myhought, g, my edge is living. it's why i have my friends, maybe even my wife. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." weekend, american history tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi, home to the university of southern mississippi. was founded in 1910, originally as a teacher's training school called mississippi normal college. staff --cities for r staff recently visited many sites showcasing hattiesburg, mississippi. .earn about it here >> for what reason did anybody want to come and kill my daddy? it came as a result of orders from the head of the klan, "go annihilate him." and they came to kill a whole family. >> my husband was a civil rights activist in hattiesburg who worked to try to get african-americans registered to vote. he was a pastor at the shady grove church, he was a teacher of the sunday school and also sang in the choir. he owed a small grocery store, a sawmill, and he grew commercial cotton. we planted as much as 70 acres of cotton, a lot of cotton. >> my dad, vernon senior, was one of the founders of the naacp

myhought, g, my edge is living. it's why i have my friends, maybe even my wife. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's