and movede graduated to mound bayou mississippi. all-blackme it was an town. it was founded by blacks and run by blacks. in moundg man live bayou, who was a black man who was rich. he had this insurance company. so he gave met her his first job of selling insurance for him, and he said he started out in the little town of clarksville mississippi, selling insurance. then he ventured out onto the plantations. look at some of the conditions under which these people were living, and he talked about black people not even knowing what interest was. ands he was talking to them watching their conditions, looking at their conditions and looking at the reactions that he was getting when he talked about human rights, civil right, the ncaap, getting registered to vote and people would tell him these stories, which were true. what was happening to people in the area. in fact, in many places there were no schools for blacks and if you fried to register to vote what would happen to you, what happened to others and what could happen to you. he was telling them that is your ri

he was command of the bayous of mississippi, he had no choice, johnston was in command. the union army that was opposing johnston was based in chattanooga, and when sherman moved into north georgia in 1864, he confronted johnston in his fortifications. and the campaign began and followed a pattern johnston's idea of a perfect battle was to take up a strong position, fortify it, and sit in it. hoping that sherman would attack it, in that case, johnston's fortified men would be able to repulse the attack and win the victory sherman however had made up his mind based on earlier experience, that attacks in the civil war were not likely to work, and it was better to do something else. the pattern of the campaign was set, one general didn't want to fight at all, the other general didn't want to fight unless it was perfect conditions, which never exist. so sherman -- johnston would take up his position, fortified it, sherman would march up in front of it, they would skirmish for a few days, she weren would say, this is too strong, his army would march out, usually to the west,

he was command of the bayous of mississippi, he had no choice, johnston was in command. the union army that was opposing johnston was based in chattanooga, and when sherman moved into north georgia in 1864, he confronted johnston in his fortifications. and the campaign began and followed a pattern johnston's idea of a perfect battle was to take up a strong position, fortify it, and sit in it. hoping that sherman would attack it, in that case, johnston's fortified men would be able to repulse the attack and win the victory sherman however had made up his mind based on earlier experience, that attacks in the civil war were not likely to work, and it was better to do something else. the pattern of the campaign was set, one general didn't want to fight at all, the other general didn't want to fight unless it was perfect conditions, which never exist. so sherman -- johnston would take up his position, fortified it, sherman would march up in front of it, they would skirmish for a few days, she weren would say, this is too strong, his army would march out, usually to the west,

he was command of the bayous of mississippi, he had no choice, johnston was in command.he union army that was opposing johnston was based in chattanooga, and when sherman moved into north georgia in 1864, he confronted johnston in his fortifications. and the campaign began and followed a pattern johnston's idea of a perfect battle was to take up a strong position, fortify it, and sit in it. hoping that sherman would attack it, in that case, johnston's fortified men would be able to repulse the attack and win the victory sherman however had made up his mind based on earlier experience, that attacks in the civil war were not likely to work, and it was better to do something else. the pattern of the campaign was set, one general didn't want to fight at all, the other general didn't want to fight unless it was perfect conditions, which never exist. so sherman -- johnston would take up his position, fortified it, sherman would march up in front of it, they would skirmish for a few days, she weren would say, this is too strong, his army would march out, usually to the west, ar

. >> after medgar graduated from all corn and moved to mississippi and he was out in mount bayou was an all-blacktown. and this young man named tim howard was a black man who was rich. and he had this insurance company. so he gave medgar his first job of selling insurance for him. medgar said he started out in the little town of clarksville, mississippi selling insurance. and then he ventured out into the plantation and that's where he was selling people -- trying to sell insurance out there. and medgar began to look at some of the conditions under which these people were living. and also he talked about black people not knowing what insurance was. he was talking to him and watching their condition looking at their condition and looking at the reaction that he was getting when he talked civil - he would write rights, the naacp, getting registered to vote and that kind of thing and people would get wind of these stories which were true, what was happening to people in the area. in fact, there were no schools for blacks. and if you try to register to vote what would happen to you -- wh