find my own grandmother in the 1920s, and a trite in missouri where she lived in 1920, later in greensboro and north carolina where she lived later in the 20s and the records just were not there. i really thought i had struck out frankly which for his story is a devastating thing. one thing you think you know how to do is hit the archives and answer your questions. but no one had valued those kind of records that we might use to recover black women's first votes in the 1920s. i got lucky and i stumbled onto an interview that she gave in 1978. she and my grandfather had for many years run a place, and black women's school in north carolina and greensboro where you lived, you know, fabled in civil rights history for student sit ins. the interview was about that but in the course of the interview she talked about voting rights. she doesn't talk about 1920 at all. she talked about the 1950s and the 1960s because for her the story, a brilliant story, is about young women who began to knock on doors or register voters, to that arduous and dangerous work of getting black americans on the voting r

find my own grandmother in the 1920s and are tried in missouri where she lived in 1920, later in greensboro and north carolina where she lived later in the '20s. the records just were not there and i really thought i have struck out frankly. for a historian is a devastating thing. the one thing you think and how to do is keep the archives and answer your questions. but no one had valued those records that we might use to recover black women's first votes in the 1920s. then i got lucky and i stumbled onto an interview that she gave in 1978 she and my grandfather had for many years run a place at vantage college, black women school and north carolina, and so come and greensboro where the event, you know, fable in civil rights history. the interview was about that but in the course of the interview she talked about voting rights. she doesn't talk about 1920 at all. she talked about the 1950s and 1960s, but for her the story, a brilliant story come is about young women who began to knock on doors, register voters, do that arduous and dangerous work at getting black americans on the voter rolls

trymaine lee is in greensboro, north carolina.t are you hearing, trimaine, from voters on the ground? >> reporter: i'm in front of the civil rights museum, where in 1964 courageous young men staged a sit-in and sparked a movement. folks here today are asking the question professor eddie glaude asked on the program earlier, what are trump supporters actually voting for? the folks said it wasn't just donald trump's and joe biden's name on the ballot, it was a referendum on racism and racial injustice. they're wondering why their neighbors aren't voting the way greensboro and raleigh-durham voted. state officials say they'll be accepting some absentee ballots until november 12. we asked a young lady at the election board when we might have an answer and she laughed at us, craig, she laughed. so here we are in north carolina, it's still tight. >> here we are. trymaine lee, thank you as always. >>> that will do it for me today. see you back here same time tomorrow. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage after a short break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ al

it was organized by reverend greg drumwright of greensboro. police in graham, north carolina, say he didn't have the right kind of permit to block off the street. they say that while the group was marching from the church to the polls, they stopped in the street to honor george floyd, whose niece was a part of the protest. the police said that they didn't get up quick enough when they were told, and they used pepper spray to move the crowd. they then used pepper spray again when the crowd got to the town center. the courthouse where there's also a large confederate statue, and there were speakers making presentations at that point. they used pepper spray again. they didn't actually make it to the polls. now the state board of elections says that there was nobody who was voting on this final day of early voting in north carolina at that poll about a black away, that -- a block away, that was interfered with. a poll greeter said they'd been preparing for a large number of people coming from the protest, and that afterwards with all the chaos and

during the rally, including the march organizer, the reverend greg drumwright, who joins us now from greensboro. he is lead organizer of justice 4 the next generation coalition. reverend greg drumwright, welcome to democracy now! can you take us through saturday? what happened? >> good morning to all o your viewers and certainly to you and thank you for having us. saturday, in some instances, is still a blur. we still have people recovering from those tear gas and pepper spray attached. we started the morning really knowing that there was going to be some form of a materialized andrt to quell our success to quiet our voices, even though we prayed intently and we met several times over with local authorities there asking them not to bring militia force to our march. as you and i know now, that was not the case. amy: so explain. what we're the purpose of just what the purpose of your rally was, where you went, and when the police moved in and attacked you. >> we lead there after marching for about three quarters of a mile on the north side of main street just before the court allowed --e we were

, north carolina, in prison and enslaved by hotelier, in greensboro and acted as a porter for the rest of the war. he then ultimately move down to louisiana afterwards. or men like samuel brooks who been captured at a battle he was one of several dozen survivors that of the of, he labored is a blacksmith for the rest of the war. he was aided by a white irish woman to escape. these are still just slivers of these men's lives. this is just about their military service, it doesn't give us the full picture of who they are, what they went through from their birth to their death, but it does give us something to start working with and to really expand upon what we know about military service for black man. and for particularly for formally enslaved black man who didn't have the privilege to write about their experiences, whose lives were not codified by firmer enslavers, their, birth their marriages, their deaths. before the war and after the war. former enslavers might aid their claims but they certainly didn't aid them by codifying their lives to any degree in state records. they always he

