selfless, and loving. here is what his brother told abc s lester holt when he heard the news. i can t imagine when i found out the news, i was laying on my couch, crying for the city. the last thing my brother told me on the phone is, i m one hour away. 72-year-old catherine massie, was a well-known civil rights activists, she assisted in local elections and contributed letters to her local perry burr, advocating for a number of, issues including at calling for federal gun control, in a letter published in the buffalo news one year ago. one friend tells the buffalo news, we lost a powerful, powerful voice. joining us now is ava doyle, friend of katherine kat massey, they both were members
been relegated to the negro leagues, i think about our society now, i our impression of blacks and hispanics, if they have to advance, it has to be at the expense of white people. how can society be the best we can be, if we don t have all the people at the table. if we re not taking advantage of everything people can offer. if we can re-frame the debate in that sense, if we can eliminate some sense of otherness, i recognize the fact that we can grow the society if we can value when everyone has to contribute at the table. ron watson and charles blow, thank you so much for beginning our production of these very difficult subject tonight, really appreciate it. and coming up, catherine massie wrote for a local newspaper asking for federal gun control laws last year on saturday, she was murdered, by the mass murderer with a weapon of war at her supermarket. her friend, eva doyle, will join us next.
by the market, and it was attended by leading politicians. community leaders, and it was organized to protest the illegal guns that were being transported, from other places into the black community. and i met catherine, and we walked about half a block that median. and she pointed out to me that she didn t live far from there, her family didn t live far from there. she was such an articulate person, not only on the gun issue, but she often spoke at the board of education. and when i was sitting in the audience, i always look forward to her comments, because she was also concerned about the education of our children.
while shopping for groceries. catherine massie, a civil rights leader enter use her voice to speak on issues of the black community including calling for more federal regulation on firearms. ruth white, who stopped at the supermarket on a way home from visiting her husband at a nursing home. i m sure we will learn more about the other wonderful lives lost in the days to come, we should remember their names. and rise up so they did not die in vain. i talked to the families today as my in my capacity as president of the as we are making available whatever resources and finance as we can to help them with funeral expenses. i ve worked with victims who, once the cameras are gone, once we move on, they are still left with that hole that will never