next show about county fair in the show but county mississippi it's just down the road from philadelphia mississippi at that time this was a white supremacists long hold here's reagan shaking hands with some of the twenty thousand people that were estimated to be at the fair to hear him speak reagan's campaign chose the event and the area for his first campaign speech because it was a great way to shout out to the racists in the show because a fair is nearby philadelphia mississippi for civil rights advocates james chaney andrew goodman and michael schwerner were lynched and murdered in one thousand nine hundred sixty four they were shot to death by racists who were raged by the idea of african-americans having not only will rights but the right to vote during his presidency reagan openly opposed the voting rights act of one thousand nine hundred sixty five he said the voting rights act was humiliating to the south. in the years since reagan took office and the reagan revolution has swept across america. americans have lost their faith in the notion that everybody has a voice in the american democra

. >> reporter: philadelphia, mississippi, has struggled with infamy since the summer of 1964. three civil rights workers registering blacks to vote were murdered by the local ku klux klan. >> we're trying to improve our city. >> reporter: jim prince and leroy clemens are part of the new south. prince runs the local newspaper. clemens heads the county's naacp. they have formed a multiracial coalition in philadelphia to help heal the city's wounds. pr my predecessor would probably not have sat here and trusted jim at all. >> once we kind of got to know each other and understand where the other was coming from, we made a lot more progress. >> reporter: is there still an issue with trust? >> i think it's more about the people who are still in power that want to stay in power. you look at all these new voter suppression things, voter i.d. laws. you see it happening all over the country. it's scary. >> reporter: african-americans make up 37% of mississippi voters. the highest percentage in the country. 29% of its state legislature is african-american. heat's also the highest in the

i don't know what philadelphia, mississippi was known for.nteresting that the first point that you made that ronald reagan announced his candidacy and obviously philadelphia was a very segregated community. today it's much different. when people cannot vote because of restrictions that have been put in place. i hope and pray the supreme court's decision will not remove section five of the voting rights act. >> your father gave a rousing speech 50 years ago. it's the first time he used the phrase i have a dream. >> i have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that i came with within but they will be judged on the basis of the con tent of their character and not the color of their skin. i have a dream this evening that one day we will recognize the words of jefferson that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with some rights that are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. i have a dream this afternoon. the. >> he also spoke abou

campaign ronald reagan after he was nominated at the first speech he gave today was down in philadelphia mississippi where he talked about voters about state's rights everybody knew what did you know this was dogless. and a fellow by the name of paul was way way ran the direct mail part of his campaign he was the co-founder of the american legislative exchange council which is where all these laws across the states about voter id have come from today he was one of the co-founders of the heritage foundation and other these institutions and in one thousand nine hundred eighty during the reagan campaign he was rallying a group of republican christian reagan activists in a church in dallas texas and he had this to say check this out. how many of our chris. good government they want everybody. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now go matter of fact our leverage in the election is quite kind of like go up owning populist go. our leverage in elections quite candidly goes up as the voting popul

in is where nixon's southern strategy and reagan infamous visit to philadelphia, mississippi, in 1980he demise of liberal republicanism. this is where they all have their roots. in the 13 presidential elections before 1964, that's the elections from 1912 to 1960, if you added up all of the electoral votes won by each party in the old confederacy, you would get 1,355 for democrats and only 231 for republicans, 54 for third-party candidates. now take the 13 elections since 1964. from that goldwater/lbj race through obama/romney last year, add it up and you get the complete opposite. 1,359 for republicans. only 423 for democrats. 47 for third parties. the third party was basically george wallace, segregationist democrat who ran as independent in 1968. it's gotten progressively worse for democrats. for a while they could win back some of the south by nominating candidates from the region. jimmy carter, peanut farm from her 1976 or bill clinton in the 1990s. for decades after 1964 democrats kept chasing after dixie. but the realignment just wouldn't stop. by 2000 native tennesseen, al gore

to the investigation of a mississippi man, who is also accused of sending letters containing ricin to the president and other public officials back in april. >> pam: philadelphiay officials plan to charge a crane operator. for his role in a deadly building collapse. officials say, a toxicology report showed the man operating the demolition equipment. had marijuana and pain killers in his system when the building collapsed. killing six people. >> pam: police say the operator-- sean benschop-- who is also known as kary roberts, will be charged in those deaths. >> pam: the first named storm of the hurricane season, tropical storm andrea, is expected to drench 13-states from georgia to maine over the next couple days. >> pam: forecasters predict the strom will pose a serious risk for flash flooding. as it moves up the coast. parts of central and eastern north carolina could get up to four- inches of rain. the storm has spawned at least one tornado. damaged property. and uprooted trees stories... >> jacqueline: crystal clear skies bear. for tomorrow we will not see any fault for much of the bay area. and very high temperatures! the needs and the '90s and triple dig

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philadelphia and southern new jersey. but that severe weather threat is going to extend all the way into the deep south this afternoon. we could have severe storms in mississippi, alabama and also georgia. gayle and charlie. >> thank you david. the danger from the wildfires. there are at least five major fires burning in that state. and thousands more people in the colorado springs area have been told to evacuate. kelly werthmann is at the scene. >> reporter: despite the massive destruction of homes here we have heard no word of any fatality fatalities. this fire has scorch 8,000 ache erbs and sacres and this morning is still zero percent contained. as the black forest fire burned through its second day northeast of colorado springs, more and more expenseive homes were destroyed. no match for the winds and high temperatures sweeping across the state. >> we are monitoring the situation very closely. it is still very dangerous. and as our guys are going in to check hope smes, they're actually having to abandon roads because of how rapid it is changing. i don't want peepople to underestimate it. >> we know it's a danger. if you see fire you bail. >> reporter: the