what about reverend james hinton of south carolina. he built the case with thurgood marshall that went to the supreme court. did you ever work with reverend james hinton? >> i did not work with him. but, thurgood marshall i did work with. as a matter of fact, when i was retained to represent the montgomery improvement association, i talked to mr. marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk with him and his staff and for them to help me with legal work. the first case that we filed was one of the cases that he and robert carter -- he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> we have a question. i know you were interested in talking about the tuskegee syphilis study and your work on that, which was groundbreaking. can you give us a summary of that? >> i have been filing a lot of suits against the state of alabama for discriminating against african-americans. in many instances, the judge that designated people, the justice department to be a party to it. i found out in 1972 that the government itself had been engage

did you ever work with reverend james hinton? >> i didn't work with him, but thurgood marshall i did work with, as a matter of fact, when i was retained to represent the montgomery improvement association, i got on the phone and talked to mr. marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk to him and his staff and for them to help me with the legal work, and the first case that we filed was one of the cases that [inaudible] was counsel of record for me on that case. of course he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> absolutely. we do have a question. i know you were interested in talking about the tuskegee study and your work on that which was ground breaking. >> i had been filing suits for discriminating against african americans. in many instances the judge had designated the justice department to be a party to it then i found in 1972 that the government itself had been engaged in a deadly deception with over 623 african americans in macon county, which tuskegee's county seat in connection with a study of