hearing you talk and when we read these sections of the book, you yet a vision of what the country could have been like had, had a man like that been given a chance, had plessy not happened, had separate but equal never become the law of the land. i mean yeah. it s just, it s striking. and so tell us what happened to him at the end of his life after that really devastating supreme court decision. well, the rest of his life was certainly not, not a failure. we only got into that period of about 12 years when black rights were defended by the supreme court. you know, he rosemeadly to prominence rose immediately to h prominence at a time when, again, back votes were the difference between republicans winning and losing. ohio, which was the most important state at that time. so he was able to get for himself and others. he was able to play a role in creatinger a national african-american leadership with people like frederick douglass where there would be conventions e