a quick -- in mississippi. according to -- our students living in poverty are outperforming their peers nationally. black, white and hispanic students from low income households achieved higher scores than the national average in all four subjects. [applause] for decades, we were at the bottom. but now, we are not. it takes time to go from last to first. but mississippi kids are on the move. it is revitalizing our state future. they say imitation is the sincere and's -- the sincerest form of flattery. all of you in the legislature should be flattered. because again, according to the economist. many states have noticed mississippi's success and have passed similar legislation. it is the last time you heard that? from naches to tunica, every person in mississippi should be proud. these education reforms and the gains they have wrought is what happens when republicans and democrats come together, when we set aside our differences and focus on what matters most, there is no limit to what mississippians can achieve.

no we won't mississippi teacher said yes we well.applause] they did not walk out but they stepped up i want you to join me to stand up for them i would like everyone to take just a moment to give our teachers the applause they deserve. [applause] thank you. one great mississippi and bb ncking said the beautiful thing about learning is that no one can ever take it away from you. those who push long time school closures would have taken the opportunity away from our children and in other states students remained out of thete classroom locked away from teachers and peers. we chose not to let that happenll teachers will not back down amid unprecedented battle with the child's right to learn that's why we must give her teachers that pay raise the deserve. you all know i am a conservative. many of you here tonight are as well and as conservatives we believe in rewarding hard work and success and there is nos doubt mississippi teachers fit the mold. i am confident in the session working together we will get a significant pay raise done cred

the state of mississippi. ellen b. meacham: the state had its own spy agency, essentially. they paid mississippians to spy on other mississippians. reuben v. anderson: the sovereignty commission investigated 85,000. mississippians and they were a force in holding black people down and white people who wanted to change things. we lost a lot of great people who gave up on mississippi and moved away. speaker 16: it's time to take a stand. by working together, we can and will safeguard our freedom [music pying] gerald blessey: barnett was governor up until the end of 1963. he couldn't run for re-election, but he could step out for four years and come back, which is what we feared. we didn't want to spend the rest of our lives being led by people like that. frank thackston: barnett had prospects for getting re-elected, and maybe senator kennedy would like to have something to say about that. gerald blessey: but if we could just expose those conversations, he'd be seen as a liar, even tthe segregationists. we'd need

our peop are black women and girls in the state of mississippi. >> reporter: mississippi is the onlyte in the country without a law that requires equal pay for equal work by women and men. what does that mean for women of color in mississippi, specifically black women in the state? >> what that means is, women are losing wages at higher levels, because they are black and because they are a woman. when women can't earn a living wage andake care of their families, right, it impacts every area of their life. and when we talk about black women? black women make 56 cents on the dollar, compared to a white non-hispanic man, and she's losing, over the course of a year, over $21,000. over the course of a 40-year career, she loses over $849,000. so what that means is that she doesn't have enough money to save up for retirement. she doesn't have resources for health care, for putting her children through college. and so, she's never able to recover those lost wages. we have been working for the last, i'd say, six years to get an equal pay law passed in the state of mississippi. so, women in th

all: , mississippi was the birthplace of the blues.now the origin of the case before the supreme court that could overturn the ruling that gave women the right to choose, nearly half a century ago. why do you want abortion to stop injackson? because it's murder. murdering children wrong according to the god of the bible. we need to obey god. he's bringing judgment against this land we are killing children in this land. and it needs to stop and this country needs to repent. this is the only abortion clinic in the whole state of mississippi. the difficult and deeply personal decision that women who come here have made isjudged very publicly. this is the front line in a bitter battle that's gone on for decades. rainbow—clad escorts come to protect patients trying to access what remains their constitutional right from protesters and increasing efforts to intimidate them. i believe in a right to protest, i absolutely do. hold your sign, but when you're yelling at patients, that's not protesting. ma'am, you don't need to go through with this

