which just today overturned a key provision of the voting rights act of 1965 which required the jim crow states to get federal permission before changing any of their voting laws. thankfully, chief justice john roberts, old blue eyes, knows that the south doesn't need to be baby sat anymore saying, quote, nearly 50 years later things have changed dramatically. yes, for some reason since the voting rights act was passedded, things have changed dramatically. therefore, we can get rid of it now. it's just like those outdated labor law that prohibit children from threading bobbins on a loom. a kid hasn't been suckd into one of those machines in year. let's stop playing nanny here. i'll have more on this important decision later in the show with my guest professor peniel joseph. i hear he's black. nation, i don't pay attention to south america any more than i care about east america or west america or upsidedown america. but even i cannot help but notice that brazil is going through a major political upheaval or as they call it futbol. jim? >> nearly a million people spilled into the streets

today the supreme court made some major changes to the voting rights act saying the days of jim crowe, fire hoses and ger n germaneregerman shepherds are over. i'll get jesse jackson's reaction to the decision. >> the theme from the james bond mov movie, brings you back to days of the past, right? today russia cleared up the mystery of the location of edward snowden. he said, yes, snowden is in moscow and, no, the russians will not turn him over to the u.s. those tense and uncompromising days of yesteryear not exactly back but may be a certain nostalgia in the air. he has not officially crossed the border into russia so he's in a travel limbo like tom hanks in "limbo." while the u.s. does not have an extradition treaty with russia, the white house says there's a clear legal basis to expel him. his passport has reportedly been revoked and he's facing espionage charges. the white house released a statement reading in part "we are asking the russian government to take action to expel mr. snowden without delay and to build upon the strong law enforcement cooperation we have had, particula

law professor michelle alexander, author of the book, "the new jim crow," says the nation faces a human rights nightmare more than 40 years after the end of legal segregation. >> in cities like chicago, more than half of working-age african-american men now have criminal records, and they can be legally discriminated against for the rest of their lives in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. so many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind in the jim-crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon. >> in the 1960s, ministers like dr. martin luther king, jr. were in the forefront of the civil rights movement. there's been no similar movement to end mass incarceration. >> i think dr. king would be just so deeply saddened and appalled by what we've allowed to happen in this country in the years since his death. >> we're told to visit the prisoner, and so that goes with what we do and who we are. >> tom navin oversees prison ministries for the catholic diocese of little rock, but he says jesus' command to care for prisone

his car keys were still in his hand along with a stack of t-shirts that said "jim crow must go." there was no conviction in his murder for another 30 years. medgar evers was never as famous as martin luther king or rosa parks or malcolm x. they did make the evers home into a museum not long ago. if you want, you can go there, you can stand in the driveway. you can see it for yourself. the locals ask you be respectful. you're visiting a place where a family lived. a few months ago in mississippi medgar evers' widow, she talked about her husband's decision to stay in mississippi knowing at the time what could happen to him. she said, "he always said mississippi is my home. i love the place where i was born and i will do whatever i have to do to make it the best place in the united states of america. he would say to me, mississippi is going to be the best place in the country. and i told him, you have to be out of your mind. there's no way mississippi can become anything better than it is, and quite honestly i do not want any part of it and i do not know how you can do what you do.

it remains the last part of jim crow laws that's designed to protect and lock out minorities from the construction industry as far as labor is concerned. my records is that it cost a lot of money to have davis-bacon wage scales. and our king construction records help show 8% to 38% to bid a project. according to beacon hill there is a 9% to 37% increase. i use the 20% increase as a rule of thumb to discuss the amount of costs that's extra. if we are going to have federally-mandated union scale that turns out to be the increase in price for every federal construction project that has $2,000 or more in it, the result of that is we are going to build four miles of bridges instead of five, only four military facilities instead of five. only four training facilities instead of five. we can get 20% more production out of the dollars that we have and maintain the quality, and maintain that sense of responsibility and have a trained work force and bring more trainees into the process and we'll employ, according to the study i have in front of me, an average of 25,000 more minorities each year

