we do?

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:我听到我的朋友们说,运动歌曲“我们将克服”来自劳工斗争……但是“我们将克服”来自古老的黑人教堂,当时我们常常唱“我会克服,我会克服”。我不会唱歌,但至少有那种感觉——“我会克服的,总有一天我会克服的。”那么我们做了什么?

"We shall overcome."

“我们一定会克服的。”

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: The first time I heard "We Shall Overcome" was at the organizing meeting of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, North Carolina on Easter weekend 1960.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:我第一次听到“我们将克服”是在 1960 年复活节周末在北卡罗来纳州罗利举行的学生非暴力协调委员会的组织会议上。

And Guy Carawan, who looked to me like a California surfer, sang this song, and within weeks it became the theme song of the Civil Rights Movement.

在我看来就像加州冲浪者的盖伊·卡拉万(Guy Carawan)唱了这首歌,几周之内它就成为了民权运动的主题曲。

Guy Carawan, Movement song leader: (singing)...one, two, three, one, two, three.

Guy Carawan,运动歌曲领唱:(唱)...一,二,三,一,二,三。

It had that triplet implied even if they're singing it accappella.

即使他们用阿卡贝拉唱,它也暗示了三连音。

(singing)...

(唱歌)...

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: But those songs helped to reinforce that we're gonna win, not in some arrogant way but we know we're gonna win because we're right.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:但这些歌曲有助于强化我们会赢,不是以某种傲慢的方式,但我们知道我们会赢,因为我们是对的。

And if there is a God somewhere, and if his words are true, then we're gonna win.

如果某处有上帝,如果他的话是真的,那么我们就会赢。

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir, Birmingham, Alabama (singing): Why don't you come on I say, come on, I say Why don't you come on Oh, come on Let freedom sing It's gonna reign...

卡尔顿里斯纪念团结合唱团,伯明翰,阿拉巴马州(演唱):你为什么不来啊我说,来吧,我说你为什么不来啊哦,来吧让自由歌唱它会统治......

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Martin Luther King picked Birmingham as the next target because Birmingham was thought to be the most rigidly segregated city in the whole of the United States.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:马丁·路德·金选择伯明翰作为下一个目标,因为伯明翰被认为是全美国隔离最严格的城市。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: Nobody wanted to go to Birmingham.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:没有人想去伯明翰。

There had been sixty unsolved bombings, nobody arrested.

有六十起未侦破的爆炸案,没有人被捕。

They stopped a young man on bicycle and then castrated him.

他们拦住了一名骑自行车的年轻人,然后阉割了他。

It was just a violent, mean city.

那只是一座暴力、卑鄙的城市。

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir, Birmingham, Alabama (singing): ...When freedom sounds Reign, reign, reign, freedom Why don't you come on...

卡尔顿·里斯纪念团结合唱团,伯明翰,阿拉巴马州(演唱):……当自由响起时,统治,统治,统治,自由,你为什么不来……

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Evil is a fact of life in Birmingham.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:邪恶是伯明翰生活的一个事实。

You had a brutal, brutal police commissioner, Eugene Theophilus, Bull Connor.

你有一个非常残酷的警察局长,尤金·西奥菲勒斯,布尔·康纳。

John Seigenthaler, Aide to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: Eugene Connor, in a real sense, ran Birmingham.

约翰·席根塔勒,司法部长罗伯特·肯尼迪的助手:尤金·康纳在真正意义上管理着伯明翰。

Bull Connor (archival): You've got to keep the white and black separate!

Bull Connor(档案):你必须将白色和黑色分开!

Just like you gotta keep them in schools!

就像你必须让他们留在学校一样!

John Seigenthaler, Aide to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: I talked to him briefly in an effort to try to break the ice.

约翰·席根塔勒(John Seigenthaler),司法部长罗伯特·肯尼迪的助手:我与他进行了简短的交谈,试图打破僵局。

I mean, he treated me as if I were a juvenile delinquent: "sonny-boy" this and "sonny-boy" that.

我的意思是,他对待我就好像我是一个少年犯:“儿子”这个,“儿子”那个。

Bull Connor (archival): Those Kennedys, up there in Washington, that little old 'Bobbysocks' and his brother the president...they'd give anything in the world if we had some trouble here [Birmingham]!

布尔·康纳(档案):那些在华盛顿的肯尼迪家族,那个小老“Bobbysocks”和他的总统兄弟……如果我们在这里[伯明翰]遇到麻烦,他们会付出一切!

If we don't have any trouble, we can beat 'em at their own game!

如果我们没有遇到任何麻烦,我们可以在他们自己的游戏中击败他们!

John Seigenthaler, Aide to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: And he made no bones about the fact that he'd break bones.

约翰·西根塔勒,司法部长罗伯特·肯尼迪的助手:他毫不掩饰自己会骨折的事实。

When you have someone in a leadership position like that it's contagious.

当有人担任这样的领导职务时,这种感觉就会具有感染力。

It's like a virus that gets into the bloodstream of the society, of the community, and it spreads.

它就像一种病毒,进入社会、社区的血液,然后传播。

Mamie Brown-Mason, Birmingham song leader: You know once you've go through things and you've taken it all the way up to your neck, you have to do something then to put an end to it.

玛米·布朗-梅森,伯明翰歌曲领袖:你知道,一旦你经历了一些事情,并且你已经把它一直带到了你的脖子上,你就必须做点什么来结束它。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): I think we've had more, I'm sure, more people to give their witness for freedom by going to jail in Birmingham than any other city in the United States.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):我确信,在伯明翰入狱的人比美国任何其他城市都要多,为自由作证。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: The initial strategy that King put together was to select certain downtown restaurants and sit-in there.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:金制定的最初策略是选择市中心的某些餐馆并在那里静坐。

And that turned out not to have the effect that he thought it would.

结果并没有达到他想象的效果。

And he had begun to run out of participants, people who were willing to do this and go to jail, and had a great internal debate about whether or not to use children.

他已经开始没有参与者,愿意这样做并入狱的人,并且在是否使用儿童方面进行了激烈的内部辩论。

And some people said, "yes, we will," but of course local Birmingham residents said, "not my kids, no, no, no." But kids just kept pushing and pushing, "we want to come, we want do it." And finally King agrees to use them, and they turn the tide.

有些人说,“是的,我们会的”,但伯明翰当地居民当然会说,“不是我的孩子,不,不,不。”但孩子们只是不断地推动,“我们想要来,我们想要这么做。”最后金同意使用它们,他们扭转了局势。

Their numbers are so great, they ran out of schools, jumping out of the windows.

他们的人数如此之多,以至于他们跑出了学校,从窗户跳了出去。

The teacher turns her back, bam; she turns around, they're all gone.

