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High school wrote a letter to a magazine that she subscribed to spin magazine, and it was a really a cry for help, a plea, please come to my town. i can't take my boyfriend to the prom because he's black and i'm white. so prom season had passed abtsz the next segregated event was homecoming. so we went down to montgomery county in 2002 and i photographed the segregated homecomings. and i was so shocked about what i saw. this was something that i read about in history books. i didn't know it was still happening in our country. so i knew i wanted to return. and then in 2008, i thought there is n...

Weekend and the black in a couple week. >> i want to pause and listen for a moment to this moment about the integrated rom which you thishly were returning to photograph when you found this other story. let's take a listen. >> i went to the prom and it was whites only, but it wasn't really as fun as when it was together. not to me. everybody should be together. we all go to the school together. i mean we grew up together. go to barack obama together. >> two years ago it was segregated. you had the white prom and black prom and that was that. after prom, you could get together, but you could no...

Integrated prom. and then a tragedy happened. >> 911. >> i need a deputy to come out here. >> that voice that you heard, norman neesmith he shot a 2 #-year-old black man. and norman the center of the documentary film southern rites premiering on hbo this monday at 9:00 p.m. i'm joined now by the film's director. so people won't be confused, we should explain that john legend is not in the film but he helped bring the story to light. >> he was executive producer. he wrote and sang a song for the film. >> i had an opportunity to see it early and it is very complicated. talk to me first about the...

>> it was a -- it wasn't really -- excuse me. it was very objective. it was very factual and really didn't get into any kind of feelings on the part of the person who wrote it. i'm not actually sure who wrote that. but it was very much kind of in that journalistic style objectively reported the facts. >> does it stun you? >> it does not. >> that's one of the things i love about you it stuns you. >> i told you my parents went to a segregated school so i'm not a fossil. >> my dad is from mississippi. and i like to think -- i go down there and i like to think -- >> there's so many pockets. every ...

Would not work on radio. time and again, ask someone one that listens to country music, they avoid talking about race head-on. there's a governor right now in georgia who refuses to denounce a segregated prom. talking about you, georgia. talking about you. this is happening right now. country music doesn't talk about it right now. that's a big problem with it. i'm glad that brad paisley at least has country music talking about race. for so long, it just avoids this. >> thanks to all of you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up -- they are known as the central park five, teens wrongfully...