Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171209:18:02:00
Including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the '60s. he mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. he spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. yak son's airport is named after him. it's interesting, that bit of sound, that clip you played just now, with the president talking about the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, end segregation, gain the right to vote. a lot of the president's critics, those protesting his inclusion in to...