Hey, everybody. This is Darryl Cooper and you're listening to the Mardermade podcast.

You're about to hear the third episode of God's Socialist, the Rise and Fall of People's

Temple, better known as the Jones Town Suicide Cult. If you haven't heard the first two

episodes, I highly recommend you go back and start at the beginning and listen to this

chronologically. It's a very deep and in-depth story. If you miss anything, it can be a little

bit hard to keep up. If you enjoy this one, please do consider subscribing to my substack page,

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To all of you who are already contributing, you guys allow me to do this and I really appreciate

it. I hope you guys like this one. Here we go. I'm content to die for my beliefs.

So cut off my head and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it.

No. They must get.

It is a place. It is somewhere. Held us at this.

But its residence is for something that transcends all things.

I was going to find these terror cells apart for this small question of religion.

People of hope and goodwill had been fighting a defensive battle for the rights of black people in

the United States for a long time since before the Civil War. But the first offensive front in

the modern civil rights movement was probably opened in 1954 when the Supreme Court ruled in

Brown versus the Board of Education to outlaw segregation in public schools.

Everyone knew that this was likely the first shot in what could be the final assault on the Jim

Crow racial caste system in the South. Because the ruling applied to schools but its reasoning

could be extended to other domains. People knew that before long challenges to segregation would

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