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teach in black history and their specific concern that hard truths about african american history could be whitewashed or eliminated all together. tremayne lee found a former professor who's doing everything he can to make sure florida students hear the painful parts of the state's black history. >> marvin is taking students and their families on an exploration of florida's black past, visiting bural sites of people murdered. their stories buried for decades. morgan joined the tour with her mother, sister, and cousins. >> it has changed the way i think, the way i see slavery, the way i see black people in america. >> folks like me, with these young people for years. now they are awake. >> dunn is sharing his passion
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inevitable, people say they're comforted by their faith. >> all is well with the spirit, all is well with his soul, and he has lived as the master would have him to live. >> marvin is the former ceo of the boys and girls club of albany georgia including the location in plains that bears the name of jimmy and roslyn carter, she's gotten to know the former president well the past five years especially when carter resisted having his name on the club. >> only time that i ever had a disagreement with him was about the name of the club, didn't deal with him riding his bicycle and how to negotiate peace, we negotiated peace that day. >> respect and admiration echoed by many, whose lives crossed path with carter >> he liked learning about what possibly's life experiences were and trying to think, about ways that we could contribute as the carters entered to making life
jacket. they seize a blue rain jacket. and when they do, they take that blue rain jacket and they show it to just about every family member. that they can think of. and it's defendant's 87, doug, if you can pull it up. put they show this blue rain jacket to all the family members that they can get in contact with and the rain jacket is -- no one recognizes it and sees it. no one says alex or paul or buster has ever worn it or maggie has ever worn it. had not seen the blue rain jacket. one more thing about the blue rain jacket. when they did the search at alameda, when they did the search there, marvin was there
>> that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> the last act from the motown hits system. >> motown was a very incredible place. we had a music man at the helm. barry goredy. >> ironically he was trying to make black music that would cross over to the white world and make the greatest black music ever. >> take the artist and polish him up play about the ed sul vaughn show and kill. >> back in the '60s he wanted to be frank sinatra. >> all of that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at a high level, why can't i compete like the beatles, why can't i have that artistic expression?
talk to each other, and understand our history a lot better. i'm very, very disturbed about what's happening. i understand that in their response, in the state's response to the college board they even misspelled the word "african." what does ron desantis know about black history and where did he learn it to begin with? so he's way in over his depth. he's using education and using blacks as a way of climbing to the nomination of the republican party and is hurting american education. if i were a new professor or a new teacher, the last place i would want to go and work is florida. and for good reason. you've got to hide your books. the governor determines if you get tenure or not. this is going to destroy our educational system in florida and desantis is doing it for political reasons. >> marvin, i want to know what you think -- you're right. he's put out a narrative, so to counter the narrative you have to aggressively put the facts out there. but there's only one set of
there. he's seeing the protest here, and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, "look at yourselves, america." >> he's talking about the war, he's talking about poverty, changing him as an artist in the way that berry gordy is not super happy about. >> initially berry gordy did not want marvin to do what's goin' on. >> motown was supposed to be non-threatening. here you now have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. >> ultimately when he agrees to put out what's goin' on, berry tells marvin, "okay, if you're right, i'll learn something.