evers. mississippi did not have an naacp secretary. his job was to come in and organize 82 counties in the state of the city, getting people registered to vote, taking complaints, and just checking out what was going on. he was selected by the after henaacp officer tried to get into the university of mississippi. when they denied him admission, this is when the national naacp asked him to become secretary. to do that, he had to comment jackson. maybe at first, they didn't take medgar seriously. it was only after he came in to jackson and really begin get things flowing, so to speak, and then got involved with the student movement, the freedom riders and all of that. --hink that is when medgar people begin to see, this man is shaking things up. he will not give up. blacks couldn't speak. you couldn't speak. i haven't heard medgar evers' voice. i heard it only when i went away to college. he was not on television. he was not on radio. i think this is when people begin to see -- they were not going to turn people around. i call at the gra

the history of the civil rights movement with a tour of the met gregor's house house inzger evers mississippi. next friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. in 1864, the confederate summary hr hartley became the first sub -- hr hunley became the first an enemy waters. c-span spoke with an archaeologist about the recovery and restoration of the submarine. >> the submarine is the first to sink an enemy vessel in combat. that is the significance. it is not the first submarine. it was not the most advance summering, even of its day in the 1860's, but it was the first one to do something. it was proof of concept that submarine technology could work. it was brought to charleston in a number ofter months of preparation, they went out at night in 1864. siege atn was under the time. they had been strangled by land and by sea. they picked one of the ships blockading the harbor. they went out and made the , sunk it, solidifying its place in history, but then it disappeared. it never returns to the dock. it became a mystery. for 136 years, it was undiscovered, nobody knew where it was. in 1995, the di

there are people right here in mississippi who is mill age or don't really know who medgar is. i want people to know who medgar eversas. i want people to know what a great difference he made in mississippi. i learned later not only in ssissippi but throughout the world. one of the things he said is i like mississippi, this is home. i like fishing here. i like hunting. and hips is a wonderful place to grow up. he said, why should i leave? i love mississippi. then when you look at it like this, had medgar left mississippi, what about all the other people? everybody wouldn't leave mississippi. why should you? as he put it you have the same rights as anybody born here. so why should you run away to some unknown city or state to get a decent education also make a living for your family, o get a decent job and support and have a nice home? why should you do that? and so medgar evers decided to stay here in mississippi. and thank god he did. >> tonight's look at the people and places and the struggle for civil rights is part of our c-span's city's tour. it's where we highlight the literal life and history of each city we v

and he died within an hour at a jackson hospital. >> you're in the former home of major evers in jackson mississippi. our addresses on margaret walker drive. a was born and raised in little town called decatur, mississippi. in listening to him talk, he talked about how he knew the difference is how the -- he never could understand why. he talked about having my playmates. they would hunt and fish together. it was only about when the friend got to be about the age of 16 that they separated and went there separate ways. he talked about seeing his friend staying on the corner with some other whites. he noticed his friend dropped his head when he said it. of situationkind he grew up in. then he talked about, he said i knew the difference that was made between the races. could never understand why was that way. he talked to his father about it and his father would talk to him and tell him what his responsibilities are. but in reading and listening to talk, it really came home to him just how much difference races.e between the he said when he asked his father why they would do that to him, his father sai

evers was operating. he decide ned 1953, while he was at a regional council meeting in which they were calling for volunteers to desegregate the university of mississippi he decided them then he would volunteer to do that and actually put forthhis application in 1954. the importance of this is evers believed that african-americans should have an opportunity just like everybody else, not only to go to school but also to participate in all aspects of the society in which they lived. now, he put application in in january of 1954. it would go through the process but in the end he we be denied on a technicality which would say he hadn't gotten the proper support from where he lived so he was denied. ian though they said they would open it up again for consideration, nothing ever came of it. the important part of that, however, is the naacp was paying very close attention to his application at that point as well, because this is a period in which the naacp is focused upon trying to integrate institutions, from the professional to graduate level. and once he was denied, they actually offered him the naacp field secretary position to him, and the naacp became

