eric henry was state president of the naacp. his brother-in-law was on the faculty reverend winston. and they would come to the campus. this is before we formed the chapter of the naacp. but from 62 onward. we pointed out earlier, prior to entering the stage here that was appointed the permanent field secretary of the naacp in 1954. and before core before state came to town they were organizing. so the very platform, the foundation of the mississippi movement was really laid by mclemore, henry, all those folks were associate with the naacp. that is a very rich history. and that the center of that history, starting in 1954 was early and evers. we made substantial progress in mississippi between 1964 i mean between 1954 in 1965. and we stopped and 65. so we have to pick it. up again at some points. >> thank you. make sure you read it. if you could talk a little bit about why you wrote this and a little bit about the book? >> yes. the movement is essentially stories. from 61 -- 64 really views the stories i grew up with. this is si

she did try to get people to sign up for the naacp. but it was the elite middle-class men that ran both of these chapters in mississippi. other places. she tangled with some of the elites in the movement once she became nationally known and she was in atlantic city with martin luther king and ralph abernathy and that group around king. they disrespected her because she was not well-educated. she had a fairly strong mississippi delta accent. she was very poor so her clothing didn't meet their standards and they said that directly to her, that she was an embarrassment to them. look what you were wearing, you should go home and you are going to -- you wouldn't say that to fannie blue hamer. she was so grassroot she couldn't lead to the elites in the movement and martin luther king could not relate to her despite how we all think of him as this grassroots organizer. all the people under him ending communities across the country that were the organizers and he was an inspiring leader that he and hamer talked past each other. in fact in atla

the path of that naacp to washington was a letter becomes -- up to walter white.alter white would pass the letter on to marshall. who would pass it to the naacp lawyer and they would figure out how to respond, whether to contact a local branch or whether to contact justice directly or both. watch the files reveal, really for the first time for legal scholars and for others interested, is however government works and the role of organizations like naacp, is what is going on in the department of justice in response to marshall. now we have the doj file with the correspondence between the lawyers at the department of justice including lawyers situated in the south. one case for example, there is a guy prosecuted in the south, his name is parker, who is resistant to pursuing any cases. he lost the case before a federal jury. he doesn't want to try any others and the lawyers in washington keep prodding him to move forward with these cases. marshall is prodding wife -- prodding both. marshall is writing to washington, nothing is going. what we have in the file is a lett

accepted by the men of theh naacp. although as they thought about it, they decided they would use it because it was so great. they e didn't know each other. they loved each other. when motley was appointed to the courts, polly murray sent her a note saying hooray for our side. we finally got it because they thought it would be so great for her to have one of their own on the court. thanks for that question. >> quick footnote to history when fannie lou hamer was so badly beaten in prison young law student helped her get out of prison. she was in there with lawrence was a very well-known community organizer in d.c. as well. those injuries she had were with her throughout her life. >> right, they contributed to her early deaths. she died of breast cancer in 1977 but she'd been suffering with kidney disease or not disease bad damage kidney from the beatings she took in the jail. but the peoplee around her were quite amazing. and eleanor holmes norton was actually very close to hamer. and later went hamer had a mastectomy,

the naacp legal defense fund, including motley and the local lawyer, dropped her. there was no effort made to stand up for pollyanne meyer. the reason is in these legal cases in particular, the plaintiffs needed to be the best in the community, as was understood. the politics of respectability, which motley certainly believed in, were very relevant to the types of plaintiffs who were chosen and could be successful. for instance, in the university of georgia case, one of the plaintiffs was charlene hunter gault who had done really well in school and she was very beautiful. she was easier, i guess you would say, for some to accept. but the thing about motley, she also had trouble with some of the men in the naacp establishment. in fact, after she litigated her first case mississippi, which was on behalf of black teachers -- a salary equalization case -- she marched into thurgood marshall's office and said she was napping paid what she should be paid. [laughter] and she did not have the title she deserved. he eventually did give her a raise and was working with the an

aaron henry with state president of the naacp. aaron henry's brother-in-law was on the faculty at the college which medgar evers and he would come to the campus and this was before we formed the chapter of the naacp. from 62 onwards. we pointed out earlier prior to entering the stage here that medgar evers was appointed secretary of the naacp in 1954. before came to tom medgar evers was -- so the very platform the foundation of the mississippi movement was laid by medgar evers and aaron henry and all those folk associated with the naacp. that's a very rich history and at the center of that history starting in 1954 in a formal way was myrlie and medgar evers. we made substantial progress in mississippi between 1964, 1954 and 1965 and we stopped in 65. we had to pickck it up again at some point. senate thank you. if you could talk about why you wrote it in a little bit about the book. >> is essentially dead stories from 51 to 54. really these are the stories i grew up with. these were sitting around and we moved t to jackson in 1992

