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good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may 1954, segregation, racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months after brown v. board, the naacp named medgar evers its first ever field secretary in the state of mississippi. they named him field secretary in mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. an ....
thanks my friend much appreciated and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour it s really good to have the capital of the great state of mississippi is jackson. the airportpi of jackson, mississippi, is called jackson medger wily evers international airport. it s named for medger evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown vs. board of education in 1954 racial segregation was of course supposed to end in american public schools. as you know, it did not. six months, after brown v. board they named him the first ever field secretary of mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that state to organize against segregation, to organize for civil rights. in 1963 medger evers was murdered. he was shot in the back in his own driveway. he was only 37 years old. but now37 the jackson, mississippi, international airport is named for him. and j ....
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sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 ....