mississippi. and again evers was responsible for investing those and then trying to get justice.ith that he had to go in and oftentimes in disguise to try to figure what had happened, to try to speak to individuals who may have witnessed it, get a sense of what had gone on, then trying to fill out affidavits and things of that nature. most important, to get the word out to the naacp headquarters in new york so they could also figure out what's going on these were some of the prominent things that evers was involved in but i think it's important to understand when were talking about medgar evers and civil rights activism that everyday ey the individuals get up and leave the house, this is the mentality that we have to think of today, that they understood full well that they might not come back home again. when they leave their families and kissed them in the morning, that that may be the last time they see them. but yet they still do it day in and day out. for the field secretary that something that he is constantly in that kind of fire, that kind of environment. it will become mu

evers decided to stay right here in mississippi, and thank god he did. >> find out where c-span's localontent vehicles are going next, /local at c-span.org content. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> president theodore roosevelt dedicated the striking likeness of civil war general george b mcclellan and. a generation has passed since of death of the engineer who was better at organizing armies than leading them to victory. tris a fair assumption that harbored no such feelings of hero worship for mcclelland. twice relieved of overall command by lincoln, the charismatic figure dubbed the young napoleon ran against lincoln in 1864 presidential race. , but mcclelland remained popular with his man. after his death in 1885, it was old soldiers who lobbied for the 14 foot statue on washington's connecticut avenue. the creation of sculptor is withoutcmurray's a doubt one of the cities most dashing men on horseback. unfortunately, a century of exposure to the elements, including air pollution and bird droppings left the bronze warrior in desperate n

c-span examines the history of the civil rights movement, with a tour of the medgar evers house in jackson, mississippi, the 1917 race riots in st. louis, martin luther king's letter from birmingham jail, the bombing of the 16th street baptist church, and more. marty young is the director of the pioneer heritage center at louisiana state university in shreveport. he gave c-span a tour of a doctors office from the civil war era and some of the surgical tools used at the time. >> we are in our dr.'s office at the heritage center. pioneermedicine is -- medicine is a long stretch from where it is today. modern medicine has evolved over a short time, whereas pioneer medicine kind of stayed stagnant for a while, without a lot of changes. doingere still bloodletting, using leeches, doing things modern medicine has found upon. we know some of those have come full circle as well. things that wee take for granted today when we things likerk for, the instruments being as germ-free as possible, or the dr. has washed his hands before he decides to work on us. the tools are sterilized. modern painkillers. anesthetic

ever. and next door in mississippi, meet beth trammell and her family of unusual gator huntsers.r son, parker, and brother-in-law, shawn. they caught this 723-pounder. and just an hour later, justin and his team wrangled this one. four pounds heavier. so, on this night, we hit the pitch-black swamps of mississippi, with the ordinary suburban family, turned reptile wranglers. paralegal by day. alligator hunter by night. >> alligator queen. >> reporter: the alligator queen and family capturing that gator on their first night ever. it sounds like you're -- >> yes. >> reporter: sometimes? >> it looks like it. it's like the loch ness monster. >> reporter: were you ever scared? >> yes. very scared. he pulled us around in circles for an hour, hour and a half. >> reporter: it's her son, parker's, 18th birthday. and cogatooostgator. and shawn throws out his line, hooking the gator's ot. legal bout five feet long. >> combud. come on up. it's your friend. >> reporter: at about five feet long, it's the one they want. some people might be wondering, why do you do this? >> we eat the meat. i d

of the evers house in jackson, mississippi, the louis,ce riots in st.artin luther king's letter from birmingham jail, the bombing of 16th street baptist church, and more. all next friday at 8:00 p.m. c-span. here on coming up next, house majority his homee scalise in district in louisiana, then some much yesterday's summit on bullying prevention. at 7:00 a.m. eastern, "washington journal," live with your calls and the day's latest news. house majority whip steve louisiana this week speaking at the st. tammany west chamber of commerce. this is 30 minutes. >> thank you very much. for the work you all do, it's been a great experience over the last few decades to see how the business community has grown and developments coming out. i want to talk a little about ine of the things happening washington, some of the things we've been working onto try to solve the problems that our facing.is when i come back home it's really an honor to be elected by be the house to majority whip. but it's frankly even more of an honor to be elected to represent people of southe

