wlbt to makeenged a speech -- lacks could not blacks could not make a speech on television.hen i went only away to college. he was not on television. he was not on radio. this is when people begin to see they were not going to turn people around. i called them the grassroots people. the foot soldiers began to get involved. women, children began to get involved. i think this is when they saw this man is really shaking things up. ondo not shop for anything capitol street. lets the merchants feel the economic pinch. merchant to call me and he said i want you to know that i talked to my national office today and they want me to tell you that we don't need nigger business. these are stories that help support the white citizens council, a council dedicated to keeping you and i second class citizens. finally, ladies and gentlemen, we will be mistreating here to negroesom comes here in jackson, mississippi. [applause] where medgar and his family came to live in 1955. it was historic in itself because the family came into the neighborhood after he became field secretary. this was a n