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Contentious battles in this nation's racial history. >> state and local police were unable to control a mob which reacted in bitter violence on learning that nine negroes entered the school as students. >> rothe resistance was led by e governor of arkansas. >> we are now an occupied territory. >> it would become a rallying cry for segregationists across the country. >> i see a political organization based on racial nationalists. a third party based on race. >> state by state, district by district, school by school, desegregation came to the south, often met with bloody resistance. >> negro jam...

Contentious battles in this nation's racial history. >> state and local police were unable to control a mob which reacted in bitter violence on learning that nine negroes entered the school as students. >> the resistance met by the nine african-american students enrolling in little rock high school was led by the governor of arkansas. >> we are now an occupied territory. >> it would become a rallying cry for segregationists across the country. >> i tell you, political organizations, based on nationalisms, a third party based on race. >> state by state, district by district, school by school, d...

County by county. school by school. shutting it down. one democratic state senator has decided she has had enough. in order to fight what is happening in her state right now, interestingly, she decided to quit her job as a state senator. ellie kinnaird has been a senator in north carolina since 1997. she's 81 years old and has been in the senate for more than 16 years. today she announced she is resigning her seat. "what led me to this decision are the actions taken by the republican majority in the legislature that has been a shocking reversal of the many progressive measures i and many other...

>> in terms of the some of what we are seeing with the students and the suppression of their right to vote, i'm thinking specifically about the case, the young man, matravius king, elizabeth, on the east coast of north carolina. that seems to me tactics used against students there seem blatantly unconstitutional. the supreme court says students have the right to vote where they two to school, but republicans are systemically challenging that now. should we expect there's going to be a big legal fight over these matters in north carolina? >> i think that's one more legal fight. we already have ...

Supreme court ruled clear as day college students have the right to vote where they go to school. college students can vote where they go to college. except maybe not in north carolina. last week the republican party chairman from pasquotank county in north carolina brought a challenge to a local elections board there saying a student from the local historically black college should not be allowed to run for office in the county because he couldn't be considered a local resident. the evidence against this student in part is that he doesn't have any utility bills with his name on them. which, o...