see, over the next few weeks and months, have i delivered on my promise to help people in mississippi? >> ever since the deepwater horizon blew, it was clear that this was a disaster in the making. the fishing industry came to a stop. tourism was wrecked. the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, anyone who was dependent on these waters, were in deep jeopardy. under pressure from the federal government, bp agreed to create a victims compensation fund. both bp and the white house wanted one man, ken feinberg, to administer it. >> i felt that if asked, i should step up and try and help as best i can. >> what is it about ken feinberg that makes him the nation's arbiter of impossible decisions? >> i think there's something that experience brings to the table in terms of getting these problems solved. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. >> this lawyer's experience in mediation, in placing monetary value on human suffering, is unmatched. president obama made him his pay czar, where he cut the salaries of executives of companies that received government bailouts. but it was his role as special mast

the very next morning after kennedy's beach, medgar evers is assassinated in jackson, mississippi andgar evers was unheroic field secretary for the naacp in mississippi and certainly his work has been continued by his widow, williamson. 1963 is the year of a march on washington, august 28, 1963, and it is important to remember the first words dr. king speaks at the march on washington, he says now is the time to make real the promise of democracy. the civil rights movement was always a movement about radical democracy. november 22nd, 1963, is the assassination of john f. kennedy and kennedy's assassination is really going to send shock waves throughout the country but by 1964 it also provides a context for comprehensive civil rights legislation and 64 is the year of not just the passage of the civil rights act but the year of freedom summer and this year is the 50th anniversary of the summer project and freedom summer which is an experiment in interracial democracy in mississippi, something stokely carmichael contributed to and many others did. the freedom summer is most remembered fo

republicans took control of the mississippi legislature for the first time ever in 2011 and currently the 122 seats in the state house. and 32 of 52 in the state senate. mississippi is 37% african-american, the highest percentage of any state, and it has the most black elected officials. the second district home to the mississippi delta and most of jackson is the state's only african-american majority district and its only democratic one. it gave barack obama 66% of the vote in 2012. three years ago hattiesburg mayor, johnny dupru was the state's first nominee and lost to phil bryant. divisions over the race have not gone away. in 2001, 65% of voters chose to keep the confederate battle cross in the state flag, but the state has lagged behind on many measures of wealth, health and education. that gap is narrowing. in 1952 the average income in mississippi was 52% of the national average. today the per capita income is up to 77% of the national average. that's still, however, the lowest in the country. 22% of mississippi residents live below the poverty line. the state ranks 50th out o

. >> the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood ever been known on the mississippi from cairo down.he protections were weak and they all gave way and the country for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to 150 miles wide and went under water. so president coolidge asked me to take over that job. we moved about a million and a half of people out of the low ground and pulled them out the water and put them in the camps and put them back in their homes again. we lost three lives in that operation. >> three lives. >> it was conducted entirely by american charity. we never called on the government for a dime except that i have the services of the navy and the coast guard. >> you refer briefly to russian relief in 1923, could you tell me more about that? >> a dreadful drought struck on behalf we sent them in and they gave them completely free movement. i raised about $70 million of american money and we unquestionably saved about 17 million russian lives. they accredited us with that. when we finished, they got out of a beautiful scroll and addressed to me and the american people grati

mississippi. >> yes sir, that's what i was referring to. can you tell us something about that? >> well, the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood that had ever been known along the mississippi from cairo down. and the protections were weak, and they all gave way and the country, for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to 150 miles wide went under water. so president coolidge asked me to take over that job. we moved about a million and a half of people out of the low ground and pulled them out of the water and put them in had camps on the high ground and looked after them for three months and put them back in their homes again. we lost only three lives in that operation, three lives. and it was conducted entirely by american charity. we never called on the government for a dime except that i had the services of the navy and the coast guard. >> you referred briefly to russian relief, in 1923. could you tell me more about that? >> a dreadful drought struck russia. on behalf of the communist government, i was appealed to undertake american help. i organized the operation. we sent some 200 americans into russia. they gave them completely free