老师转过身去,嘭;她转身,他们都走了。

Rev.

牧师。

C.T.

CT

Vivian, Civil rights leader: Bull Connor was really blown away.

维维安,民权领袖:布尔康纳真的被震撼了。

He did not know what to do.

他不知道该怎么办。

He thought he had all the bases covered.

他认为他已经掌握了所有的基础。

Dorothy Cotton, Aide to Martin Luther King: These children were not stupid!

马丁·路德·金的助手多萝西·科顿:这些孩子并不傻!

And for them to be involved in breaking that down was something they were so glad to be able to do.

对于他们来说,能够参与打破这种局面是他们非常高兴能够做的事情。

Yelling out to their friends: "you going to jail today?

对他们的朋友大喊:“你今天要坐牢吗?

I went last week, too!" It was the thing to do, even for the children.

我上周也去了!”即使对于孩子们来说,这也是要做的事情。

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir, Birmingham, Alabama (singing): ...I'm on my way to the freedom land I'm on my way to the freedom land I'm on my way to the freedom land Yes I'm on my way, oh Lord to the freedom land

卡尔顿·里斯纪念团结合唱团,伯明翰,阿拉巴马州(演唱):……我正在前往自由之地的路上 我正在前往自由之地的路上 我正在前往自由之地的路上 是的,我正在前往自由之地的路上,主啊,前往自由之地

It’s an uphill journey, but I’m on my way It’s an uphill journey, but I’m on my way It’s an uphill journey, but I’m on my way...

这是一次艰难的旅程,但我正在路上 这是一次艰难的旅程,但我正在路上 这是一次艰难的旅程,但我正在路上...

Rev.

牧师。

C.T.

CT

Vivian, Civil rights leader: Boy, they were cruelly slamming those kids with those big fire hoses...

维维安,民权领袖:天哪,他们用那些巨大的消防水带残酷地猛击那些孩子......

Rev.

牧师。

Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: ...that would knock you up against a tree.

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:……那会把你撞到树上。

Fire houses that in fact could knock the bark off of the tree.

事实上,消防站可以把树皮从树上敲下来。

How could anyone use this kind of violent act on anybody else, especially children?

一个人怎么能对其他人,尤其是儿童,使用这种暴力行为呢?

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir, Birmingham, Alabama (singing): ...There's nothing you can do to me turn around...

卡尔顿·里斯纪念团结合唱团,伯明翰,阿拉巴马州(演唱):……你对我转身无能为力……

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Thank heavens for television.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:感谢上帝有电视。

This was on the evening news all across the country.

这件事上了全国晚间新闻。

President Kennedy saw and said it made him sick.

肯尼迪总统看到并说这让他感到恶心。

In the end, in Birmingham, the city government agreed to eliminate the segregation laws, to wipe them off the books.

最终,伯明翰市政府同意废除种族隔离法,将其从账本上抹去。

It was a remarkable triumph of the Civil Rights Movement.

这是民权运动的一次非凡胜利。

The children made the difference.

孩子们改变了一切。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: We had been through the pressures and tensions and the victory of Birmingham, and so many of the people in the movement didn't even want to go to Washington because we didn't see it as a movement, we saw it as a picnic.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:我们经历了压力和紧张局势以及伯明翰的胜利,运动中的许多人甚至不想去华盛顿,因为我们不认为这是一场运动,我们认为这是一次野餐。

Rev.

牧师。

Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: And so for us to go to Washington was an opportunity to take a blue break from the roughness.

哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克,学生运动领袖:所以对我们来说,去华盛顿是一个摆脱困境的机会。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: Martin called and said, "you need to get here, come on up.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:马丁打电话说:“你需要到这里来,上来吧。

You will regret it if you're not here."

如果你不在这里,你会后悔的。”

Mary Mary (singing): We shall not We shall not be moved Just like a tree that’s planted by the waters We shall not be moved

玛丽玛丽(唱):我们不会 我们不会动摇 就像一棵栽在水边的树 我们不会动摇

On our way to victory We shall not be moved We’re on our way to victory We shall not be moved

在通往胜利的路上 我们不会动摇 我们在通往胜利的路上 我们不会动摇

Just like a tree that’s planted by the waters We shall not be moved...

就像一棵树栽在水边,我们不会被感动……

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: People kept coming and they kept coming and they kept coming and they kept coming, until you could not see how many people were there.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:人们不断地来,他们不断地来,他们不断地来,他们不断地来,直到你看不到那里有多少人。

When you got up to the top, where the Lincoln statue is, and looked out, it was beyond the length of your vision.

当你登上林肯雕像所在的顶部,向外望去时,它超出了你的视野范围。

And there were all kinds of people: there were people in business suits and people in blue jeans.

这里有各种各样的人:有穿着西装的人,也有穿着蓝色牛仔裤的人。

There were people who had never been outside of their hometown before and all of a sudden they're in their nation's capital.

有些人以前从未出过自己的家乡,突然之间他们就来到了自己国家的首都。

So, you're saying to yourself, "this is something people in America support, this is something people in America think is worthwhile."

所以,你对自己说,“这是美国人支持的事情,这是美国人认为值得的事情。”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):让自由之声响彻密西西比州的每一座山丘。

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

让自由之声从每一个山坡响起。

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last!

当这种情况发生时,当我们允许自由之声响起时,当我们让它从每个村庄、每个州和每个城市响起时,我们将能够加速这一天的到来,届时所有上帝的孩子,黑人和白人,犹太人和外邦人,新教徒和天主教徒,将能够携起手来,用古老的黑人灵歌的歌词唱道:“终于自由了!

Free at last!

终于自由了!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

感谢全能的上帝,我们终于自由了!”

Mary Mary (singing): I’m not going to move y’all I want my freedom And I’m gonna get my freedom We’re on our way to victory

玛丽玛丽(唱):我不会感动你们我想要我的自由我会得到我的自由我们正在走向胜利

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: We could not have changed America without the march on Washington.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:如果没有华盛顿游行,我们就不可能改变美国。

It took a southern black movement and made it a national multiracial movement.

它把南方黑人运动变成了全国性的多种族运动。

There were almost as many white people as there were black people.

白人几乎和黑人一样多。

The march on Washington was the thing that defined the movement for America at large, and defined it for the world.

向华盛顿进军不仅定义了整个美国的这场运动,也定义了全世界的运动。

Rev.

牧师。

Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: We can go back to [mumbles] because Martin has told us, "we're gonna walk together, children.

学生运动领袖哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克:我们可以回到[咕哝],因为马丁告诉我们,“我们要一起走,孩子们。

We're gonna be free."

我们将会获得自由。”

Wyclef Jean and Jerry Wonder (singing): Here's to the state of Mississippi, For Underheath her borders, the devil draws no lines, If you drag her muddy river, nameless bodies you will find.

