it matters about how you are on the inside, not on the outside. >> ifill: for charles cobb, this echoes effort he launched in mississippi 50 years ago to address educational inequality. >> we used to call it sharecropper education, designed to do nothing more than to keep blacks available as sharecroppers. >> but it's not all about the past, it's also about the limitations of the present. the project director of the malcolm x. freedom school... >> sometimes in visits, i see no furniture in the living room. sometimes, you know, i see no door handles and locks. you know, it's just -- it's really hard to see because you realize that some of these children don't have breakfast or lunch. >> ifill: researchers from the university of north carolina who studied 19 freedom schools in charlotte last year found 90% of the students had no summer learning loss in reading, for two-thirds of the students their reading skills improved. but edleman wants to build on that preliminary success. 50 years later, why is there still a need for freedom school? >> because we still have an inferior education syst

tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail, booktv@c-span.org: >> charles cobb, former field secretary for the student nonviolent coordinating committee or sncc, recounts the possession is and use of firearms by civil rights activist for self-protection during the 1950s and '60s. this is about an hour, 15 minutes. .. >> >> i will get back to that thought. i have often asked why don't you do this particular book? it is much more than a book about guns. i have been a working reporter most of my life. as a working reporter i primarily have been a foreign reporter. you helped establish the schulhof geographical africa led.com. and in the world. you click on to all africa.com. is a news site not a teacher's side. almost immediately to enter into the field. and it is more often distorted morris and any bias. you could spot bias. if something is left out you don't know it is left out. this is a problem with history and of particularly a problem with history of this other freedom with what to a place in alabama or mississippi or the black belt sauce. it is mostly shaped

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charles cobb you were alive back end? [laughter] and at one level and how do i know? cabellas dave messina for old enough? i've put beside me saying something like we and freddie douglas. [laughter] to sit around to try and decide what to do. but it did place in my mind a necessity of the history if anybody was going to meet that necessity but i bitterly shifted gears. to have very little foreign affairs. so when i think is important to note. in to fill in what has been absent. >> it came out of nowhere not connected to anything. with the bunch of kids that came down to free the downtrodden. and we were talking about the problem of history that the public understanding of history can be boiled down and martin stood up and then they say to the day. [laughter] and then they shouted out black power but to this kind of oversimplification is at the heart of this is conveying what movement that people did more people were doing so because they were thinking about how to challenge segregation. the mississippi movement was not led by bob ward charlie it was led from hollis wa

. >> charles cobb, former field secretary for the student nonviolent coordinating committee, or sncc, reef count tuesday the possession of and use of firearms by civil rights activists for self-protection during the 1950s and '60s. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> thank you. it's always good to be in the mississippi delta, especially this changed mississippi delta. perhaps i should say somewhat changed mississippi delta. this is an appropriate place to speak about this book, because i have vivid memories of hiding from police along this particular street, the county courthouse is over there, and i have even more vivid memories of posses and city police here, and i have memories in -- this is really what much of the book is about -- the very, almost exceptionally strong, people of greenwood who history doesn't include -- i tell the story of some of them in the book, and i won't do it here. i will just announce some names. the green family here in greenwood, mississippi, almost a legendary family for their strength. the magees, laura magee, ran the sheriff off the farm outside of gree

charles, died after the little girl pulled the trigger and the recoil sent that use see over her head and it fired again. >> philadelphia police are desperately trying find man wanted for sexual assault in cobbsek. cops say the man struck up a conversation with a woman on a septa bus. it happened around 9:00 o'clock at night on august 16th. police say they went to the woman' home. she says that's where the man sexually assaulted her. investigators say he spent the night and left around for in the morning and took some kitchen appliances with him. give police a call if you have any idea who this man is. >>> also, in the southwest section of philadelphia, police are trying to find the suspect who robbed 7eleven store at gun point. it happened early this morning on the 2900 block of 70th street in the elmwood section of the city. authorities say the man came in, flashed his gun, robbed the store and then took off. this very same 7eleven was also robbed back in march. >> search is on for the man in this surveillance photo who police say robbed a bank in center city. it happened saturday at the republic bank on the 1600 block of walnut street. the man walk into the bank just before 11am wearing an