that's the first time a black man had ever been allowed to appear on television in mississippi.ertainly to argue against segregation. it made him in some ways a kind of marked man in mississippi. >> we'll be demonstrating here until freedom comes to negroes here in jackson, mississippi. thank ythank you for defendiyour sacrifice. and thank you for your bravery. thank you colonel. thank you daddy. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance can be one of them. if you're a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. when i had my first migraine, i was lucky. that sounds crazy, i know. but my mom got migraines, so she knew this would help. excedrin migraine starts to relieve my pain in 30 minutes. plus, sensitivity to light and sound, even nausea. excedrin migraine works. ♪ ♪ yoplait. it is so good for everyone's midnight cravings. cozy or cool? exactly the way you want it ... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted de

and it was a frightening time, and held integrated basketball clinics in mississippi two months after medgar evers' death. of course, your celtic teammates said, just keep a low profile. but you went down and held those clinics. while you were down there, you talked to young people about the necessity of completing school, becoming economically viable and so forth. >> well, most of the people, as i could see, were economically deprived. i felt that as one of the places where you can purchase equality if you have what started out as a charity, you could make it a force. i know i was in boston. and there was a great many questions about why i would go to africa. people told me, africans don't like you. well, the people that were telling me that didn't like me. [ laughter ] so i wanted to go and see for myself. okay? some guy came to me and he says, what do you know about africa? you don't know anything about them. they are not like you. you got no business doing that. so i said, you know, i have this family that are friends of mine. they have been accused of supporting the irish revolution. the fami

ever been shot. celebrate the anniversary in mississippi and i can't go because i've got to stay here and work on this book. i was shot in march of 1977. took over the wilson building and the islamic center. i'm getting off the elevator, shots rang out. god was there. the bullet ricocheted. but read more about it in the book. [laughter] >> the lady back here has been waiting. hello, margie. >> hi, marian. congratulations on the book. i'd like to answer the legacy question for him. i have an idea. i think one of the colleges in this town, georgetown or george washington for all of them should chary see for marion barry. it should be teaching kids about political science and how to run for political office. you are the greatest campaigner. i can't imagine one of the school should not do this. i'm going to put it out there. you can put it on the news. i think this is what should have been. >> some people are talking about that. >> hello, marion barry. my name is donna willard. i am a washingtonian and when i read about being here, i was like i had to be here. i want to let you know it's had a great impac

ever recover. how would you: describe race relations in block c, mississippi? ller: it's pretty rough around here, man. you get the cold shoulder. you can feel it. it's terrible and i don't think it will ever recover. host: are you from mississippi? caller: originally louisiana. host: so, you grew up in the south. caller: yes. host: is it different in the south than other places in the country, do you think? caller: i think it is the same across the board. host: have you ever have you ever had black friends, black neighbors? caller: plenty. plenty. the older people, we used to get along with the older folks, you know? but now that the younger crowd is coming along, the past couple and theseions so-called leaders that they have it,ey keep fueling instigating it, making a dollar off the black man because they keep antagonizing and i -- and antagonizing. leaders.not really they are detrimental to their own race with what they are doing. mainnk that one of the conspirators of it now is our so-called president obama. he is fueling it himself. that is kenneth, from bi

mississippi in part. and there were a lot of people like that. answery moore. medgar evers.nd from all strata, but particularly the bottom strata of society. so, that's a fight we didn't make in the 1960s, this fight really is a fight about education and what kind of education should we -- we solved in some way this voting rights problem and we solved somewhat the access to public accommodations. we never even really -- freedom schools not were standing -- not withstanding, never took on and certainly never solved this question of education, of history, and learning, including reading, writing and arithmetic. we just didn't take it on. so it's out there for your generation to deal with. because the one lesson that emerges from the southern movement and the mississippi movement in particular, things change when people begin to make a demand for what a everybody else says they don't want. , in... >> they want to remster to vote. so when it comes down to the school question that you raise, the same thing is true. because what do they say about young people and minorities in sch

