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They are not easily i didn't know thosed this order as it stand right now is reversing the clock on years of effort to desegregating schools in the south. >> that is me, 18. >> reporter: she has fond memories of her years at garden dale high. captured on the fading photos of her 1978 yearbook. >> i attended from 1974 through 1978 and it was a beautiful campus back then. >> reporter: beautiful and inclusive, she says. >> just an ordinary student and that is how i felt and that is how i was treated. >> reporter: like the rest of the schools at themaxwell's xugs h campus had to imply with a deseg...

Between men and women. one federal court can't tell you to do anything different. basically the alabama supreme court minus the chief justice who has been very outspoken against gay marriage and in favor of traditional marriage, he sat this one out. but the remaining. >> 7 to 1 i understand the vote was 7 to 1 that we're not going to obey the federal court order and we are going to cease issuing these licenses. so that sets them up almost like the civil rights. i'm not making it for you -- don't get mad at me. but this is what happened with george wallace and the desegregation order. the feder...

Receive a c grade or lower. so this is just preposterous that we have this problem in america. i get that. >> neil: but we do have this problem. >> yeah. i get that. >> neil: he's trying to do something about it. >> but the problem is in 1975, there was a desegregation order issued bit federal court. although jindal's intent is proper, it has the possibility that we are -- that the impact is discriminatory because we've seen that over the years. >> neil: isn't it more discriminatory to leave them to school systems that are further dooming them to a life of nothing? >> definitely. you're talkin...

Violence against it. >> yes. >> and the fact that that violence was publicized. >> was on tv. >> that was crucial. >> and what's so important is that it's not just the action against it, but it is the will, and, i mean, not just a matter of pushback, not just cowardly. people died, right? the street heat was that people were murdered repeatedly. >> and the other thing is there was street heat on the other side. let's not forget that there was -- there were white riots. >> yes. >> there was people from in the streets disobeying the law which is the order of, you know, desegregation order showin...

Order of a desegregation order showing up at the school to bar -- that's why they had to sends the national guard. >> there was tv, and it went that people in the soviet union could watch this going on, and the kennedy administration was embarrassed about the open racism in the united states and what it made it looks like on the geopolitical stage. and it was the anti-communist movement, and that's the problem. >> we will talk more about this actually and about the role the press plays in civil rights, and in struggles for social justice right after this break.