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>> we know from research in the initiative and other co-authors at university of greensboro and indiana, when students move one place to another, when they have that mobility, they bring the virus with them. saw the beginning of semester when they moved from high coronavirus case counties into college towns, we could see spread around 3,000 cases per day nationally. what we are looking at is a group of population of 18 to 24-year-olds when they leave campus will likely bring coronavirus with them to the counties. unless they are conformed, have knowledge to not make that travel. with college testing at the level we would like to see them testing, it is extraordinarily difficult for public health officials to understand where the virus is going to spread and could cause significant damage around families during thanksgiving. >> hence, why we are seeing tough guidance from the cdc. >> exactly. >> really important information that you're tracking. thank you so much, chris. really appreciate it. >>> so we just found out philadelphia county is going to certify its election results today. tha

greensboro, winston-salem, there are still some to come in charlotte.re is still a small, small amounts gathering in smaller republican-friendly areas of the state as well. all told, what you're looking at here is just over 400,000 votes statewide remain to be counted here. 82,000 of them are in wake county. you can see another 50,000 of them are in guilford county, where greensboro is. so there are opportunities here for biden to cut into it, but, again, i think the other thing that comes into play here is just the possibility there will be other ballots that come in in the mail in north carolina after election day. trying to figure out how many that might be, what that could do to the margin here. so let's see where the margin ends up after these votes all get tabulated. then that becomes the question in north carolina. but trump's lead right now sitting at 06,060,000 votes. we take a trip out to arizona, again, not much changing here. getting that big, initial batch of the vote. we're basically going to be sitting here looking at 3/4 of the vote in a

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raleigh, greensboro, winston-salem, asheville, charlotte, fayetteville here.ow was this in 2016? it's a little bit north of there. so these are the core democratic areas. there are still some republican areas to fill in. also, up here, these are a lot of heavily black, rural counties here. this was an area in 2016 where democrats didn't get the turnout level they were hoping for. we're not seeing a lot early here. let's watch these counties fill in and see what happens. i think the key for democrats here, can they drive in more in sort of the tragical here. can they get more black turnout? and i'm just going to check next door -- okay, this is a core republican county. this reminds me a lot identify if you remember when i was looking at delaware county in ohio, this reminds me of it. we don't have much to show there right now. again, the name of the game for democrats for biden is to drive up his statewide lead as much as he can. i expect as more of this early vote comes in. you see it's in from a lot of the cities. not in from more rural, republican places. t

work and confronting is past and is that eventually took public firm in selma and birmingham, at a greensboro it happens now in montgomery's new national memorial for peace and justice which tries to record every mention -- it is happening in faulkner's hometown of oxford where the university of mississippi has a series of contextualizing plaques laced next to the sites associated with the confederacy encodings plaques the document the labor of slaves. tot school has also decided remove its own confederate memorial, the statue memorializing an army unit that was raised on the campus. the place where everyone -- it has been moved from a place where everyone must see it to a cemetery. i think some of this work had to happen in print before it could happen in public. and may fiction ran just a little bit ahead of its time because faulkner's own books, they are in themselves -- and perhaps the sound of fear he stands as the greatest of them, the greatest of the texts. the greatest because the most entrapped in it, the book most marked by a sense of its own failure. mastering the past, that is the

there was something really concerning emerging out of guilford county, greensboro here, apparently fromhat federal order from the judge that said that they have to sweep postal service facilities, only 72% of the mail-in ballots were delivered on time, so it's troubling for a lot of folks, ari. >> thank you, i'm told because we have mara barrett now in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, go ahead, please. >> hey, ari, i'm in allegheny county where to this side of the warehouse where they're counting ballots, it looks like a normal day after election day. they're returning the voting machines that were used on election day, but actually, if you look just down over here in this private room, they are still processing and counting ballots. we're watching via this live fe feed, pennsylvania is very much going to come down to the mail-in vote. about 50% of the 2.5 million that have been returned across the state have already been counted. here in allegheny county, which is a democratic stronghold, one that biden's team is very much focusing on and relying on to overall win the state, they actually had

district two, south of the triangle, and district six, which is in the piedmont triad, i think the greensboro area, those will flip democrat. there are a couple of other seats on watching closely. district eight, richard hudson, he has run against patricia goodman, a former states of bring court justice. has spent a lot of outside money. i could be interesting. we might be a cycle away from not being very close. and someone on the inside has told me in the ninth district, where all the controversy was in 2018, which runs from charlotte along the southern border east in north carolina, and the 11th district which is mark meadows, both of those traditionally republican strongholds. republican money has put into those in recent weeks. there is concern among republicans that those seats are closer than they think. we could have interesting races. for the most part, the incumbents or the dominant party is likely going to win these races. host: brenda from charlotte, north carolina. caller: good morning. i want to tell everybody, keep your mouth off of my government paper. i'm proud that he did. th

from greensboro to charlotte, from wilmington to raleigh, from ashville to right here in fayettevillefayetteville. i love the name. fayetteville. we inherit the legacy of american patriots who gave their blood, sweat and tears to defend our country and to defend our freedom. we stand on the shoulders of american heroes who crossed the oceans, settled a continent, tamed the wilderness, laid down the railroads, raised up the great, great beautiful skyscrapers, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism and made america into the single greatest nation in the history of the world and the best is yet to come. we will see that. proud citizens like you helped build this country and together we are taking back our country. we are returning power to you, the american people. with your help, your devotion and your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting, we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. we are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under god and together with the incredible people of north carolina we have made ame

