CSPAN2 Capitol Hill Hearings August 21, 2013
Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts think that thats about to come to a significant, and i call, a noble end. Oh grams of affirmative act...