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where we get to talk about the pain that black women experienced because of these stereotypes, the angry black woman stereotype or the you re not good enough, or this question of qualification or merit. so this sort of reclaiming. and here is why it is important because rarely do we have black men stand up in public spaces and say that the things that black women labor under matter, that they should matter for politics. my colleague and best friend blair kelly has often said one of the reasons that african-american turned out in record numbers for the president is because his wife was as tall as him, as smart as him and black from a distance. thank you to brittany cooper. gina s going to be next. back in our next hour pmp. up next, an update on the community activists who have been going hungry for education. i ve smoked a lot
women were the foot soldiers. women strategyizized boycotts. women organized marches. even if they weren t allowed to run the civil rights organizations on paper, behind the scenes they were the thinkers and the doers making things happen each and every day. doing the work that nobody else wanted to do. yes, president obama devoted the bulk of his speech last night to naming the contributions of black women to american history, and mapping the continuing vulnerabilities that black women face today. because all of us are beneficiaries of a long line of strong black women who helped carry this country forward. they worked to expand civil rights, open the doors of opportunity, not just for african-americans but for all wom women, for all of us, black and white, latino and asian, lgbt and straight. now this is not entirely new. remember back to 2008, the night he was elected president of the united states. then senator obama told the story of ann nixon cooper. cooper was
doctor. we have word that vice president biden is in attendance. as they continue to deal with their unimaginable grief, the nation continues to question us in the wake of this week s deaths. where do we go from here? how do we emerge from this better than we were and who will be the receivers of that change? the confederate flag was first flown atop the state house in 1961 to commemorate the start of the civil war, and maybe also in a way of responding to the civil rights movement. there it remained until 2000 when a compromise with activists pushed for its removal. the confederate flag was moved from the top of the capitol dome to a less prominent space on the courthouse grounds, and later, less seen as a symbol of heritage and hate, thazhas crystallized to a symbol of the man who took their lives. calls for a complete removal of the flag has intensified as its presence on taxpayer-funded state grounds has become untenable. in a watershed moment in south carolina populist p
the three men had been participating in the 1964 freedom summer when nearly 1,000 students, mostly white and college educated, came to rural mississippi to help register black voters and educate youth for the summer. part of the strategy of the freedom summer was to open up mississippi, to show the world what was happening there. and local organizers real liesed they could do that by bringing in white young people. in a recent piece for the root.com blair kelly writes freedom summer then was a calculated effort to get the nation to pay attention to what was happening in mississippi when more than 1,000 college-aged children of elite white northerners were called on to come to mississippi, the nation took notice. for freedom summer volunteers in mississippi, the murders drove home the risk of their work were real, that the work was dangerous. the phrase voter registration in our con ttemporary moment may evoke rock the vote rallies or college students with clipboards, but in 1964