怀克里夫·吉恩和杰里·旺德(唱):为密西西比州干杯,在她的边界下,魔鬼没有划定界限,如果你拖着她浑浊的河水,你会发现无名的尸体。

Whoa the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes, The calender is lyin' when it reads the present time.

哇哦,森林里的茂密树木隐藏了一千种罪行,当日历读到现在的时间时,它是在撒谎。

Whoa here's to the land you've torn out the heart of, Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of!

哇哦,这是你已经撕碎了心脏的土地,密西西比州发现自己是另一个国家的一部分!

Here's to the state of Mississippi, Woah and here's to the state of Mississippi...

这是密西西比州,哇,这是密西西比州……

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Mississippi in the middle 1960s was really the roughest state in the country for black people.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德(Julian Bond):20 世纪 60 年代中期的密西西比州对于黑人来说确实是美国最艰难的州。

It was the most repressive, it had the most stringent laws, it had the most egregious examples of brutality and death occurring there on a regular basis.

它是最镇压的,它有最严格的法律,它经常发生最令人震惊的暴行和死亡事件。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: The dangers of Mississippi is getting shot on the road, getting blown up in your house.

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:密西西比州的危险在于在路上被枪击,在你的房子里被炸毁。

We found guys beaten half to death and tied to trees left out to die.

我们发现有人被打得半死,并被绑在树上等死。

Bob Zellner, Student organizer: Mississippi and Alabama were police states.

鲍勃·泽尔纳(Bob Zellner),学生组织者:密西西比州和阿拉巴马州是警察州。

The state was run on a basis of racist philosophy, and racists encouraged other racists to kill people.

国家是在种族主义哲学的基础上运作的,种族主义者鼓励其他种族主义者杀人。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: You had no protection.

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:你没有受到保护。

You're talking about the law?

你说的是法律吗?

It was usually the law doing this.

通常是法律这样做。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: The state of Mississippi in 1964 had a black voting age population of more than 450,000.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:1964 年,密西西比州的黑人投票年龄人口超过 45 万。

But only about 16 or 18,000 were registered to vote.

但只有大约 16 或 18,000 人登记投票。

Chuck McDew, student movement leader: Mississippi is calling us.

学生运动领袖查克·麦克杜(Chuck McDew):密西西比州正在召唤我们。

They have thrown the glove of challenge.

他们已经抛出了挑战的手套。

Let us pick it up and slap them with it.

让我们把它捡起来并用它打他们。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: We put together what became known as Freedom Summer.

朱利安·邦德,学生运动领袖:我们组织了后来的“自由之夏”活动。

[It] attracted almost a thousand, mostly white kids, who came from college campuses all over the country.

[它]吸引了近千名来自全国各地大学校园的孩子,其中大部分是白人。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: We were in Ohio and we were there to train a lot of these college students about really what they were getting into.

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:我们在俄亥俄州,我们在那里对很多大学生进行培训,让他们了解他们真正要进入的领域。

Addressing students (archival): Police are gonna harass you.

对学生讲话(档案):警察会骚扰你。

They're gonna pick you up on the road, they're gonna put trumped up charges on you, and you're gonna wind up in jail -- there's no doubt about it.

他们会在路上接你,他们会对你提出莫须有的指控,而你最终会进监狱——这是毫无疑问的。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: A lot of them really wasn't taking it too seriously.

Chuck Neblett,运动歌曲领袖:他们中的很多人确实并没有太认真地对待它。

It was like going on some sort of missionary journey, and I said, "you're going to Mississippi." I don't think they believed it could be as brutal as it was.

这就像进行某种传教之旅,我说:“你要去密西西比州。”我认为他们不相信事情会如此残酷。

So it was a problem there because I'm looking at 'em and saying, "you might get killed."

所以这是一个问题,因为我看着他们说,“你可能会被杀。”

Bob Cohen, Freedom Summer volunteer: Some friend of mine had heard we were going down and he said,"oh, you're going to be cannon fodder for the Civil Rights Movement," sort of cynically.

鲍勃·科恩,自由之夏志愿者:我的一些朋友听说我们要倒下,他有点愤世嫉俗地说,“哦,你将成为民权运动的炮灰”。

And, I kind of looked at him, I thought it was a strange thing, and [I said], "I hadn't thought of that."

而且,我看着他,我觉得这是一件奇怪的事情,然后[我说],“我没想到这一点。”

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: One day Bob Moses, who was a leader of the Mississippi movement, called us all together and said that three of our people went to Philadelphia, Mississippi and they've not been heard from.

朱利安·邦德(Julian Bond),学生运动领袖:有一天,密西西比运动领袖鲍勃·摩西(Bob Moses)打电话给我们大家,说我们的三个人去了密西西比州的费城,但没有音讯。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: I had met these two young men from New York and one from Mississippi on a mission to help get people registered to vote.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我遇到了这两位来自纽约的年轻人和一位来自密西西比州的年轻人,他们的任务是帮助人们登记投票。

News report (archival): The three Civil Rights workers who disappeared in Mississippi last Sunday night still have not been heard from.

新闻报道(档案):上周日晚上在密西西比州失踪的三名民权工作者仍然没有消息。

A search thus far has produced only one clue: the burned out station wagon in which the three were last seen riding.

迄今为止的搜索只找到了一条线索:三人最后一次被看到乘坐的那辆被烧毁的旅行车。

The missing men are Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old college student from New York, James Cheney, 21 years old from Meridian, Mississippi, and 24-year-old Michael Schwerner of Brooklyn, New York.

失踪人员包括来自纽约的 20 岁大学生安德鲁·古德曼、来自密西西比州默里迪恩的 21 岁詹姆斯·切尼和来自纽约布鲁克林的 24 岁迈克尔·施维尔纳。

There is little hope that they are still alive.

他们还活着的希望渺茫。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: When they said they were missing we knew they were dead.

Chuck Neblett,运动歌曲领袖:当他们说他们失踪时,我们知道他们已经死了。

We knew they were dead.

我们知道他们死了。

News report (archival): "Can you tell me what you think of this whole thing?"

新闻报道(档案):“你能告诉我你对这整件事的看法吗?”

"Well, I believe it's a big publicity hoax, but if they're dead I feel like they asked for it."

“好吧,我相信这是一个很大的宣传骗局,但如果他们死了,我觉得他们是自找的。”

"I feel sorry if they were killed but I think they were asking for it."

“如果他们被杀,我会感到遗憾,但我认为这是他们自找的。”

Wyclef Jean and Jerry Wonder (singing): ...: Here's to the people of Mississippi Who say the folks up north, they just don't understand And they tremble in their shadows at the thunder of the Klan The sweating of their souls can't wash the blood from off their hands They smile and shrug their shoulders at the murder of a man Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of Here's to the state of Mississippi, Woah and here's to the state of Mississippi, Here's to the state of Mississippi, Woah and here's to the state of Mississippi...

