To gain the right to vote. To achieve the sacred birth right of equality here. Thats big stuff, thats big stuff. Those are very big phrases, very big words. Here we memorialize the brave men and women who struggle to sacrifice and sacrifice so much so that others might live in freedom. All right, i want to bring in athena jones now. Shes at the museum. So how was the president s messages received today . Hi, fred. Well, there was certainly applause after those remarks. And during those remarks, especially when he recognized the widow of medger evers, who was there inside the museum during the tour. He came, he toured the museum, he saw several exhibit, including freedom writers, who helped desegregate buses in the 60s. He mentioned james meredith, who was the first black student to attend the segregated university of mississippi in 1962. He spent a good deal of time talking about medgar evers himself who was assassinated here in jackson in 1963. Yak sons airport is named after him. Its
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