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Guests who talked about his track record dating back to, you know, housing discrimination to, you know, leading the berther movement, trying to discredit the first african-american president. what was the president's goal, in your view, and did he achieve it? >> the president's trip to mississippi, to the mississippi civil rights museum had the effect of marginalizing and trivializing the civil rights victories of the past and the struggles in the present. so his visit to mississippi, which provided a kind of whitewash and -- to his visit to florida, endorsing roy moore. is, frankly, disgracef...

To vote, and of course when we saw voting rights people killed for coming down to mississippi to register blacks to vote in the early '60s, and for this president, who has advocated things that suppresses that vote, the advancement that you lead and others of us have fought vehemently to protect that vote, i think that crystallized what a lot of us are saying. some were killed for registering us to vote and you advocate policies that we feel return us to the days of voter suppression. >> that's right, rev. this is the ultimate in hypocrisy. for him to speak the name of medger evers who was s...

Including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the '60s. he mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. he spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. yak son's airport is named after him. it's interesting, that bit of sound, that clip you played just now, with the president talking about the fight to end slavery, to break down jim crow, end segregation, gain the right to vote. a lot of the president's critics, those protesting his inclusion in to...

Bloodied during a voting rights march in alabama in 1965, they decided to skip this event, but their names were still on today's program. but they pulled out a couple days ago to protest the invitation of president trump. he did not address that criticism during his brief remarks. he spent about 40 minutes here at the museum touring the facility. he saw an exhibit on the freedom riders who were the folks of course who helped to desegregate the bus system. that exhibit includes dozens and dozens of mug shots people black and white who were arrested during those freedom rides. he also saw an exh...

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