the naacp takes no action. takes no shunt because the naacp is very leery of taking on any case that, number one, they think they can't win and, number two, but i think the people might be guilty. they find that young black boys are absolutely not guilty, had been accused of something that they were not involved in. he becomes disillusioned with the role of the naacp, under the leadership of walter white. and he moves thinly to the left. as i said, he started in germany. in germany, it started writing some of these works. the bible, of course. critique of pure reason by? origin of the species by? darwin, thank you. and karl marx's capital. and he writes them, especially that preface to the so the condition of political economy. , there he rides about the critique of political economy. there he writes that just as human error cannot judge itself by that particular area, and cannot judge each other by what they do at that particular time. it's not the man who determines his consciousness, it's a consciousness tha

but it's panned by the naacp and also panned by the mainstream white press. but a couple of years later, one of the greatest columbia historians, wrote a revisionist history of black reconstruction, of reconstruction, and gave great praise to this work. he was -- the early schools said that reconstruction was -- [inaudible] it led to the tearing up of the south even though if you look at the records, there were very few examples of african-american men raping white women. and so duboise is going back to his scholarship. he -- but then something happens. 1937 this organization is founded, southern negro youth congress. ethel jackson, now 98. she's my godmother. and here's young people in the south. esther jackson from -- louie vernon born in guyana, dorothy, his wife, who just turned 100, and all of these northerners moved down south. two people are there, the two greatest americans living at this time, in my opinion, paul robeson -- we'll deal with him another time -- and, of course, w.e.b. dubois. and becomes very active in the south. and here again are some

a complaint filed by the naacp led to the epa's investigation.cp president derrick johnson lives in jackson and called the state's record of divestment systemic neglect. mississippi has received federal funds to address drinking water needs since 1996 but gave jackson funds just three times. for more, we're joined from jackson, mississippi, by abre' conner, director of the naacp's center for environmental and climate justice. welcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. why don't you lay out the issue, including the governor mocking jackson for its water crisis and what congress allocated for jackson and yet it did not actually go there. >> to your point earlier about jackson only getting federal funds, three of the last 25 years, that really kind of goes to the heart of what is the issue. the water in jackson has been weapized against them byhe governor, by the state. because often times, federal funding for water infrastructure flows to the state first. even though we have the promise of historically disadvantaged communities like

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naacp, and also the lawyers committee. so we are working through many, many groups and providing easy access for our partners. we call them our employees, to actually encourage and engage in civic engagement and voting rights here in your communities. to that end, i just wanted to say that we stand with you, that we will continue to support many of the organizations that you hold dear. we look forward to this conversation today. we thank you again, congresswoman sewall and congressman butterfield for your leadership, and know that starbucks stands with you in this journey, and it is a journey. so thank you all for your time. we appreciated and i will turn it over to you. thank you. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank our sponsors starbucks, lift and the league of women's voters. they deserve a round of applause. thank you so much. [applause] i have two hats today, i'm congresswoman terry sewall, i proudly represent alabama seventh congressional district. it includes the historic cities of birmingham, mont

and this was before we formed the chapter of the naacp. but from 62 onward we pointed out earlier prior to entering the stage here is that medgar evers was appointed the permanent field secretary w.a.s.p. in 1954 and before and before snake came to town. medgar evers was organizing. so the very platform, the foundation of the movement was really by medgar evers and aaron henry and all of those folks who were associated with the w.a.s.p.. and a very rich history. and at the center of that history, starting in 1954 and the former way was myrlie and medgar evers. so we made substantial progress. mississippi, between 1964 and me between 1954 and 1965. and we stopped in 65. so we have to pick it up again at some point. thank you. thank. you know, this book movement, mavis, is amazing. make sure you read it. but if you could talk a little bit about why you wrote it and little bit about the book. yeah. so the movement us is essentially there's stories. from 61 to 64 really. these are the stories i grew with. these are the, you know sitting around

