frank crum with a musician, like that. >> host: was bogille almost killed by a mob? >> guest: yes.ying to get suffrage for black men. the constitution at this time, and lincoln want to the southern states back into the united states as fast as possible, the 10% solution, louisiana came back, without the right to vote for blacks. many blacks decided -- was at that convention. the police came and killed everybody they could in that room. so were several economy members. his son was 9 or 10 years old. they shot out his iraq, he was almost killed when he was trying to come out of the building, trying to get out of the building. he was almost killed but they grabbed the man in front of him. he made a statement that the floor was slippery with blood. the thing i would like to mention. we think that history, everything we do is moved and it is not. voter registration, they were trying to stop voter registration. that is pretty familiar right now. there was police violence. a lot of police remember white supremacy. there were militias that tried to kill elected officials, legitimately elec