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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20240604 02:48:00

Support civil rights but also to try to talk to people who were segregationists. this is very much the quaker spirit, talk about lines a difference, so it was also not just the summer and schwerner goodman and cheney disappeared, it was also the summer that the civil rights act of 1964 it was passed, in early july, and that was the law that provided public accommodations could not be segregated. so we spent a lot of time with our african american hosts and the very cities, carlsberg, birmingham, prince edwards county, testing data new civil rights act. and trying to see if it was being complied with, with those integrating groups in public accommodations. it was a summer and what you are supposed to be reaching out, but most secrest in us were in white power structures in the places that we were located wanted very little to do with us and found a stunning and even dangerous. ....

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