george rountree, next judge rountree concocted a piece of legislation called the grandfather club.the single piece of legislation basically took voting rights away from black until 1965. not just the north line up but through the south because it was copied through the mason-dixon line. this had a huge repercussion it had a huge repercussion right here locally through the economy of the city and of course it took the african-american community about a thousand people we know were driven to another county and that included people that were put onto the train at bayonet.and banished from wilmington. they were lawyers, preachers, leaders, funeral directors, local politicians they were the people who up to this.had been the african-american alderman, firemen, the african-american chair sheriff's deputies, wilmington went back to being ruled by white supremacist and white families. that's a big legacy to overcome. one of the things i always think about is that so many of the people involved on whiteside went on to have very prosperous lives, children, grandchildren stayed and they built

george brown tree, later judge rountree went to the state and he concocted a piece of legislation, popularly called the grandfather clause. this piece of legislation basically took voting rights away from blacks until 1965. not just in north carolina but through the south. >> all below the mason-dixon. so this huge national repercussion. he had a huge repercussion here locally. for the economy of the city and of course it took the african-american community about 1000 people we knew were driven out of their county and included on the train at that point, the so-called spanish from wilmington, these were local leaders, lawyers, preachers, funeral directors, local politicians. they were the people who to this point had been african-american alderman, the firemen, the police and sheriff deputies. and wilmington went back to being ruled by this category of white supremacists and a number of white families. >> you have a situation where the intelligence and the leadership of the black community is basically wiped out for a generation, and from there wille looking at something now more than 100 ye