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all who were convicted were commuted after a long and vigorous campaign led by the naacp. a historian in a book said "more than any other factor, seven white supremacists feared that by fighting in the blood to become a black soldiers would see themselves as true american citizens worthy of social equality with knights and inevitably encourage other african-americans to think and act likewise. these men understood they were seen as race leaders. in many instances, the black press constructed black soldiers as saviors and would be martyrs for the benefit of the race. " do boys takes this is to further and says "always we pay, always we die. whether right or wrong, so many killed and wounded, but here at last, houston is a change. we did not have houston to know that black men would always be mere victims. we asked why, why must this all be at waco, memphis, e st. louis, houston? all along, and or g of torture -- an orgy of torture." these men understood that they not only carried the weight of the flag but they carried the weight on their shoulders. when looking at this, th

the naacp legal defense fund was brand-new. the people who were the three biggest fundraisers for that were duke ellington, eleanor roosevelt, and mary mcleod bethune. throughout their life, they were interwoven together. eleanor roosevelt was passionate about and cnw. in the spirit of ncnw, the other ghost that is here now, the other spirit that we must embrace and celebrate and must never be forgotten is the incomparable dorothy height. she helped me understand their relationship a lot. they were on my board when i ran the eleanor papers which is documentary history of eleanor roosevelt human rights work defined. lastly, i am with dr. height one day and we have gone out of the national cathedral and she's giving me a hard time for not going to church. [laughter] we're getting in a car to go have lunch. she said i forgot to tell you she said i didn't think it was appropriate but the more i think about it i think you really need to document. just imagine dorothy height and all of her splendor and her real posture -- regal postu

the naacp says it is an important first step in holding the state accountable.ustice director and appreciate you joining us. the epa investigating in response to the naacp's complains, we know that, and your organization says that the jackson residents like many black communities across the country, you said this, had water access weaponized against them. how so? >> well, what we know is that at least for the last century, that black communities, when they try to build, when they tried to ensure they have everything they need in order to be sustainable, that because of systemic racism it makes it really hard. for example, in jackson, out of the last 25 years, there's only been three years that the city has been able to get federal funding for water infrastructure issues. this is because even though we have the biden's promise, for example, for justice 40 to prioritize historically disadvantaged communities, oftentimes that funding goes through the state. if the state, for example, decides well, we don't want to ensure that a place like jackson is prioritized, we

i thought, oh, my god, like many people, betty williams with the greater sacramento naacp wants a furthere into the matter something she wants to know why students who were on camera received a tougher punishment than those off camera, even though it may have been the idea of those not in the video. and she also wants to know how often the district teaches african american history. at least one tried to walk out in was blocked the yuba city unified school district called the incident racially hateful and hurtful. >> the superintendent telling they had a productive conversation with williams and her staff saying we are beginning the work that will be comprehensive in its analysis of our school climate and includes plan to educate staff and students in the important areas of anti bias, an anti racist behaviors. this is the latest incident involving a local high school football program last month. the amador high school varsity football team season was canceled due to an investigation on the team's group. chat it up to communities like rockland. >> roseville granite bay, vacaville grove and

the naacp. so you have someone who is like, what are we doing about charles young?what can we do to get charles young? emits gotta showing up telling baker, hey, here you go. he walked him in. that kind of, those can relationships. davis doesn't bill. those he chooses not to. he felt that yapping was two active. so he followed a different path. and that is one of the reasons why he doesn't get promoted until 1940. great question. >> so for world war i and the brand-new army air corps, whether in fact any flyers? black fires? were they able to go to say other countries and fly? how did that and? up. great question thank you so. much there was a black flyer. his english eugene ballard. but he flew with the french. there were no african americans to fly for the u.s. during world war i, they weren't allowed to. in fact, he was a white officer and kind of pushes eugene valid out of the army. different air corps. but yeah, there are no blacks who are going to serve in the in world war i. now, one of the things to add to why you have a bit of a change is you have a change

she has a long tenure as national director of women, women in the naacp. she knew before jim clyde minted that he was getting the spring harm because she has that relationship with the nwa cpp. her professional experience includes state university, george washington university, and loyola. she's a strong advocate for justice, especially for women and goal girls. she gives freely, as i can testify to personally for time and talent for the welfare and growth of those. she holds degree from bowie state university, new york's university, george washington university with additional studies at purdue, pursued at american university, catholic university, and the university of maryland. please join me in welcoming the eight national president of the national council negro women. doctor down thomas daley. (applause) >> they're supposed top scholars appear, and i am by no means a scholar. they gave me the topic last night that i was to talk about. doctor bethune as an organizer, and i don't quite know what an organizer is, but you see if i can do that. let me also

