and thera lynde, he testified in the case and said, did you know she was a negro.why did you write the book? >> i wanted the witnesses, the brave african-americans, the local people. i would get back to washington. i wouldn't stay permanently in hattiesburg. they were going to live there. >> the hub city. i spent a lot of time at the university at southern mississippi. let me say this too. it's well-known. i am -- i love mississippi. lived there. my family has, since the '60s. and has a checkered past as many have. but i think also the message in the story, are the people such as yourself and others of all colors, who came together to right a wrong. and isn't that also part of the message, that we all need each other? we all have to help one another, to be equal? >> if we're going to have a healthy country, we can't have a second-class level of citizenship. it has to be equally open access for whites for blacks asian-americans, all of us. >> and how about the grandchildren of the witnesses? they must really love reading these stories and hearing about their -- >> t