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joining us this hour. this is belzoni, mississippi, and this picture was taken in 1939. it s an african-american man, apparently going to the movies. you can see him there in the hat. right? see him sort of in silhouette. below him, written on the side of the stairs outside the theater, it says colored admission, 10 cents. because this man is black in belzoni, mississippi, in 1939, he has to use a separate door and has to sit way up in the balcony. in mississippi now, of course, and everywhere in the country, theaters are integrated and today this man could sit anywhere he wants, but this particular theater is gone. there is no regular place to go see a movie in belzoni, mississippi, anymore. this is an attempt to buy lunch at a wool worth s lunch counter in 1960. in greensboro, north carolina. this was the first of the 1960s lunch counter sit-ins. today, in our more integrated country, americans of any race could sit down and order, even

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