怀克里夫·吉恩和杰里·旺德(唱):……:献给密西西比人民 他们说北方的人们根本不明白 他们在三K党的雷鸣声中在阴影中颤抖 他们灵魂的汗水无法洗去手上的鲜血 他们微笑着对一个人的谋杀耸耸肩 哦,献给你已经撕裂了密西西比心脏的土地 发现自己是另一个国家的一部分这是密西西比州,哇,这是密西西比州,这是密西西比州,哇,这是密西西比州......

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: The sheriff saw these three young men riding together, two whites and one black, and stopped them, placed them under arrest, took them to jail, and later that same night these three young men were turned over to the Klan, where they were beaten, shot, and killed.

国会议员约翰·刘易斯,学生运动领袖:治安官看到这三个年轻人一起骑马,两个白人和一个黑人,于是拦住了他们,逮捕了他们,把他们送进了监狱,当天晚上晚些时候,这三个年轻人被移交给三K党,在那里他们被殴打、枪杀。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: You had the feeling these deaths would not be punished, and that's pretty much what's happened.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:你感觉这些死亡不会受到惩罚,而这几乎就是发生的事情。

In the search for Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney they found at least two other bodies, one of them cut in half, thrown away, discarded in the river with almost no notice and no punishment.

在寻找施维尔纳、古德曼和切尼的过程中,他们至少发现了另外两具尸体,其中一具被切成两半,被扔进河里,几乎没有引起任何注意,也没有受到任何惩罚。

Just gives you an idea of what it was like.

只是让您了解它是什么样的。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: We didn't give up.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我们没有放弃。

We didn't give in.

我们没有屈服。

We didn't become bitter.

我们并没有变得痛苦。

We didn't become hostile.

我们并没有变得敌对。

We kept our faith and we kept pushing.

我们坚守信念,不断前进。

Rev.

牧师。

Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: Most of us I would think did not sit down and say, "Oh my god, I might get killed." We knew [inaudible] and that possibility was always there.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:我认为我们大多数人都没有坐下来说:“天啊,我可能会被杀。”我们知道[听不清]并且这种可能性始终存在。

But we didn't dwell on it; we did not dwell on it.

但我们并没有深究这个问题;我们没有详细讨论它。

Medgar Evers, Mississippi civil rights leader (archival): I remember distinctly one individual calling with a pistol on the other end, and he hit the cylinder of course and you could hear that it was a revolver.

梅德加·埃弗斯,密西西比州民权领袖(档案):我清楚地记得一个人打电话时另一端拿着一把手枪,他当然击中了圆柱体,你可以听到那是一把左轮手枪。

And he said, "this is for you." I said,"well, whenever my time comes, I'm ready."

他说:“这是给你的。”我说:“好吧,只要时机成熟,我就准备好了。”

Rev.

牧师。

Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: We got the call that Medgar Evers had been gunned down in his carport at home.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:我们接到电话,梅德加·埃弗斯在家中的车库里被枪杀。

We went out there and I saw all of this blood in the carport.

我们走到那里,我看到车库里全是血。

To shoot a man down like he's a dog like that...the ultimate price that you could pay would be willing to die for what you believe.

像对待狗一样射杀一个人……你所能付出的最终代价就是愿意为你的信仰而死。

Richie Havens (singing): I was standing by my window On a cold and cloudy day When I saw the hearse comin' Just to take my mother away.

Richie Havens(唱):在一个寒冷多云的日子里,我站在窗边,看到灵车来了,只是为了带走我的母亲。

So I told the undertaker: “undertaker please drive slow For this body you are hauling Lord, I hate, I hate to see her go”

于是我告诉殡仪员:“殡仪员请开慢点,为了你拖着的这具尸体主啊,我讨厌,我讨厌看到她走”

Will the circle be unbroken?

圆圈会不会被打破?

By and by lord, by and by, There's a better home a-waitin' In the sky lord, in the sky.

渐渐地,主啊,渐渐地,有一个更好的家在等待着,在天空中,主啊,在天空中。

Well I followed close behind her, Tried to hold up and be brave, But I could not hide my sorrow When they laid her in the grave...

好吧,我紧紧跟在她身后,试图坚持并勇敢,但当他们将她安葬在坟墓中时,我无法掩饰我的悲伤......

Slate: Emmett Till: beaten, shot Virgil Ware: shot James Reeb: bludgeoned Mack Parker: lynched Vernon Dahmer: burned Oneal Moore: shot Willie Brewster: shot Louis Allen: shot Henry Dee: drowned Jimmie Lee Jackson: beaten, shot Viola Liuzzo: shot Willie Edwards Jr.: drowned Rev.

石板:埃米特·蒂尔:殴打,开枪 维吉尔·韦尔:开枪 詹姆斯·里布:殴打 麦克·帕克:私刑处死 弗农·达默:烧死 奥纳尔·摩尔:开枪 威利·布鲁斯特:开枪 路易斯·艾伦:开枪 亨利·迪:淹死 吉米·李·杰克逊:殴打,开枪 维奥拉·利佐:开枪 小威利·爱德华兹:淹死 牧师

George Lee: shot Cpl.

乔治·李:射杀了下士。

Roman Ducksworth Jr.: beaten, shot Herbert Lee: shot Wharlest Jackson: bombed Jonathan Daniels: shot Samuel Younge Jr.: shot Lt.

小罗曼·达克斯沃斯 (Roman Ducksworth Jr.):被殴打、开枪 赫伯特·李 (Herbert Lee):开枪射击沃勒斯特·杰克逊 (Wharlest Jackson):被轰炸 乔纳森·丹尼尔斯 (Jonathan Daniels):开枪射击 小塞缪尔·杨格 (Samuel Younge Jr.):开枪中尉

Col.

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Lemuel Penn: shot William Moore: shot Cynthia Wesley, Addie Collins, Carole Robertson, Denise McNair: bombed

莱米尔·佩恩:开枪 威廉·摩尔:开枪 辛西娅·韦斯利、艾迪·柯林斯、卡罗尔·罗伯逊、丹尼斯·麦克奈尔:被轰炸

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Selma was a place where Dr. King and the rest of the Civil Rights Movement said "we're drawing a line in the sand." It was a marking point where the issue was joined as to whether or not Americans are going to extend the right to vote to everyone.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:在塞尔玛,金博士和民权运动的其他成员曾说过“我们正在划清界限”。这是一个标志点,其中涉及美国人是否会将投票权扩大到所有人的问题。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: Selma, Alabama had this sheriff by the name of Jim Clark.

