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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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...Plus, Sex scandal, rape accusation drive Florida GOP to strip chair's power in model of self-policing

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0:00.0	The
0:03.0	the great state of Mississippi is of course Jackson.
0:04.0	The airport in Jackson, Mississippi is called Jackson-Medgar-Wile-Evers International Airport.
0:11.0	The airport in Jackson is named for Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader.
0:14.9	Medger Evers was a decorated US Army veteran in World War II.
0:20.2	After he came home from the war after the United States Supreme Court ruled on Brown
0:24.4	versus Board of Education in May 1954.
0:28.8	Sexual segregation was of course supposed to end in American public schools.
0:33.8	As you know, it did not.
0:36.7	Six months after Brown v. Board,
0:39.0	the N-W-A-C-P named Medgar Evers,
0:41.4	its first ever field secretary in the state of Mississippi.
0:45.1	They named him Field Secretary in Mississippi so he could lead their efforts in that
0:51.0	state to to organize against segregation to organize for civil rights.
0:57.0	In 1963, Medgar Evers was murdered.
1:01.0	He was shot in the back in his own driveway. He was only 37 years old. But now the Jackson
1:06.9	Mississippi International Airport is named for him. And just a few days ago on Thursday, the Jackson-Medgar Evers International Airport
1:17.0	had a very serious scare. They had a bomb threat that caused the whole airport to be searched for explosives.
1:26.6	That happened on Thursday.
1:28.8	And then that same day, there was another bomb threat to the airport in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1:34.4	And then there was another bomb threat that same day to the airport in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
1:39.8	And then there was another bomb threat that same day to the airport in Gulfport Biloxi, Mississippi.
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