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>> its unbelievable. he witnessed so much. the death of malcolm x. the death of martin luther king jr. and medger evers. he was alive during the civil rights movement, got to witness and write about that. when i say witness, i mean in his writing. he was ahead of his time in explaining race, took a lot of risks. even his own life. >> absolutely. and he was prescient. he felt all the fundamentals of this -- of those issues. and imagine he wrote all those words 50 years ago. and you feel that as i...

Why did it take a tragedy like this to make this happen? >> well, i think its really a combination of things. i think the tragedy, it was that by any standard i think it was a trigger. i think there were underlying things before that. we saw over the last year some movement on the part of some were talking about some that are pushing for a lot of the issues education, health care criminal justice reform and by the way, not just democrats but also some republicans, too, that actually were beginni...

Back now with our breaking news coverage and live pictures from here in philadelphia of them removing the train cars from the track there at the scene of this horrendous accident that happened last night. we toldia just iayou just a little while ago, another person has been identified. griffith who is survived by his son. i want to talk on the phone, the president of medger evers and a former chancellor of the new york schools. tell us about derrick griffith. >> thank you very much. its a pleasu...

They will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> dont shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> when the jackson, mississippi television station found themselves on the threat from the fcc, they a...

Speech. >> and this nation for all its hopes will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. >> there is a kind of bitter irony in that within hours afterwards, medgar evers comes home and his wife and children are up because they want to tell him about the presidents wonderful speech. >> shortly after midnight, medgar evers steps in his car in this driveway. then evers was murdered. the fatal bullet was fired from a vacant lot across the street from his home, crashing through his body a...

Taxpayers of birmingham anything. they will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> dont shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> they found themself on the threat from the fcc they agreed to allo...

Law. >> its his most eloquent speech in some ways, most heartfelt speech. >> and this nation for all its hopes will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. >> there is a kind of bitter irony in that within hours afterwards, medgar evers comes home and his wife and children are up because they want to tell him about the presidents wonderful speech. >> shortly after midnight, medgar evers steps in his car in this driveway. then evers was murdered. the fatal bullet was fired from a vacan...

>> dont shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> they found themself on the threat from the fcc they agreed to allow medger evers to go on television and make a statement about the goals of the mov...

22.5 years as public safety commissioner. i dont believe i owe the taxpayers of birmingham anything. they will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> dont shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >>...

Progress, to suggest as some sometimes do that little has changed, that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years. [ applause ] medger evers, james cheney, andrew goodman, michael schwerner, martin luther king jr., they did not die in vain. their victory was great. but we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. the arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesnt bend on it...