琳达·洛厄里 (Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:阿拉巴马州塞尔玛市有一位名叫吉姆·克拉克 (Jim Clark) 的警长。

Jim Clark was this big, mean white man.

吉姆·克拉克是个身材高大、刻薄的白人。

Like everybody was scared of this big, mean white man...

就像每个人都害怕这个又大又卑鄙的白人一样......

Sheriff Jim Clark (archival): I'm a segregationist and I say this: if my ancestors had not been segregationists, I might be a mulatto, and I'm proud to be a white man.

治安官吉姆·克拉克(档案):我是一名种族隔离主义者,我这样说:如果我的祖先不是种族隔离主义者,我可能是混血儿,我为自己是一名白人而自豪。

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: He walked around with guns on his side.

维维安,民权领袖:他身边带着枪走来走去。

He thought he was Patton.

他以为自己是巴顿。

Rev.

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: I was staying with a couple of fellas who had come up to Birmingham while we were marching there.

学生运动领袖哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克(Harold Middlebrook):我们在伯明翰游行时,我和几个来到伯明翰的小伙子住在一起。

Jim Clark broke into the house that night with his deputies, and they were beating these two young men with tire irons.

那天晚上,吉姆·克拉克和他的副手闯入了这所房子,他们用轮胎熨斗殴打这两个年轻人。

And they raised their hand to hit me with the tire iron and Jim Clark said, "don't hit that nigger with the tire iron -- that's Martin Luther Coon's nigger." And they went out and they got a rubber hose and started beating me around the stomach and the chest.

他们举手用轮胎熨斗打我,吉姆·克拉克说:“不要用轮胎熨斗打那个黑鬼——那是马丁·路德·库恩的黑鬼。”他们出去拿了一根橡胶软管,开始殴打我的腹部和胸部。

You couldn't, you know, when you said to the media and anybody else, "they beat me," there are no bruises and no scars because the rubber hose left you sore on the inside but it didn't break the skin anywhere.

你知道,当你对媒体和其他人说“他们打败了我”时,你不可能没有瘀伤和疤痕,因为橡胶软管让你内部疼痛,但它没有破坏任何地方的皮肤。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): We will dramatize this whole situation and seek to arouse the conscious of the federal government by marching by the thousands on places of registration all over this state...

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):我们将戏剧化整个情况,并通过数千人在全州各地的登记地点游行来寻求唤起联邦政府的意识......

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: The idea was to register to vote.

维维安,民权领袖:想法是登记投票。

So, go on up, stand at the door then.

那么,继续往上走,然后站在门口。

"We'll stand at the door as long as you can."

“我们会尽可能在门口站着。”

Joanne Bland, Selma protestor: As we climbed the steps of the courthouse, a woman ran to the door, and she had a piece of paper in her hand and she put it on the door.

塞尔玛抗议者乔安妮·布兰德:当我们爬上法院的台阶时,一名妇女跑到门口,她手里拿着一张纸,把它贴在门上。

And as I got closer I could read it; it said "out to lunch." I remember thinking how "white people sure eat early." It was 9:30 in the morning.

当我走近时,我能读懂它;上面写着“出去吃午饭”。我记得我当时想“白人肯定吃得很早”。当时是早上 9 点 30 分。

"Bloody Sunday," Andrew Young and John Lewis address the crowd (archival): The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has a statement...We the negro citizen of Dallas county and other Alabama Black Belt counties are marching today from Selma to Montgomery and to petition Governor George Wallace and the Alabama Legislature for redress of our grievance...

“血腥的星期日”,安德鲁·杨和约翰·刘易斯向人群发表讲话(档案):学生非暴力协调委员会发表声明……我们达拉斯县和阿拉巴马州其他黑带县的黑人公民今天从塞尔玛游行到蒙哥马利,向州长乔治·华莱士和阿拉巴马州立法机关请愿,要求纠正我们的不满……

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: The day of the march we left the church singing "Ain't Nobody Gonna Turn Me Around."

琳达·洛厄里(Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:游行当天,我们离开教堂时唱着“没有人愿意让我转身”。

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: We were saying, "there'll be no turning back." We couldn't turn around.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我们说过,“不会有回头路。”我们无法转身。

Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir featuring Eloise Gaffney (singing): Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round, Turn me round, turn me 'round.

卡尔顿·里斯纪念团结合唱团以埃洛伊丝·加夫尼(Eloise Gaffney)为主角(演唱):不会让任何人扭转我的局面,扭转我的局面,扭转我的局面。

Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me ‘round.

不会让任何人把我转过来。

I'm gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marchin' up to freedom land.

我要继续行走,继续说话,迈向自由之地。

Ain't gonna let segregation turn me 'round, Turn me 'round, turn me 'round.

不会让种族隔离让我转变,让我转变,让我转变。

Ain't gonna let segregation turn me 'round, I'm gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin'.

我不会让种族隔离让我转变,我会继续走路,继续说话。

Marchin' up to freedom land...

向自由之地进军……

Congressman John Lewis, Student movement leader: We had to march.

国会议员、学生运动领袖约翰·刘易斯:我们必须游行。

Selma was a place where people could not register to vote.

塞尔玛是一个人们无法登记投票的地方。

People had stood in unmovable lines.

人们站成一排,一动不动。

There was a tremendous amount of fear...

有一种巨大的恐惧……

I remember when we arrived at the top of the bridge down below we saw a sea of blue.

我记得当我们到达桥顶时,看到下面是一片蓝色的海洋。

Alabama state troopers.

阿拉巴马州士兵。

You saw these men putting on their gas masks, and they came toward us.

你看到这些人戴上防毒面具,他们向我们走来。

I was hit in the head by state trooper with a nightstick.

我的头部被州警用警棍击中。

I had a concussion at the bridge.

我在桥上受到了脑震荡。

I thought it was my last demonstration...thought I was going to die.

我以为这是我最后一次示威……以为我要死了。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: I was down on my knees and I felt something grab me on the back of my collar, and they had a hand on my lapel and they were pulling me backwards.

琳达·洛厄里(Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:我跪下,感觉有什么东西抓住了我的衣领后面,他们把手放在我的翻领上,把我向后拉。

I bit the hand that was on my lapel and I heard "nigger," and I was hit twice over my eye.

我咬住翻领上的手,听到“黑鬼”的声音,我的眼睛被击中了两下。

I remember trying to get up, and I was running and I was running into the tear gas, and I was hit again...this person was hitting me as I was running.

我记得我试图站起来,然后我跑着,跑进了催泪瓦斯,我又被击中了……这个人在我跑步时击中了我。

And when I got across the bridge I saw my sister Joanne.

当我过桥时,我看到了我的妹妹乔安妮。

Joanne was nine years old at the time.

