john salter got hit in the back of the head with brass knuckles. cigarettes were put out on the back of his neck. the girls were pulled off their stools and dragged through the story. all kinded of crazy things win on during the three yours. but because the police did not stop the demonstration this made national news and gave oxygen to the movement that enabled it for the next two weeks to become major movement, and for more than a thousand people, mostly young people to be arrested, and so to pot lot was -- spotlight was finally beginning to shine on mississippi and would shine harder the following year during freedom summer. unfortunately the two weeks of unrest his demonstration started ended with the assassination of medgar evers in jackson, and that's how those two events are uniquely linked. i got one minute, so i want to tell my final story about the photographer. and that's fred blackwell there, who was only 22 years old when he took this famous photograph. he work for the local newspaper, the jackson daily news. he was a segregationist, j

the man sitting to the right of joan is john salter who was a professor at a college, a historically black college right outside of jackson. he also wrote a memoir of his experiences in jackson called "jackson, mississippi." but nub of them really -- none of them really had gone to the trouble of actually documenting, you know, footnoting, making sure that this is really prepared for the historians who will review it in depth in the future. and so i determined to take that task as by own, and for the next 20 years, really, from 992 until -- 1992 until just last year, it took me that long to get it down and to find a publisher and get it out. so thankfully, it's out now. and if i have a little bit more time, paula? how much we got? >> [inaudible] >> five minutes, okay, we're good. i wanted to talk a little bit about how this story is i uniquely linked to med garre's life -- medgar's life. and i didn't know this until i started going deeper into the story. because, of course, medgar evers was a naacp field secretary in mississippi, the sole staff person for the naacp within the state s