you know, we don't have the jim crow signs, we don't have the lynching anymore. so we really did lose that traditional america that we never really had to begin, right? -- begin with, right? eric, i want to ask you, you know, race has -- you know, blackness has had a particular history with media where images were reality and, in fact, images and words supersealedded reality and in many ways still do. >> sure. well, the book in my chapter on network television, i talk about how the image of african-americans have evolved on television over time. and, you know, we started out with these really, with the sort of mamie characters, we had beulah on 1950s television, then we had amos and andy, and then we got to the supernegros which were diane carroll and julia and bill cosby on i spy. for black characters to exist side by side with white characters, they had to be perfect. they, you know, bill cosby was a rhodes scholar, he was a karate expert, he spoke seven languages on i spy, and the guy who was his partner was a tennis mom, you know? that's what he needed to be

she made no reference that jim crow is homeland terrorism. she has no compassion and comprehension -- >> not the apology but deposition where she talks about planning a plantation style wedding with african americans dressed in white -- >> is that her job? >> yes, i think so. >> professor watkins? >> i mean, she's a cook. you know -- >> she's a brand. >> i think it isn't -- i think it is important for her to be educated, absolutely the same way rappers have to be educated about destructive lyrics and stuff like that. don't get me wrong, she can be forgiven. workplace racism is one of those serious problems that so many people experience that so many people have a hard time fighting but let's sort of thing about this for a second. you know, she is a south earn woman born in the 40s, spent 20 years of her life at least in a world where using the "n" word was acceptable. she has to be confronted but at the same time we have to ask herself how much different is paula deen from so many other millions of americans that will say things behind closed

i mean, just because we have a jim crow laws -- jim crow laws on the book in the 60 didn't mean racism went away. just because it was funny for women sports gaming sexism went away. and when we get marriage equality or the end of doma will still be lots of work to do. we have to be in this for the long haul. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers to watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> what are you reading this summer? booktv wants to know. >> [inaudible] the first is the humanity project by jean thompson. it's a novel about a philanthropist who start writing big checks in order to do virtuous things. another book on my list is a book about how we need. [inaudible] and the last book on my list is -- >> let us know what you reading this summer. tweet us at the booktv. posted on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host neela banerjee, energy and environment reporter for the "los angeles times." this week award-winning journalist laurence

>> although betty didn't work in the shipyard she got a job filing parts for a union, known as a jim crow union because of laws that kept it segregated. >> as a young woman of color i could have been working this agriculture or union working in the hall was a step up. >> newly married betty and her husband decided to build a new home for themselves in the rural area known as walnut creek. the dream of their peaceful suburban life never came on to be. >> we begin to receive threatening letters saying that if we dared, on thetreet, they would burn it. it was absolutely devastating. >> betty and her family refused to give up their home. >> 20 years later, in 1972, that same community. that is how socialt social chane occurred. when i came back to richmond ten years ago, this time. remember the situation. >> her new role brought her into the rosie riveter memorial museum. >> this is i can do it rosie that was the story. it didn't say anything about my li m and my story. >> she spoke up and became a park ranger and made sure the newest historical park included the perspective of all members of

she made no reference that jim crow is homeland terrorism. she has no compassion and comprehension -- >> not the apology but deposition where she talks about planning a plantation style wedding with african americans dressed in white -- >> is that her job? >> yes, i think so. >> professor watkins? >> i mean, she's a cook. you know -- >> she's a brand. >> i think it isn't -- i think it is important for her to be educated, absolutely the same way rappers have to be educated about destructive lyrics and stuff like that. workplace racism is one of those serious problems that so many people experience that so many people have a hard time fighting but let's sort of thing about this for a second. you know, she is a southern woman born in the 40s, spent 20 years of her life at least in a world where using the "n" word was acceptable. she has to be confronted but at the same time we have to ask ourself how much different is paula deen from so many other millions of americans that will say things behind closed doors -- >> professor watkins, let me ask

and the t-shirt say jim crowe must go. then this powerful sound of the rifle.e taught them to do. fall to the floor and go to the safest place in the house, which they had determined was the bathroom and in the bathtub. i ran to the front door screaming, opened the door. the force of the bullet had pushed him forward beyond my car. he had fallen and was strong enough to pull himself around the car with his keys in his hand. and that's what i saw. and that's what my children saw. >> you've always continued in the movement. >> yes, i have. >> you have been in the naacp board. the world will remember you and your regal bearing at the president's second inauguration. >> that's kind of you. >> what you've done is remarkable in your own right. >> well, thank you. it has not been easy, but doing the things that i have done helped to dismiss the hatred that i had. and i don't say that proudly. it's honest. i still get angry. i saw an exhibit in jackson, mississippi, about medgar, but it included the rifle that killed him. and it stopped me in the door as i looked upon