, 61%, and in pittsburgh, 71%, and in detroit, michigan, another battleground state, and 72% in greensboro, north carolina, and 76%. and in lakeland, wisconsin. now, how does this affect ballots that may be out? guess what. those battleground states, arizona, wisconsin, michigan and georgia had rules and have rules that you have to have your ballots in, and they have to have arrived by mail yesterday. those states do not offer a grace period, so now that the postal service data this morning suggests that the on time delivery rates were so bad yesterday that you are theoretically could have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of ballots that still have not been delivered. the federal judge has ordered a noon hearing to discuss this and get to the bottom of it, and the question is whether he is going to be happy with the postal service and declining to do the sweep that he ordered and the postal service said yesterday it is already doing a sweep as part of the normal operations. guys? >> and what is the remedy if anything if the judge doesn't like it. and you put up the postal service

one of the reasons they were holding out is guilford county, that's greensboro, that was yet come in, that came in strongly with biden but the republicans can counter with union county, outside charlotte, heavily a republican county and that delivered for the republicans very strongly as well. we were looking all day at how the election day turnout would go in places like union county and johnston county. they did come through. what does it come down to? 117,000 absentee ballots have yet to be returned they were requested, yet to be returned and north carolina has given those ballots until the 12th, nine days to come back if they're postmarked by today so, with 75,000 votes separating the two candidates, 117,000 ballots outstanding, it may be too close to call for a while. the supreme court has allowed that nine-day extension, decided on by the state board of elections. there could be more challenges to come if, indeed, it holds this state up. that's where we are in north carolina, still too close to call, even though almost all the votes have been counted. >> to put a point on it, sc

this is greensboro, a decent chunk of vote. trump's strength is a little bit everywhere.is rural african-american turn oout -- trump is overperforming. this is where he is able -- adding to his numbers. >> is that african-american voters not turning out? >> not turning out. >> the president has made an effort to attract african-americans. >> we're not seeing enough evidence. this looks like not turning out. than it does anything else. you look, it's basically biden's number and clinton's number, they are not that different. you veen seen where there's hug biden overperformance. the border counties are going to be -- if the democrats -- if biden comes up short, i would argue that's where he will find the votes he should have gotten in order to get this, in order to make north carolina happen. >> minnesota, let me ask you about minnesota. jason miller came on and suggested that trump folk feel good about minnesota. >> we will see. we don't have -- we have about a third of the vote in. just so you see, this is election date vote. let's look at some of the -- look. if biden h

wake which is raleigh and greensboro which is surprisingly greensboro, they are emotionally all in.n were the biggest ones and then franklin, greenville and kaz well, smaller counties. they weren't reporting votes. union county, which is just to the east of charlotte, and johnston, which is just to the east of wake, johnston started to come in and flipped it because these counties, union county went last time around 81-19 republican. johnston county went to 64-32 republican. about 200,000 votes there and just as one of those counties comes in, north carolina is so close that it flipped it from being a biden lead to a drum played and from a cunningham lead to a tillis lead and we've got one other big county and then three smaller counties to come in. there is some stuff in charlotte and stuff in raleigh yet to come in but it's like a small percentage of the vote. this is going to be tight as a tick and we are literally going to be waiting here for all these little places you could never -- there is a county, up recommends, 63-39 -- excuse me, 34 in 2016. over on the atlantic ocean, s

later greensboro north carolina. the records just were not there i really thought a strikeout frankly which is devastating because then you hit the archives and answer your question but knowing and then an interview he gave in 1978 and then running a black women's college in north carolina. so will send it is a little bit of a bolts of the interview is about that over the course of the interview she talked about voting rights but not 1920. talk about the fifties and sixties because it's close to a man to knock on the doors but with the fifties and sixties but that was the story put up in 1965 is where it should arrive at the voting rights act that year that black seven is like my grandmother in a quickly gets a vote spent the fact that she wanted to talk about 1955 as opposed to 19 twenties seems the reason the book the reason this book exist. so when did you know you would include the memoir this personal story at the beginning of your book and why do you think as a historian it's a good tool to use? >> a long time