what we thought was going on because if, in fact, anyone is arrested and then taken out of the jail. then, the chances that they re alive is just almost zero. and we had to confront the students with that, before they went down, because they now had the ball game is changed. basically, come on down to mississippi where the klan will try to murder you. they just murdered three people, who came to do what you re doing. now, moses, himself, would face all kinds of terror and intimidation. at one point, dourg a voter rej stragds drive, a sheriff cousin bashed his head in with a knife handle. bleeding, he kept going, staggering up the steps of the courthouse to register a couple of black farmers. another time, three klansmen shot at a car in which moses was the passenger.
ways. there are elements missing from the army s narrative in this regard. it s important to get witnesses under oath when you have these sort of discrepancies. sometimes it s just a failure to be clear, but other times you can find important decision points where information was perhaps withheld, where people are hesitant to respond, and that s what s really important here, is to determine who was responsible for this chain of events that led to the failure. we re going to have to leave it there. so much more coming told. we ll be on this live. and we need to take a moment to recognize the passing of a major civil rights leader, bob moses. in the 60s, he left his job as a schoolteacher to help register voters in rural mississippi. he faced extreme violence. according to the new york times, a cousin bashed his head with a knife handle, but moses still went on to register a farmer to vote that day. later he earned a masters in
vehicular assault, brabing the mother s leg and fracturing part of her daughter s skull. police say both will be okay as they remain in the hospital. i think that that is anyone parent s worst nightmare. our thanks to vaughn hillyard for that report. moses who failed violence and intimidation to registration black voters in the 1960s died yesterday. in 1960 he left his job as a high school teacher in new york city for mississippi where he organized poor, illiterate, and rural black residents. at one point during a voter registration drive, a sheriff s cousin bashed bob moses head with a knife handle. he kept bleeding staggering up the house steps to register a couple of black farmers. he earned a masters in philosophy from harvard in 1957.
bob moses, an early local leader of the civil rights movement who faced violence and intimidation to register black voters in mississippi in the 1960s died yesterday at his home in florida. the new york times reports in 1960 he left his job as a high school teacher in new york city for mississippi where he organized poor, illiterate and rural black residents. at one point, a sheriff s cousin bashed mr. moses head with a knife handle. he kept going, staggered up the steps of a courthouse to register a couple of black farmers. moses who was raised in public housing in harlem earned a masters in philosophy from harvard in 1957. in the early 1980s, he started a national organization called the
suppress our vote. so we can t stop. we must, in many ways, pick up that baton and keep fighting. yes, we re tired. but as fannie lou hamer said, i m sick and tired of being sick and tired, so i m going to keep fighting. absolutely. let me just give our viewers some background on what bob moses went through as a voting rights activist. when he was organizing in mississippi, a sheriff s cousin bashed him in the head with a knife handle. bleeding, this man kept going, staggering up the steps of a courthouse to continue to register black voters. he was riding this a car with someone and the klan shot through the window. he had to cradle the driver while the car was still moving just to get it on the right road. reverend, i have to ask you, when we see violence like that, and then we see in some of these red states that they re giving partisan poll watchers increased power in open carry states, could we see this level of violence again, one, and two, do you think senators manchin and