mentor to both elijah and myself ready for nancy speak earlier, about the revered congressman aaron j mitchell. it was wealth, [applause] was both the mitchell, family and the mirthful family of the african-american newspaper, said really moved our communities along. they were nice and directed us on politics on inclusion. a fight for rights civil and political. so elijah we listened and we learned, and we began to get involved when all the way back to the campaign of bert humphrey when neither of us knew what we we're doing except passing out bumper stickers that said vote for company. elijah was being brought along and tutored is i said by the mitchell club and i was being brought along a tutor by the late state senator he was the first black woman in america ever to be elected to state senate. [applause] said despite those organizational allegiances, we became political buddies right away. we we're both the yearly to try to strike out and to change the system that had maintained discriminatory practices and housing and education and employment in healthcare. is we're to deny political power