evers who was murdered in 1963. the curator of his house in jackson, mississippi, talked about what inspired medgar evers to get involved with the movement. here's a look. fun fun--- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> medgar said, i'm sure he was a little angry, frustrated. he was hurt. so getting away from mississippi, medgar enlisted in the army when he was 16. he served in world war ii. he talked about as he traveled about, he said that sending america, it didn't matter about the color of his skin until he came back home to mississippi. on his 21st birthday he tried to register to vote. he and his brother, who was also a veteran, and other veterans. he said these group of white men turned them around with shotguns. ran them off with shotguns, and medgar said we ran. we did not go up against those men. it made medgar get serious. >> that was a portion of an event held in jackson, mississippi. you can see the entire event tonight at 8:00 eastern on -span. >> all this month while congress is in recess we are showing you book tv in prime tim

that's why you had all this violence in mississippi in part and there were a lot of people like that. medgar eversd they are from all strata but particularly the bottom strata of society. so that's a fight we didn't make in the 1960s, this fight is really a fight about education and what kind of education. we solved in some ways the voting rights problem and we solved in some respects the access to public accommodations problem. freedom schools notwithstanding we really never took on and certainly never solved this question of education history and learning including reading, writing and arithmetic. we just didn't take it on so it's out there for your generation to deal with. because the one lesson that emerges from the southern movement and the mrs. amy movement in particular its things change when people began to make it demand for what everybody else says they don't want. they said these people in mississippi don't want to register to vote. it wasn't until this hamer and annie devine and vicki gray and anita bob weil and enzi marr and be at the step though. again i tend to wander off into these

ever post anything like that. >> yeah. i don't know the mechanics of youtube. i don't call these things mississippis the way you do. but i'm not much more sophisticated about these things. they shouldn't go up in the first place. but they should be pulled down as soon as possible. i don't know if you youtube pulled it down as soon as they knew about it or how that works. >> they let it go way too long. there are people who can can regulate that kind of stuff. i just want to make the point that no one. >> this is a p.r. machine for them. >> that's right. >> for the terrorists for the nazis. >> right, right. okay. now, i want to make one more point and then we will get on to ferguson. there are those on the right who don't want to confront isis as well. i mean, senator rand paul very, you know, all over the place. other people, libertarian oh, no, let them do, we shouldn't get involved in all of this. so i do want to be fair. it's not just on the left but we have got to kill all of these people, okay? i want everybody to get that left wing web site read my lips. right now, the united states has to kill awful of the i

ever post anything like that. >> yeah. i don't know the mechanics of youtube. i don't call these things mississippis the way you do. but i'm not much more sophisticated about these things. they shouldn't go up in the first place. but they should be pulled down as soon as possible. i don't know if you youtube pulled it down as soon as they knew about it or how that works. >> they let it go way too long. there are people who can can regulate that kind of stuff. i just want to make the point that no one. >> this is a p.r. machine for them. >> that's right. >> for the terrorists for the nazis. >> right, right. okay. now, i want to make one more point and then we will get on to ferguson. there are those on the right who don't want to confront isis as well. i mean, senator rand paul very, you know, all over the place. other people, libertarian oh, no, let them do, we shouldn't get involved in all of this. so i do want to be fair. it's not just on the left but we have got to kill all of these people, okay? i want everybody to get that left wing web site read my lips. right now, the united states has to kill awful of the i

mississippi to chicago. and -- a bizarre sighting on a west virginia road.... details, on what residents there are calling the weirdest day ever. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. what's snapshot, you ask? only a revolutionary tool that can save you big-time. just plug it in, and the better you drive, the more cash you'll stash. switching to progressive can already save ye $500. snapshot could save ye even more. meat maiden! bringeth to me thine spiciest wings of buffalo. we showed you yesterday, the devastation caused by one gun, from one mississippi town. now, mark suppelsa takes us down the blues highway -- where chicago's ties to music have a new rival... that's also a pathway connection to guns. >> whether it's the president, or the blues brothers, most chicago residents think of someone else singing our anthem. robert johnson's name is rarely spoken. he wrote and recorded the song so long ago, 1936. that gives you an idea of hell back the tides go from chicago to the mississippi delta. legend has it johnson stopped at the crossroads of life and made a deal with the devil. some argue

