if you're from the south, if you're medgar evers, for example, you know, medgar evers dropped out of high school in response to pearl harbor, went and fought for his country. he couldn't go to the university of mississippi. he got the g.i. bill. he couldn't go to ole miss, right in he had to go to the black college. he got a great education at that black college, but that's one way that the g.i. bill was discriminatory because back people could not access all the possible benefits of using that g.i. bill itself. so, sorry, i shouldn't call it -- the g.i. bill itself was not discriminatory, but the way that people who got it could access resources certainly was. but the good news, on the other hand, is that it does help a lot of people jump up9 into the middle class. and medgar evers is a great example of that. he got to go to college because of that. he went to college, he got a job, he became a middle class african-american at the time. and one of the things that we see in the wake of world war ii is the african-american economic situation improving greatly because of all the work a

medgar evers was killed and the people that killed medgar evers were found not guilty.so, the struggle is always long and it continues. but i think we should honor the legacy of those who have gone before us by keeping the fight going. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. i think, look. this is illustrative of where we are, especially with the republican party. so i want you to take a look at these three republican candidates in 2022. tonight, we are learning anti-government activist, ammon bundy, who is currently barred from entering idaho capitol grounds, running for governor of the state. there is also mark mccloskey running for senate in missouri. and in wyoming, state senator anthony bouchard, who is trying to unseat liz cheney, revealing he impregnated a girl when he was 18. when you think about those -- the caliber of candidates. look. think about it. whatever you want. i just laid the facts out. what is going on here? do you think it's self-drukz? destruction? what? >> so i think these candidates represent, these candidates appearing now, in the past we would have called fringe c

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medgar evers was murdered a year later and james silver was a professor at ole miss and wrote the booksociety which explained mississippi and we were invited to dine with william faulkner and oxnard mississippi six months before he died and they also met james meredith was planning, this is february study is planning the following fall to go to ole miss and be the lack -- first black student at ole miss and before i left i said mr. meredith would you write me a letter on why you want to go to ole miss and he did. and six months later and not fall when he went to ole miss my college newspaper had an exclusive james meredith explains why he's going and i can tell you if you did -- dig very deeply into the archives in the dark times is a tiny little clip that says james meredith and exclusive to the brandeis justice so that is what that was. i thought -- my first article was there. what did the kid from new york really know about what it meant to be black in mississippi at that time so it was deeply impressive and moving and became part of my worldview to understand that and i thought it