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They are not easily i didnt know thosed this order as it stand right now is reversing the clock on years of effort to desegregating schools in the south. >> that is me, 18. >> reporter: she has fond memories of her years at garden dale high. captured on the fading photos of her 1978 yearbook. >> i attended from 1974 through 1978 and it was a beautiful campus back then. >> reporter: beautiful and inclusive, she says. >> just an ordinary student and that is how i felt and that is how i was treated...

Between men and women. one federal court cant tell you to do anything different. basically the alabama supreme court minus the chief justice who has been very outspoken against gay marriage and in favor of traditional marriage, he sat this one out. but the remaining. >> 7 to 1 i understand the vote was 7 to 1 that were not going to obey the federal court order and we are going to cease issuing these licenses. so that sets them up almost like the civil rights. im not making it for you -- dont get...

Receive a c grade or lower. so this is just preposterous that we have this problem in america. i get that. >> neil: but we do have this problem. >> yeah. i get that. >> neil: hes trying to do something about it. >> but the problem is in 1975, there was a desegregation order issued bit federal court. although jindals intent is proper, it has the possibility that we are -- that the impact is discriminatory because weve seen that over the years. >> neil: isnt it more discriminatory to leave them to...

Violence against it. >> yes. >> and the fact that that violence was publicized. >> was on tv. >> that was crucial. >> and whats so important is that its not just the action against it, but it is the will, and, i mean, not just a matter of pushback, not just cowardly. people died, right? the street heat was that people were murdered repeatedly. >> and the other thing is there was street heat on the other side. lets not forget that there was -- there were white riots. >> yes. >> there was people f...

Order of a desegregation order showing up at the school to bar -- thats why they had to sends the national guard. >> there was tv, and it went that people in the soviet union could watch this going on, and the kennedy administration was embarrassed about the open racism in the united states and what it made it looks like on the geopolitical stage. and it was the anti-communist movement, and thats the problem. >> we will talk more about this actually and about the role the press plays in civil ri...

And the second thing is, the part of the reason its successionful, is because of the violence against it and it was publicized. what is so important here is it is not just the action against it, but its the will -- i mean, its not just a matter of a pushback. its not cowardly. this was -- people died. the street heat, people were murdered. >> and the other thing, there was street heat on the other side. lets not forget that there was white riots, and there was people from the streets disobeying ...

Concept of nullification. most recently in 1958, in the context of a number of states that passed laws banning compliance with the desegregation order and brown versus board of education. still, the man who drafted idahos legislation, republican state senator monte pierce is optimistic. >> well, if we didnt believe it would pass, we wouldnt be bringing it. there is a very good chance. we have a great support in the public. our people are behind us. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers in idaho call...

Stories, joe johns is back with a bulletin. >> police in wilkinsberg, pennsylvania believe a third grader brought 60 packets of heroin to school stamped with the words "trust me." in mississippi, a judge has ordered a school to stop allowing hundreds of white students to transfer out of a majority black school, calling the practice a violation of decades old desegregation order. "jon & kate plus 8" violated pennsylvanias child labor law by not getting work permits for the gosselins eight child...

He later clarified, saying what he meant was lbj was right to sign major civil rights legislation, lbj shouldnt have supported things shouldnt have supported things like bussing or otherwise have gotten so far ahead of the country on civil rights. i would not have expected it, but the fight over health care reform is turning out to be clarifying. health reform is not civil rights. this is not a desegregation order, a voting rights bill, its not the same thing. but this is government trying to ta...

Rights, the way that worked out. he later clarified, saying what he meant was lbj was right to sign major civillbj was right, t shouldnt have supported things likes bussing or otherwise not have gotten so far ahead of the country on civil rights. i would not have expected it, but the fight over health reform is turning out to be clarifying. health reform is not civil rights, this is not a desegregation order, not a voting rights bill, not the same thing, but this is government trying to take a m...