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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131013:13:24:00

i want to make sure when ronald reagan kicked off this general campaign and did it in philadelphia, mississippi, what is the message that he s sending out there? the free civil rights workers have been murdered in 1964. here is what you see again this odd tangle and mess between conservative ideology on the one hand and republican party on the other. the very first modern civil rights bill, very watered down, the first one since reconstruction was passed in 1957. you know how many republican senators opposed it? zero. all the votes against it came from the dixiecrats. republicans replaced it. the other irony of that was richard nixon circa 1960 was running to the left of kennedy on racial issues. even as late as the 1970s, who actually instituted affirmative ....

Campaign 2000 , Ronald Reagan , Odd Tangle , House Republicans , Richard Nixon , Affirmative Action ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130907:02:42:00

it was the norm because the democratic party in the south were the dixiecrats. now you in birmingham you actually knew some of the four girls that were bombed at the 16th street i knew denise mcnair very well. her family was in our neighborhood. her dad was a photographer at everybody s birthday partyies. and everybody s wedding. and i will never forget that awful day in september when 16th street baptist church was bombed. somebody called the church to say that a bomb had gone off at 16th street. we felt that the explosion really? my dad s church was only about two miles from 16th street baptist church and so it was like the ground shook. and i remember pretty soon we were starting to hear that these little girls had been killed. and then the names started to come out. ....

Segregated South , 116th Street , Denise Mcnair , Birthday Partyies , 16th Street Baptist Church , My Dads Church ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130907:00:42:00

Answer, of course, he failed the poll test. so he was very despondent about this. around his church. this elder of his,s a man named frank hunter, said, don t worry about it, i m going to tell you how you get registered to vote. we re going to go back down there. there s a clerk down there and she s actually a republican. if you just say you re a republican, she ll register you because she wants to get as many republicans as she can. he went down. he said he was a republican. she registered him. he stayed true to his word and he was a republican the rest of his life. a lot of people don t know that that generation, we re in the same generation, our parents were all my mother and father were republicans. i think they changed to democrat when kennedy and johnson. that was the norm. it was the norm because the democratic party in the south was the dixiecrats. were the dixiecrats. now, you in birmingham, civil rights movement in birmingham. you actually moved some of the ....

Don T , Sa Man Named , Poll Test , Frank Hunter , Magic Johnson , Civil Rights Movement In Birmingham ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130829:23:06:00

Famous people, wilt chamberlin, a lot of people were republicans. today you can t find them. a lot of our families were. i can go back in my family, especially my family in north carolina, and there were a lot of republicans. but when the party changed, you know, blacks decide we needed to go to a plays where we were welcome and where we were at home. where somebody spoke to our agenda of things that were of concern to us. and right now the republican party just doesn t. doesn t it shatter you like yourself colin powell is a republican? and yet the party would call him a rhino. oh my goodness, yes. i can t tell you how many times powell, myself, j.c. watts, we were all called rhinos because we don t tow this ridiculous line where we judge people and we make these but your roots in the party are deeper. your roots go back intellectually and historically. trust me, my roots are much deeper than the people who run their mouths. i ve just gotten into the point at my life where ....

Didnt The Party , Famous People , Wilt Chamberlin , North Carolina , Doesn T , Colin Powell , Oh My Goodness , Jc Watts , Trust Me ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130825:12:17:00

Everyone was nervous it was going to be a belligerent crowd. there was reason for that. even john lewis was preaching civil disobedience until early that morning. but we went out on the street. but it was not an angry crowd. these were respectful people. we came back and that realization slowly dawned on people in the room that, as you heard on the jfk film clip, with great relief this was going to be not just a political demonstration. this was going to be a monumental for wlak america. you mention the dixiecrats, white southern democrats, but we have a clip this was from governor, not a senator, george wallace, one of the preeminent dixie crats of 60s, responding to john f. kennedy, saying positive things about the march. the president has said this is in the great tradition. ....

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