当时乔安妮九岁。

I saw people putting her in the back of a white car, and I thought she was dead.

我看到人们把她放在一辆白色汽车的后座上,我以为她死了。

I ran to that car and they said she had just fainted, so I was hitting her on her face and she opened her eyes and she looked at me...

我跑向那辆车,他们说她刚刚晕倒,所以我打她的脸,她睁开眼睛看着我......

Joanne Bland, Selma protestor: My head was in her lap and she was crying.

塞尔玛抗议者乔安妮·布兰德:我的头靠在她的腿上,她在哭。

And when I became fully awake I realized it wasn't her tears falling on my face, it was her blood.

当我完全清醒时,我意识到落在我脸上的不是她的眼泪,而是她的血。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: ...I had seven stitches over my right eye, and I still have that scar.

琳达·洛厄里 (Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:……我的右眼缝了七针,但那道疤痕仍然存在。

And I had to have 28 stitches in the back of my head, and I still have that knot in the back of my head.

我的后脑勺缝了 28 针,而我的后脑勺至今仍留有那个结。

I was 14 years old and I wasn't doing anything to anybody.

我当时14岁,我没有对任何人做任何事。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): We come down here this afternoon saying that we are tired of police brutality.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):我们今天下午来这里表示我们厌倦了警察的暴行。

So our mission is clear today: if they want to try to beat us, we are gonna leave them fluttered with their own barbarity, and we're gonna say to this nation and this world, "we ain't gonna let nobody turn us around." And today we march onto courthouse, but in the next few days we look forward to marching on to state house in larger numbers.

因此,我们今天的使命很明确:如果他们想试图击败我们,我们将让他们因自己的野蛮行为而心慌意乱,我们将对这个国家和这个世界说,“我们不会让任何人扭转我们的局面。”今天我们游行到法院大楼,但在接下来的几天里,我们期待着更多人游行到州议会大厦。

Newsreel, "Selma: President and the Nation Show Concern," March 15, 1965 (archival): Only once before has this president of the United States come at night to a joint session of Congress.

新闻片,“塞尔玛:总统和国家表现出关注”,1965 年 3 月 15 日(档案):这位美国总统此前仅在夜间出席国会联席会议一次。

But unlike the State of the Union occasion in January, Mr. Johnson now requests prompt passage of a strong bill that would strike down restrictions to voting in all elections...

但与一月份的国情咨文不同的是,约翰逊先生现在要求立即通过一项强有力的法案,取消所有选举中投票的限制……

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: We were watching Johnson, and there was Martin of course and he was sitting in a chair right in front...

维维安,民权领袖:我们正在观看约翰逊,当然还有马丁,他坐在前面的椅子上......

President Lyndon B.

总统林登·B.

Johnson, March 15, 1965 (archival): Their cause must be our cause, too.

约翰逊,1965 年 3 月 15 日(档案):他们的事业也必须是我们的事业。

Because it's not just negroes, but really it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

因为不仅仅是黑人,我们所有人都必须克服偏执和不公正的严重影响。

And we shall overcome.

我们一定会克服的。

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Vivian, Civil rights leader: ...And when he said, "we shall overcome," he took on our song.

维维安,民权领袖:……当他说“我们将会克服”时,他演唱了我们的歌曲。

Man, that was like lightning.

伙计,那就像闪电一样。

And there was a silent tear going down Martin's cheek; that's what he'd waited for, that's what he'd hoped for, that's what he'd been fighting for, to make the government affirm us.

一滴泪水无声地顺着马丁的脸颊流了下来。这就是他所等待的,这就是他所希望的,这就是他一直在争取的,让政府认可我们。

Newsreel, "The Selma March: Troops Guard Rights Marchers" (archival): The long anticipated freedom march from Selma to Alabama's capital of Montgomery finally gets under way.

新闻片,“塞尔玛游行:军队保卫权利游行者”(档案):期待已久的从塞尔玛到阿拉巴马州首府蒙哥马利的自由游行终于开始了。

Now, they march under a federal court order and with the protection of federalized National Guard units and regular troops.

现在,他们根据联邦法院命令并在联邦国民警卫队和正规部队的保护下游行。

Chuck Neblett, Movement song leader: George Wallace said he had enough jails in Alabama to put everybody in jail.

查克·内布莱特(Chuck Neblett),运动歌曲领袖:乔治·华莱士(George Wallace)说,他在阿拉巴马州有足够的监狱,可以把所有人关进监狱。

And you got on that bridge and you looked back and just people, people, people, and he couldn't put all those people in jail!

当你上了那座桥,你回头一看,只有人,人,人,他不能把所有这些人关进监狱!

Governor Wallace (singing)...

华莱士州长(唱)...

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protestor: Oh yeah we were singing, "pick 'em up and put 'em down" (singing)...

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:哦,是的,我们在唱歌,“把它们捡起来,把它们放下”(唱歌)......

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: I ended up walking from Selma to Montgomery, and I was the youngest person to do so.

琳达·洛厄里 (Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:我最终从塞尔玛步行到蒙哥马利,我是这样做的最年轻的人。

I was determined to let Wallace see what he had done to me.

我决心让华莱士看看他对我做了什么。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: A lot of people spat on us.

哈利·贝拉方特,歌手兼活动家:很多人向我们吐口水。

A lot of white Klanners were there, lot of white supremacists.

那里有很多白人三K党成员,很多白人至上主义者。

Archival: And further ahead still segregationists have been at work too, putting up posters on the roadside accusing Dr. Luther King of being Communist trained.

档案:更进一步,种族隔离主义者也一直在活动,他们在路边张贴海报,指责路德·金博士受过共产主义训练。

Other propaganda too, this time from the air.

还有其他宣传,这次是空中宣传。

Light planes are dropping leaflets calling on employers to sack their negro workers.

轻型飞机正在散发传单,呼吁雇主解雇黑人工人。

The Roots (singing): Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round, Turn me round, turn me 'round.

The Roots(唱):不会让任何人扭转我的局面,扭转我的局面,扭转我的局面。

Ain't gonna let nobody, turn me ‘round.

不会让任何人把我转过来。

I'm gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marchin' on to freedom land

我要继续行走,继续说话,迈向自由之地

Ain't gonna let no jailhouse turn me 'round, Turn me round, turn me 'round.

不会让任何监狱让我转变,让我转变,让我转变。

Ain't gonna let no jailhouse, turn me 'round.

不会让任何人入狱,让我转过来。

I’m gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', Marchin' on to freedom land

我要继续行走,继续说话,迈向自由之地

Ain't can't let segregation turn me 'round, Turn me 'round, turn me 'round.

不能让种族隔离改变我,改变我,改变我。

Ain't gonna let segregation turn me 'round, I'm gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin'.

