the reverend albert jones. he remembers the days when crosses were burned in his yard to intimidate blacks not to vote. thanks very much for joining us. i know you must be pretty angry, upset about the supreme court decision today. what's your reaction? >> we are disappointed. more disappointed than anything else. we were praying they would do the right thing. we know that they made that decision, called it how they see it but we were hoping they did the right thing. over these past 50 years when the voting rights act went into affect do you agree there's been improvement in your state as far as limiting the discrimination that was imposed earlier against blacks? >> we have come a long way. we're not there yet. we're not there where we need to be yet. when congress passed the 2006, extended 25 more years i thought that was a good gesture because we're not where we need to be yet. >> when justice roberts says maybe there's even worse discrimination as far as voting rights are concerned in massachusetts as oppose

shelby county, alabama, in the community where the voting rites act may have met its end, reverend albert jones told us 40 years may not have been enough time. he says he still hears the echoes of the hateful voices from the 1960s. >> i'm not for integration. i'm for segregation. i will be until i die. [ cheers ] [ screams ] >> reporter: jones fought on the front lines in the struggle for civil rights. he said it feels like yesterday when he woke up to find a burning cross in his yard and when he went to register to vote. he said they first asked who he knew. when he gave them the name of a black businessman, they asked for someone who was white. >> they asked me, who do you know? >> reporter: only then did he take a literacy test. which he passed, and was then allowed to register to vote. you had to take a literacy test? >> i did. you took tests. i passed the test. i can read and write. >> reporter: reverend jones says he wants the country to realize today that instead of literacy tests, black families struggle with voter i.d. laws and redistricting meant to keep black kjd candidates from winn

. >> reporter: at his home in shelby county, alabama, reverend albert jones told us 40 years hasn't beenears the echoes of the hateful voices from the 1960s. >> i'm not for integration, i'm for segregation, and i will be until i die. >> reporter: jones fought on the front lines in the struggle for civil rights and says it feels like yesterday when he woke up to found a burning cross thrown in his yard and when he went to register to vote. he says they first asked who he knew. when he gave them the name of a black businessman they asked for some one who was white. only then was he allowed to take a literacy test which he passed and then allowed to register to vote. i had to take a literacy test. a test. and you took tests. but i passed the test, you know, i could read and write. >> reporter: reverend jones wants the country to realize instead of literacy test, black families struggle with laws and redistricting meant to keep black candidates from winning elections. some in alabama are praising the supreme court's decision including the governor, who says times have changed. >> you have to