i met the laid medgar evers.axes, you should have new textbooks, you should have sidewalks, you should have street lights, you should have the same thing white kids have. i was very lucky to have these people in my life and developed a passion for justice. >> how i really got involved was during the trayvon martin trial. >> oh yes. >> when they had the nonindictment, i went into a deep depression. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> and so there there, i really had to process you know how we are viewed in this country. and then, what can i do about it? and even thinking about my kids. >> right. >> and so it seemed like it was back to back, trayvon then more stories then john crawford then eric garner. then it was like over and over and over, i was pissed, pissed. then when i saw what happened to michael brown. and then seeing the response from police of a mourning community that was grieving the loss of one of their kids, and how they were met with military force. and for four days i sat and watched. and i saw people, my peopl

the assassination of medgar evers in 1963. workers james cheney, michael schwerner and andrew goodman in 1964. hell, they had to send in 30,000 armed federal agents, national guardsmen and military police just to enforce federal law allowing a black man to attend state college. a notion that was, shall we say, less than popular here. to be honest, that was about all i had for an image of the state of mississippi. that was all i knew. and it hadn't occurred to me to look further. but i have traveled the world since then, and i have visited and learned to love many places not my own, cultures and beliefs very different from the upper east side of manhattan. why can't i love mississippi? ♪ ♪ ♪ never gonna fall from my spot, i move all this, in september ♪ ♪ black eye october, so you be thankful the party's not over ♪ ♪ we won the race because they ran a lame campaign ♪ ♪ i'm cooking victory, you want a taste ♪ >> pyinfamous is a proud son and resident of mississippi, a youth mentor in jackson's church and public school systems, o

i was an event at medgar evers college where alumni showed up and were able to talk with constituents and high school students who were in attendance there. i do believe obviously that there are ways in which to engage our best and our admissions area to deal -- to me particular students. obviously there are a number of students who have the desire to come and they want to visit and that can be cost prohibitive however we do address inquiries. we do our very best to listen to support up an alumnus or a faculty member or staff member who would voluntarily mentor students. as the president nearly everyone reached out to me directly and obviously i can't mentor and deal with every single student but through my alumni and staff clearly those are ways. i appreciate that suggestion. >> host: president brian johnson of tuskegee university and a part of our c-span tour. historically black colleges and universities. wayman from cincinnati ohio. thanks for waiting. you are next. >> good morning. i'm a veteran of tuskegee institute. all of my family are hbcu graduates and my wife and i and our c

. ♪ ♪ a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers' blood ♪ >> during that time in the '60s, asn was slowly bubbling and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country, they're looking for answers. >> bob dylan thought that folk music was poetry. he took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture, and it's more lyrical intensity than anybody's put to song before. ♪ and the negro's name is used, it is plain ♪ ♪ for the politician's gain as he rises to fame ♪ >> up until the time of bob dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. dylan started writing his own music. >> he says, i am going to comment on the world, i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob difficult bob dylan was in this sort of white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> royal canyon becomes the epi