>> although betty didn't work in the shipyard she got a job filing parts for a union, known as a jim crow union because of laws that kept it segregated. >> as a young woman of color i could have been working this agriculture or union working in the hall was a step up. >> newly married betty and her husband decided to build a new home for themselves in the rural area known as walnut creek. the dream of their peaceful suburban life never came on to be. >> we begin to receive threatening letters saying that if we dared, on the street, they would burn it. it was absolutely devastating. >> betty and her family refused to give up their home. >> 20 years later, in 1972, that same community. that is how fast social change occurred. when i came back to richmond ten years ago, this time. remember the situation. >> her new role brought her into the rosie riveter memorial museum. >> this is i can do it rosie that was the story. it didn't say anything about my life and my story. >> she spoke up and became a park ranger and made sure the newest historical park included the perspective of all members of

and its history throughout the slavery and jim crow. how did this change occur? were you able to put together this coalition to be elected given your history as a radical and activist in the black liberation struggle? >> i think it is a tribute to our consistency. it is a tribute to our refusal to say that we would out to the oppression that was around us. it is a tremendous story of our people. you talked about medgar evers. but the continuation since medgar evers of fighting against oppression and economic repression, fighting against the kinds of things that have surfaced in our decades which are similar to the kinds of things you cite in the distant history of jackson, we have been persistent. with that persistence it, our people are ready to move to a different level of the element. i should say that people should take note of jackson because we have suffered some of the worst kinds of abuses in the history -- in history, but we are about to make some advances and strides in the development of human rights and the protection of human rights that i think have

a lot of liberals are saying it will take us back to the era of jim crow where black voters were disenfranchiseddo you see it? >> i think it's important to note this was not a radical decision. the court said the constitution requires that all states be treated equally. those extraordinary circumstances existed in 1965 because there was rampant discrimination. those conditions no longer exist and as chief justice roberts wrote, current burdens on the states need to be justified by current needs. so they said take the formula you had in 1965 and reconsider it. if you think it's still important, it's fine we can do it but you need to come up with a new formula. >> paul: roberts this signaled this inviting congress to rewrite the formula. it didn't. >> that is right. that was an 8-1 decision. >> paul: roberts reported to the liberal justices who supported that, even though they opposed this decision. >> the president's view his reaction is disappointment in the decision is very telling, as telling of the left's view. first black president nothing has changed on voting rights front past 40 years is

liberals saying that this is going to send us back to the era before the voting rights act before jim crowehere black voters were disenfranchised. how do you see this decision? >> i think it is really for to know this is not a radical decision. what the court said here basically was that the constitution requires that all states be treated equally except in extraordinary circumstances. those extraordinary circumstances existed in 1965 when the voting rights act was passed because there was rampant and extreme discrimination in certain states. those conditions no longer exist. and as chief justice roberts wrote current burdens on the state immediate to be justified by current needs. they said that take the formula that you had in 1965 and reconsider it 37 p you still think it is for you can do it but you need to come up with a new formula which they get the extra scrutiny. >> robert signaled in 2009 and earlier cases invite congress to rewrite that formula. it didn't. >> and -- >> that's right. that was an 8-1 decision. >> right. in roberts -- the democratic -- liberal justices who supported

which just today overturned a key provision of the voting rights act of 1965 which required the jim crowto geed

the legislation was enacted in response to jim crow laws. some say the voting rights act is outdateed. new detail on n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. the sons turning up heat on russia to arrest snowden. the foreign minister is lashing out at washington, dc, this morning, calling america's demands if have a addition "ungrouped and unacceptable." russia insists they have nothing to do with snowden or the travel plans. the contractor is believed hiding in now while he seeks asylum he checked in for a flight to chew -- cuba but never got on board. >> at 10:00 lat night a man was involved in a hit-and-run accident. a bicyclist was on the ground when the police arrived and a white car hit the man and took off the anyone withness is asked to call the vallejo police department. >> in 2015 san francisco will play host to the nation's mayors. the mayor lee announced san francisco will post the summer session of a conference of mayors in june of 2015. the chronicle reports this is the first time san francisco has hosted the conference since then a

