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Previously on Ernie's Secret

I remember so well the first night that we moved to Tent City.

The ground was just really frozen real hard.

This list was compiled of those who had registered to vote and an A was placed beside the name

of those who were deemed agitators.

We assumed that we were being surveilled.

It was just our assumption that the government would be surveilling us in one shape or another.

19-year-old Terry Brown put on a clean, white, sleeveless shirt, pulled her hair back and threw her purse over her shoulder.

It was a warm summer morning in 1965.

Terry was headed to Memphis with her friend Cash Williams about an hour west.

They were excited.

Ernest Withers was going to take their picture.

He invited Cash and me to come to a studio for a photograph when we were in summerville one time and we accepted.

Terry is white.

One of dozens of Northern college students who'd come to Fayette County, Tennessee to help register voters.

That's where she'd met Cash, a local black teenager who was active in the movement.

When the two arrived at Ernest's studio in Memphis, he asked them to sit next to each other and to look into the camera.

Cash has very dark skin and he's got shades on.

And a t-shirt and one leg cross and he looks like awesome.

Cool. You know, heavy dude you don't mess with me. I'm this cool dude.

And I'm there in my summer clothes kind of staring out like what you got a problem with this.

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