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There's an awareness, but it's painful. >> look at the freedom summer when they were looking for the bodies of mickey schwerner, james cheney and andrew goodman over the 44 days the civil rights workers who were killed. they dug up so many black bodies on the way to finding their bodies dug into this earthen dam, what does that say? >> but the headline the thing that brings us is because of that sense of the value of the white bodies. >> i was thinking about that in relation to what you were saying before break, and i'm glad amy brought up occupy in the earlier segment because i think about th...

american immigrant and a newlywed. liu joined the nypd seven years ago after serving for years as an auxiliary police officer. liu's father said his son had dedicated himself to becoming an officer right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks which took the lives of 22 members of the nypd. he will be laid to rest today. all funerals are emotional, but police funerals are especially so. the sea of officers in dress uniform standing there in their own vulnerability expressing solidarity with someone most of them have never even met. it can be raw and deeply sad. of course we know that this p...

Campaign to help african-americans register to vote. efforts at the time had some brutal results. three young civil rights workers, james cheney, andrew goodman, michael schwerner disappeared on june 21st after being arrested and released. their bodies were found 44 days later. 18 people were charged in the case by federal authorities. seven were convicted. that stirred national outrage, became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. dr. martin luther king jr. commented on what the killings meant for the country. >> it's a haunting, poignant question. a question facing everybody under the so...

♪ [ click ] 50 years ago today, june 21, 1964, three young men, volunteers from the freedom summer movement to register voters and educate youth in mississippi disappeared. >> there is some mystery and some fear concerning three of the civil rights workers, two whites from new york city and a negro from mississippi. police say they arrested the three men for speeding yesterday but released them after they posted bond. they have not been heard from sin since. >> james cheney, andrew goodman and michael, all under 25. the men had been pulled over for a traffic violation and arrested, then re...

Done. >> jim, we have three kids missing down there. what can i do about it? >> well, i don't know. i don't believe there's three missing. >> we've got their car down here. >> i believe it was a publicity stunt. >> the bodies were found 44 days later about buried beneath a 15-foot earth en dam. eight men were convicted including these two men. the on the right county sheriff deputy cecil price, the man who had arrested cheney, goodman and michael and who alerted the kkk to their whereaboutses and held them in jail just long enough for the klan to arrive, follow the men as they left jail and ma...