like -- as much as we don't want to say things haven't changed but exactly what they did in the jim crowis how the movement in birmingham and bessemer emerged in the civil rights era. the naacp was effectively shut out of the south during the early portion of the civil rights movement because state by state by state they passed -- these legislatures passed laws saying any national organization that operated within a state had to divulge their membership. what it allowed hem to do is what art pope is doing with the website, who are the naacp members in alabama, mississippi. you had to rely on grassroots activism because the naacp had been pushed so far to the margins. i think this is more pernicious because it's attacking inherently north carolinian grassroots tactics where it is. >> it is appalling. i'm so sorry we're not having chris. you know, nerdland i'm not leaving this north carolina story. we will have more on moral mondays. i want to thank jelani and kai and joshua, not only for being here but pulling together for a fast segment on north carolina. bryon will be back later. coming

and atmosphere that led to the ending of reconstruction which eventually led to the creation of jim crow and apartheid in the united states of america. so if you look at 1876 to 1895, in that 20 year period we saw the beginning of the end of dual citizenship in this country so that was a rather small value in 1915 he died a broken hearted, financially not near as well off as he once was so i spent a lot of time with groups talking about the history of this. if it happened before it can happen again. when we see this, what the supreme court is going to do with civil rights act in 1965 and most experts think that is about to come to a significant local end, programs with affirmative-action simply means you can take positive steps, positive steps to overcome current defects in the nation. it will not happen by itself but if you bring it back to the close that that is about to happen. one of the leading scholars in this country who is saying that he believes chief justice roberts plan for the chief justice for the civil-rights movement as we know it and to look at the numbers and sees that t

means in practice is that in the 15 states which dated back decades that had traditionally practiced jim croweactics, the feds won't be looking over their shoulder in advance. it makes once again how politics works at the local level. i think it's fair to say that a lot has changed. i think you're going to have to see some vigilance by political groups. and you still do have the prospect that somebody who does feel disenfranchised could bring suit after the fact. but what i hope we see from these two decisions is the kind of resurgence of the recognition of how important politics is, that it matters at the local level, and that this gives people something to really get engaged with. >> arthel: we definitely will hear a lot more to come on that one. you mentioned the word politics. let's talk about congress. the senate passing major immigration reform. now what happens? >> now it probable lea dies in the house -- probably dies in the house. that's a problem. the -- i heard the chair of the republican committee just before i got on saying we're leading the debate on immigration reform and i thou

she was a child of the jim crow era.ou know, when we have this huge reaction, we shot down someone who uses the word. we feel better like we have stood up for blacks, but we have not done anything to change the 46% high-school dropout rate that black kids have versus 25 percent. we have not changed 70 percent@ of black children out of wedlock. we have not change the 28 percent of blacks living at the poverty line. so what we make such a big deal about ugly horrible words? we seem to not be doing a lot to address the deeper problems. >> well, it may be a case of the things about potestas to much. like i said before, there was no backlash. the other thing, these stores like targets that are dropping paula dean, i they're refusing now to sell the rap music of the stars to use that word all the time? dennis: that is a good point. >> at the same time target and walmart saying we will no longer sell rap cds and videos that have that word in it, are they? dennis: that is one of the biggest sellers of music. i doubt there will d

here is the author of jim crow ending racism in post america. welcome to you. let me ask you michael why is there such an angry reaction today? spell it out to me. >> it's good to be on the program on a day or week with where americans are so concerned with civil rights and equal justice in the country. as to your specific question, i think people are concerned about issues of race in the country and particularly this voting rights decision because it's a sad and tragic decision. the -- particularly when you think about the 50th anniversary of medgar who fight and die to register people to vote in mississippi. when you got nelson mandela one of the greatest fighters for voting who is fighting for his life in a hospital. this background is particularly troubling when you have this decision come down. it -- to strike down the voting rights act, which is the most democratizing piece of legislation we passed in this country where 800,000 new voters were registered within two years after the passing in 1965 is really sad, and for the majority to basically say that w

this is a throwback to jim crow era one drop rules, and it's really reminiscent of nullenburg. >> in005 he started his own one-man nonprofit financed by a charitable group called donor's trust. and they spent $1.2 million from anonymous donors. so he turned his sights on finding the perfect plaintiffs to take on any law that actively considers race to create more racial equality. one argument was that the south changed and voting rights act was no longer needed and the case made it to the supreme court but this time he lost with a newly conservative spring court he turned to his affirmative action, targeting the university of texas, which admits anybody that graduates in the top of the glass, and in order to destroy that system he set out to find the perfect white student, setting up a website, asking white students who were rejected to send in their stories. he was not finding any white rejected kids up to the task until his own buddy called him up and said his daughter had been rejected from the university of texas. he said he would not have to pay a single cent in legal cost, and

