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she and i certainly had never talked before, and i never heard her say a lot of this before. condoleezza rice and i. the world knows you as condoleezza rice, former secretary of state. first black woman to be a national security adviser. but you were born and raised in alabama in birmingham, and you grew up if a segregated south. tell us about how it was growing up in birmingham. >> well, growing up in birmingham, which was clearly the most segregated big city in america, and a place that in 1962 and '63 would be calling bombingham because it was so violent. you'll remember that. it was like living in a parallel world. you were always aware that you couldn't go to a movie theater. couldn't go to a restaurant. i've said sometimes very often that my parents couldn't take me to have a hamburger at the woolworths lunch counter but had me absolutely convinced i could

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130907:00:42:00

answer, of course, he failed the poll test. so he was very despondent about this. around his church. this elder of his,s a man named frank hunter, said, don't worry about it, i'm going to tell you how you get registered to vote. we're going to go back down there. there's a clerk down there and she's actually a republican. if you just say you're a republican, she'll register you because she wants to get as many republicans as she can. he went down. he said he was a republican. she registered him. he stayed true to his word and he was a republican the rest of his life. >> a lot of people don't know that that generation, we're in the same generation, our parents were all -- my mother and father were republicans. i think they changed to democrat when kennedy and johnson. that was the norm. >> it was the norm because the democratic party in the south -- >> was the dixiecrats. >> were the dixiecrats. >> now, you in birmingham, civil rights movement in birmingham. you actually moved some of the

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