it is dominated by sncc. sncc provide all the staffing for it. core is involved and the naacp is, but it is primarily a sncc operation. why does bob moses bring it back? he becomes the main director but is technically the codirector. what is moses trying to accomplish? go ahead, caleb. >> proving that blacks do want to vote. prof. shrock: that is right. how does he accomplish this? nathan, go ahead. >> by a -- i'm pretty sure it was a false voting campaign to find out how many people wanted to vote but couldn't anyway. prof. shrock: how many people voted in the freedom election of 1963? just shout out the number. how many? 80,000 people voted. that is a clear demonstration that there are people in mississippi that want to vote. bob moses learned a really important lesson when he was working during the freedom election. at first, bob moses was opposed to bringing in white volunteers, but civil rights attorney suggested the white volunteers be brought in. some 60 students from yale and harvard who were white were brought in. what does this do for f

a sncc operation. he was technically the codirector in this time. what is moses trying to accomplish? caleb.d, how does he accomplish this? nathan, go ahead. >> i'm pretty sure it was a false voting campaign to see him many people actually want to vote but still couldn't anyway. >> hammy people voted in the freedom election in 1963? just shout out the number. how many? 80,000 people voted. that's a pretty clear -- producer demonstration that there are black people who want to vote. but bob moses learned a really important lesson when he was working during the freedom election. at first, bob moses was opposed to bringing in white volunteers but civil rights attorney suggested a white volunteers be some 60 students, mainly from yellen harbert, who were white or brought in. what does this do for the freedom election what is moses realized when those students for most elite university showed up? it brings national attention to the movement, and what else? what does attention mean? because who is there, who

[applause] and i want to give a shout to my end of the on sncc family. tonight i'm thinking of you all and i band and i've noticed that he is here with us. i want to start by talking about why i wrote this book. the first reason for writing this book, i'm the kind of person when i go to a movie people are like what did you think about it and i'd like it s pretty good but where are the black people, and i feel that way above our history as well so it is important to me to write a book and have african-american characters at the center of the narrative. this is argumentative lee a book of stories that one is of a young man named brandon who was one of my first clients of the service 15-years-old charged with and convicted of possessing a gun in the $20 worth of marijuana. we were in court, i was there as a public or thinking of the work i was doing as the civil rights work of my generation. i was in court and i joined because i knew one in three black members without criminal justice supervision and i knew even though we didn't have the term incarceration