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Was black, charles enrolled at morehouse, where he tapped into the power of nonviolent activism. his first protest started as a sit-in against segregated lunch counters and ended in a jail cell. what did you learn during that jail sentence? >> i learned to live with myself under those circumstances and i developed a certain strength to go along with it. and also, doing some of the things that we did, some of the actions we took, when we probably didn't have to do it, and we did so because we were not afraid. >> and that was nbc's simone boyce there. to see the rest of the that conversation, go...

Congresswoman karen because who helped engineer it through the house and passed, senator booker was in the senate. they all knew this. the president met with the floyd family, with civil rights leaders so all of a sudden we are now told we're going to do this, this, this. a critical issue. they knew that was unacceptable. >> a sticking point? >> like sitting at the lunch counters, check in a hotel but can't sit in front of the bus. who's playing with this is those that are trying to reshape what this was in the begin jared goff either they never intended to do it and trying to run the clock or...

For a long time. james gannon is a freelance journalist, and also a relative of robert e lee. he described the significance of the statue. it's important to remember the historical context in which this statue was erected. but a little after a decade after the end of the civil war, the north had won the war, but had failed in their policy of reconstruction to rebuild the south into a more equal society. once they had withdrawn, the same people _ once they had withdrawn, the same people that were in charge during the confederacy were back in charge in states— the confederacy were back in char...

Reverend dr. martin luther king junior. he single handedly blocked the emmett till anti-lynching bill last summer. also back in 2010 demurred if he would have voted for the 1964 rights act. he then expanded on his views in an intervie with rachel maddow. >> how about desegregaing lunch counters? >> what it gets into is if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant or does the government own his restaurant? these are important philosophical debates but not a practical discussion. >> joining me is charles booker. th...

Change the name of their party. they may be desperate to pretend their party has progressed from the days of supporting slavery, supporting jim crow laws. today the democratic party doubled down on what i consider the shameful history by replacing the racism of the past with the racism of the critical race theory. america's not a racist country. america must reject critical race theory for the simple reason, state sponsored racism is wrong and always will be. it was wrong when it was segregated lunch counters of jim crow. and it was wrong when it was segregated classrooms of critical race theo...