laws as poll taxes, like the jim crow laws.e investigation with the fox news reporter james rosen. will holder bang in? or bail? we have a fox news contributor and former political adviser to frank lautenberg and a former outreach director for john mccain's campaign. ford and julie, welcome. ford, let me start with you. what do you predict for mr. holder? >> well, look, from the black panther voter controversy to fast & furious, the latest a.p. and fox news scandals, bottom line is that trust and attorney general eric holder has done little to promote dispruft transparency and the rule of law. whether or not he parsed his words and lied under oath, his credibility's shot because it's his namehehat appears atmça8Ñ bottom of the warrant. so essentially, if:ccx more coms out in the hearings, essentially, attorney general eric holder is done. he will probably be out by fall. it wouldn't surprise me if he was replaced by deval patrick. >> eric: julie, do you think his credibility is shot? >> i think what happened with the a.p. is ab

the south and deep south and there's a legacy of slavery, a legacy of discrimination, and while jim crow deep south and other parts of the country but you have arizona that's covered, alaska that's covered, parts of new york new york that's covered, parts of california. there's a reality post-2010 we saw in this country. in 41 states, 180 voter suppression laws were introduced in the 2011-2012 legislative session. it was an extraordinary moment, collective action, trying to suppress the rights -- >> we have amap here that shows. these have states that have passed voter i.d. laws not covered by section 5. we talk about section 5 being a backstop against, you know, voter suppression laws. these are states not covered. they managed to go out and do this in the last few years. and there's nothing to stop other states that aren't covered from doing the same. that idea, though, of all of the -- of how lopsided the republican support was in 2006 for the reauthorization, i think when i was listening to a bit of the oral argument before the court in march, scalia was addressing it. he was basic c

that decision ushered in three generations of jim crow in this country. we do not expect this decision to bring back jim crow, that it --ll destabilize the country. but it will destabilize my state, destabilize the country. things that we have gotten used to. used to trying to make efforts that isdiscrimination. going to be destabilized. congress, we believe that congress will step up to the plate as it has done again and again. and overcome this outrageous and disgraceful decision. >> they represent over 80 years of passionate work in this area. we thank you for the work you have done. the naacp, legal defense fund, all of us will be calling on passionate advocates across the country to keep watch and keep an eye open for jurisdictions who may try to implement some kind of voting changes during this interim period. we will also be setting up a hotline number and that number will be released soon. our organizations will be taking complaints from citizens who may have continued complaints. especially in these covered jurisdictions. i want to thank all of y

for 300 years we had legalized slavery, and then we had another 100 years of segregation based on jim crow." she thought it would be grossly premature to say that after many years of legalized discrimination based on one factor, race, it's now time to get rid of affirmative action. she told me she was only 1 of 20 or so blacks in law school at u.t. and said that there were only seven black men in the entire class that followed her in law school, the class of 2000. more important than just population data, she said, will be questions of who is running the institutions and, thereby, who is running the country. wherever we are in race relations, this week has proved that the supreme court is wrong. in the opinion released on monday neutering the voting rights act, chief justice roberts wrote that congress, "re-enacted a formula based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relation to the present day." if only things had changed that much. 40 years later, we are not as far along as the supreme court thinks. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts r

he brought the struggle for civil rights to mississippi at the height of the jim crow era., evers was assassinated in his own driveway by a white supremacist. 50 years later his legacy lives on. his widow gave a speech at the inauguration in january. including a public memorial service, held yesterday at evers gravesite at arlington national cemetery. >> the nation was built and it continues to be improved by patriots like medgar evers. >> next time you hear people complaining in washington about what a rough business democracy is, we might want to remember what it was like 50 years ago and the sacrifices that were made. >> we also heard from mrs. evers williams, a civil rights pioneer herself, working to carry medgar's legacy forward. >> and i can hear medgar's voice saying, i thank you all for believing in me but it's really not necessary. just get out there and prove that you believe in me. and you believe in my country which is our country. >> the murder of medgar evers came at a critical moment for the country, just two months before dr. king's march on washington. ove

