bryan stevenson, welcome back to democracy now! there is a whole discussion again at about states rights. in a moment, we will talk to one of the first couples who just got married in alabama. how does that relate to this horrific study that has been done or a study about the horrific history of lynching? >> it relates very directly. you are absolutely right that this rhetoric of states rights was precisely what local states asserted in the federal government began asking questions about why these lynchings were being tolerated. in many ways, it is that dynamic that set up this era of terrorism. at the end of the civil war, you had people who were claiming power from free bill at people. this the beginning of the end of reconstruction we see violence and threats and intimidation beginning to assert itself to sustain racial hierarchy. white supremacy would not succeed if it wasn't enforced with violence and threat and terror. at the very beginning, african-americans were asking the federal government to intervene. they didn't. the s

. >> bryan stevenson. "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. the narrative about walter

. >> bryan stevenson. "just mercy: a story of justice and redemption" is the name of the book. we won't tell the ending. the narrative about walter