CSPAN3 Gwen Ifill Oral History Interview May 31, 2017
Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they ...