growing up in lumberton, north carolina, crump had to learn tough lessons himself.f nine children raised in public housing by great grandmother minnie. >> we would read the newspaper. trying to guess and sound out the words together and figure out what they meant. but in reading those newspapers, it was showing me that there was a bigger world out there for me. >> reporter: a world he thought beyond the cruelty he saw as a boy in the south. >> had an uncle who was the first person in our family to go to college. came back to see us in the projects. i guess the local police wanted to show him that even though he was a college boy, he was still black. they brutalized him in front of all of us. huh. >> you're sitting here with me, but as you began to tell that story, it seemed you went someplace else. >> i thought about -- just my mother and my uncles and all the adults. because i was a child. how helpless they were in that moment. >> reporter: crump swore he would never be helpless, so the law became his shield and his weapon of choice. not simply defending his client

my father is from lumberton, north carolina my mother is from greenville, south carolina. i enjoyed reading your book," blessed experiences." one of the things at the beginning you say is that you would have actually [indiscernible] there was something special about being an african-american from the south and the time you grew up in and doing the work you did. you have had a storied history as an activist on the street, in boardrooms and the national legislation -- legislature. what would you add is the next chapter to your book? >> thank you very much for having me and thanks to all who are participating this evening for allowing me the opportunity to spend some time with you. to answer your question, if i were going to write another chapter, i would probably would entitle it " the more things change, the more they stay the same." my first meeting with john lewis and it was also the weekend of the assassination of martin luther king jr.. that was the weekend of our tober 14 or 15, 19 60 took place on the campus of morehouse college. it was at a time when people don't tal

my father is from lumberton, north carolina, and my mother is from greenville, south carolina. i enjoyed reading your book," blessed experiences." genuinely southern, and proudly black. at the beginning, one of the things you say is you would have named it, i, too, am a southerner. there's something special about being an african-american from the south in the times you grew up in you did. , and doing the work that you did. you have had a storied history as an activist on the street, in boardrooms, and in the national legislature. in light of the 2020 elections in the biden presidency, what would you out as the next chapter to your book? rep. clyburn: thank you very much for having me. and thanks to all who are participating this evening for allowing me the opportunity to spend some time with you. to answer your question, if i were going to write another chapter, i would probably would entitle it, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." i would probably go back to my first meeting with john lewis. it was also the weekend i first met martin luther king jr. and tha