Walter Nagel

And he named Bayard Rustin.

We worked six days a week, day and night, engaging in outreach.

to as many groups and people as we could.

Folding letters, mailing out mailings, calling people on the phone.

Because remember, we didn't have social media.

We used mimeographies, we used telephones.

It was like the dark ages.

Only problem was... We didn't know how many people would come.

Barrett at one meeting announced that the National Council, I think,

of Negro women were preparing thousands of sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly.

And I joked, oh, peanut butter and jelly?

Really, first time he ever got really angry, he said, Rochelle, it doesn't spoil.

So we weren't going to have people sick on the march.

I remember Mrs. Hamer and Lou Hamer

speaking so articulately about the problems we were faced.

But I don't remember her standing behind the pulpit saying those things.

There were some preachers who said it was bad luck for a woman to cross the pulpit.

It was still an era where

Male domination was accepted, you know.

Byron, I think, knew from day one that he was going to ask the New York City black policemen to volunteer as marshals.