can you talk to us about the federal complaint that the naacp is leading?is a longtime resident of jackson, so we are very familiar with that what's happening on the ground there. >> absolutely and thank you for having us. so, on tuesday, naacp, we filed a title six administrative complaint with epa because of the pattern and practice of discrimination, in the state of mississippi has had against the residents in the city of jackson for the last three decades. we almost had the same system failure in 2010. the mayors from 1997 up to current has consistently requested more resources from the state. and what's ironic about it is not even the states money. it is federal clean water money that goes to the state, and then the state allocates. they have intentionally not provided the city of jackson with the resources to address it. and just recently, what the intended uses pundit state submitted, over 400 and $50 million that will come from epa. the state has already allocating 500 all 500,000 for the city of jackson. so, we also asked the citizens of the city t

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she'd been member, you know, the secretary of the naacp for 10 years. they were seeking to bring litigation to end segregation on the busses, and so that particular day, that particular bus driver, and she thought, you know, i've had enough. i am not going to do this. she had no idea what would befall her. but she did know that there was an underpinning of organization in montgomery. she hoped for success. i mean, thanks to the women's political council, again, you know, women were -- underpinned the boycott throughout, but they were ready and people heeded the call. soledad: so yoruba, i'm curious. rosa parks had a tremendous affinity and admiration for malcolm x . and dr. king is held up often as the model of the appropriate civil rights fighter. yoruba: not only was she a supporter of malcolm x, but of the black panthers, of the revolutionary group the republic of new africa. i mean, these were radical groups really at the front line of pushing for reparations, for for self-defense, for black liberation, not just, you know, being able to sit on the o

joining us now is janai nelson, president and director-counsel of the naacp legal defense fund.court this morning. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> i think a lot of folks are very worried about what is going to happen here, given the courts track record. you were in the room, how did you read some of the comments from of the conservative justices that seem to be somewhat skeptical of the case that the state of alabama was making here? >> yeah, well i had the pleasure of being in the court room because one of our attorneys was arguing before the court, do well ross, an incredible attorney who has been working on this for years. what i observed was that even the conservative justices seemed to think that alabama was engaging in a bit of overreach in suggesting that the standard for interpreting section two of the voting rights act, the standard that this very supreme court has used for decades, was somehow flawed, all of a sudden! with no basis! for suggesting that the court should change its interpretation of the statute. so what we saw was, conservat

i can name a series of areas where latinos have worked with the urban league, naacp on education initiatives and economic and health initiatives as well. host: this is joel, a republican. caller: ok thank you. we have a vice president that went to korea to visit their border but will not visit our southern border here in the usa. 55 years ago i returned from overseas with my bride and i had to jump through hoops to return her here. i even had to sign paperwork that she would not become a burden to this country. the united states of america, that meant she would not be entitled to any government, social program, i am trying to say. that was 55 years ago and we had to come the correct way. it is up to our government to control how, when and where to enter this country. it is not through the southern border. in most of the hispanic people that have come here at the correct way, they do not approve of the way that this is being handled. the taxpayers are being overburdened, the ones that pay taxes are being over prudent by the school taxes, teachers don't have the proper equipment to teach the h

he was a founding member of the arizonahapter of the naacp. but he opposed the civil rights act for constitutional reasons. it wasn't out of cultural or racial reasons. that said, there were other people on the right who did oppose civil-rights acts, including the acts under eisenhower, in the '50s, for those cultural and racial reasons. and i think there we can see a legacy of bigotry, a legacy that william f. buckley jr. eventually repudte d bue conservative movement to the present day. >> the conservative movement in the in the nomination and the election of ronald reagan in 1980 reaches its zenith, right? this is a man who is philosophically aligned with buckley. and there's a fantastic clip of a "firing line" debate arou the panama canal treaties. take take a look at this rare moment where the former governor debates on the opposite side of william f. buckley jr. >> are you saying the communist invented patriotism in panama? >> no. no. >> yes, well, you really tried to say that. >> no. [ laughter ] >> you can see in that clip he and buckl

many of the early naacp lawyers grew up or get there experience fighting these cases.over 50 years what might seem mundane but it's really the stuff that changes the world which is the small, small activity by the civil society organizations that build up a foundation upon which civil rights activist like martin luther king, jr. and others could get donations and get support, , they could call on people to help them as they in the making '50s were actually successful in carrying out these types of boycotts, et cetera. civil society is immensely important and one of the things i hope the younger generation takes away from this is change doesn't happen overnight, right? its gradual. it can sometimes be slow, agonizingly slow but join a club, be a part of your community meet people like the just like tiktok for whatever it is young people do these days, right? i hope there's a sort of appreciation for several saudi that comes out of this chapter. >> i appreciate the most you took that the tiktok shade, but you talk with the progress because progress and change is often sl