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case and set the argument date december 1 fromrt mississippi, the question in mississippi is, are alltions on the availability of abortion before viability unconstitutional? so texas band abortion after roughly six weeks. that is the question. we know six weeks e is before viability, 15 weeks before viability. aside from the weird vigilante stuff t about your neighbor can sue your doctor and all that, at the heart of the question, can texas restrict access to t eabortion? that's a question agreed to decide. typically when the court has agreed to decide something and new case raising then' same question comes up, they put that on hold for an eventual decision in light of the first case to be decided so in the normal course of things what would have happened is the request for a stay in the texas case would have come off and the court would have stayed it, held in place to say the texas law on the verge of taking effect would not take affect but eventually the court would take that case if they felt necessary. the fact that they didn't do that says okay, there's an agenda driving a bunc

focusing on mississippi.-critical race theory legislation making its way through legislatures across this country, this week in fact in mississippi. black senators walked 0 ut in protest ahead of a final vote on the bill saying no school community college or university could teach that any sex, race, ethnicity religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior. that bill passed 32-2. it's now going to the house. the only recorded votes against that bill came from white democrats. i'm joined now by one of the senators who walked out on that vote, derek simmons, senate minority leader in mississippi. sir, thank you so much for joining me. what is it about this bill that drove you and all of the black senators to walk out of that chamber yesterday? >> alex, thank you so much for having me. the greatness of america is the right to protest for what is right. so yesterday along with my colleagues i walked out of the city chamber simply because this bill was not worthy of our vote. to talk about ceasing

for them to do, because in the mississippi case, december 1st, mississippi, the question in mississippi, the restrictions on the viability of abortion unconstitutional. so texas after six weeks, that's the question, 15 weeks, and the doctor and all that, the stuff, at the heart of the question, can texas restrict access to abortion. typically when they decide something when this comes up they put that case on hold, the decision in light of that, in the normal course of things what would have happened in the texas case and the court would have stayed it, the texas law on the verge of taking affect and the court will take that case. and agenda driving, takes 5 months for a study. for amy barrett's ascension to the court in ruth bader ginsburg's city, from stay, as justice sotomayor said when the court for the second time, issuance day, they get more pregnant. the constitution has been violated every day, the court refused to do that and in mississippi it is clear the mississippi law would be touted. whilst with the court have taken the case with there's no circuit, the main marker for the

she moved back to mississippi where she died in 2015 and just two years ago. she was honored in centerville of all. is right by these people who came together and this is actually mostly her family members here. you remember adeline in the book? that's that's adeline her sister and her brother. they came together and the city or i get the highway department honored her i guess with a highway segment and centerville there anne moody memorial highway, so i thought that was kind of a nice tribute. from archival. yes, please. i just have a question about the about the about the last photo yes when they were doing the when they were doing. i won the memorial for i didn't notice that in the background. i thought i saw the confederate flag in the background. oh, it's just oh, yes that flag in the back. yes. yes. it's from 2015. see if i can right i wondered about that too. i know good good spotted. yeah, i i don't know in 2015. yeah. that's an interesting question. perhaps that was so they only changed their flag very recently right didn't we talk about this? yeah, i

in mississippi there's only one abortion clinic that remains in that state.o carry a pregnancy to term in that state. even more generally, a person is 14 times more likely to die by carrying a pregnancy to term than by terminating it. so we have to look clearly at what these states are doing, given the data that we already know, the high death rates, the expense and costs, the various wait times and other things that have been posed, in many ways this is not just health risks, but it's life and death for a number of women, and we've not been serious and direct about that. and the judges who are involved in these cases have not been called on the carpet to not only look at what happens to girls but also to look at the life-and-death scenarios in the united states. i want to share one thing, and i know we're tight on time, but the united states ranks 54th in the world in terms of maternal healthiest. it's safer to give birth in bosnia or saudi arabia than the united states. so these laws in many ways are a deadly proposition. >> professor michelle goodwin, than

