but what brickman did is he tracked down these students and interviewed them. say in their own words what happened to them with stories and incidents and it added a whole new level of what happened. >> here's a portion of that documentary. >> we got that dreaded letter, and more likely than not, our parents would say, what have you done to me? when you began to try to explain what happened, nobody believed you. they just didn't believe, oh, that's impossible. emory? we just shut up. it was a fraternity of silence. >> and what happened to the dream of so many who believed what the university was telling them, that they were not up to snuff, that they shouldn't be dental students, they could never go on to be dentists and they left. did many feel so discouraged about that that they just didn't even pursue a dental career in other places. >> some did pursue a dental career, like dr. brickman, others went into medical professions, most of them did extremely well in whatever profession they chose, but at the same time they carried with them a sense of embarrassment

brickman joins us now. discrimination didn't stop him.graduated with honors from the university of tennessee dental school and had a very successful career. thank you very much. you want back and interviewed fellow students decades after the discrimination. what motivated you to do that. >> i had retired two years before. the year was 2006, and we attended a conference at emory university where they were celebrating 30 years since the first chair had happened at emory and it was a great moment. since that moment they had many more jewish faculty members. >> when i introduced you, you said you knew when you got the letter you knew you hadn't failed, but you said you weren't so sure? >> not just me. this is the same story everybody tells. you didn't know. you got a letter when you got home and it says either you could come back and repeat or you were out. in my case they told me i couldn't return and there were four jewish boys in my class, and in two years all of us were gone. >> did you suspect something or you just thought you didn't mak

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our team coverage has anita brickman down at u.s.a. headquarters with a preview of the debate.e begin in annapolis where a local university administrator just finished speaking out after being suspended for supporting the push to get a measure on the maryland ballot. tracy. >> reporter: well derek, the doctor spoke about this situation candidly and said this has been a horrific time.