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Be felt most in southern states where memories of the civil rights movement are still fresh. steve osunsami reports. >> reporter: at his home in shelby county, alabama, reverend albert jones told us 40 years hasnt been enough time. he says he still hears the echoes of the hateful voices from the 1960s. >> im not for integration, im for segregation, and i will be until i die. >> reporter: jones fought on the front lines in the struggle for civil rights and says it feels like yesterday when he wok...

I wanted to do this because i left boston. i left birmingham for boston. i knew to kill a mockingbird was important for me. i started to make a documentary i wove the story of the two documentary. sense of how far we have come on the issue of fu and integration beholder. workplace

Bestseller. currently number six. now jeanette walls latest book is not a memoir, its a novel. "the silver star." its about two sisters abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves in a small southern town during integration. i spoke to walls earlier about her latest writing endeavor. i cant help but think having read your memoir that being the main character in this novel and her sister was -- are versions of you and your siblings. fair? >> im fascinated by people who think sort of outs...

According to the pentagon. they are going to announce today the how, the when, the precise details of how this last effort is going to be made to open all front line combat jobs to women, armor, artillery, special forces, the most dangerous, hazardous intensive combat job. these are the jobs, kate, that are all bluntly about killing the enemy so this announcement has been waited for a long time by the military. its going to be something that young women will be looking forward to, many of them w...

For several years, if then. >> i hear the rank and file. >> reporter: they are pushing back on the plan to open combat jobs to women. >> we send smaller into remote environments by themselves. >> reporter: general bennett socolick says these may be the only americans in a given country. >> that complicates integration. >> reporter: he wants to gauge the feeling of current rangers, s.e.a.l.s and green berets. >> im more concerned with the men and their reaction. >> reporter: the movie "g.i. jane"...

Other with bayonets, its about intelligence gathering on the ground, working with local communities and its about having your finest people doing this for you. and we know in every organization that the more diverse group of senior staff you have, the better the organization performs. we know it in business, we know it in politics, we know it in the military. we have 15% of women now in the military. we need to make it more. the tipping point for women, i think, or for all diversities actually i...

Rereelection headquarters in chicago. carol davidson was director of integration and media targeting for the obama campaign. >> the hardcore analysts were in the room for multiple reasons. this was our like more top secret work so you dont want press coming by to like see what was on the screens of everyone and we actually during the election didnt even want people to know the group even exist. >> tech team worked its algo he algorithms. carol davidson figured out how to get the message to the s...

Rereelection headquarters in chicago. carol davidson was director of integration and media targeting for the obama campaign. >> the hardcore analysts were in the room for multiple reasons. this was our like more top secret work so you dont want press coming by to like see what was on the screens of everyone and we actually during the election didnt even want people to know the group even exist. >> tech team worked its algo he algorithms. carol davidson figured out how to get the message to the s...

Once you start dipping into it, youre dipping into it. my father served on the newport news school board. he was the only african-american on the school board and served, he was in office when brown v. board of education came down. and being the only african-american, most of the votes were 4-1. he points out that they had a subcommittee of the five-member board. four members went to richmond and discussed the segregation and integration with the governor, and you can imagine which one was left ...