the naacp legal defense fund was brand-new, the people who were the three biggest fund-raisers for thatwere duke ellington, eleanor roosevelt and mary mcleod bethune. so, throughout their life, they were interwoven together. eleanor roosevelt was passionate about big ncaw. in the spirit of ncaw, the other ghost that is here now, the other spirit that we really must embrace and celebrate and never let be forgotten is the incomparable dorothy height. dr. height helped me understand the relationship a lot. dr. height and dr. cole were on my board when i ran the eleanor papers. which is a documentary history of eleanor roosevelt's human rights work, broadly defined. and my last point. it's just, i have to say, it it's too great a story. i'm with doctor height one day, she's in the chair and i'm pushing her along. we've gone out of the national cathedral and she is giving me a really hard time for not going to church. and we're getting in a car to go have lunch. she said, you know, i forgot to tell you this story when we are talking the other day. she says, you know, i didn't really think it

as far as the shelters, the local naacp says there are shelters but they are too far own.nity, 21 years old who spoke with lost all of her clothes and still has to go back to work. she has to figure that out. 64-year-old curtis hill we spoke with, he is going this picture? thanks for watching everyone. coverage continues. everyone remembers the moment they heard... “you have cancer.” how their world stopped and when they found a way to face it. for some, this is where their keytruda story begins. keytruda - a breakthrough immunotherapy that may treat certain cancers. one of those cancers is advanced nonsquamous, non-small cell lung cancer where keytruda is approved to be used with certain chemotherapies as your first treatment if you do not have an abnormal “egfr” or “alk” gene. keytruda helps your immune system fight cancer but can also cause your immune system to attack healthy parts of your body. this can happen during or after treatment and may be severe and lead to death. see your doctor right away if you have cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, diarrhea, severe s

attorneys representing the naacp in alabama say they're confident this will not change alabama, alabama state law in any significant way. today is the second day of the court's new term in a final decision on the case likely won't be released until next spring or early summer. also today, former president trump is asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene in litigation over documents marked as classified taken from his mar-a-lago home. trump's lawyers say an appeals court was wrong to allow the justice department to continue to investigate about 100 of those documents. >> earlier, a lower court judge had ruled that an arbiter or special master review those classified documents before they could be used in the justice department's criminal investigation. trump has said that he declassified all of the documents found in his home. but the appeals court said the trump lawyers have provided no evidence. those documents, whatever declassified it. >> marin county probation officers are on strike. we'll have details on what changes they want to see on the job. and a week after the spacecraft d

times the previous book included receiving the 2010 naacp image award. harper's and the new republic and the oprah magazine. from the national endowment of the humanities and the arts council and the w e-b the boys institute at harvard university. as a carnegie fellow please join me to welcome to the roundtable today. >> thank you for that introduction i am thrilled to be here i could not ask for a more brilliant colleague for the panel today it is a pleasure. i received a notice in no small part with our beloved colleagues who has passed the author of the biography of a personon those serious about your fees that can travel or complicate of women who literally made their way out of no way and encounters real obstacles with their career ambitions and founding ways to be creative and productive. i am very interested in there is a reason why most decorated woman author of her generation and what happens to that person and how does that happen? to start thinking about eyes watching god but it literally happens at the conference with a pass the bottle around

now that acu the last time we were together in february congratulations on your end of the late —- naacpomination truly grateful for this opportunity. welcomeha back. >> you are doing a great job. but you have not tried any hot chicken and you are in nashville? >>ou and then even helen has delving into the barbecue. [laughter] >> welcome we are so excited and in nashville we are so happy to have you and vanderbilt to give us a brief bio who you are hip-hop scholar minister ordained minister and all of the above. welcome again we will get started. i went to this book and my routine as iha have 1 million post it notes i am that person who read it also get ready. >> you have to tell me what's in there. [laughter] i'm justt joking i read it. i wrote it. >> and i have 13 pages of notes. >> i hope my students are watching so they canhe see how you do it. >> if you have not had a chance to get the book but one of the things i love about this book entertaining race first of all 24 books and 28 years? do you ever sleep quick. >> it doesn't seem like it but i do it is such a pleasure and privilege