in her own words, carol freeman tells us about her journey. >> i'm carol freeman. nature photographer, and my quest is to photograph all 483 threatened endangered sp species in illinois. the habitat is comprised of all of these flowers, and grasses, and you can't have one without the other, so that's why it is important to photograph them all. we had a very hard time finding good, quality images of those species, and i realized i didn't have pictures of them, and the really good photographers in the area didn't have pictures of them, and i realized there was a need for somebody to document beautifully these images. >> i always like to get the eye if i can. i think i'm over 140 right now. taken about ten years to get that far. my favorite story for the most difficult spearsies is the rarest dragon fly in the united states. i would go out every other week looking for the dragon fly. it took me three years, and i finally tracked it down, and got some photographs of it. she was beautiful. she flew right in front of me ad landed on some cat tails. it was so exciting, an

carol freeman tell us about her own journey. >> my quest is to photograph 483 endangeredangered species in ils it' all these flowers and grasses and you can't have one without the other. so, that's why it's important to photograph them all. we had a very hard time finding good quality images of those spescys. species. i realized i didn't have pictures of them. i realized th-fr was a need for somebody to go out there and document beautifully these images. i think i'm over 140 right now it' take the about ten years to get that far. my favorite story for the most difficult species to find the dragon fly. rarest dragon fly in the united states. i would go out every other week during its flight season looking for this dragon fly. it took me three years and i finally tracked it down and got some photos of it. she was beautiful. she flew right in front of me. landed on some cat tails it was really thrilling. it was so exciting to finally see it and photograph it and have have such good shots of it. my goal is never to go out and get the picture first. it's always about my appreciation of natur

carole robertson, and cynthia wesley, who were all 14. and denise mcnair, who was just 11. >> i knew so clearly that it could have very easily have been me. >> freemanki is the president of the university of maryland, baltimore county. he had lived in birmingham and was 12 that year. he had also marched and been arrested in may. >> it was like war, because the point was, if a church can be bombed and little girls killed, no one's safe anywhere. >> in the aftermath of the bombing, blacks and whites clashed in the streets. and before the day was over, two young black men had been shot to death. the bombing shocked people outside birmingham, especially because it had happened amid optimism after the successful march on washington, less than three weeks earlier. >> that exercise of true democracy that had just transpired was really shattered by this explosion in birmingham. and for many in the nation, it awoke them to just how difficult this task was going to be. >> but it also galvanized people in the north and the south to lobby even harder for the civil rights act. which was signed into law the following year. hrabowski attended the funeral service t