in mississippi, immediately yes, and several other states, too. >> reporter: mississippi is oner statesrter: m of 12 states with laws in place to ban abortion if the court overturns "roe." more than a dozen others are likely to follow suit or impose severe restrictions. some would be six-week bans, like the law now being challenged in texas, which the court has allowed to remain in place. dissenting justice sonia sotomayor said it was a grave disservice to women in texas who have a right to control their own bodies. predicting how the supreme court is going to rule is always dangerous. justices can change their minds. so we won't know until we get a decision, probably in june, whether this will be the last time they're marching to overturn "roe." norah. >> o'donnell: jan crawford at the court tonight. thank you. threats against local election officials have skyrocketed. a new justice department task force is looking at 850 cases, and is planning to enhance security for workers who face those threats.e those threats. here here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: investigators say 54-year-ol

mo wright's home, in mississippi.ll-mobley, the mother of emmett till, turned her grief into a force for change following the brutal murder of her son in rural mississippi after he was kidnapped by two white men in 1955. >> when the people see what they did to my boy -- >> reporter: now her role in history and the legacy she's left behind is being spotlighted in the new six-part abc series "women of the movement." >> i want a public wake. tonight. open casket. and i don't want you doing a thing to him. >> reporter: mobley's decision to put her private pain on public display, showing the brutality of 14-year-old emmett till's death, shocked the world, changing hearts and minds. her quest for justice is also chronicled in the companion docuseries "let the world see" which features illuminating interviews from celebrities like common, to former first lady michelle obama. >> just trying to find a place where your kids can grow up safe and healthy and whole, that is a struggle, a conversation that every mother has. >> repo

and mississippi hasn't done so. >> suppose plessy v.ferguson was reargued in 1897, so nothing had changed, would it not be sufficient to say, that was an egregiously wrong decision on the day it was handed down and now it should be overruled? >> it certainly was egregiously wrong on the day it was handed down, plessy. but what the court said in analyzing plessy to brown and casey is that what had become clear is this idea that segregation didn't create a badge of inferiority had been entirely mistaken -- >> is it your answer that we needed all the experience between 1896 to 1954 to realize that plessy was wrongly decided? can you answer my question? had it come before the court in 1897, should it have been overruled or not? >> i think it should have been overruled. but i think the factual premise was wrong in the moment it was decided and the court realized that and clarified that when it overruled -- >> so there are circumstances in which a decision may be overruled, properly overruled when it must be overruled simply because it was eg

of dobbs versus jackson, the supreme court heard oral argument over the constitutionality of a mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. >>> the honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the supreme court of the united states. oh yea, oh yea, oh, yea. give your attention for the court is now sitting. god save the united states and this honorable court. >>> we will hear argument this morning in case 1992 in dobbs versus stewart. >> may it please the court. roe v. wade has no basis in the constitution, no home in our history of traditions. they've damaged the democratic process. they've poisoned the law. they've choked off compromise. for 50 years they've kept this court at center of a political battle that it can never resolve. 50 years on, they stand alone. nowhere else does this court honor life. the law includes robust exceptions for a woman's life and health. it leaves months to obtain an abortion. but the court struck this law down. the lower courts held that because the law prohibits abortions before viability, it is unconstitutional no matter wh

as you pointed out, we're waiting for the mississippi decision. 15-week ban in mississippi, the state of mississippi has asked to overturn roe v. wade and of course, justice breyer will be on the court when that decision comes down. but it won't change the balance of the court. but here's what it is going to change. it's going to be somebody of a new generation. it's going to be somebody who is a woman. it's going to be somebody who is a black woman. and that is bringing an entirely different experience, of course, from justice breyer's experience, and that's important and good. when you talk about reproductive rights and abortion rights, what actually happens to the people on the ground is so important. skbris breyer did capture that in his opinions. but to have somebody who really reflects the experience that women have is really important. >> there are a number of cases involving abortion restrictions around the country, the possible undoing of roe v. wade, as you mentioned, with the mississippi case that you're directly involved in. are there ways in which the preparations for the

