roy wilkins traveled to jackson, mississippi, in 1963, to join medgar evers, a field secretary of theaacp. evers was organizing a protest against stores refusing to hire blacks. 12 days later, an assassin killed medgar evers. ♪ >> i went down with medgar evers to protest the denial of employment by woolworth stores. it was only 12 days before he was slated to go. he gave me a modus operandi for dealing with white folks. he said, now there's policemen on this corner, and they're policemen in the rear, and the thing to do is not to be any different than the people on the street. therefore, you must conceal the signs. >> roy wilkins was arrested that day in jackson. his philosophy of leadership stressed responsible, non-violent action. and within the framework of the constitution, confrontation could be justified. [ applause ] after 20 years of active leadership of the naacp, roy wilkins retired. his successor, lawyer, banker, minister benjamin l. hooks. >> the naacp will not go into eclipse because mr. wilkins has resigned. in fact, he's still contributing his talents and time as direct

and at the time of the freedom rise and the assassination medgar evers. nixon has some successes. when he -- i edited nixon tapes for 1962 he beat mcgovern in the biggest landslide in american history. and nixon is saying, someone has got to be a book about 1962. i'm the best present ever i just won the biggest landslide. i did the breakthrough to china. you know, and went on all the things that he did. and next month watergate is hounding him and his reputation has been destroyed by the combination of those tapes with anti-semitic slurs and the watergate fiasco. so nixon hasn't been able to track, you will not see him rank so high up. the tapes killed his presidency. because they were the smoking gun and they also hurting him from rising in history where as kennedy, because the assassination in dallas, it will always be the great young man no gunned down in his prime. we'll never see an old john f. kennedy. he is in our minds fixed at the prime of his life. and like edna mentioned, the lincoln assassination and the drama with that. if kennedy had lived what we have gone in vietna

it involves medgar evers. medgar evers was actually he fought in world war ii, he fought in normandy, fighting nazis there from mississippi to fight racism. that they had bumper stickers that said don't buy gas or you can use the restroom, so he was part of the campaign along with dr. jerry and howard if you know anything about civil rights history who worked on the mlk along with medgar evers.