Ryder Strong
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Your safety is my only priority right now.
Back at the courthouse, the group has congregated again to see Dr. King finally released.
From the steps, he preaches and says they're not going to take it anymore.
Meanwhile, Reverend Jonathan and the boys are still going door to door to register Black voters, but no one wants to put a target on their back.
People are getting fired from their jobs just for speaking up.
Later that night, the Reverend chats with Cheyenne and Rachel on the stoop.
They all wish on a star, which Jonathan thinks are deceased loved ones.
Sensing her wish, Jonathan gives Cheyenne his enamel cross pin from his church.
The next day, Cheyenne is awakened by her mom saying, oh my God, and everyone is gathered at the church.
While helping someone register to vote, Jimmy was shot by a trooper and died an hour ago.
Everyone's obviously distraught and crying, especially Cheyenne.
Nobody can believe something so senseless was allowed to happen.
Now at Jimmy's funeral, Dr. King explains that his death is going to try their principles of nonviolence, but they must stay strong and remember that God has a plan.
The church choir sings their hearts out, and Reverend Jonathan is obviously amazingly sad and distraught because he was there when it happened and actually saw the murder.
Later, Cheyenne visits Dr. King in his office.
He says he has a daughter her age, and sometimes he thinks about Jimmy's mom and admits he has trouble keeping his faith, knowing what she's going through.
That's always what goes through my head.
It's like, how can you watch all this and still keep moving forward and still preaching and staying with the nonviolence?