aaron henry introduced a bill to change the flag in 1988. that never got a vote. neither did the bills he tried in 1990 or 1992 or 1993. they wouldn't even hear him. not long before he died, representative aaron henry talked about that struggle. >> you see, we have the -- the residue of the confederate flag in the coffin corner of our state flag. and that confederate flag is the banner under which white males marched under to keep my grandma and my grandpa in slavery. i will keep on trying to get that residue out of the state flag, as long as i can have a voice in trying to do it. i just think it's absurd. it's -- anybody who reads the history of the confederate flag know why it's there, know how it came about. >> aaron henry died in 1997. the confederacy outlived his best efforts to remove its symbol from the flag of the state that he called home. a few years after mr. henry's death in 2001, mississippi held a statewide referendum. the state at that time was feeling some of that repeated pressure that had resulted in the flag change in georgia, for example. but i

anybody who reads the history of the confederate flag know why it's there, know how it came about. >> aaron henry died in 1997. the confederacy outlived his best efforts to remove its symbol from the flag of the state that he called home. a few years after mr. henry's death in 2001, mississippi held a statewide referendum. the state at that time was feeling some of that repeated pressure that had resulted in the flag change in georgia, for example. but in mississippi when the results from that referendum came back, the results were that mississippi voters wanted to keep the flag, 2-1. leave it like it is. and the confederate flag stayed that way, hitching a ride on a modern-day state flag all of these years. it stayed up there after georgia changed its flag, after south carolina took it down from the capitol, after alabama took it down from the capitol. mississippi would not change. mississippi would not change. mississippi would not change, until it did. it just did. it happened. following the police killing of george floyd, when people turned out all across america, people also turned out all a

a jury finds them not guilty. , as aaron henry said, -- they kidnapped emmett till of course. his body turns up three days later, beaten, shot as submerged with a gin mill fan around his neck in the river. that is when these two stand trial for murder. said, black men and black boys had been found killed for years and years and years and it was never a big to do. he said, i never understood why this one became such a big event. but it was. it was headline news throughout america. when the trial took place, it was headline news throughout the world. they had a handful trying to control the story and spin it. the trial took place in one hour. defendants the two not guilty. this is just an enormous, and an .normous event there's so much that i -- that's not right in that story and it matters when you try to piece together exactly what happened. for example, emmett till, yes, when this happened, he did live with his mother on the southside --chicago, but he's but most he spent most of his life in a town called argo. not in chicago. it's in the very, very western edge of chicago. d