我不会让种族隔离让我转变,我会继续走路,继续说话。

Marchin' on to freedom land

迈向自由之地

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: When we were at the capital, and Wallace is up in the window, peeping behind the blinds, and he didn't come out to see my bandage on my head that covered the seven stitches.

琳达·洛厄里(Lynda Lowery),民权抗议者:当我们在首都时,华莱士站在窗户上,从百叶窗后面往外看,他没有出来看到我头上缝了七针的绷带。

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protestor: We had marched that 50 miles that they had told us we weren't gonna march.

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:我们已经游行了 50 英里,他们告诉我们我们不会游行。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: They had to surrender the steps of the capital...it was a very triumphant moment.

哈利·贝拉方特,歌手和活动家:他们不得不放弃首都的脚步……这是一个非常胜利的时刻。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): They told us we wouldn't get here.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):他们告诉我们我们不会到达这里。

There were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies.

有人说我们只有从他们的尸体上才能到达这里。

All the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama saying, "we ain't gonna let nobody turn us around."

今天全世界都知道我们在这里,我们站在阿拉巴马州的权力面前说:“我们不会让任何人扭转我们的局面。”

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: There was a doctor...

哈里·贝拉方特,歌手兼活动家:有一位医生......

nothing did for us what that did.

没有什么对我们有什么作用。

The Roots (singing): ...I'm gonna keep on a-walkin', keep on a-talkin', marchin' on to freedom land.

The Roots(唱):……我要继续行走,继续说话,迈向自由之地。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: The day before we got to Montgomery, the Justice Department came to me and said, "we understand that there is an assassination plot against Dr. King." Preachers in those days for the most part, wore blue suits white shirts and ties.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:在我们到达蒙哥马利的前一天,司法部来找我说,“我们了解到有针对金博士的暗杀阴谋。”那时的传教士大多穿着蓝色西装、白衬衫和领带。

So I rounded up all of the preachers I could find, and I said, "we need you all to come and march on the front row with Dr. King." And I figured that if there was a sniper -- and they say all black folk look alike -- they might get the wrong one if they were shooting at anybody.

所以我召集了所有我能找到的传教士,我说:“我们需要你们所有人都来,和金博士一起走在前排。”我想,如果有一名狙击手——他们说所有黑人看起来都一样——如果他们向任何人开枪,他们可能会抓到错误的狙击手。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: You can't imagine the number of threats against his life.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:你无法想象他的生命受到多少威胁。

I mean, you just can't believe.

我的意思是,你简直不敢相信。

He said, "don't tell me about 'em, I don't want to hear 'em anymore."

他说:“不要告诉我他们的事,我不想再听到他们了。”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (archival): The only way we can really achieve freedom is to somehow conquer the fear of death.

马丁·路德·金博士(档案):我们真正获得自由的唯一方法是以某种方式克服对死亡的恐惧。

For if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

因为如果一个人还没有发现他愿意为之而死的东西,他就没有资格活下去。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: His home had been bombed, he'd been stabbed...

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:他的家被轰炸了,他被刺伤了......

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: He was autographing in New York, in Harlem.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:他在纽约哈莱姆区签名。

A demented black woman came up to him.

一个精神错乱的黑人妇女向他走来。

She reached over the table and plunged this letter opener into his chest.

她越过桌子,将开信刀插入他的胸口。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: ...He would laugh and joke about being stabbed, and it was funny.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:……他会笑着开玩笑说自己被刺伤了,这很有趣。

He would say, "if you're gonna get stabbed, get stabbed in Harlem." They knew how to go in and remove a knife, and when they removed the knife the scar in his chest was shaped like a cross.

他会说,“如果你要被刺伤,那就在哈莱姆区被刺伤。”他们知道如何进去取出一把刀,当他们取出刀时,他胸口的伤疤呈十字形。

He'd say, "every morning when I brush my teeth I have to look at the cross and realize that any day could be my last."

他会说:“每天早上,当我刷牙时,我必须看着十字架,意识到任何一天都可能是我的最后一天。”

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: Who would have thought that in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee that garbage workers would have stood up against the man and said that "we are not working"?

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:谁会想到 1968 年田纳西州孟菲斯的垃圾工人会站起来反对这名男子并说“我们不工作”?

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: Martin King wasn't supposed to go to Memphis.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:马丁·金不应该去孟菲斯。

He decided at the last minute that he would go to Memphis and make a speech and then leave.

他在最后一刻决定前往孟菲斯发表演讲,然后离开。

Harry Belafonte, Singer and activist: Dr. King saw it as poetic: "if I start with the most under-served, the most rejected, the most castaway of all -- garbage workers -- I've made my statement."

哈利·贝拉方特,歌手兼活动人士:金博士认为这很有诗意:“如果我从最得不到服务、最被拒绝、最被遗弃的人——垃圾工人——开始,我就已经发表了自己的声明。”

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: And so on the day of the march we could feel the tenseness and the agitation even in the crowd.

学生运动领袖哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克:所以在游行当天,即使在人群中我们也能感受到紧张和激动。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: Violence broke out.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:暴力事件爆发。

Some young fellas started taking the wood handles off the placards and breaking in windows.

一些年轻人开始拆掉标语牌上的木把手,并打破窗户。

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Harold Middlebrook, Student movement leader: It was later that we found out that these young men had actually been planted to do this by the local authorities to discredit Dr. King.

学生运动领袖哈罗德·米德尔布鲁克:后来我们才发现,这些年轻人实际上是地方当局安排的,目的是抹黑金博士。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: Martin had been really sick.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:马丁病得很重。

He had a very bad cold, he had a fever.

他得了重感冒,还发烧。

Well, he was also depressed and he had been as low as I had ever seen him, simply because we had never had violence before.

嗯,他也很沮丧,他的情绪是我见过的最低潮的,仅仅是因为我们以前从未发生过暴力。

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968 (archival): We've got some difficult days ahead.

马丁·路德·金博士,1968 年 4 月 3 日(档案):我们将面临一些困难的日子。

But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

但现在这对我来说真的不重要了,因为我已经到过山顶了。

And I don't mind.

我不介意。

Like anybody I would like to live a long life.

像任何人一样,我希望长寿。

Longevity has it's place.

长寿有它的一席之地。

But I'm not concerned about that now.

但我现在不关心这个。

I just want to do God's will.

我只想遵行上帝的旨意。

And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.

他允许我上山。

And I've looked over and I've seen the promised land.

我环顾四周,看到了应许之地。

I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people, will get to the promised land!

我可能无法和你一起到达那里,但我想让你知道今晚,我们作为一个民族,将会到达应许之地!

So I'm happy tonight.

所以今晚我很高兴。

I'm not worried about anything!

我什么都不担心!

I'm not fearing any man!

