have you ever worked with reverend james lawson? >> who? >> reverend james lawson? >> james lawson? where is he from? >> they did not say. >> didn't say. the name sounds familiar. it is not one that i have had very much work with. but i may have. >> ok. what about reverend james hinton of south carolina. he built the case with thurgood marshall that went to the supreme court. did you ever work with reverend james hinton? >> i did not work with him. but, thurgood marshall i did work with. as a matter of fact, when i represented the montgomery improvement association, i talked to mr. marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk with him and his staff and for them to help me with legal work. the first case that we filed was one of the cases that he and robert carter -- he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> we have a question. i know you were interested in talking about the tuskegee syphilis study and your work on that, which was groundbreaking. can you give us a summary of that? >> i have been filing a lot of suits against the state of alabama for discrimin

have you ever worked with reverend james lawson? >> who? >> reverend james lawson? >> name's lawson? lawson? >> yes. >> where is he from? >> they did not say. >> didn't say? >> no. >> the name sounds familiar. it's not one that i had very much work with, but i may have. >> okay. what about reverend james hintton of south carolina? he worked with -- built the case with thurgood marshall that went to the supreme court. did you ever work with reverend james hinton? >> i didn't work with him, but thurgood marshall i did work with, as a matter of fact, when i was retained to represent the montgomery improvement association, i got on the phone and talked to mr. marshall and asked him to let me come up there and talk to him and his staff and for them to help me with the legal work, and the first case that we filed was one of the cases that [inaudible] was counsel of record for me on that case. of course he went on to become a justice on the supreme court. >> absolutely. we do have a question. i know you were interested in talking about the tuskegee study and your work on th