the society comes along actually society was ahead all along, and maybe they were restrained by jim crowefrom doing the right thing. but we can see now how our current social standards have shifted tremendously. and we now need to just be more candid about it. what bothers me is how reluctant people are to talk about race candidly, because they're afraid they're going to be called racist or something like that. >> or do something about race. but you know in 2008, president obama, then senator obama, victoria, made a speech on race that i think really took the mainstream a little further up the road toward really dealing with a real balance in terms of how we look at these things. listen to this. >> i am married to a black american who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners, an inheritance we pass on to our two preciouses daughters. i have nephews, nieces, uncles and cousins of every race and every hue scattered across three continents. and for as long as i live, he will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible. >> so the changing demographi

despite ideological differences, they let jim crow get away with it down there. kennedy came along and said a year before a presidential election where it was not going to be a cakewalk for him saying, okay, i'm going to do this thing and i know the price. >> that's right. in 1960, as you well know, chris, he got 70% of the african-american vote, jfk, over richard nixon, and there is some anger in the black community that he wasn't doing enough, kennedy. bobby kennedy did a lot with james meredith at ole miss, and as attorney general, but this was john f. kennedy stepping out primetime, 8:00 p.m., and giving what i think is one of the great speeches ever. and, of course, that night medgar evers was watching in mississippi and i was murdered in jackson and had to crawl into his living room. so it's profound. >> you know, the idea, bill, congressman, of this whole question of i know from studying this, when kennedy was shot down in texas, he was in texas for a reason. he needed texas and at least georgia. he was hang on to two southern states a at that point in his

and that night, he got out on the driver's side with an armful of t-shirts that said "jim crow must goim in hisstruck back, ricocheted throughout his he lasted 30 minutes after that. the doctors said they did not know how he did. but he was determined to live. his body is not here, but he still lives. i am very happy, proud, and pleased to have played a part in making the country. >> ramarley evers, 50 years ago today, june 12, 1963, her husband, the civil-rights leader medgar evers, 37 years old, was assassinated in his driveway in jackson, mississippi. that does it for our broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

she made no reference that jim crow is homeland terrorism. has no compassion and comprehension for what she -- >> not just the apology. >> okay. so listen. people talk about the first thing people say, no one wants to be accused of being a racist. right? that's like the worst thing you can do is accuse someone of being a racist. but you can have racist thoughts. you can have racist actions and not be a full racist and i think many people don't realize that. someone saying the "n" word or not noticing cultural references as she has all of this time. those are racist qualities. am i wrong? >> no. that is absolutely right. it's really about the blindness of white america to not only the history of that word and its meaning but also the history that she nostalgiaizes when she talks about wanting to have a plantation wedding for her relative and what not. about a year ago she was over at the "new york times" doing a conversation with a reporter there that's on video where she says back in those days blacks were like our family. we didn't think of

board of education, this country has worked on its past on 200 years of slavery and 100 years of jim crow laws. we still have a ways to go on that. that has been the ideal and brown versus board of education was not decided by popular vote, and it's really the constitution, the 14th amendment that we're talking about. >> ifill: we will leave it right there. lee bolinger, president of colombia university and gail heriot, university of san diego school of law, thank you both. >> thank you. s. >> ifill: the court will be handing down additional decisions tomorrow. you can follow those developments on scotusblog, which you can find on our home page beginning at 10:00 a.m., as well as coverage of still- pending challenges to the voting rights act and same-sex marriage. >> brown: and now to the search for edward snowden. the "south china morning post" reported today that the former u.s. intelligence contractor said in an interview that he originally accepted a job at booz allen hamilton in order to have access to the national security agency's surveillance programs. a diplomatic storm is now br

despite ideological differences, they let jim crowe get away with it down there.get away with what they were doing. kennedy came along in a year before a presidential election where it was not going to be a cakewalk for him, he said okay, i'm going to do this thing and i'll pay the price. >> in 1960, as you well know, he got 70% of the african-american vote, jfk over richard nixon. and there is some anger in the black community that he wasn't doing enough. now bobby kennedy did a lot with james meredith at old miss. and as attorney general. but this is john f. kennedy stepping out prime time, 8:00 p.m. and giving what i think is one of the great speeches ever. and of course that metger evers was watching and was murdered and had to crawl into his living room. it's profound. >> i know from studying this, when kennedy was shot down in texas, he was in texas for a reason. he needed texas, and he needed at least georgia. he was hanging on to two southern states at this point in his race for reelection. he know how bad things had gotten for him politically down there.