我不怕任何人!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

我的眼睛看见了主再来的荣耀!

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: And we had to help him to his seat.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:我们必须帮助他就座。

He had just given all, given all, he had given out, and we helped him to his seat.

他刚刚付出了一切,付出了一切,他已经付出了,我们扶他到了座位上。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: Martin was standing on the balcony and we were talking about whether or not he needed a coat...

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:马丁站在阳台上,我们正在讨论他是否需要一件外套......

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: ...And the shot rang out: KAPOW.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:……枪声响起:KAPOW。

I looked back and saw that he had been knocked back from the railing onto the floor.

我回头一看,发现他已经从栏杆上被撞到了地板上。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: I ran up the steps to the balcony and there he was laying there in his own blood.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:我跑上台阶到阳台,他躺在那里,沾满了自己的鲜血。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: There was a gaping hole in the right side of his face.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:他的右脸有一个大洞。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: The bullet had nicked the tip of his chin and tore the whole half of his neck off.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:子弹划破了他的下巴尖,把他的半个脖子扯断了。

And you could see, you know, his vertebrae and spinal column.

你可以看到他的椎骨和脊柱。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: You couldn't use the phone without the operator.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:如果没有接线员,你就无法使用电话。

I was beating on the wall saying, "answer the phone!

我敲着墙说:“接电话!

Answer the phone!" And she never answered.

接电话吧!”但她始终没有回答。

When she heard the shot she left the switchboard, came out into the courtyard, looked up and saw Martin lying on the balcony, and she had a heart attack on the spot.

当她听到枪声时,她离开了总机,来到院子里,抬头看到马丁躺在阳台上,她当场心脏病发作。

I took a spread from one the beds and covered him from his neck down.

我从一张床上拿了一张床单,从脖子以下盖住了他。

He never spoke a word.

他一句话也没说。

Lula Joe Williams, Civil rights protestor: On the television there was a picture of Dr. King that came up, and then it just said, "The King is Dead."

卢拉·乔·威廉姆斯,民权抗议者:电视上出现了金博士的照片,然后只是说:“国王死了。”

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: We put his body on a mule train.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:我们把他的尸体放在骡车上。

We were walking along beside and we sang all of the songs of the movement.

我们走在旁边,唱着这场运动的所有歌曲。

John Legend (singing): Woke up this morning with my mind Stayed on freedom Woke up this morning with my mind Stayed on freedom Woke up this morning with my mind Stayed on freedom Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

约翰传奇(唱): 今天早上醒来,我的思想 留在自由 今天早上醒来,我的思想 留在自由 今天早上醒来,我的思想 留在自由 哈利路亚,哈利路亚,哈利路亚。

I'm walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom I'm walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom I'm walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

我用我的思想行走和说话,保持自由 我用我的思想行走和说话,保持自由 我用我的思想行走和说话,保持自由 哈利路亚,哈利路亚,哈利路亚。

Ain't nothing wrong with my mind stayed on freedom Oh, there ain't nothing wrong with keeping my mind Stayed on freedom There ain't no harm with keeping your mind Stayed on freedom Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

我的思想停留在自由上没有什么错哦,保持我的思想停留在自由上没有什么错保持你的思想停留在自由上没有什么坏处哈利路,哈利路,哈利路亚。

I'm singing and praying with my mind Stayed on freedom Yeah, I'm singing and praying with my mind Stayed on freedom Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

我用我的心灵歌唱和祈祷 坚持自由 是的,我用我的思想歌唱和祈祷 坚持自由 哈利路,哈利路,哈利路亚。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: They said, "we will shoot this dreamer, and see what happens to his dream."

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:他们说,“我们将射杀这个梦想家,看看他的梦想会发生什么。”

John Seigenthaler, Aide to Attorney General Robert Kennedy: Oh, I remember Martin King saying last time he was at Vanderbilt University: "for those of you who are white -- and because of family considerations or business considerations or political considerations -- would like to help us but can't, let me tell you, we will liberate you." I know he gave his life not just to get equity for black people but to free the mind of white people who were punishing them.

约翰·西根塔勒,司法部长罗伯特·肯尼迪的助手:哦,我记得马丁·金上次在范德比尔特大学时说过:“对于你们这些白人——出于家庭考虑、商业考虑或政治考虑——想要帮助我们但不能帮助我们,让我告诉你们,我们将解放你们。”我知道他献出生命不仅是为了为黑人争取公平,也是为了解放那些惩罚他们的白人的思想。

Julian Bond, Student movement leader: Here are ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

学生运动领袖朱利安·邦德:这些平凡的人正在做着不平凡的事情。

They took a system of segregation that had been hundreds of years in place, and wiped it out.

他们废除了实行了数百年的种族隔离制度。

They wiped it out by using peaceful, non-violent means.

他们用和平、非暴力的方式消灭了它。

They changed the character of the United States.

他们改变了美国的性格。

We're not perfect, but we're in a very different place than we were before this movement came along.

我们并不完美,但与这场运动出现之前相比,我们处于一个非常不同的境地。

Ambassador Andrew Young, Aide to Martin Luther King: It was one of America's finest hours.

马丁·路德·金的助手安德鲁·杨大使:那是美国最美好的时光之一。

But it's not the end; it is still going on.

但这还不是结束;它仍在继续。

Lynda Lowery, Civil rights protestor: We need to keep fighting and we need to keep singing and putting in our spirit.

琳达·洛厄里,民权抗议者:我们需要继续战斗,我们需要继续歌唱并投入我们的精神。

We shall overcome.

我们一定会克服的。

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Samuel Billy Kyles, Civil rights leader: You can kill the dreamer, but you absolutely cannot kill the dream.

塞缪尔·比利·凯尔斯,民权领袖:你可以杀死梦想家,但你绝对不能杀死梦想。

Anthony Hamilton, Joss Stone, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Mary Mary, and John Legend (singing): Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day

安东尼·汉密尔顿、乔斯·斯通、阿拉巴马盲人男孩、玛丽·玛丽和约翰·传奇(演唱):在我内心深处,我确实相信我们有一天会克服困难

We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome Some day

我们一定会战胜 我们一定会战胜 我们一定会战胜 总有一天

"Soundtrack for a Revolution" is a window into the musical and lyrical soul of civil rights movement.

《革命原声带》是一扇了解民权运动音乐和抒情灵魂的窗口。

Read the lyrics of the songs that inspired the civil rights movement.

阅读激发民权运动的歌曲的歌词。

This film tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music; freedom songs that propelled the movement evolved from slave chants, the labor movement, and the black church.

本片通过震撼人心的音乐讲述了美国民权运动的故事;推动这场运动的自由歌曲是从奴隶圣歌、劳工运动和黑人教堂演变而来的。

中文为机器翻译,仅供参考。