there were no white if there were no white fbi agents in, mississippi. in 1964, but the movie made you think that there were it did not focus on the brave the very brave. a black souls in mississippi who had been weak who had been beaten murder and who had been marching for years and so the lens the lens in the soul of the filmmaker matters you had ava duvernay who made selma which was a titanic movie to me, and she should have been nominated for an oscar and she wasn't in that's a shame, but you know. she is a great filmmaker and she's going to she's going to do a lot of great things during her career. and i tell that story of selma in her role and how the movie got made and her backstory. i tell that story about. david duvernay in this book, so um, it is a wide sweeping story with a y angled lens. thank you so much. i think that's a good point to end on as any we're right at eight o'clock. this has been really just wonderful. thank you both for being here. it's it's it's just a really. important interesting thing to spend time thinking about and talkin

the lack of compassion and the hubris that under lied the mississippi and texas legislation deservedthe laws the state had in effect forced girls to carry the burden of its desires forcing many of them to risk their health and even risk death by remaining pregnant. joining us now is michelle goodwin, the chancellor's professor of law at the university of california irvine and the author of policing the womb and the criminalization of motherhood. professor, were you surprised that in that 90 minutes there was not once, not once a mention of or a real discussion or exchange about rape and incest and little girls? >> unfortunately i was not surprised that it was lacking in the questioning from the justices themselves. that it was an issue that was not raised. what is so horrific is that in the texas and in the mississippi law there are no exceptions for instances of rape or incest and it is ironic given that was specific in the laws that the justices did not address it at all. >> you write in your piece about your own experience, my father's predations were hidden behind wealth, social

dennis led one at the mississippi river where his son's body was found. >> the mississippi collects alot of bodies when people go missing. >> amanda was with during one of the searches. >> i had to do something for her. she would have done it for me. >> sarah paxton was searching, too. she remembered trudging through a park covered with a fresh blanket of snow. >> every search i felt smaller and smaller and the world felt bigger and bigger. she was one of my closest friends. i loved her dearly. it just felt like a needle in a haystack. >> a needle in a haystack. but carrie's friends and family would not stop looking or hoping. dozens of tips came in from strangers, well wishers, even psychics. but it would be something much closer to home that would finally lead to the first clues about what really happened. >>> coming up. new questions about carrie's new boyfriend. >> it sounds like she was getting ready to maybe end the relationship with justin. >> when "dateline" continues. (swords clashing) -had enough? -no... arthritis. here. aspercreme arthritis. full prescription-strength? redu

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the architect plan was more self ignoring the indian mound, the magnolia to the mississippi river. in 1925 florida at gainesville retained rick olmsted to prepare plans to improve the quadrangle which is later named the plaza of the americas in 1931, 21 folks were planted on the quadrangle, one for each of the republics in the america at that time. concurrently the university created the center for latin american studies. this is what the quadrangle looks like today. something really interesting happened, a lot of interesting things happen in alabama in the 1920s. but for the purpose of our story in 1928 led by the governor alabama engaged in the olmsted brothers in a statewide planning of the segregated colleges, all of the universities at that time and colleges in alabama were involved except the university of alabama and that is a separate story. in the land-grant universities were included. the alabama polytechnic institute which is auburn now had been founded in 1856 as the east alabama male college, then renamed after the agricultural mechanical college of alabama in 1872 as

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now this comes ahead of an upcoming supreme court ruling on a mississippi law that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. this directly conflicts with the past decisions on abortion , the landmark decision in roe versus wade for bates states from banning abortion before a fetus becomes viable, or roughly 22 weeks. in december, the courts conservative justices signaled that they were inclined to uphold the mississippi law. we spoke with antiabortion advocates here in san francisco. >> i was pregnant at 15, so it is very near and dear to me that people are understanding how to put their arms around a young woman and embrace her, versus what the culture is offering and ending a life. >> i got off a flight last night from the march for life in washington, d.c., came out here to do the walk for life. i am excited to be at what we believe will be the last walk for life before roe versus wade is overturned. we believe roe versus wade will be overturned and go back to the states. >> reporter: the outcome of the mississippi case is not expected until the summer of this year, but both