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Taxpayers of birmingham anything. they will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> don't shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> they found themself on the threat from the fcc they agreed to allow medger evers to go on television and make a statement about the goals of the movement. >> you bla...

Law. >> it's his most eloquent speech in some ways, most heartfelt speech. >> and this nation for all its hopes will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. >> there is a kind of bitter irony in that within hours afterwards, medgar evers comes home and his wife and children are up because they want to tell him about the president's wonderful speech. >> shortly after midnight, medgar evers steps in his car in this driveway. then evers was murdered. the fatal bullet was fired from a vacant lot across the street from evers' home, crashing through his body and through the window of his ...

>> don't shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> they found themself on the threat from the fcc they agreed to allow medger evers to go on television and make a statement about the goals of the movement. >> you black son of a [ bleep ] on television, god dang more than 17 minutes they better get...

22.5 years as public safety commissioner. i don't believe i owe the taxpayers of birmingham anything. they will owe me two and a half years back pay. >> don't shop for anything on capitol street. these are stores that helped to support the white citizens counsel. >> he is operating in and around jackson, mississippi, the heart of resistance to desegregation. the nbc network affiliate was notorious for features segregation speeches and become such a problem that medger evers demanded equal time. >> they found themself on the threat from the fcc they agreed to allow medger evers to go on televis...

Progress, to suggest as some sometimes do that little has changed, that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years. [ applause ] medger evers, james cheney, andrew goodman, michael schwerner, martin luther king jr., they did not die in vain. their victory was great. but we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. the arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.