mississippi about chinese growers. i was talking with the chinese groszer about the community. he said the store was a social center. he said have you ever had problem. he would call the police, and they'd ask if it was black or white folks. if it was black, they'd send white fers, if it was white, they'd signed white officers. they knew this in 1967. ferguson, i submitted has an uncompetent police department because it dant do this in the year 2014. is just doesn't have black officers to speak of. >> they are dressed as though they'll warn iraq. it seems incredible to yuers, we have to leave it on the racial tensions in ferguson. >> still to come on the newshour. brazilians paying their last respects to the social party candidate who died during the week. a resort town in cyprus examining the rich and the fun loving may be restored to former glory. and an injury to the star striker was the first in any problem. andy has that story later. >>> supporters of pakistan's opposition leader imran khan approached the high security red zone and threatened to cross it if the government doesn't step down. tens of thousands of supporters to islamab

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as a result of the shelby decision, texas, alabama and mississippi have imposed voter id laws that in our view an interview of the evidence ever discriminate impact on attendance, african-americans and others. arizona and kansas are two of the states that are trying to strengthen the ability to impose proof of citizenship requirement in voter registration. so the environment itself is becoming more challenging to ensure latinos are able to vote, motivated to vote, and vote free of discrimination. a little bit about what is happening in terms of candidates in 2014. we expect that two of the latino governors elected in 2010 have excellent opportunities to be reelected in 2014. both governor martinez and governor sandoval are running strong campaigns for reelection. something is happening in new england. in the state of rhode island, the mayor of providence, dominican american is run and extreme the competitive campaign for governor of rhode island. that primary will be september 9. are also number of latinos running for the number two offices in their state. joe garcia is the incumbent in colorado is up for reelection. carlos wh

money ever spent in that race and were coming from the types of groups that we have been talking about today. the super pac's and the nonprofit groups. where were they from? they weren't from mississippi. they were from virginia, washington, d.c. the groups themselves have not care that much about the inner workings of the mississippi state politics, but the deathly care about the control of the u.s. senate. they care about getting one republican candidate in office over another republican candidate. -- we saw that in a lesser, but still notable degree . they faced a major challenge from the tea party candidates. many of the outside groups are coming into that race were not based in kansas. they do not really have any relationship to the state of kansas. they're putting up advertisements even though they were based in the state of georgia. they're based in virginia or washington, d.c. they cared about that race from a national perspective. dating care about it from a local perspective. the president of a group joined our news anchors program. that will be airing tomorrow p.m. at 10 a.m. and 6 he talks about group spending upwards of $55 million so far in the 2012 election. they talk a

mississippi, almost elect him. my message would be the opposite. respected republican incumbents never challenged everthree, four, five times staid wide in their states losing 40% of votes. pat roberts, lamar alexander. ed that cochran, 55%. a lot of unhappiness with republican leadership among republican voter at the grass roots. unhappiness in washington among voters of both parties of the grass roots. if republicans want to do well in 2014, especially 2016. grass roots, forget about them. we're the party of dole, mccai mccain,ed that cochran, that's not going to win in 2016. a healthy dose of intelligent tea party activism remains the way to go. >> i'll say to bill's point. talking earlier this morning, it shows the anti-lamar alexander vote actually a majority of the vote. he luckily had six challengers in that race and faced maybe one might have been in more trouble. the question i have for bill, i know we want to go some place else, whether the tea party is ever a real thing to begin with, or not. seems to me now moving forward there's always been a populous part of the republican party in the g

mississippi senator john stenas and georgia senator richard russell actually proposed the creation of a voluntary racial relocation commission. this would be a federal body that would encourage what they called equitable distribution eversidence throughout the nation, right? so we're tired of being challenged on race just get them out of here. one application to the oeo from an african-american poor person in the south i think expresses the counter to that. some people who were evicted have left the county she said and have gone to other areas of the state. yet others have elected to stay in the county and help solve the problems of their native land. these people deserve the right to be given a chance to be productive citizens of their choosing. it's almost a right to be here and not have to go somewhere else. so that's one facet in the south of the war on poverty. the challenges that community action face though made it particularly vulnerable as we've seen. democratic mayors and governors and congress people very angry that federal funds are being used to challenge state and local governments. johnson agreed with them. community action was very often implicated with civil rights activism. johnson said the rat browns

