harris announced she is running for president as well. and i want to by name acknowledge my civil rights leadership colleagues, anita gupta, christian flock, head of the lawyers committee for civil rights. melanie campbellcer over ton. hillary sheltton. all of you who are in the room. and it is really important, because at this very difficult time, these are the people that we walk, when we went to go see jeff sessions, only once, only once, these are the people who stood shoulder to shoulder with reverend sharpton in that room to face down these difficult moments, and their competence, their intelligence, their commitment, their ethics, and their energy, this is exhausting at this moment, really makes it possible to do this extraordinary work. so let me take one minute and tell you a story, because sometimes we forget how we got over and where we came from. in 1949, a man named bill coleman was the first african-american to serve as a clerk on the united states supreme court. he was a clerk to justice felix frankfurther. and bill coleman became the lawyer's lawyer, he later became the chair of the board of the legal defense fund. he was brought in to the work of brown v board of education by thur goode