mississippi senator john stenas and georgia senator richard russell actually proposed the creation of a voluntary racial relocation commission. this would be a federal body that would encourage what they called equitable distribution everdence throughout the nation, right? so we're tired of being challenged on race just get them out of here. one application to the oeo from an african-american poor person in the south i think expresses the counter to that. some people who were evicted have left the county she said and have gone to other areas of the state. yet others have elected to stay in the county and help solve the problems of their native land. these people deserve the right to be given a chance to be productive citizens of their choosing. it's almost a right to be here and not have to go somewhere else. so that's one facet in the south of the war on poverty. the challenges that community action face though made it particularly vulnerable as we've seen. democratic mayors and governors and congress people very angry that federal funds are being used to challenge state and local governments. johnson agreed with them. community action was very often implicated with civil rights activism. johnson said the rat browns d

mississippi senator john stenas and georgia senator richard russell actually proposed the creation of a voluntary racial relocation commission. this would be a federal body that would encourage what they called equitable distribution everce throughout the nation, right? so we're tired of being challenged on race just get them out of here. one application to the oeo from an african-american poor person in the south i think expresses the counter to that. some people who were evicted have left the county she said and have gone to other areas of the state. yet others have elected to stay in the county and help solve the problems of their native land. these people deserve the right to be given a chance to be productive citizens of their choosing. it's almost a right to be here and not have to go somewhere else. so that's one facet in the south of the war on poverty. the challenges that community action face though made it particularly vulnerable as we've seen. democratic mayors and governors and congress people very angry that federal funds are being used to challenge state and local governments. johnson agreed with them. community action was very often implicated with civil rights activism. johnson said the rat browns dh.

mississippi up next. here's mary, republican line. hello. caller: hello? host: hi, you're on. caller: hi. i would just like to say that this is the only one and thing i've ever agreed with obama on. i don't think we should be jumping the gun and going in anyway. i think we better be paying attention to our own safety in this country because god knows how many isis members are in our country right now. i'd also like to say to the caller that called, once again, it has absolutely nothing to do with the color of obama's skin, it is the way he acts, it is the and he onducts himself, just goes against the grain. the way the white house has been and hisall these years, suit that he had on yesterday was an example of it, but it really doesn't make a difference. host: when it comes to foreign policy why do you agree with that? >> just like everybody else i think it's ridiculous. i do not think we can solve his problem. it is out of our hands, it is over our head. unless the rest of the world unites with us to try to solve this problem, we're not going to be able to do it. we don't have the money to do it. we're boring money to try to solve somebody else's problems w

medgar evers decided to stay right here in mississippi.hank god he did. >> and this is american history tv on c-span3. our 2014 cities to her has taken us on the road to cities across america, working with our cable partners. we have two or historic sites and interviewed local historians. fromg up, some highlights our travels. see the schedule of where we've been and watch video from all of our stops at c-span.org/localcontent. ♪ >> i would like to welcome you to the tabernacle here on temple square in salt lake city. this is the home of the mormon tabernacle choir. some might call it america's choir. the mormon tabernacle choir was firstzed in 1847 when the high in the years came into this valley. it was a small group of people in a very rustic building, and they asked for a choir to perform. it was in 1849 that welsh valley, ande to the they sang in four-part harmonies . they sang and welsh. it really started in 1847. they used to sing in the building over on the square that was just a temporary building, but they called it the tabernacl

c-span examines the history of the civil rights movement, with a tour of the medgar evers house in jackson, mississippi, the 1917 race riots in st. louis, martin luther king's letter from birmingham jail, the bombing of the 16th street baptist church, and more. marty young is the director of the pioneer heritage center at louisiana state university in shreveport. he gave c-span a tour of a doctors office from the civil war era and some of the surgical tools used at the time.

evers was a field by tary for the naacp white spremities. the museum is dedicated to his memory. >> for many of us who have gone overseas, fought for this country, fought for mississippi, we fought for alabama. we fought for north carolina. we fought for illinois. and we fought for every state in this union. now we're going to stay here it become reality. got out of his home. about 40 yards away a sniper fired a high powered rifle. it hit him in the back ints